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by yakubin 5y ago
As a user (not developer) I liked Silverlight at the time, compared to Flash. Flash applications made my computer run very hot and the fans go loud. With equivalent Silverlight apps on the other hand my computer didn't break a sweat.
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by yakubin 5y ago
How is being able to be a specific party in the reproduction process a social construct? Is the categorization of penguins into egg-layers and egg-fertilizers also a social construct?
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by yakubin 5y ago
Wikipedia[1]: > Female (symbol: ) is the sex of an organism that produces the large non-motile ova (egg cells), the type of gamete (sex cell) that fuses with the male gamete during sexual reproduction. [1]: < https://en.wi
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by yakubin 5y ago
Even if you make the distinction, "female" describes sex, not gender. So the acronym "AFAB" is a bit internally contradictory if you remember that it was created in order to underline the distinction. Then again, these d
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by yakubin 5y ago
It depends on the runtime. In the case of Go e.g. the compiler inserts potential "yield"-s at every function call[1]. And in the case of Swift the atomic "release" calls at ends of scopes will run regardless whether ther
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by yakubin 5y ago
> Another case of apple ignoring Google in favor of their own preferences. Fixed that for you.
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by yakubin 5y ago
> I'm not talking about Gödel or unprovable statements, because even if something is not provable it might be constructable. What precisely do you mean by that statement? What is the thing that is not provable but constructible? A
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by yakubin 5y ago
Maybe not only PDF is up to the task, but this site doesn't show that web would be. In section "The quantum circuit model", look how 1/sqrt(2) looks (the 2 falls out of the sqrt sign). Then there is inline maths using
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by yakubin 5y ago
I've partially responded to that already[1][2]. Let me add to that, that when you group together data, a lot of invariants are preserved by the logic you already wrote for the types you compose your types of. Most basic grouping of obj
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by yakubin 5y ago
Because most things in healthy programs aren't APIs, but just plain data: records, sum types and composites thereof (arrays, stacks, queues, whatever). Fred Brooks: > Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall con
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by yakubin 5y ago
I agree. What I'm saying is that private is a poor default.
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by yakubin 5y ago
Unfortunately, Rust doesn't. Rust only has "struct"-s, no classes, and they're private by default. Enums require the "pub" keyword once before a variant name, and once inside tuple associated with the variant.
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by yakubin 5y ago
IME I write about 10-20 as many data records as "classes". I do use "private" from time to time to protect invariants. But if the default was switched to public, my code on balance would be a lot shorter and readable. I&
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by yakubin 5y ago
> If you follow them you will end up with code that's really nice to read and easier to maintain, and, most importantly, that you can confidently change. I found that a lot of those guidelines lead to the exact opposite. Examples:
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Ask HN: OS-es with dynamically-linked libs in separate address spaces?
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by yakubin 5y ago
I'm normally in favour of hyphenation, but apparently browsers can't do it well. LaTeX is still unrivalled.
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by yakubin 5y ago
> I can't imagine many subjects for which decades-old results would be more relevant than current ones. - recipes (doesn't matter whether it's from today or from 30 years ago, what matters is the quality of the recipe) -
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by yakubin 5y ago
Until you hate noise. Noise makes phones a non-starter (the sensor is too small). Or until you're in non-standard lighting conditions, like a dark night. A year ago I found a mantis on my balcony[1]. I tried to make photos of it with m
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by yakubin 5y ago
It's not just a genetic trait. A lot more important will be how you eat and the amount of exercise you get. Also the amount of sun you're exposed to, and whether you overwork yourself (in the past elderly wealthy people looked a l
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by yakubin 5y ago
My most common snack is a green sour apple (granny smith) sliced into 8 semi-equal pieces with the core removed. I put them on a small plate and subconsciously eat while thinking.
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by yakubin 5y ago
Given that it was just a conjecture, why is it worth noting? Getting back to the main topic, it wasn't only conjectured, but also proven.
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by yakubin 5y ago
Changing the threshold without signaling the change in the type system is also a breaking change. It's just that your compiler won't warn you about it when you inevitably forget to update your code. Instead your code is going to b
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by yakubin 5y ago
I wish they removed trigraphs. They are removed from C++ since C++17. I hope they do that in a future C standard as well. Currently I switch to std=gnuXX in GCC solely for this reason (and sometimes to get access to some POSIX headers).
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by yakubin 5y ago
It's a bit different: Scheme: > (mod 5 2) 1 > (mod 5 -2) 1 > (mod -5 2) 1 > (mod -5 -2) 1 > (remainder 5 2) 1 > (remainder 5 -2) 1 > (remainder -5 2) -1 > (remainder -5 -2) -1
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by yakubin 5y ago
I'm going to be moving to a greener part of city in the next months. Previously I selected the current flat based on (walking) distance from the office. But where I am now there isn't a place to pleasantly run surrounded by nature
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by yakubin 5y ago
> Pure mathematicians don't use computers or even think of them in their work, for the most part. That's not true. Many pure mathematicians use programs such as Wolfram Mathematica and Macaulay2 in their work. (Source: I stud
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by yakubin 5y ago
"dismissed", not "denied". There's a subtle difference. The exact quote: > That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
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by yakubin 5y ago
Hashes aren't strictly reversible, so "reversing" a hash usually means finding data that hashes to a given value. E.g. in the case of PhotoDNA there are 256^144 possible hash values (the hash is 144 bytes long). So you can&#x
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by yakubin 5y ago
For a long time now for me youtube-dl downloads YouTube videos at 50kb/s, which makes it impractical to use in conjunction with mpv . I need to leave youtube-dl running in the background for several hours to then watch the video i
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by yakubin 5y ago
Paradoxically, I've never brought myself to like Lem's science-fiction books, but enjoyed his two non-science-fiction books (one of them even non-fiction): 1. Hospital of the Transfiguration: < https://www.goodreads.c

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