z500

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by z500 9d ago
> Also, somebody contributed reduce() to Python way back in the 90's, as well as other functional idioms. He wouldn't have added that himself -- it was never his preferred style. > He preferred a more imperative style. But h
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by z500 17d ago
It's an X from the blackboard bold range in Unicode.
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by z500 24d ago
Call me crazy, but for me the next stop after nitter is knitter, not the other thing.
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by z500 1mo ago
I've always wondered what would happen if you named a kid Nominative Determinism. Some kind of paradox?
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by z500 2mo ago
> Maybe I should look into training an AI in the audio style of Patrick O’Brian and have it read Shakespeare for me. That's what you took away from that?!
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by z500 2mo ago
I went down a rabbit hole a few summers ago and I ended up writing a calculator from scratch in assembly for RISC OS. Interesting experience having GUI routines at the syscall level
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by z500 2mo ago
On the flip side, .hpp always makes me chuckle. What is that, Header++?
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by z500 2mo ago
I've never really been a math person, either, which is why I thought I was going to hate discrete math in college. I mean, it wasn't always the easiest thing ever, but it was a lot more intuitive to me than continuous math. And th
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by z500 2mo ago
And the SD card logo was originally intended for Super Density Disc
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by z500 2mo ago
I was one of these hapless Comic Chat users. Luckily someone gently nudged me toward a real IRC client lol. I was an absolute IRC fiend for years after that.
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by z500 3mo ago
That's odd, it always worked fine for me. I have had that issue with archive.today, though.
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by z500 5mo ago
I'm confused. Aren't these supposed to be photos, or are we expected to be agog with 3D renderings?
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by z500 5mo ago
Loads for me, but not particularly quickly
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by z500 5mo ago
That makes sense. The part where my program really benefits is in a bottleneck area that you always have to go through and where you visit every code path in it.
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by z500 5mo ago
It's .NET 10 lol. It's not so slow you can't write stuff for it, I have implementations of Conway's game of life, Huffman compression, and a minimal TUI. The main problem is doing almost anything in it involves a method
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by z500 5mo ago
That's so cool! I love F#, but I wrote a little Smalltalk interpreter in it and I can confirm it isn't exactly a speed demon for that kind of thing if you use it as intended lol
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by z500 5mo ago
Actually they do have one, but it's an older beta format that isn't supported anymore.
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by z500 5mo ago
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.
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by z500 5mo ago
That was what I guessed too, but according to the article Intel detected both.
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by z500 5mo ago
Thank you for injecting some perspective into the thread of AI hysteria. I feel like everyone is imagining a bug in a CRUD app.
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by z500 5mo ago
This is pre-virtualization, so it's not the cloud either
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by z500 6mo ago
At least we hardly ever have to hear anyone say "cyberspace" anymore
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by z500 6mo ago
This might be controversial, but smelling either in public makes me happy! Now the stale smell of tobacco-infused clothing, that is awful.
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by z500 6mo ago
If I remember correctly, it even came with a utility to remove line numbers for you
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by z500 6mo ago
It doesn't take an AI to demand graph go up
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by z500 6mo ago
Oh I've actually been meaning to get around to reading that first one. I'll have to crack that open.
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by z500 6mo ago
Egyptian had it, and although it's Afroasiatic it's not Semitic, so it must have gone back further than that.
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by z500 6mo ago
Doch.
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by z500 6mo ago
I've never heard of it being based on that root before. Do you have a source?
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by z500 6mo ago
It's like wiping your arse with silk.

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