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by yccs27 4y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31918433
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by yccs27 4y ago
If you want a fun challenge, try making your own elevator algorithm! https://play.elevatorsaga.com/
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by yccs27 4y ago
> Could you give an example of what you mean by this? I mean a type like `yield Nat + yield Nat ~ ()`. Here's how this would occur naturally: Define effect yield A is A => () fn yield_each A, B, e : (A -> e ~ B)
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by yccs27 4y ago
I've never played Fortnite, but I just got a perfect score (without time limit) there. The Fortnite map designers did a really good job at creating varied biomes and recognizable landmarks.
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by yccs27 4y ago
Tao looks super cool, and similar to the kind of language I'd personally make if I decided to create one. Kudos for actually implementing yours! Some specific questions about the language design: - Does your flavor of algebraic effects
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by yccs27 4y ago
Man that typo in the last few words cracked me up. "Probably correct algorithm" sounds like "I didn't test the code but it'll probably work fine. Let's deploy it to production!"
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by yccs27 4y ago
It forces the writers to make every sentence count. No space for fluff, people would just stop reading the chain. It results in a much more condensed style than e.g. blog content.
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by yccs27 4y ago
Yes, this needs a (2021) tag. It's also not clear what purpose "Then things got worse." serves - other than clickbait - so it could really be removed.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I don't think we would ever legalize cigarettes and alcohol if they weren't already widespread. You cited the numbers yourself, it would be a terrible decision. But lots of people are already using these substances, and we've
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by yccs27 4y ago
Unfortunately I don't think this will happen: The Wolfram Language has a _huge_ library of functions from various domains, which is where most of its strength comes from. If you had the time and money to reimplement all of them, you co
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by yccs27 4y ago
What monad library do you use? When I tried using monads in Python a while ago it felt like Python just wasn't made for monadic programming.
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by yccs27 4y ago
It seems like ffsend came before send.vis.ee, but the fork explicitly kept compatibility (see the readme at https://github.com/timvisee/send )
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by yccs27 4y ago
I suspect that it basically confuses your brain because it tries to adjust the "white balance" so that the background becomes normal white. But the background is just saturated enough and changing so quickly that it just can'
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by yccs27 4y ago
I see two distinct motivations for not wanting to know: - You have no agency, so the information would just be depressing without enabling you to do something about it. - You have agency, and indeed you'd have to do something if you kn
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by yccs27 4y ago
Without a recording of the other side of the conversation, you can't prove anything. You could just have rehearsed your part of the conversation, ignoring anything they answer.
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by yccs27 4y ago
To me as a physicist, the effect seems "natural" from a dimensional analysis point of view: If the current age is the only time-dimension variable you know, the odds are that other time-dimension variables like life expectancy are
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by yccs27 4y ago
They are free to offer their own proprietary VS Code extension, likely no one would have a problem with that. What is very objectionable is the way they are trying to destroy and replace the existing FOSS OmniSharp extension!
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by yccs27 4y ago
I really like these kinds of names with a coherent theme. I think the most widely known ones are the Mac OS X large cat / geographic place names and the Intel lakes / coves. Are there any more from popular tech companies?
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by yccs27 4y ago
One place where you are pretty much forced to use error objects is queue-based concurrency. In my case, a seperate thread listened for network events, parsed them and put the results on a queue for the main thread to consume. For parsing er
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by yccs27 4y ago
> That's twice the code for the same result. Only if you ignore that the exception-throwing solution _needs_ comments like `# this might throw a 404` to understand the control flow. The early-return solution is what I'd call se
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by yccs27 4y ago
The instant-opening experience is just soo good, and Electron bloat nowhere in sight... I actually use VS Code as well, but more like an IDE with tons of extensions, and Sublime is my 'basic' text editor.
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by yccs27 4y ago
> Einstein and the quantum pioneers added abstractions to build physical theories with prediction power, whereas current high-energy physics theory seems to be mostly a mathematical exercise. I'm not sure there is a fundamental dist
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by yccs27 4y ago
I feel like this article does not discuss the real reasons why LHC++ would or would not be a success. It absolutely depends on whether you expect it to provide tangible evidence of new physics; that is, physics beyond the standard model. It
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by yccs27 4y ago
Invalidation of the patent provides legal certainty and pre-empts any possible patent violation lawsuits, so I can see why they would want to get the patent removed.
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by yccs27 4y ago
How does this get around Sonos‘ patents[0] in this space? They appear to be pretty broad. Sonos is even mentioned as a comparable product, so I hope the creators took their patents into account. [0] see https://news.ycombinator.c
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by yccs27 4y ago
Some context is given here: https://www.dw.com/en/germany-introduces-9-ticket-to-offset-... The ticket is part of a support package signed off by the German parliament. The will pay approximately €2.5 billion for the t
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by yccs27 4y ago
It‘s basically an advert for the rest of the paywalled article, so not unexpected.
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by yccs27 4y ago
I guess the difference is not in the transaction itself. The key part is that insurance counteracts a risk on your part: If it lowers the variance of your final balance, it's insurance. If it raises the variance, it's gambling.
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by yccs27 4y ago
Yeah, that is exactly how I first came into contact with Matrix, it works great as an IRC client which is always active and keeps full history.
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by yccs27 4y ago
To me, the omission of the hyphen represents a change in attitude towards e(-)mail: from "e-mail" as the electronic version of standard mail, to email as a digital communication channel in its own right.

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