taeric

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by taeric 1y ago
Right, I guess my main surprise is that the PyPy byte code interpreter is as fast as it is. My understanding is obviously outdated on how it is implemented; but I thought its claim to fame was that it was purely written in python. I'
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by taeric 1y ago
Right, that is basically what I was asking. Essentially, I expected the machine code to be a bit of an unrolling of the interpreter over the opcodes that a piece of code is executing. That my intuition is wrong here doesn't shock me,
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by taeric 1y ago
The article also specifically calls out machine code generation as a separate thing. I confess that somewhat surprises me, as I would expect getting machine code generated would be a main source of speed up for a JIT? That and counter bas
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by taeric 1y ago
I think I was too swayed by Sold a Story; but I am heavily convinced that the non phonics based attempts to teach reading was a massive disaster. And not just for reading literature, but also for reading math. Without learning to effectiv
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by taeric 1y ago
I don't understand the security reasons on not removing tail calls. Any chance you have a good place to read up on that?
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by taeric 1y ago
This feels overly strong? I've certainly messed up my fair share of recursive calls. I don't know why, but I have actually gotten a bit stronger on the imperative divide in recent years. To the point that I found writing, basica
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by taeric 1y ago
It is hard for me to read this. You seem to have given up on capital letters. And sentences. I don't like criticizing run-on sentences as being indicative of bad thinking; but I do literally feel you grasping here. I'm largely
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by taeric 1y ago
It absolutely is a feature of spoken languages. It is in contrast to vocalizations, specifically because it is about speech and not just the sounds animals can make. I get what you are aiming at, but phonetics is about speech. Is why you
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by taeric 1y ago
The alphabet is used to communicate the spoken words. Not the concepts or something else, literally the spoken words. Is a big part of why slang is so popular in fiction settings, as they would use the letter to convey pronunciation. Bec
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by taeric 1y ago
Phonetic is absolutely a feature linked to spoken languages, though? It quite literally is relating to spoken sounds. Sign language, for example, is not phonetic, as many users of it cannot speak or hear. Fair that I should have said they
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by taeric 1y ago
No it isn't. Pedantically, English the language is definitionally phonetic, as it is spoken. Sign language is not phonetic, nor are things like smoke signals/traffic signals/etc. Just as it would be silly to claim that Japa
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by taeric 1y ago
That isn't what that means, though. It is not regular, it is phonetic. Indeed, your argument that there is confusion in spelling is because it is phonetic, but not regular. You know the letters in "glasses" correspond to s
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by taeric 1y ago
My question was to ask if we are really that much different than other places? Because, I've heard anecdotes of similar situations from everywhere. And, indeed, the link I posted calls out that the US is basically typical for most th
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by taeric 1y ago
Counter point, anyone that claims English isn't a phonetic language doesn't know what a logographic writing system is. Or what a gesture language is.
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by taeric 1y ago
I ack that it is hard to really grok these numbers. And yeah, I wasn't trying to hide that we have problems. Indeed, my prior would be that we are middling across most stats. I also question if using a neurologist wait time is illumi
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by taeric 1y ago
We do? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/health-ca... seems to show we are high on the 1 day wait, but not so much on the specialist waits. That said, I think it would be safe to say I don't unde
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by taeric 1y ago
It has become a thing where folks are taught, basically, that English is not a phonetic language. It is truly mind boggling the number of college educated folks I've talked with that start to try and argue that we don't have a ph
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by taeric 1y ago
Mostly agreed. This is what I meant by them not necessarily being lower quality. In many ways, it is a by product of the race to super thin threads. Which, amusingly, used to be a sign of ultra high quality. :D And clothing has always
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by taeric 1y ago
This reminds me of the use of materialized views as both a cache strategy and as an abstraction helper.
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by taeric 1y ago
If you aren't against RCTs, then I don't think we disagree? Your post certainly makes it sound like you feel there are better ways than RCTs to get an idea of how well things work. And fair that "work" is not necessaril
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by taeric 1y ago
I'm fortunate that my clothes still last quite a while, so I don't know what to say. Still have some t-shirts from the 90s, oddly. I can say that if you wash cottons with synthetics, that will shorten the life of the cottons. If
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by taeric 1y ago
You can personally believe it, but you also need to provide some evidence to the claim. Farmers that can't afford the R&D team necessary to learn a lot of this stuff will have trouble competing here. Such that, I'm comfortab
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by taeric 1y ago
Even when I started Adderall, I never felt anything amazing from it. Self reporting mood, as it were, I would think it is not working. It is only that I know I have more patience with things going wrong, that I know it is doing something.
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by taeric 1y ago
You have my sympathies. It can be boring. Boredom is not, necessarily, a bad thing, though? Certainly, some folks could use a bit more boredom in the day. :D I'll also posit that you do the boring stuff now so that you can do the ex
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by taeric 1y ago
Adderall has some fairly clear cases where you shouldn't prescribe it, but this is largely not a secret list of "your unique biochemistry means we have no idea whether it will work for you" level of uncertainty. And, at larg
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by taeric 1y ago
I hear what you are saying, but I have a hard time thinking it is an argument against RCTs. Notably, Adderall is a strong counter to this idea. It is clearly effective per all of the tests it has been through. Not surprisingly, it is one
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by taeric 1y ago
I mean... sure? Has that been happening for you? I have had some shirts that didn't last as long as others. Oddly, I don't think they are the ones I paid the least for.
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by taeric 1y ago
Running on asphalt is almost certainly easier than running on anything in the past. Try running on a rocky beach someday. :D. Running cross country through trails, you should expect that you will be going far slower than you could comfort
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by taeric 1y ago
Maybe? Clothing is a big counter to your claim here. As is anything that can be reliably machined. Yes, there is "cheap" clothing. No, the more expensive clothing isn't necessarily better. A bog standard t-shirt is a bog
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I'm thinking the vocabulary is oddly reflective. You reference that they can be strenuous. My bet is that you often choose to push to a strenuous feeling often during the training period of each of these. My further bet is what you c

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