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by wk_end 3y ago
But I'm sure every physicist on Earth would love a deeper explanation of how gravity comes to be. The motivational basis of science (and philosophy!) as an exercise is filling in the lacunae in our understanding of the world; everythin
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by wk_end 3y ago
I think it’s a legacy of the enormous marketing push around RISC. Marketers at Apple, IBM, SGI, ARM, Sun, even Nintendo drilled into the collective computer industry’s head that the distinction was extremely important, and we’ve never shake
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by wk_end 3y ago
I haven't really looked into it in detail, but AFAICT GB Studio is honestly incredible. I program the Game Boy as a hobby; this machine has basically no RAM and a CPU that's - depending on how you measure a "cycle" - eit
904.
by wk_end 3y ago
That doesn’t match my recollection. I’m not sure how to prove anything, but I’ll note that Python 3.0 was released in 2008. If Python 2 wasn’t already extremely popular and well-established at that point, I doubt we’d have seen the brutal 1
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by wk_end 3y ago
I don't know if I was using React Native "wrong" or what, but when I tried it out I found it to be a miserable experience. There's almost no usable components "built-in"...there seems to be an expectation that
906.
by wk_end 3y ago
Fun fact: the southern-most point in Canada is further south than the northern-most point in Nevada.
907.
by wk_end 3y ago
But this is just magical thinking, some variation of the naturalistic fallacy. Nature absolutely will accept molecular tinkering if it provides an evolutionary advantage. Another commenter pointed out that, for a while, the virus became mor
908.
by wk_end 3y ago
FWIW my understanding is that the labs were only BSL-2.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Er, I'd say most people would find that pretty unpleasant, yeah. Well, that is: there's two different ways a video like this might be horrifying. There's a kind of visceral horror: blood, guts, and also a kind of instinctive
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by wk_end 3y ago
Not sure what your vet bills have to do with any of this, but... It's true: pets are expensive, particularly pet health care, at least in part because (as with human medicine, but perhaps more absurdly) we've allowed professional
911.
by wk_end 3y ago
The words of someone who's never left the I-5 corridor.
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by wk_end 3y ago
Other commenters have addressed the key point - it's not weird. CLRS doesn't look at generated assembly either. One other thing I want to add, though, is that this book was published in 1996. The CPU landscape at the time was fa
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by wk_end 3y ago
> if you use const I'll assume you write in an immutable style Why make assumptions that don’t make sense in the language you’re using?
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by wk_end 3y ago
> clever code is art to be studied and enjoyed. Cool, great, save it for the Obfuscated C contest. The less time I spend “studying” someone else’s idea of cleverness while trying to fix ticket #51483 or implement some weird business logi
915.
by wk_end 3y ago
In no way defending the sloppy conference planning or how the former keynote speaker got screwed here, but...unless I'm missing something it seems pretty disproportionate to completely leave a community you've invested over seven
916.
by wk_end 3y ago
…which is particularly egregious in the context of wars like Vietnam - or even the war in Iraq - which the left was famously outspoken against compared to most Democrats.
917.
by wk_end 3y ago
I know establishment Dems liked to whine about that, but is there any evidence that this actually happened in meaningful numbers?
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by wk_end 3y ago
I don't think Deno's gonna help deal with something like Webpack, is it? Webpack's for building browser bundles, Deno's about running TypeScript server-side, isn't it?
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by wk_end 3y ago
It wasn’t just pjb though. Even on the linked thread you can see another regular, not quite defending pjb for trying to wipe someone’s hard drive, being rude to the new user. And of course the name Erik Naggum is infamous. I don’t know what
920.
by wk_end 3y ago
OP explicitly said in their post that they've already sent a physical demand letter: > I wrote a letter twice, and sent in the mail via postage, with tracking, which was delivered, to cancel my Ad services and provide a refund. No r
921.
by wk_end 3y ago
We know perfectly well what this all means and where it's going.
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by wk_end 4y ago
Well, that'd be an argument against ghost encounters, not necessarily against "any kind of afterlife". There's plenty of afterlife beliefs that don't involve ghosts at all. Moreover it's assuming that being a g
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by wk_end 4y ago
This looks excellent! I have a soft-spot for the elegance of Lisp but can't live without a robust type system. A few questions I didn't see immediate answers to on the GH page (sorry if I missed something/could've found
924.
by wk_end 4y ago
That's a big "if". The author themselves mentions modular implicits and points out that they haven't been updated in something like five years. I don't think modular implicits are going to happen in Ocaml in our lif
925.
by wk_end 4y ago
Another larger thread from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35662571
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by wk_end 4y ago
English is classified as a Germanic language by linguists not because of any real properties of English-as-she-is-spoke now but because of its genetic heritage. It's a little more subjective, but I also kind of disagree with the rest o
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by wk_end 4y ago
No it's not, because personal politics aren't pure embodiments of monolithic ideologies. It's a shorthand for a political perspective that incorporates aspects of both liberalism and leftism.
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by wk_end 4y ago
Yes, this was my takeaway - it was a very poor choice of example, because a known faster algorithm will crush the sort of micro-optimizations done here and be more readable. Or perhaps it was actually an incredibly good example, despite i
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by wk_end 4y ago
I'd say it's orthogonal to Casey's take, which was about trading abstraction for (arguable) simplicity + performance. This was an article about aggressively optimizing a simple loop, thus trading simplicity for performance. G
930.
by wk_end 4y ago
This is very silly. I don’t think private correspondences ought to be held to the same standards as a writer’s published fiction; even bringing them up is nonsensical. Beyond that, I’d encourage you to look up the definition of “puerile”, w

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