syeaj

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by syeaj 8y ago
Then cities need to invest into noise reduction, pollution reduction, etc. Maybe it's not that people don't value their time, but rather value not walking streets which smell like trash.
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by syeaj 8y ago
IIRC, there was an agent who brought the stick into the facility. Also, read this: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/11/iran-nuclear-c...
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by syeaj 9y ago
I'm curious: what OS do you use and what sites are you visiting? I've had a stellar experience on Arch Linux. The RAM usage is down. I can't say I really ever found Chrome slow, but nor is Firefox for me. I think they&#x2
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by syeaj 9y ago
I switched to Firefox from Chrome at 58. I've been very happy with the experience all around. Keep up the good work, Mozilla!
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by syeaj 9y ago
Okay, I yield. I think you may be right. I've been thinking a lot about how I'll teach my children STEM topics and I've grappled with the idea of teaching Rust. One of the things I like about it is that you know the behavi
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by syeaj 9y ago
While the book is really top notch (I'm usually not a fan of programming language books), there's something to be said for not introducing all concepts at once. A scripting language has many of the same concepts, but not lifetime
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by syeaj 9y ago
Take the context into consideration: this whole thread is about performance and the comment on mutability was speaking of mutability in place, because that matters for performance.
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by syeaj 9y ago
Thanks for addressing the latter point. I forgot to draw that distinction. That's a curious point, however, and I'll have to check that out more for myself as you suggest.
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by syeaj 9y ago
I couldn't have hoped for a better answer. Thanks!
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by syeaj 9y ago
Would any sort of actor model language have the raw throughput for a AAA game? I get how this model is nice for the web, for example, but I'm wondering why it doesn't get used for high performance computing (that I know of).