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by yiyus 5y ago
Why is the university where you put the line? You could as well say every commit coming from Minnesota is radioactive or, why not, from the US. It is unfair to judge a whole university for the behavior of a professor or a department. Althou
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by yiyus 5y ago
My personal favorites are x*y and x⍟y for pow and log, and the *x and ⍟x monadic versions for exp and ln. I always found weird that exponentiation and logarithms were not defined by operators in conventional math notation.
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by yiyus 5y ago
More fossil fuels can be done with enough time, so fossil fuels are infinite too as long as time doesn't cease to exist, right? Sorry, but I don't understand where you want to get. If we take that point of view, then everything is
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by yiyus 5y ago
> Wealth was just created without anyone loosing it. If you use the wood for the spoon, it means someone else cannot use that wood for making a ship or heating their house. You cannot go and make a million spoons to get rich without eith
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by yiyus 5y ago
> There isn't a finite amount of "wealth" in the world. Yes, there is. It is not limited, we can do more of it, but of course it is finite. It is also important that, the more wealth you have, the easier it becomes to make
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by yiyus 6y ago
I am quite sure that if I went to a thread discussing Go or Rust (for example), and I said something along the lines of: "I don't like this, it would be more readable if you did like Forth", I would get downvoted too. And rig
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by yiyus 6y ago
Plan 9 always had great archival utilities. I do not know what they used at those early days, but I guess that at the point rsc recovered it, it was stored in the venti server: https://p9f.org/sys/doc/venti/ve
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by yiyus 6y ago
Tennis players spend way more time moving around than hitting the ball. And yet, they use the best racket they can find.
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by yiyus 6y ago
In my opinion, it's like when an expedition to an 8K is at a few meters of the top of the mountain and it makes the news. They are not there yet, but it can be interesting to follow the last steps, even although it is perfectly possibl
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by yiyus 6y ago
I doubt these numbers are correct. Catalonia has a population of 7.5 million people and the article claims there are between 50000 and 100000 metal scrappers. That means around 1% (of course, since these are ilegal immigrants, they are not
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by yiyus 6y ago
I don't follow. You have been coding for 40 years and you do not understand a[i] *= b[j] at all but you understood the expression I made up?
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by yiyus 6y ago
> how is "X[y==1,0]" more readable in this case than something like "filterElements(arrayToFilter, arrayOfBools)"? Just the same way that a[i] *= b[j] is more readable than a.IndexElement(firstIndex).MultiplyByFloat(b
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by yiyus 6y ago
Who are both of us? The important point is that "everything is a file" is just a short way to say "everything is a file system". Your interface is not a file descriptor to which you read and write, but a whole tree where
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by yiyus 6y ago
I wonder what Uriel would think.
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by yiyus 6y ago
It's basically your second option. In Plan 9, everything is a file server that presents a file system interface that speaks the 9P protocol.
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by yiyus 6y ago
The law that has been passed requires that the person who is going to die gives consent twice, with a 15 days difference, and that a medical comission approves the decision. It has nothing to do with someone else deciding for you.
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by yiyus 6y ago
I do not think the barrier to entry was so high. Some years ago (before facebook or even earlier), it was common to see all kind of people chatting in cybercafes, and also not so long ago in countries or places with poor connections. They e
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by yiyus 6y ago
In the simplest models, a cell can be identified by only an integer, indicating either the phase in phase transformation problems or grain id for grain growth or recrystallization. But, in the more complex models, a cell can include all kin
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by yiyus 6y ago
What do you mean by what kind? I work at a university and we use all kind of models. From very simple models to teach students or make some quick estimation to very large codebases in projects in collaboration with steel companies. Using CA
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by yiyus 6y ago
Cellular automata models are widely used in different science and engineering disciplines. For example, I use them for the simulation of heat treatments of steel. I guess that the fascination of the CS community comes from: 1) Conway; 2) Th
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by yiyus 6y ago
I think the reason the Pirate party never got momentum in Spain is because they cannot compite in pirateness with the traditional parties.
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by yiyus 6y ago
We are talking about Spain, where most people work in service jobs for very small companies that are already struggling to stay alive. If a bar needs, let's say, four bartenders now, they are not going to contract a fifth one with the
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by yiyus 6y ago
> By not being tired on the fifth, not taking wrong orders and not dropping glasses This is not an actual problem that needs a solution.
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by yiyus 6y ago
Chuck Moore is an interesting example of someone who has bootstrapped several languages without touching a C compiler. He has written systems directly in machine code, and has gone as far as designing his own chips to directly run Forth and
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by yiyus 6y ago
> ask a non programmer Why should a non programmer understand programming terms? Words have different meanings in different contexts. That's how words work. There is no need to make these terms understandable to anyone. The layman d
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by yiyus 6y ago
I would do this: #define I 1 #define II 2 #define III 3 ... #define XIII 13 There is no zero in roman numerals, but you can use NULL for extra fun! (yes, I am a bad person)
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by yiyus 6y ago
I guess not, because the article says this guy started working in godot 3 years ago while studying at university and this other guy in google scholar has been publishing since the decade of the 2000s. Joan Fons is not an uncommon name.
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by yiyus 6y ago
The killer feature of acme (and, previously, sam) are structural regular expressions. As far as I see (and I admit I did not take a deep look), this is more a simple vi-like editor that runs inside an acme-like window manager.
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by yiyus 6y ago
These terms just mean different things. Very often, it's relatively easy to find a phenomenological model capable of performing quite good predictions. But, in order to find a physical model that can be broadly applied, we need to unde
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by yiyus 6y ago
No, I do not agree.

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