tempodox

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   by tempodox 2y ago

   +1. Everyone else here seems to be in denial about that.
2. 872.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   Exactly, it's dynamic scoping. As far as I know, Tcl is the only language that still has this skeleton in its closet.
3. 873.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   Bang! You will not want to be in the vicinity.
4. 874.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   You're not wrong, but you're overlooking the cultural normalcy. When you have something to sell, you're allowed to lie until you're blue in the face and nobody even blinks. But when applicants merely demonstrate how we
5. 875.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   If their hiring practice is that ridiculous, that means the company has been warped by an unreasonable amount of bureaucracy. Why would anyone want to work for such a company anyway?
6. 876.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   I don't get how they call a font “readable” where the lowercase ell looks way too similar to the uppercase aye. I for one would not use such a font.
7. 877.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   Quite. I felt reminded of Git but it did not exist yet in the 1980s.
8. 878.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   Does Tcl have lexical scoping yet? If not, I'd have to disagree that it would have been a better language. JS is not one of the better languages I know, but it does have lambdas and lexical scoping. And as bad as JS's type syst
9. 879.▲
   by tempodox 2y ago

   The voice of reason, but no amount of reason can dissuade anybody from believing what they want to believe.
10. 880.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    You don't actually believe that, do you? Or that the author means it literally? I mean, even if an AI could one day actually do that, they would sell the service only for a price that makes you poor for the rest of your life.
11. 881.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    At least the idea of a spherical model for sheep is quite useful. Spherical cows have been alone for so long.
12. 882.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    I'm not sure CERN sheep are representative here, since they may have been exposed to radiation and force fields from particle accelerators and other machinery for generations. One should have to do a comparison to unaccelerated sheep
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    by tempodox 2y ago

    Great collection. That crazy mouse on Jessica Fridrich's site is especially refreshing.
14. 884.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    Wouldn't that be absurd?
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    Watch "The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance" on archive.org(archive.org)

    4 points by tempodox 2y ago|0 comments
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    by tempodox 2y ago

    If you want to watch it: https://archive.org/details/the-dark-crystal-a.-o.-r.-episod...
17. 887.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    > X is the digital town square where more than 600M active users go to find the real-time source of ground truth OK, now I know somebody has fast-forwarded the calendar to April 1st.
18. 888.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    I'm still confused as to how to compute t(N). Maybe it's buried in the legalese of this text and I'm just dumb, but I can't find a clue.
19. 889.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    I would love to hope that articles like this one could move the needle at Apple, but I'm not holding my breath.
20. 890.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    True. And the people selling shovels for the “AI” gold rush are making boatloads of money now. But it's still up to us whether we buy their customers' products.
21. 891.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    > Software costs are about to go to zero. Not all software is like webshit boilerplate.
22. 892.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
23. 893.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    I would be OK with payed upgrades but a subscription is a big no-no.
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    by tempodox 2y ago

    Beej's guides are great. As for C, you also need the mandatory companion guide: A Guide to Undefined Behavior in C and C++ ( https://blog.regehr.org/archives/213 ).
25. 895.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    I see, now it makes sense.
26. 896.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    Highly interesting! main(argc, argv) int argv[]; This is a culture shock. Did the PDP-11 not distinguish between `char` and `int`?
27. 897.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    It's a common mistake for U.S.-ians to think the rest of the world works exactly like their banana republic.
28. 898.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    The tutorial claims that fib(0) = 1, which is wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_sequence This one was easy to spot and would have been easy to get right. Makes me wonder…
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    by tempodox 2y ago

    It hath already arrived.
30. 900.▲
    by tempodox 2y ago

    If you rip everyone off anyway, why would you bother doing it “the nice way”?