twic

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841.
by twic 3y ago
> is doubtless true And yet the list of features given to illustrate that point in the article consists entirely of stuff which is not in fact mainstream: > Proper tail calls as the fundamental means of iteration is now standard in fu
842.
by twic 3y ago
Ah, not the otamatone then: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmxLja-DRIw
843.
by twic 3y ago
> 2) Debian will contain the most up-to-date of everything. No plan survives contact with the enemy.
844.
by twic 3y ago
> a supportive, productive community with a focus on doing real stuff
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by twic 3y ago
Scandium-aluminium alloy was popular for bicycle frames briefly in the 2000s. On-One made a frame wittily called the Scandal from it. I have a Scandal frame, but it's a second generation one where they dropped the scandium but kept the
846.
by twic 3y ago
Also relevant is that Sun had pulled the same trick with Solaris a few years earlier - Solaris 2.6 was followed by Solaris 7. Bigger version numbers make for better marketing. I am skeptical that backwards compatibility was strongly involve
847.
by twic 3y ago
It's not a dumb take. It's certainly true that Rust with GC would not solve the problems Rust was intended to solve, and would really not be Rust. But that doesn't mean Rust with GC wouldn't be a nice language! I don&#x2
848.
by twic 3y ago
Or psychedelics. Or intermittent fasting. Or ...
849.
by twic 3y ago
Or we take a step back to turboconductors.
850.
by twic 3y ago
We've already established that hypersonic > supersonic. I think a hypermarket is bigger than a supermarket. In protein structure, a hyperfamily is bigger than a superfamily. I've never heard of an ultrasonic aeroplane, an ultra
851.
by twic 3y ago
I mean if Hunter S. Thompson was still alive he'd be on the breadline.
852.
by twic 3y ago
GPT = Gangster Pre-training Transformer
853.
by twic 3y ago
Real winners ride POWerwheels: https://www.sheldonbrown.com/power-wheel.html
854.
by twic 3y ago
> Most microkernels are small enough to fit in the L3 cache, some are small enough to fit in the L2 cache. Linux, even if we could exclude the drivers, doesn't even come close. This inability to fully cache the kernel ends up negati
855.
by twic 3y ago
TIL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blancmange_curve
856.
by twic 3y ago
> Some speculate about the “pouring” of some Great Pyramid blocks using a geopolymer and crushed limestone. I'd forgotten about this! We should be clear that the "some" here are cranks: http://www.geopolymer.org
857.
by twic 3y ago
You can tell curl to read its arguments from a file, in which case a shell won't get to interpret them first, perhaps this feature is aimed at that?
858.
by twic 3y ago
I think there's also an aspect of doing it and presenting it in an unusually attention-grabbing way.
859.
by twic 3y ago
No synthesis. Less critical current than YBCO. Lame.
860.
by twic 3y ago
> God bless you Colin, but reading this, it appears you're the only one in charge of the infrastructure for this service Hence the toddler.
861.
by twic 3y ago
And now we have jetpacks, we even have a way to get the truck pilots to and from the trucks on the highway!
862.
by twic 3y ago
Walking home the other day, i saw a taxi which had stopped to pick up on the northeast corner of a crossroads. The passengers were taking their time. A southbound bus was trying to turn off that corner, but couldn't, because of the tax
863.
by twic 3y ago
They're extended when they're locals or temporaries, but they behave like real 8- and 16- bit values in fields and array elements.
864.
by twic 3y ago
You can't front run retail order flow because it doesn't move the market.
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by twic 3y ago
If you're not actively manoeuvring (or fighting etc), sailing involves a lot of downtime. Once you're at sea and heading in roughly the right direction, there's not a lot of actual sailing work to do, and only so much make an
866.
by twic 3y ago
The biggest HFT firms are prop shops. They don't even have clients. There aren't any client orders for them to front run! You know not what of you speak.
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by twic 3y ago
I haven't seen Construction Cancellation Order, so looked it up. From some fragments, the robots really remind me of the ones from the Mann vs Machine mode in Team Fortress 2, right down to the way they shudder while standing still. I
868.
by twic 3y ago
It's the textures that really let it down, i think. The solar panel (?) texture in the very first shot is a perfect example. Looked fine at SDTV resolution, but in high-res, you can see it's just flat blocks of colour, and it lose
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by twic 3y ago
On the latter point, what the Rebel Wizard had to say made a lot of sense to me: https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjkx4b/rebel-wizard-heavy-me... Sadly i did not enjoy his music in the least.
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by twic 3y ago
Death metal is indeed very silly. What I'm not sure of is whether its fans don't realise it's silly, embrace the silliness, or have simply moved beyond such pathetic human dichotomies as serious and silly.

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