tectonicfury

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by tectonicfury 5y ago
Modern C++ is something nebulous. What is Modern C++ now would be obsolete few years down the line. So clearly maintenance of such a project wouldn’t be much fun, I suppose. C doesn’t suffer from this for one. You have more time to focus on
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
Oh thanks
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
What happens if your parents are first cousins? You don’t have as many ancestors as the article assumes. And it’s only now that people are so connected that such a situation can arise, but earlier people used to marry mostly within their lo
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
My father told me the reason some years ago. As a rough sketch, it was because decades ago many highways used to be 'single lane', so if you had a truck in front of you, you needed to overtake it as you wouldn't want to be st
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Show HN: A (barely usable) Scheme Interpreter in C(replit.com)
4 points by tectonicfury 5y ago|1 comments
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
I implemented a subset of Scheme, one that might just get you past the first chapter of SICP, in C. I wanted to implement a Scheme interpreter in C after doing SICP to attain a sense of closure and to be sure that I really got the bare esse
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
Read the first couple of pages and it’s talking about things like operator precedence and left associativity and couldn’t continue. Hopelessly uninspiring IMO.
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
good question
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
I felt that it was a good article, very straightforward, and he made an interesting point about numerical packages being often written by graduate students. Personally, I would like to learn the math, but I would want to first learn from th
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
Nice points. Going through SICP and solving problems using scheme, I did experience the “brain amplification” sensation. Once you flesh out the idea in lisp, it’s just a matter of implementing it in the language of your platform. It’s like
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
I did seam carving as part of Coursera's Algorithms course by Bob Sedgewick. It was gratifying.
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
If you like it hard enough, it would soon stop being hard
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
When you have websites like hackingwithswift and you see Chris lattner (who is some genius because he made a new language) endorsing it with lavish praises, you tend to believe that it’s easy. But then every time I tried to make a 10% decen
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
They don't tell the audience this otherwise they won't be able to fleece them. "It's so easy to make apps" "Learn X in 40 projects". I think the problem is also compounded by people who mostly have superfi
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by tectonicfury 5y ago
Agree with the message, programming is really hard, and the earlier you realise it the better it is. Having “programmed” for the greater part of the last decade, starting out with ‘scientific computing’ in Fortran and matlab (I was doing c
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Try to read the biography of the Prophet (upon him be peace) to know what his message was. Sufism is a later invention.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Yeah, that’s basically what I said. Let scientific inquiry conclude on this and then it can be shared as evidence. Otherwise it’s just anecdotal.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
It’s got to do with the semantics, and for that you need to keep track of the context in which it was used by me.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
“it came to me”
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
You need to first rid your society from the actual opium and its derivatives. It’s very convenient to throw the opium of the masses on Muslims, when the masses in your society have puncture marks. And yes Marxism has died. Communism is dead
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
You are correct in assuming that whoever takes the Qur-aan as the central scripture is a Muslim. That’s really all that is to it. I will just add a bit of a historical background. You can read the Prophet’s history to best judge what Islam
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
As a Muslim, I can assure you there’s no such thing as mystic Islam. Islam is foremost about clarity, simplicity and straightforwardness in its message of pure monotheism. It does not seek to lure people by mesmerising them with incomprehen
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
So is it scientific or a mystery? If it’s scientific then it must be well understood in terms of cause and effect. In which case, it is like any other physical phenomenon, nothing special. And if it’s not scientific, rather if it’s a myster
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Such religions will also never be able to tell you what they are actually about. :)
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Occult practices for me means devil worship and associated rituals. I consider them bad because I consider the devil bad.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
But there’s Judgment Day after it.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
You have to die one day in your paradise, and the Paradise I am talking about, you don't die after entering it.
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Well, what about Gebru's findings? Data in and of itself is not beneficial, we do have certain underlying beliefs about appropriateness and goodness. There is an element of innate belief at play. Otherwise, chatbots are very good at le
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
This was the original statement "Not if you are hungry. Deep mysteries are fine and all but doing so in -1 deg celcius on an empty stomach lays out the reality of existence with exacting clarity". It was more about questioning the
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by tectonicfury 6y ago
Pascal is throwing light and expounding upon a weakness found in (most) people, that of depending on distractions to prevent themselves from dwelling on thoughts which remind them of their mortal nature. I didn't read his works enough,

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