tom_mellior

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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> The C standards have the perfectly fine name "implementation dependent" to describe those things. That term is not used by the C standards. Do you mean "implementation-defined"? asm is not among the explicitly speci
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Wiktionary says "Marci", or "Mārcī" to be pedantic (I'm not sure how strict this is; when I was learning Latin in high school we weren't taught to care much about diacritics on vowels), for Latin: https:/
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> A UFO literally means "we don't know what we saw" In common parlance UFO also means "spacecraft of extraterrestrial origin", and I very obviously used it in that sense.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> In other words, I'm convinced they could have easily arrived at probabilities like 0.1% or 99.9% by reasonably varying their prior distribution for that parameter alone. In other other words, this reading of the paper also con
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Jesuses (Jesii?) Pet peeve, honed by endless discussions on Slashdot in the late 1990s: -ii is not a Latin plural marker. -i is a Latin plural marker which can correspond to a singular -us. Plurals can look like -ii, but only if the
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
I do not understand why we would only be seeing UFOs at convenient airplane altitudes inside our atmosphere, but not detect them while they approach Earth, despite the fact that space is constantly being scanned for all kinds of stuff. I al
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
You can buy simple soil test kits that tell you about your soil's pH, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potash levels. Then you know if/what to replenish. A university or lab near you may also offer a service where you send them a soil sa
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Out of the box, VIM has no easy way to colorize tabs. This is slightly simplified from my .vimrc: highlight ExtraWhitespace ctermbg=darkred match ExtraWhitespace /\t/ It will highlight any tab in dark red. (My ac
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> I started my career with tabs as it made more sense on the surface, but then over time migrated to spaces which did not have a lot of issues I think this is a common phenomenon, not just for individuals but for entire organizations. Ov
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Since Hungarian already does this, there is nothing different in Hungarian about the way Yoda talks. Yes. My point was merely that this is bad. Yoda is supposed to talk differently. If he doesn't, then the translator didn't
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Thanks for the sources. Unfortunately [2] won't load for me, claiming "too many requests". Things I would look for in the data would be, at least: - Are there substantial differences in the restrictions? If the least string
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
This is misleading. The translation could trivially make him use incorrect word orders. "Lost in translation" suggests that it would be difficult to make him speak in a quirky way, but that's not the case at all. The translat
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Given that the author is an anti-masker conspiracy theorist, we can learn that one can score Internet brownie points in the anti-masker conspiracy theory community by plotting garbage data without providing sources or context.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Not sure if you know this, but both of the examples you mention are the same in German: "..., weil es schwierig ist " and "..., denn es ist schwierig" both mean "... because it's difficult", but "w
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Yes, Hungarian has this kind of emphasis built in. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_grammar#Emphasis for examples of how varying the word order can change the emphasis and thus effectively the meaning of a s
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> To the extent that genders are idiosyncratic, they are hard to learn. Bora, spoken in Peru, has more than 350 of them. Interesting. Wikipedia says that Bora has more than 350 "classifiers", but that doesn't seem to be th
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
That is a possibly valid argument. A woke one, in fact. It's unfortunate that you started the discussion on a very wrong foot. For whatever it's worth, I think the sentence you quoted from the article was a very clumsy segue, an
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> a dullwitted "woke" lecture What did feel was a "lecture"? You read an article about the cultural history of a type of bean. That cultural history includes the fact that colonialism happened. Do you feel that every
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
What do you mean by "does absolutely nothing"? It does something, namely load a dynamic library that presumably implements its methods. Now maybe that library has never done anything, but that's impossible to tell from the co
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
A pump and dump gets him actual cash, as opposed to capital tied up in shares. But more importantly, every move gets him the press coverage he craves.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
I'm with you on everything except the Bitcoin bit. I think he knew exactly that (a) it's a highly speculative asset, and (b) he has enough rabid fans and general publicity to move the market in exactly the ways that he benefits
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
But of course he didn't squash it, because he loved vendor lock-in and walled gardens.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
From what I remember, ARM docs also put the destination register first, use no sigils for marking registers and immediates, and use a not-entirely-obscure syntax for expressing scaling and such in addressing modes. What aspect of ARM's
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Interesting discussion of some possible pitfalls where AT&T syntax allows you to shoot yourself in the foot. But to my mind the most important argument is the one mentioned towards the end as a minor one: The official documentation uses
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
As I understand it, Kotlin coroutines generate what is known as irreducible control flow. This means that loops have more than one entry point, or equivalently, there are loops that have a goto jumping into the body from the outside. (Java
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Could you elaborate on these tricks? This sounds interesting. The only thing I'm aware of that's neat in little endian is that if you want the low byte (or word or whatever suffix) of a number stored at address a, then you can sim
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
You have green gum then? E141 is green. E171 is white.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Anyone using Twitter in the browser uses the Twitter website and sees the ads it serves. But many people using Twitter in an app use a third party app rather than the official one. These people don't see ads. If Twitter's goal is
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
The famous 1636/1637 tulip mania (such as it was) lasted just a few months over the winter, collapsing in February. There was no time to grow anything in that period.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Why is rsp+10 more natural? If rsp is the top of the stack, everything is below it, and "below" and "minus" go well together. Though I would agree that for the topmost value specifically, rsp+0 feels more natural than rs

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