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by tooltower 5y ago
"move fast and break things", but make sure you know the consequence of breaking it and have that pre-approved by your bosses, labeled with a large font "disclaimer" sign written in red ...
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by tooltower 5y ago
I'm starting to accept that maybe our current social media sites and aggregators are inherently vulnerable to manipulation. IRL social structures without broadcasting capabilities has fewer of these problems, since the reward is less.
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by tooltower 5y ago
I'm curious what makes Doctorow notorious. I read some of his short stories, with mixed feelings. Agreed with your point on this article not being a good use of the reader's time.
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by tooltower 5y ago
cronjob
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by tooltower 5y ago
Why does this send me to a login page? I was expecting a public announcement of some sort
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by tooltower 5y ago
Which means the 'G' could have been replaced by _anything_! Same for the first 'P' in PHP Hypertext Preprocessor
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by tooltower 5y ago
Quantum Turing Machine!
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by tooltower 5y ago
Ah, so I can stop people from depending on internal details by documenting it! /s I'd use the word "observable" rather than "undocumented"
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by tooltower 5y ago
Some scientists prefer the term Far Side because of this :)
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by tooltower 5y ago
This just means that our notion of a tree does not map cleanly to a genetic lineage. That does not mean the concept is useless, even in scientific fields.
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by tooltower 5y ago
If you are talking about Pippenger-Fischer theorem, then that's about Turing machines, not machines with RAM. Or is there another theorem I don't know about?
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by tooltower 5y ago
Do we know who the larger shareholders are? Where do we look this up?
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by tooltower 5y ago
Only sometimes ;-)
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by tooltower 5y ago
> IP is currently believed to be a subset of PSPACE. IP is _known_ to be _equal_ to PSPACE
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by tooltower 5y ago
I wonder how this would change if they wanted to optimize for total memory usage or runtime memory usage. Many of their target use cases (e.g. embedded) have more flash memory than ram. Does anyone know of scheme (or other) such interpreter
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by tooltower 5y ago
Maybe add "(2020)" to the title?
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by tooltower 5y ago
They make a sharper distinction of PhD being a post-Masters degree. In USA, I started the PhD program without a Masters, others started with me who had a Masters. We all took roughly the same amount of time to complete the PhD
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by tooltower 5y ago
Iterating can take many forms, and different teams have different workflows. For my work, I would rarely be able to make a "quick prototype" even if I wanted to, since most of my projects need to modify other people's code. A
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by tooltower 5y ago
I love that Firefox desktop can start searching with a '/' keystroke! I think Chrome can do it too, but I can't recall. Hopefully other applications will pick up more of these over time
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by tooltower 5y ago
It took me a while to find the statement of the theorem. For other readers like me, starting at page 5 might help. It's about how it is impossible for democracies to simultaneously satisfy certain desirable traits.
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by tooltower 5y ago
You can generalize even further. Acquisition of businesses, consolidating them into behemoths, they are all economically incentivized. Removing just that one aspect could solve many of these other issues, even outside of tech.
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by tooltower 5y ago
I've had this experience too. It doesn't take a lot of template use for both binary size and build time to blow up. When iterating with `make` starts taking over a couple of minutes even on a smallish-medium-sized project, it beco
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by tooltower 5y ago
It means the system is asymmetric. The "masters" can collude to reduce wages, can ask for government assistance to weaken worker unions. But workers don't seem to have the same rights.
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by tooltower 5y ago
It is? I thought HSTS headers did a pretty good job of preventing downgrades, at least for sites I frequently visit.
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by tooltower 5y ago
I expected it to be closer to Microsoft's GVFS: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/announcing-gvfs-git-vi... There, they used a filesystem interface to speed up checkouts for large repositories.
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by tooltower 5y ago
While my stance on forensics is not as negative as the parent comment, I don't see how you are drawing such a sharp distinction between the "science" and the "interpretation". They are not separate things. When a sc
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by tooltower 5y ago
I didn't know about `git commit --fixup`, having used git as a daily driver for over a decade. That's super-helpful for fixing things up pre-merge.
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by tooltower 5y ago
Of course, it's not a guarantee. But if your program is under heavy pressure from other programs, it won't continue to run in any reasonable sense either, even without Linux's OOM-killer. Yes, you can show an error message, b
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by tooltower 5y ago
You can look at the SQLite codebase for good examples of this. Essentially, you will have to introduce a fixed upper bound for the file size you are willing to handle, given your minimum system requirements. This way, you can actually test
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by tooltower 5y ago
I fear this this dynamics will promote highly controversial topics. Even here in HN, a topic with many comments and few upvotes have a higher temperature, more reported comments. It sounds like you are selecting for exactly that. That said,

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