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by wnoise 4y ago
English language usage note: "since" takes a past point in time, not a duration. You want either "unreachable for 4 days", or "unreachable since 4 days ago".
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by wnoise 4y ago
I highly recommend taking a look at George Hart's work on linear algebra: http://georgehart.com/research/multanal.html , although I do think he misses the point (or at least insufficiently emphasizes) that you alm
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by wnoise 4y ago
> often, in human terms, much more natural to start from 1 This meaning of natural is highly cultural dependent. It took the Greeks a startlingly long time to accept that one was a number (because it's a singleton), much less zero.
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by wnoise 4y ago
The obvious semantics for these functions is that f!(a, args...) should do the same thing as a .= f(args...). It's only undefined behavior because the simple implementations don't do that in the presence of aliasing. I brought up
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by wnoise 4y ago
Sure, it's unsurprising that it produces unexpected results, but there are actually semantics that should be expected. The problem is that implementing those semantics correctly for all cases is hard, because aliasing. Same issue th
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by wnoise 4y ago
You're saying no while explaining my reasoning. What index to start with only strongly matters when the indexes have semantics. Otherwise you should just treat it as an opaque index, i.e. eachindex(), keys(), etc. In math when there
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by wnoise 4y ago
That comment doesn't say all bugs have been fixed, or even quickly fixed. When I check on the posted links, many are in fact still open, e.g. https://github.com/JuliaStats/Distributions.jl/issues/1253
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by wnoise 4y ago
Starting with 0 is quite common in series, e.g. Taylor, Fourier, Chebyshev expansions, etc.
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by wnoise 4y ago
They do actually exist. Caltech has (had?) a group doing asynchronous microprocessors, which were most naturally expressed as channels between computation units. (They had a subset of CSP they called CHP -- communicating hardware processe
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by wnoise 4y ago
The example lambda isn't "golfing". It's just plain more readable than naming the function. Introducing side-effects in the middle of expressions with the walrus operator is weird semantics, though admittedly sometimes
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by wnoise 4y ago
Given supply chain attacks, that seems not only reasonable, but essential.
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by wnoise 4y ago
Idempotent means exactly Op^2 = Op. If you want a word that means those other things, go find another, this one has long been taken.
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by wnoise 4y ago
I'll echo the dead commenter. The text is quite bitter, but nothing about seems "psychotic".
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by wnoise 4y ago
The vast majority of movies are still non-superhero movies.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Well the "OK to talk about" is "OK to talk about in an age appropriate way", under threat of being sued by parents.
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by wnoise 5y ago
No, it's just a report that the feedback didn't make any difference.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Wow, actual use of come from instructions.
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by wnoise 5y ago
This article distinguishes currency, for which that is true, from money, for which it is not. It is an idiosyncratic definition, but it is the one this article uses.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Autocomplete handles the "too much typing" case.
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by wnoise 5y ago
And yet people actually do manage meaningful unit systems that don't allow this.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Medians do improve things -- but not by that much.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Doesn't have the fourth column, at 1633 Hz.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Those aren't actually contradictory, but independent.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Yes, actually. You can see "sudoku" in one of the listings.
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by wnoise 5y ago
I'm really disappointed that after 360 wasn't delta. Then the series would spell out X □ ○ ∆ .
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by wnoise 5y ago
It's a both/and. The government takes advantage of the popular sentiment. And it's not directly censoring ideas, but forms of media, no matter the ideas they contain.
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by wnoise 5y ago
He also signed into law home brewing, which greatly improved beer in the U.S.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Huh. Must vary by community. I've only heard them pronounced in concordant ways, and closer to your first.
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by wnoise 5y ago
Tell me you're male without telling me you're male.
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by wnoise 5y ago
How is it pronounced, and how do you think it should be pronounced?

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