vnorilo

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by vnorilo 8y ago
I'm curious of when this would actually happen. Some kind of recursive implicit specialization? AFAIK auto x=foo; is just sugar for decltype(foo) x=foo; rather than MLish inference.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I enjoyed this article. It got me thinking that one of the problems in life is that the loss function is unknown: we don't always know beforehand what would make us happy or satisfied. However, it's a lot easier to gauge one'
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I don't know if blender is comparable at all. There's a lot more to a game engine than rendering, and AFAIK blender is not even intended for real time animation. Ogre is an open source 3d engine, although I don't know about i
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Some of my teenager memories from the late 90s: suddenly finding communities sharing my niche interests (fantasy books, korg trinity sequences) that I never had access to. I also found Julius Smith's DSP book and several lecture notes
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the ads will keep working :P
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Nowadays MSVC has a built-in cmake integration (a bit like vscode). You can open a folder with CMakeLists.txt and it will mostly work.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
If you find a new thing that piques your interest, it's probably good; it's not like you couldn't get back to coding if and when the stars align. On the other hand, dwindling passion with nothing to replace it could be a sign
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by vnorilo 8y ago
When you need this, use aligned storage: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/types/aligned_storage
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Many here talk about the complexity of C++. I concede it's a huge language, and not a beautiful one. However, I wouldn't call it that difficult. Being a systems language, once you understand (roughly, sans optimization finesse) ho
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I am shocked at how true that rings even though my circumstances are so different from hers. Thank you for linking!
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by vnorilo 8y ago
This was a great article. Usually I get a distinct "translated from Chinese" vibe, but not here! I thought that the translation must be very good. Can Anyone who has read the original comment?
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by vnorilo 8y ago
To expand on what the parent said, what makes it weird that the incentives for people in the community are mixed: there are market incentives (mainly publishers), community incentive (reviews and volunteer expert work), resume incentives (p
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I don't think C++ has a dynamic multiple dispatch mechanism. You can craft one with the visitor pattern or some precompiling or macro sheanigans. I'd love to hear about the best way of doing it.
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I find that I generally agree. However, I have the intuition that good data-oriented design requires an exceptionally solid understanding of the problem domain. You might say that any good design requires that. I'm not going to disagre
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I have no special expertise beyond having read 100k+ pages of Euro/American scifi for fun :) Liu Cixin himself cites western influences like Clarke. Some elements feel exotic to me though, which I assume come from the cultural differen
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I read Three Body recently after someone mentioned it here on hn. I enjoyed it as a book, but also as something that combines storytelling traditions from my native west and China!
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by vnorilo 8y ago
wasm doesn't as of now have any means of code generation independent from the JS api. There is also no way to obfuscate call targets or corrupt heap outside the module's linear memory. Any sandbox breaking bugs that do not involve
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Thank you for this! The wikipedia rabbit hole beckons :D
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by vnorilo 8y ago
my favourite intuition about Euler, which is not really an explanation, somewhat tautological, and may or may not be wildly incorrect, but I like it nonetheless: e^x is a function whose value is its rate of change. (De^x=e^x). Now imagine t
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I'm a Finnish enterpreneur and priviledged tech guy. While I'm politically right of (Finnish) centre, I've been voting left recently because I perceive the ruling coalition is doing crony capitalism and unsound policy. Even h
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by vnorilo 8y ago
This. I was involved in a painful port of a large MCL codebase to LispWorks, and many of these platform and implementation specific behaviors are bound to pop up in any practical application. Threading, networking and FFI were the fundament
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Yeah - I guess the early acquisition might be what influences the way these kids develop different cognitive strategies for music early on. It's obvious when teaching kids: the median student seems to operate on the first order derivat
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I've studied cello from age 5 to conservatory degree; the pitches of the open strings are burned in my memory. I can also often tell which key an orchestra plays by timbral cues. However, I do not have "real" perfect pitch, a
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by vnorilo 8y ago
If you can successfully eli5, that indicates thorough mastery of a subject. Stuff on the bleeding edge of physics can be grasped by a limited group of experts, but nobody might have developed the 10th dan sensei level understanding yet. May
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I have the same experience, provided it's early in the day. However, swimming a couple of km does it for me too, maybe even better!
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by vnorilo 8y ago
Sure, but how does that not utterly destroy performance as the fork would probably lead to multiple sub-forks down the line.. or lane? :)
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by vnorilo 8y ago
The real problem is when different VMs branch differently. You essentially have to run both sides of a branch in serial with masked lanes. The author mentions this and states that the method works only because the VMs are very deterministic
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by vnorilo 8y ago
cps transformation (continuation passing style). Transform any control flow patterns (loops, calls, non-tail recursion, exceptions, coroutines) into nothing but closures and tail calls!
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by vnorilo 8y ago
I have experience of great success and productivity in small teams with Common Lisp and Clojure. I don't have direct experience of dysfunction in a larger Lisp team. That was a guess based on how being a senior dev in a 50 man C# shop
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by vnorilo 8y ago
SICP is not so much about a particular language. I think there's a Clojure port of SICP somewhere, and Clojure has a good impedance match with web backends. If you want an "authentic" experience, Scheme would be a good choice

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