vmchale

59 ms·

271.
by vmchale 6y ago
Are they really that bad? I mean Froot Loops are weird but you don't really eat them often?
272.
by vmchale 6y ago
So far the GPU backends are not all that.
273.
by vmchale 6y ago
> The J is inscrutable It's understandable after a time, like all else.
274.
by vmchale 6y ago
> If you use a garbage collector, you don't have to do manual memory management Also easy higher-order functions. Plus it can be more performant in some cases. > I will happily shelve a few more bucks for RAM and wait a few more
275.
by vmchale 6y ago
Good stuff! Thanks to all contributors, I'll have to start porting my libraries :p
276.
by vmchale 6y ago
Time to ponder J... wonder if what could benefit from some array-focused libraries.
277.
by vmchale 6y ago
> I am just so confused why some people are acting like kids are a different species when it comes to covid. That was what the Chinese data said - they had fewer cases so presumably they didn't see the full range of possibilities.
278.
by vmchale 6y ago
Makes sense in the US. The Trump administration has done an abhorrent job handling the virus and isn't making the slightest effort to change course.
279.
by vmchale 6y ago
> A language that compiles to C does not inherit all of C's problems, and doesn't "punt" on it for undefined behavior. ATS avoids some things; you shouldn't be able to do the silly memory-unsafe parts. Stuff like
280.
by vmchale 6y ago
Yes what I have heard about how Tesla operates does not make me 100% optimistic about their cars. They do seem to have some edge over the traditional player but I will stick to not driving for sake of safety.
281.
by vmchale 6y ago
It's a google group! Not dead at all, though it is... ATS :)
282.
by vmchale 6y ago
Load-bearing bug :p
283.
by vmchale 6y ago
born to click
284.
by vmchale 6y ago
I saw a recent writeup by journalists on suicide among black people in Chicago. So far we're halfway through the year and already have matched 2019. https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/2020/7/25/21
285.
by vmchale 6y ago
Interesting to see the distribution of psychiatric diagnoses; people don't often think of mental illness aside depression in this context. Schizophrenia is less common than depression so less absolute burden, but it's deadlier.
286.
by vmchale 6y ago
Well the pie chart with possible mental illnesses had some stuff in that direction.
287.
by vmchale 6y ago
It's kind of like saying "at least people aren't dying in childbirth" lol. Still bad!
288.
by vmchale 6y ago
$250 an hour is pretty normal for a psychologist therapist.
289.
by vmchale 6y ago
> In a world of video calls, there is no local market. Isn't there a problem with regulation?
290.
by vmchale 6y ago
Yes, CI is the big one for me.
291.
by vmchale 6y ago
That's a lovely paper. I'm glad it's still getting attention! Spread they joy.
292.
by vmchale 6y ago
Surprised they didn't look more at zstd. IME it's faster than brotli and often has a better compression ratio.
293.
by vmchale 6y ago
Cool! I have a gemini PDA that runs AArch64, always good to be able to do more functional programming on it :)
294.
by vmchale 6y ago
> There's a pandemic, so people in areas that are more affected shouldn't be traveling as much. Indeed, but people from places like Thailand are allowed to travel because their nation has the pandemic under control! Why should
295.
by vmchale 6y ago
Sure but not for being a tourist! I mean we're the diseased and shameful ones here, so it's a bit different but still!
296.
by vmchale 6y ago
No, he's angry at the USPS for not charging Jeff Bezos more. He has tweets ranting about them.
297.
by vmchale 6y ago
Time for OCaml mobile :) This is cool stuff, love to see functional programming growing and developing.
298.
by vmchale 6y ago
neato bandito
299.
by vmchale 6y ago
So many non-government institutions can see what's obvious!
300.
by vmchale 6y ago
Isn't this whole thing started because trump is trying to get back at Bezos? He's mad because Bezos owns the Washington Post.

More ›