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by yccs27 4y ago
Jordan Rose also has the "Swift regrets" series [0] as a retrospective on the language design of Swift. Highly recommend it if you didn't already find it when it was on the front page. [0] https://belkadan.com&#x2F
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by yccs27 4y ago
On the topic of "novel, non-pin-tumbler mechanisms": I can recommend the videos by Stuff Made Here [1][2], where he designs two novel anti-picking lock mechanisms, and the related video [3] where LockPickingLawyer tries to pick an
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by yccs27 4y ago
Re-platforming Trump is also not the same as being pro-Trump. Edit: This is not about whether de-/replatforming is the right thing to do. Only about the fact that Musk can have (legitimate or illegitimate) reasons other than his poli
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by yccs27 4y ago
Now that you put it this way - is this going to be another python 2-to-3 problem? I hope they have some solution to quickly bring everything to the new version; the proposed changes seem reasonable though.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I think Apple started that trend with their product pages, and now web designers try to copy that and end up making it even worse.
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by yccs27 5y ago
The parent is referring to the Russian invasion of the Ukraine, stoking fears of a bigger and possibly nuclear war.
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by yccs27 5y ago
I've heard "Uncle Jokes" as a term for dad jokes with an uncomfortable subject (NSFW or otherwise).
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by yccs27 5y ago
Doesn't XcodeGhost (mentioned in the first paragraph) qualify as an evil compiler?
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by yccs27 5y ago
I don't think the author is envisioning anything that compromises privacy and data protection. "Immunity for maximizing interopability" means the right to ignore anti-interop ToS, not privacy. There are many use cases where e
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by yccs27 5y ago
This is the correct answer. In other words, "z sigma" means: That a result like this occurs as a statistical fluke, is just as likely as a standard-normal distributed variable giving a value above z.
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by yccs27 5y ago
Oh man, I'll have to try that workflow! You describe exactly how my thought process works as well, but I never thought of doing that.
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by yccs27 5y ago
Oh wow, thank you for the clarification! If I understand it correctly then, the divergent compressibility is a consequence of Bose-Einstein condensation? It definitely is exciting to see light show this effect. I wonder how much the differe
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by yccs27 5y ago
Some atoms also behave as bosons (specifically those consisting of an even number of elementary fermions), so that cannot be the real difference.
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by yccs27 5y ago
My main question is: Did the number of photons stay constant throughout the isothermal compression? If it didn't, that would basically explain everything. (I wouldn't rule out other effects though.)
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Original paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12787
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> any non-tail-recursive function call can in principle be made tail-recursive through conversion to explicit continuation-passing style This sounds great, but in the end you just construct your own call stack under the guise of chaining
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by yccs27 5y ago
In general, oversupply is bad for everyone because all suppliers lose money, but only the ones with deep pockets can survive - increasing market concentration. In this case, I‘m not sure it hurts, since the chip market is already dominated
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by yccs27 5y ago
Then the mistake is not in their statement, but in your interpretation.
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by yccs27 5y ago
Both can be true: They might just use ingredients of much lower quality now. You can definitely taste the quality of cocoa and fat - some high-quality brands have chocolates with single-origin cocoa, which can taste wildly different even th
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by yccs27 5y ago
That is precisely the point jvanderbot made: nodejs has less-than-optimal performance, and not for lack of trying to improve it. Its hard to write fast implementations of js or python, so they should not be used where speed matters.
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by yccs27 5y ago
I actually found the ramp-up from security guard to sceptic pretty clever. Demonstrate the principle on an easy, constructed case; verify on a real-world example; then present the applications you care about and have somewhat more controver
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by yccs27 5y ago
We Germans seem to love our cold hard cash, so the incentive to get a card reader is lower. There are even automatic coin counting machines in some self-checkout desks...
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by yccs27 5y ago
The big issue is not the existence of cheating, but the scale of the problem. A software hack is infinitely scalable, a hardware setup is not. Some cheat dev only needs to develop that "high-end software cheat" once and can sell i
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by yccs27 5y ago
It might also be patents from Sonos which are stifling innovation and competition in this space. See the discussions here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28273131 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2
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It might be an over-adjustment from the software designers. In the early days of software, there was a larger fraction of power users, who wanted lots of options and were willing to fiddle with them. However, settings were often an excuse f
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by yccs27 5y ago
The ToS does not constrain the company! The agreement does not stipulate that the platform _has_ to enforce ToS, so this is not a necessary action to perform the contract.
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by yccs27 5y ago
Yeah, relying on operator precedence makes for some of the most infuriating to read code.
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This is a super neat hack. Unfortunately, this kind of custom notation can make a project much less readable to outsiders who are only familiar with the base language. Probably the reason why Python disallows custom operators. Incidentally,
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by yccs27 5y ago
Software and hardware IP companies are indeed not the same, so we should be more precise about the ways in which they are similar. * Their work is in both cases a mix of design and engineering. * Both produce goods that are reproducible at
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by yccs27 5y ago
I guess you’re right in your first sentence, but it often helps to study some (semi-)obvious algorithms and analyze why that approach won‘t work.

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