vmchale

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by vmchale 6y ago
fd is better IMO, plus it is more cross-platform. Same flags on Linux and Mac
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by vmchale 6y ago
> I've been very dismayed at the non-existent data between "dead" and "not dead". Feels like we went with the Chinese "it lasts for two weeks or you die" that doctors discovered like 1-2 months in.
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by vmchale 6y ago
Honestly, this is probably more cost-effective than letting it degrade QoL for so many people. This is going to be a huge issue as the disease proper fades away.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> safe languages are more useful on complex projects that in simple projects, but complex projects suffer more from performance degradation I don't think that's true. C is often slower than C++ because of how inlining works, pl
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by vmchale 6y ago
> hospital admissions) be the almost singular criterion to influence public policy / restrictive measures? From a control theory perspective, it's one of the worst measures because it's delayed. Much more efficient to meas
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by vmchale 6y ago
There's a hack! You can do data Value a = I32 Int32 a B Bool and then type Value1 = Value () type Value2 = Value Void as a hack
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by vmchale 6y ago
> . If you automatically enforce exhaustiveness then you either need to freeze all your public data-types I think that's good practice!
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by vmchale 6y ago
> Opiate addiction comes along with flu like symptoms, insomnia, restless legs/arms AKA crazy legs, and an ever present anxiety that you really really want some that will make you do some weird shit just to get it. ... Many are all
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by vmchale 6y ago
> This guy's whole viewpoint seems to be pinned on "it's not addiction if it's not negatively affecting the rest of your life" (yes, I know this is a major criteria for a lot of medical diagnosis, addiction incl
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by vmchale 6y ago
It's less addictive.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> I guess i'm the type with an underlying psychiatric illness which drove my usage and denial. I think substances can be addictive on their own, which gets occluded by many on the "pro-drugs" side.
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by vmchale 6y ago
Makes sense!
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by vmchale 6y ago
Every time I hear about McKinsey in a headline it's for doing something reprehensible.
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by vmchale 6y ago
I read such a statement from Andras Kovacs re: compilers https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/gok70o/simple_hask... One needs different allocation strategies for immutable (and strict/lazy) lan
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by vmchale 6y ago
I don't think citadel did anything shady here, seems like people misunderstanding things to get mad.
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by vmchale 6y ago
Why is blockchain involved?
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by vmchale 6y ago
It's not a financial rebellion
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by vmchale 6y ago
So basically a bunch of people who don't understand how Robinhood works at all are going to replace it? Doubt that.
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by vmchale 6y ago
Well, for one, "pure" and "strict" need not be opposed. You can have a strict language with an IO monad, and some people actually prefer that.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> Or take functional programming as another example. Arguably, about 80% of it is incredibly useful and makes for much better code. Taken to its ultimate conclusion in purely functional languages, things like doing I/O get a lot mor
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by vmchale 6y ago
last commit in the repo was 15 months ago
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by vmchale 6y ago
Melvin closed out of their position.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> Citadel and other hedge funds short selling take over to pulls the strings from underneath some trading apps, including Robinhood. Webull's clearing firm forced their hand.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> The narrative appears to be that the shorts will have to eat the loss and cover at some point Supposed Melvin already has.
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by vmchale 6y ago
Did their clearing firm force their hand? Webull had to stop because of their clearing firm.
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by vmchale 6y ago
M4 doesn't need to be installed on the software distribution's computer (that was my point). Perl I don't even know if it needs to be installed on the packager's computer.
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by vmchale 6y ago
meson has the problem of being written in Python and thus even an end-user has to endure Python library distribution.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> Much of the modern Linux build issues are RPM vs DEB Which in turn are not the best formats for binary distributions.
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by vmchale 6y ago
> It replaced R for data wrangling in my stats programs Do you find it faster? I have good experiences with J due to its terseness, but I'm curious why scientists still use R/Python - is it just inertia? Libraries/FFI?
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by vmchale 6y ago
There's a bunch of oddities in Python, e.g. recursion limits.

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