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by tralarpa 5y ago
Could you explain what kind of projects nowadays use C++? I'm not up to date at all anymore. Used a lot of C++ until about 2010 (for simulations and Windows programming).
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I find that it is very difficult to follow his explanations, due to his presentation style but also because of the concept behind it (making English videos based on an Italian pdf file).
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"We do so on a large dataset of 142 populations". LOL. 56% of them in Eurasia. Unexplained correlation with population size. No explanation what "dedicated word for blue" means. No discussion of language evolution (was t
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> ranges in the 10k eur/year That's brutal. But I just visited (out of curiosity) www.belgiantrain.be and it says 3286 Euro for an "Unlimited Season Ticket" that "can be combined with other transport networks (ST
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I recently bought a (very) old game from GOG. The install directory contains two 48x48 icon files ("gog.ico" and "support.ico") and the game exe file. Together, the two icon files are larger than the exe file...
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Maybe 3, maybe 6, maybe 9. Different sources give different numbers. But "there are no known cases of an adult successfully acquiring [Absolute Pitch]" (from the Valproate paper).
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> wind follows a different weather pattern than solar Some data to explore: https://transparency.entsoe.eu/generation/r2/actualGeneratio... Unfortunately, some interesting countries (e.g. Sweden, Germany,...) a
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> UI component design is extremely difficult I don't see much difference between UIs of today and 20 years ago. Actually, I think UIs are nowadays less complex (more screen space available; and you have to worry less about CPU consu
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> So the statement "libraries...do not exist in the Lisp ecosystem" is plainly false and it marks the speaker as someone not very familiar with Lisp. Sorry to be so blunt but this is ridiculous. You are mentioning hash tables a
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Careful observers will notice that the Milwaukee Tool Company also sells other tools. I don't think anybody in the drill department of the company thinks that you should use a drill to cut a tree or trim a hedge.
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by tralarpa 5y ago
That's very interesting, because I had observed exactly the same when I tried to implement a rogue-like in Java some years ago. For example, I had to decide whether there should be different subclasses for spell books, the different
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> If you find yourself writing more than a hundred or so assembly instructions in a sitting, you are going to fail Why? (asking as somebody who wrote a lot of asm)
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> I'll prove them wrong in the next few years. We will see :) But, as I mentioned in my other comment, don't underestimate the physical impact of age on your body. A young body can tolerate and recover from a lot of physical s
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> I'd wager that free time (and overall lack of responsibilities) is the vast vast vast vast majority of what factors into children excelling at chess. I don't agree, but I cannot prove my position. It's an interesting que
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> If some adult wants to spend 10 years of their life mastering chess, and didn't have to worry about work, life, dating, children, etc, they'd have about the same chance as a child of becoming a Grandmaster eventually A friend
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by tralarpa 5y ago
As somebody without any experience in that field: When you say "codebase", what is that? Is it code describing circuit blocks (e.g. an ALU) that is reused in different projects or is it code for the tools that you use? (in-house t
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by tralarpa 5y ago
It was explained to me that the difference between "q" and "ch" (and the same for "j" and "zh") is the position of the tongue, that is it is rolled back in "ch" and "zh". Correct?
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> As an instructor in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), I spent four years teaching meditation as a full-time job. A longtime meditator, I have logged roughly 4,000 hours of practice over 10 years, including over 100 days on sil
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by tralarpa 5y ago
What about pos1 += (v1<=v2); ?
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> currently trying to teach my kid programming For some reason my kid doesn't like programming robots at all and prefers building interactive worlds (like pokemon etc.). We bought an older version of RPG Maker on Steam for just a fe
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Software engineering is still very far from engineering. It's a young field and everything is still very experimental. Its practitioners are still debating whether a hammer or a saw is the best tool for inserting a screw, and whether t
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I guess the specialized subreddits are okayish, but I am always shocked when looking at the frontpage. The amount of hate and misery that appears in the most liked posts (posts and comments) is disconcerting. Just checked: Cringetopia, Idio
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by tralarpa 5y ago
FORTRAN is seven years older than BASIC and uses the equal sign and variables in the same way. Here an excerpt from the 1957 paper by Backus et al.: "Evaluate the expression on the right of the = sign and make this the value of the var
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by tralarpa 5y ago
Do people like lightboards? You have to be careful what you wear, how you stand, how you move etc. so that you don't cover what you have written (see the video by the inexperienced USC professor where she wears a white shirt). As a res
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by tralarpa 5y ago
> Wiktionary suggests that the Franks (from whom these derive) themselves were named after a word for "spear" That is only one possible origin. The other one is "frec" (greedy, bold, brave).
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by tralarpa 5y ago
At least with Firefox, doing tasks in the background was sometimes quite painful, especially during development. For example, I do some CPU-intensive stuff in the background, close the tab because I noticed a mistake in my code -> backgr
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I am involved in a quite heavy web-based data processing and visualization application (browser regularly consumes 8GB RAM and more for a single tab). I have to say that you really can see that browsers are not made for this kind of workloa
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by tralarpa 5y ago
I think parent was wondering what the word "accelated" in "software-accelerated" could mean. Faster than what? (faster doing the calculations by hand? :)
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by tralarpa 5y ago
The same also happened with Daoism. The West took the philosophical part and ignored for many years the cultural aspects, belief system, and worshipping rituals (i.e., the religion) behind it. Until some scientists pointed out (quite recent
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by tralarpa 5y ago
That's interesting. The article says that, until recently, the company didn't know that their teapot is so famous.

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