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by vkazanov 4y ago
I very much agree. While of course Remarkable positioned itself as a notebook. But in practise it is not. You really want to use these 300-500$ devices for something other than just expensive notebooks. Some people want to write on whitepap
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by vkazanov 4y ago
The dragon book saw multiple revisions. The authors always stayed on the theoretical, almost detached, side of things. Most of the deeper material is dedicated to things closer to theory of computation than practical compiler building. Prac
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Postgres code is very good, redis as well. Some of the core parts of Linux also totally worth learning from. I also remember how Qt UI code and docs were a revelation after the nightmare of win32 and related frameworks. Bellard's origi
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Yet here they are, alive and kicking, while objc is gone, motif gone, etc. Long live gnome, long live gimp, long live gtk!
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by vkazanov 4y ago
1st, you're ignoring the fact that this c-based solution was not well-supported back then. 2nd, objective c is dead now. It was not a good long-term solution. 3rd, everybody and their cat knew C, while objc was a niche back then. How i
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by vkazanov 4y ago
How so? You probably don't understand the context of mid-90s free and open software. Nothing is free, nothing open, relevant business models do not yet exist. Few things that are open barely work: linux takes hours to compile-tweak-rec
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by vkazanov 4y ago
To be honest the personality of the clone Emperor and his development is my favourite part of the show, and their best idea. It'd be much better if they could just stick to this line, with everything else being just some noise in the b
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by vkazanov 4y ago
The show is kinda OK if you ignore the book, I.e. for general public. Expensive, good CG, etc. What does feel painful though is the wasted opportunity: chances are that Foundation will never get its Peter Jackson.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Apart from the wheel there is a second ingredient to your recipe that is not as easy... we're getting close though.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
I bought like 5 XPSs and 1 workstation from dell with ubuntu preinstalled, starting with the original release. Only one model was relatively problematic. So what do you mean? Are there better laptops with Linux preinstalled from major oems?
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by vkazanov 4y ago
To be fair, the comment you're replying to is borderline offensive.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Yeah... My impression is that NHS has some sort of guidelines explaining default GP reactions to keywords. E.g., "pain in the back" is the fastest way to end the conversation.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
I didn't read the article. But my friend here in London couldn't get past GP with half of her body losing sensation. It took a LOT of pressure from her husband to get to see somebody relevant. It turned out to be quite serious but
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Deeper in the article there's also a comparison of cpu cycles burned on various approaches. Would that count as useful?
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Agree! English is source code lingua franca, and every reasonable dev should understand this point. It is kind of more complicated with tech literature though.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Yes, sure, C++ includes C stdlib. Don't remember arguing with this thesis.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
> comments in Lithuanin As a polish-russian lithuanian I do read Lithuanian, russian and bits of polish but... it really is super surprising to see how people abuse unicode-encoded source code. Linux drivers with comments in Chinese are
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Huh? It measures 2 idiomatic ways to print a string. Printf is faster, it's expected. This is just a note checking common sense. Totally worth doing it, especially for a scientist! PS The author is... not just any professor.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Is it Windows-only? README only mentions building with Visual Studio
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by vkazanov 4y ago
> That’s kind of true (too some degree at least) if you’re talking about Western Europe. Why do you think it was unique for Western Europe? The East was slightly behind in the feudal disunity phase but it had the same kind of picture: nu
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Or Ancient Egypt, which had all the necessary attributes in place over 4 thousand years ago... not quite the case with feudal societies in medieval Europe. I am only speaking about medieval Europe, btw. And British colonial rule over India
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Well... about that hard place. At some point it was the Commonwealth that dominated the region. A Polish Prince could have kicked off a Russian tzar dynasty: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Władysław_IV_Vasa Unfortunat
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by vkazanov 4y ago
This has a lot to do with a simplistic (and wrong) projection of the modern concept of patriotism/nationalism to medieval history. Jogaila did what was good for his dynasty and himself personally, that's it. As an aristocrate he c
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Now that you've realised it... just relax, they'll promote you either way
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by vkazanov 4y ago
I am not sure Discovery Institute is a reliable source. Wikipedia says that it's a non-profit created with a specific goal of promoting certain non-scientific ideas: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_Instit
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Yup. Never read a non-CS paper in my life. This is why I used this word - extrapolation. I am pointing out certain shady incentives in our field that might apply in another scientific field as well.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Well, half of DS and CS papers are like this: shallow descriptions, no public data, no code. And things are MUCH easier with computers! Extrapolation to a more complex field tells me that it's a norm there.
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Huh? The population was booming in the post-war USSR as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_Soviet_Uni... Compare with the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_
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by vkazanov 4y ago
There were numerous spectrum clones as well built from local parts. My dad built one himself, actually made a business out of selling these in 87-88. As far as i know there were plenty of them in my small town back in Lithuania. Bigger mach
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by vkazanov 4y ago
Or maybe it is an example of how politics makes people say and do stupid things on principle?

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