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by tinco 4y ago
It's not a big breakthrough, just like the invention of the cathode ray tube was not a big breakthrough. That is to say, it's not something that shortsighted reactionary people are going to recognise as the dawn of a new world. Bu
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by tinco 4y ago
Not sceptical of the achievement which no doubt was a small feat. But is desalination and purification something that's been a blocker for electrolysis? I don't remember ever even seeing this in efficiency charts of for example hy
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by tinco 4y ago
So.. we attack our enemies by building large fusion power plants in their countries, and then blowing them up? Why not just build a traditional nuclear fission power plant and blow that up? It seems that would be a lot cheaper.
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by tinco 4y ago
There are much simpler ways to generate fissile material for dirty bombs. This technology doesn't seem to be weaponisable in any other way that I can tell.
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by tinco 4y ago
So, you wouldn't consider using a new tool that someone developed to solve the same problem despite an older solution already existing? Your advice to that someone is to just use the old solution?
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by tinco 4y ago
He did the diving, he told you the statement and the properties of it and he told you where he gets his data.
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by tinco 4y ago
It seems like a small thing, but everything about it is just slightly wrong. That it's called `transform_reduce` and not just `reduce`. The fact that it was in C++17 alongside a function called `reduce` that's basically useless. W
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by tinco 4y ago
I agree that the example is crazy. But the function is not fine, it's a testament to how unhinged the C++ standards committee is. Its existence is proof that the problems of C++ are not just with its history, but that it is an ongoing
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by tinco 4y ago
It's not? This is literally the function that I found I should use when I wanted to fold over a list I had. What would you recommend I use?
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by tinco 4y ago
It was my first proper language too, if you discount what I did on my graphical calculator. Now I'm a Rubyist, heart and soul, make of that what you will.
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by tinco 4y ago
That's exactly pfdietz's complaint. NASA employs the same types of humans SpaceX does. If reusability was a design constraint they would have solved it like SpaceX did. But they didn't consider it a priority or even a goal to
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by tinco 4y ago
In Python the standard library is fairly easily traversed and understood and if there's a better way of doing something it's usually linked I think. In C++ we have.. this.. https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp&#x
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by tinco 4y ago
For those wondering if there's actually something relevant to the Epic's approach to the metaverse: there's not beyond slide 3. Everything after slide 3 is a description of the semantics of a novel functional logic programmin
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by tinco 4y ago
I'll be the first to hate on C++, but the only reason C++ might be considered a "don't learn it as a first language" language, is because it's huge. It's got 40 years worth of baggage, and it's "stand
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by tinco 4y ago
We had a similar problem at Hetzner, we were using their consumer grade systems and this was over 6 years ago. To Hetzner's credit though, after we decided it had to be a hardware problem (dmesg would log something about cpu states bef
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by tinco 4y ago
Haha that's cool. I guess I should qualify with "comparatively shitty".
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by tinco 4y ago
I assure you most Haskell programmers have taken the mandatory computer organization/architecture courses in uni. That knowledge wouldn't (shouldn't?) influence your excitement about programming paradigms. I think the bigger
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by tinco 4y ago
Spotty support for C++17/C++20 is very annoying. Maybe if you stick to one platform and one language edition on one compiler you'll have a nice and stable C++ experience, but that's no different from Javascript. We adopt new
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by tinco 4y ago
But it isn't the vast majority as far as I know. Most people I know have their crypto on Coinbase or Kraken or Bitstamp, or they've invested in a hardware wallet. I don't know how succesful FTX's marketing was, did they
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by tinco 4y ago
You could also have your spouse do 5 minutes of research and not have them put your money at a bank that was always clearly a scam. There's trustworthy crypto banks, they just don't offer interest. If you think you need interest o
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by tinco 4y ago
I think you mean Neil Gaiman? and I'm not sure if it's really famous.. at least not as famous as its use in Neuromancer?
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by tinco 4y ago
I am not defending them. If a programmer makes the mistake of having any character in a monospace font be anything other than a multiple of the monospace character width.. sure revoke their programming licence. Straight back to kindergarten
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by tinco 4y ago
What usability/interaction pattern is that? The number of spaces in tabs is not a debate, that's just personal preference in your editor. The debate is if tabs should be used at all. That tabs are not a multiple of the character w
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by tinco 4y ago
4 spaces and tab not being perfectly aligned sounds like a feature, not a bug to me. In what scenario would you want them to be aligned? Surely any scenario would be improper use? 100% agree with the rest of course, it's always been a
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by tinco 4y ago
If $33 is not cheap then maybe not. But I buy my delta fans at mouser or digikey, and they have a wider range of specs than typical consumer websites. They come without connectors though so there's some crimping/soldering required
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by tinco 4y ago
That's strange, wouldn't a plastic be much easier to drill into? Maybe it required a different kind of drill head that they had no way of getting down there within budget?
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by tinco 4y ago
I'm only superficially involved with machine learning, is it ever required for applications to implement their own differentation for something specific? In my line of work it's mostly transfer learning, maybe with small modificat
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by tinco 4y ago
Yeah as I said I don't hold Tesla. I was long on it as I sold it years ago. Could've made more money if I held on to it, but I was not smart enough to realize what the global economy was doing to tech stocks, and not dumb enough t
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by tinco 4y ago
Could she really though? She was in her 2nd year of Stanford when she dropped out to "revolutionize" the field. Despite the reputation, and I'm sure it's a magical place, but no university in the world is going to make y
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by tinco 4y ago
Everyone with half a brain has predicted the failure of NFT's and the collapse of ridiculous get rich schemes such as FTX. The big problem is when recognising the (small amount) of value that actually is in the cryptocurrency/defi

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