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by thealig 5y ago
i looked up the racket docs to understand shift/ reset, and stumbled upon a litany of control structures. One is prompt/control, which has almost the same reduction rule.. (prompt E[(control k expr)]) => (prompt ((lambda (k) e
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by thealig 5y ago
I'm curious, what kind of tools and processes do you use to test that the webapps/website work on so many platforms?
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The Strong Law of Small Numbers (1988) [pdf](maa.org)
69 points by thealig 5y ago|7 comments
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by thealig 5y ago
I lost it while reading your comment... Honestly, I get how the sentiment of "suck it up, you are privileged" is sometimes annoying.
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by thealig 5y ago
Oh interesting. I've started editing a bit on Wikipedia recently, and seems like there are a lot of potential articles to improve upon. The deletionism issue reminds me of this article https://www.gwern.net/In-Defense-
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by thealig 5y ago
nice..had an idea of a browser engine powered by a different scripting language like Lisp. Even better, a browser engine that can plug in any language runtime through which web apps can be coded (WebAssembly is working in that direction to
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by thealig 5y ago
and there will be no prime numbers above 1 if 1 is considered a prime (based on existing definitions) Though if you think about it they can just modify the definition in that case
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by thealig 5y ago
Agreed...the git command API is confusing, with too many options to perform a task but with different side effects that are not obvious.
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by thealig 5y ago
I've accessed that wiki.c2 for various discussions about programming before. However, I get confused with the format, specially here where it seems like a thread full of comments (no mention of usernames) there. (I like the relative mi
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by thealig 5y ago
If you read or see too much of what's already been done first, you might just end up feeling starting from scratch is boring, because it isn't as interesting as the more advanced stuff other people had already done This is pretty
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by thealig 5y ago
A related series of articles I read about procrastination that verbalizes what exactly happens when you procrastinate and why https://waitbutwhy.com/2013/10/why-procrastinators-procrasti... . Found it quite relatab
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Making SetInterval Declarative with React Hooks (2019)(overreacted.io)
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by thealig 5y ago
I think even Reddit can be "high SNR" depending on the sub reddit. Some subreddits dedicated to specific topics like (eg. compilers, webdev, machinelearning etc) provide updates on industry trends/practices, interesting proj
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by thealig 5y ago
Interesting to see someone work in Haskell professionally. Jobs in Haskell don't seem be plenty atleast in my area. Could I know what do you work on, and what was the process of obtaining a job there?
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by thealig 5y ago
Hindi has got the "pipe" to end a sentence, and spaces between words. eg. मैं पहले उससे नहीं मिला था | (I have not met him before).
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by thealig 5y ago
I have experienced working on a messy application codebase (jQuery + Knockout.js) which was 7-8 years old and seemingly was hastily made by on contract of another company. Had to refactor it to ES6 (dynamic imports) -needless to say it was
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How we built a real time privacy inspector (2020)(themarkup.org)
21 points by thealig 5y ago|0 comments
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by thealig 5y ago
Yes, agreed. The examples seem fine to me as far as DP is concerned, but the claim of divide and conquer is a bit weird
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by thealig 5y ago
It could be I may be missing a plugin. Which IDE do you use?
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by thealig 5y ago
Debugging in C++, is a bit of a pain sometimes. GDB tools are good paired with an IDE like VSCode, but due to the abstractions in C++, inspecting variables require verbose code - beyond the convenience of debugging in a higher level languag
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by thealig 5y ago
The example given in the article for bottom-up DP is edit distance, unless you're referring to something I missed?
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by thealig 5y ago
There are multiple representations of pi as stated by the other commentor. One way of deriving it is given in the link, very elegant using the simple series formula. (Euler came up with it) [1]: https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/c
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by thealig 6y ago
CMB means cosmic microwave background right?
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by thealig 6y ago
Interesting tidbits I'm reading about different chat apps targeted for privacy and security. On a related question, how do you rank the various prominent apps like Signal, Telegram and Whatsapp on their cryptographic security measures?
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by thealig 6y ago
Thanks for the links. Topology seems so fascinating, someday I will dive into it to pick up concepts.
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by thealig 6y ago
Yes, curiosity about the world around you is infectious. I watched a few videos of Takada and they are really intriguing.
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by thealig 6y ago
That sounds fun. Do you have code for reference? Also I want to try out building a raytracer sometime as a hobby project, is it advisable to learn some 3d graphic concepts like WebGl and so?
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by thealig 6y ago
That's true, the later problems are thought-provoking but have prerequisites. I enjoy number theory but I won't mess with currently. I plan to go back to them one day, not sure though :P
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by thealig 6y ago
Interesting tool. I put Intro to Algorithms by Cormen & Surely You're joking Mr. Feynman and got lots of autobiographical books that I wouldn't really pick up :). Though there are others which pique my interest somewhat. Out
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by thealig 6y ago
Ah thanks for the info, will check it out.

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