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by tgflynn 4y ago
Probably Nature or Science, though they're journals, not magazines. If I recall correctly Scientific American used to be like what you're asking for in that it published articles written by practicing scientists aimed at the educa
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Same here. I switched to Turbo Pascal before I finished high school then it was Fortran and then much later C followed by almost everything else.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If they're going to replace all crypto with one of these algorithms I think they should be offering a lot more than a $50k bounty, more like $50M.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It's not an implementation detail, it is part of the interface. The data it points to belongs to the caller and the caller is responsible for managing it, just like anywhere else in C.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Type safety and encapsulation aren't the same thing. Encapsulation is about hiding implementation details from the user of an API, which is what the comment I originally replied to was claiming you couldn't do in C.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Type safety and encapsulation are distinct issues. The Linux kernel uses many well-encapsulated interfaces but it's written in C and the typing reflects that limitation. Personally I haven't used straight C in years and would nev
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> this means that using, say, a dictionary means that quite a bit of the implementation gets hard coded into every site that uses the dictionary I don't understand this part of your comment. There's nothing preventing you from
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Most of the time when I see a headline of the form "X is shutting down", X is something I've never even heard of.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I don't see the need. If you're worried about making accidental changes there are many ways to prevent that, depending on editor/IDE and OS. For me almost all the code I look at is checked into some git repo so accidental c
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Peter Thiel is someone who's thought processes make very little sense to me. I see very little evidence for any kind of direct causal connection between Christianity and Western progress. I wonder if these people claiming Christianity
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It might depend on your definition of "system". WW II battleships had electro-mechanical computers for fire control.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> context is lost of where a feature branched off. Isn't that still the most recent common commit on both branches ?
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by tgflynn 4y ago
In the case of the problems I've done that were like that what mattered was finding an asymptotically efficient algorithm. For example there might be a fairly obvious exponential time algorithm but it won't meet the execution tim
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by tgflynn 4y ago
What kind of competitive coding ? If it's the kind where the first to code a working solution to a relatively small problem wins I don't think I would choose Rust for that.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Not really, but I did have an experience that has probably had a significant effect on how I think about the nature of human experience. I would call it an experience of prolonged yet subjectively instantaneous non-being. I was about 15 y
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I grew up during the 70's and was an avid reader of the toy section of the Sear's catalog (until they stopped sending them for free) but somehow I never heard of this kind of toy.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I was under the impression that drilling multi-km deep wells was still a very expensive proposition. Why would materials be a problem ? I wouldn't think the physical conditions would be more extreme than in, for example, a nuclear re
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by tgflynn 4y ago
If this is real it should be able to revolutionize well drilling and maybe enable deep geothermal power just about anywhere.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
They must have made some poor design choices. There's no need for a chess robot to have the capacity to exert enough force to break someone's finger.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
This article would tend to lead one to suppose that more Latin than Greek texts have been preserved from the classical period, because it describes better conditions for preservation in the West than in the East, but I've heard that th
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It's probably not possible legally. I think state and federal laws and regulations require that a properly trained and licensed pharmacist be involved in some way in the handling of every prescription. From a legal perspective it wou
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Managing complexity and paying attention to details.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Good open source alternatives exist for everything you mentioned. There would be some temporary pain if MS disappeared but the world would adapt and move on.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
But that example is unlike what we were discussing. If I were making the claim that some completely unknown and unknowable thing exists then your objection would be on point, but that is not what I am doing. What I am doing is challengin
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by tgflynn 4y ago
It's interesting that you think the fundamental nature of reality depends on what you find "boring" or not. In any case I disagree that we know nothing. We know that subjective experience exists. I think it makes sense to s
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by tgflynn 4y ago
> It’s not memory I’m relying on, but evidence. I'm pretty sure you are relying on memory because how do you know this "evidence" other than by experiencing it as memories ? What is certain is that this "evidence&quot
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I'm not sure why you say "in my version" because I didn't say I believed in reincarnation, just that the parent's comment kind of only makes sense if you do. Personally I have no particularly strong views on these m
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I think that reasoning makes sense up to a point. But how do you know you weren't uncomfortable before you were born ? There were likely times you were uncomfortable when you were a baby but you don't remember them.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
Well, I think that most people don't believe in reincarnation.
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by tgflynn 4y ago
I think it is quite profound since many people seem to fear death because they imagine it is nothingness. But nothingness contains neither things to be feared nor a perceiver to fear them if they did. On the other hand I highly doubt that

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