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by toolslive 3mo ago
I always put my locale in Ireland: I want - "proper English" - metric system - Euro It's amazing how many web applications give me a broken experience because of it.
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by toolslive 3mo ago
it's not that different compared to using the FFI. The link below shows how it can work for Ocaml <-> TypeScript. https://github.com/ocsigen/ts2ocaml
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by toolslive 3mo ago
You don't have to use TypeScript if you don't want to: you can compile Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, F#, ... to javascript. This is quite efficient, especially if your backend is already in one of those languages. It saves you from creati
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by toolslive 3mo ago
For a bit of context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Metzitzah "In three medical papers done in Israel, Canada, and the US, oral suction following circumcision was suggested as a cause in 11 cases of ne
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by toolslive 3mo ago
While the IEEE 754 standard ensures that individual basic operations are deterministic and strictly bounded, it does not guarantee that an entire program will yield bit-identical results on all CPUs. CPUs and their execution environments in
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by toolslive 3mo ago
It's probably due to the fact that it's a cloud service. You have no guarantee that your next request will go to the same machine. So even with an identical seed, and temp 0 you might get different hardware and hence different acc
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by toolslive 3mo ago
I have the 2012 print edition too and fully concur with the assessment. The best book about garbage collection at the time (and maybe still?)
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by toolslive 4mo ago
You will probably claim it's not "real" perfect pitch, but many people use their tinnitus to help them. They identified their ring as having, for example, F#, and suddenly their relative pitch became absolute.
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by toolslive 5mo ago
They (Black Sabbath) were booked as a blues band by Jazz Bilzen in 1970. People just didn't know where to bucket sort them at the time.
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by toolslive 5mo ago
really nice! For the inclined, there's also https://www.metal-archives.com/
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by toolslive 5mo ago
> * I wondered about this too. Also, why was it framed in the context of JSON based RPC over HTTP ?
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by toolslive 5mo ago
https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-8342289+M... 404 ?
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by toolslive 5mo ago
I come from the same lineage as the author. I did 6502 (doing C64 demos) long before I encountered the Z80. From what I remember, the Z80 offers a vastly superior programming experience. It has more registers. it has 16 bit registers. It ha
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by toolslive 6mo ago
maybe add: "the universe is winning" (in the design department). Full quote: "software engineers try to build "idiot-proof" systems, while the universe creates "bigger and better idiots" to break them. So
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by toolslive 6mo ago
ha! I found an online simulator. Just try to do a 10 print "hello world!" to get a feel for it. https://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html
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by toolslive 6mo ago
> This is what most programmers do. They type raw text into the editor; the compiler either processes it into structured data, or returns an error the programmer has to internalise before resubmitting. In the 1980s structural editors wer
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by toolslive 7mo ago
the idea has been around (and implemented) at least since the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_(programming_language) The CSP approach is also interesting. fe Limbo https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by toolslive 7mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing ?
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by toolslive 7mo ago
what's wrong with protobuf & friends ?
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by toolslive 7mo ago
For CSV, I don't know how this comes out. It depends on the library/programming language. It might be 73786976294838210000 or it might throw an exception, or whatever. I'm just saying JSON will not solve your problems neither
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by toolslive 7mo ago
JSON brings its own set of problems. for example, look at the python generated JSON below. > >>> json.dumps({ "X" : 1 << 66 }) > '{"X": 73786976294838206464}' What's the
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by toolslive 8mo ago
It's what a lot of engineers have been saying for decades: Looking at the surfaces of the artefacts, it's obvious more advanced tooling, than what was claimed by archaeologists, must have been used. Oh irony, the bits were already
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by toolslive 8mo ago
Being just (as in the right thing happened) and being legal (as in the judicial system does not object) are 2 totally different things. They overlap, but less than people would like to believe.
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by toolslive 9mo ago
I'm just saying integrating over a temperature range with T in the denominator is annoying, while it doesn't have to be.
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by toolslive 9mo ago
As an engineer, you should not even use temperature at all. All thermodynamic formulas simplify (a lot) if you use the inverse temperature.
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by toolslive 9mo ago
> 1 foot = ... hold on: a horizontal foot, or a vertical foot ? 0.30480061m versus 0.3048m
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by toolslive 9mo ago
No. The claim is cpython has no spec. The link you posted is about the language. The spec claim is about the behaviour of the runtime. The underlying claim is hat pypy cannot succeed precisely because there's no clear definition of suc
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by toolslive 9mo ago
Well, the original comment was implying org mode had limited popularity because there is no specification. I'm claiming cpython is way more popular compared to fe pypy because it has no spec. The typical scenario is: people try pypy. i
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by toolslive 9mo ago
You can say the same about Python. However, there the forces push in the opposite direction: Even when there are better pythony runtimes that provide almost identical behaviour (but better performance), everybody sticks to CPython.
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by toolslive 10mo ago
you can unify database with write-ahead log using a persistent data structure. It also gives you cheap/free snapshots/checkpoints.

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