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by usrusr 2y ago
Yeah, completely undiscovered does not happen, with the exception perhaps of battle sites which seem to keep catching archeologists by surprise. What does happen is discoveries of the kind "so we dug up this old thing, because it'
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by usrusr 2y ago
While there can certainly be case where items of local knowledge haven't been cataloged by (recent) science, I think that you are giving far too much credit to that side. It's not as if there was much oral tradition going on with
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by usrusr 2y ago
The POV-ray syntax with its wild mix of curly and whitespace state description driven by a C-preprocessor lookalike successfully primed my mind for making the jump from Basic and Pascal to C (and eventually to other curly languages). Eterna
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by usrusr 2y ago
IIRC the more serious proposals for a global time scheme deliberately abandon the old 24:60:60 so that daylight expectations, locally as they would be, would have to be re-learned anyways. Up to that point that doesn't sound that bad t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Nothing. When you want more throughput, pick a setup with more cores. HT was good (not that good but still good) when the goal was performance per die area, but now we live in the area of performance per watt. Doubly so when looking at la
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by usrusr 2y ago
Surprised to see that long a text about the demand side of innovation without any mention of war as the mother of all invention. Seems to me almost like an elephant in the room nodding in puzzled agreement. Puzzled that strong demand side i
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by usrusr 2y ago
> and am usually the person being approached for advice and mentoring. I never found the efficiency of the process to be lacking That's a good exmple for GP's point: deliberate, premeditated interaction works just fine remotely
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by usrusr 2y ago
That's because that happy family of business logic living in with state envisioned as a savior in the Smalltalk days turned out to be a hot mess. Information hiding does not magically make problems go away, in particular not when code
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by usrusr 2y ago
I read this as "the updated versions can now tolerate the option that makes future versions behave the same without calling out an error: invalid flag" This is exactly how you want an LTS to be supported long term.
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by usrusr 2y ago
> but I could bet that most people will fix the issue by simply adding the "all-on" switch to the command line Definitely this. This is a dev experience problem. > Unless maybe JDK 23 comes with some tool to print a catalogu
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by usrusr 2y ago
I've been jokingly predicting to myself for quite a while now that a tattoo fashion is imminent of studios offering deliberately blurred designs so that the result looks as if it was done before the design became cool.
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by usrusr 2y ago
I'd put most of my code reading much closer to "inferring intention" than to "running in my head". It's really more like navigating through a complex building, looking for certain rooms than simulating executio
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by usrusr 2y ago
My mind parses any mention of "voxel" that isn't accompanied by a screenshot from one of the original Comanche levels as a lie. The reality is that Comanche was more like a displacement-map twist on the Doom "2.5D"
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by usrusr 2y ago
They aren't making a sequel, they are doing an unlicensed video game conversion. Reading all these musings here about a possible "there is no bad publicity" approach, I'm starting to wonder if the plan for if Johansson s
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by usrusr 2y ago
I'd expect a commodity like charging to be a very tough sell in the stock market. Turns out charging is actually not easy, and having boots on the ground in lots of places where people actually want to charge makes a formidable moat (b
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by usrusr 2y ago
A publicly traded company is whatever those with capital (or those managing capital) and the highest grade of optimism about the company want it to be. Obviously when it comes to Tesla, there's some very strong optimism in the market
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by usrusr 2y ago
You certainly should. Even if you know some bash and zero python I suppose, because bash is just so "special". But only if your target environment has python, and that's not a given, not a zero-cost change, in this age of sho
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by usrusr 2y ago
And with predictably good cache locality on iteration. Given the ever increasing gap between the fast and the slow end off our volatile memory hierarchies, I'm surprised that we don't see more of an identifiable trend of using alg
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by usrusr 2y ago
You mean like how poisoning isn't violence?
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by usrusr 2y ago
Same as adjusting other people's tire pressure: perfectly fine if you have explicit approval.
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by usrusr 2y ago
If I smash your car, is that violence or not? What if I take care to smash your car only so much that it will still be able carry you to work and back?
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by usrusr 2y ago
Why redirect though? He's causing pain to people who refused friendship with the top bully, that might very well be considered good enough. Some baron in the system might be allowed to take a cut. The latter might actually be related t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Certainly depends a lot on what the term "VM" actually means in the context. If it's something as specialized as the JVM, or a native virtualization with an extremely trimmed down guest, then at some point you'll find yo
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by usrusr 2y ago
Who buys the bidding procedure? Is it the main lender or someone instated by the main lender? That would certainly create an incentive for maximising uncertainty if there are other lenders the profits will be shared with. But the mechanism
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by usrusr 2y ago
I really think you are right, but there's a contrarian part of me now imagining something that is almost identical with that Ballad of Bilbo Baggins video that was allegedly forced on Leonard Nimoy by terrible TV producers, magically t
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by usrusr 2y ago
Now you had me hoping for an implementation of fitting Needle behind the existing Pattern/Matcher API, and a compiler plugin that substitutes Pattern.compile accordingly wherever the inputs are known at compile time.
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by usrusr 2y ago
And how would it scale to a number of candidates greater than one? A classroom full of competing peers? That's what talent shows are for.
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by usrusr 2y ago
I've had a coding interview (screen, not whiteboard) fail where the main criticism was that one routine detail I took a while to get right could have been googled faster. In hindsight I still doubt that, given all the semi-related tang
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by usrusr 2y ago
Ten years of experience at one of those places where every keystroke outside powerpoint is offshored. Why would they know how to sum ints? Some people do start their careers as what could best be described as software architecture assistant
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by usrusr 2y ago
The key difference is that the government never touches the money anywhere between citizen and broadcaster, to avoid unwarranted influence. I assume that people who know the British term know that, as the German one is surely modeled after

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