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by zarzavat 2y ago
> The US and the UK have 5.22 AI startups for each 100,000 inhabitants; Germany has 1.9 It’s cute when journalists try to do things with numbers. This is a very weird sentence. Firstly, what is number of AI startups per capita a metric o
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by zarzavat 2y ago
In contemporary British English “program” is used for the computation-related senses. “Programme” is used for all the other senses, e.g. a concert programme. Using “reprogramme” in a computation context is very old-fashioned and would be co
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Yes but saying that a shade of orange is closer to yellow is different from saying that it is yellow. Orange is closer to green than blue but I wouldn’t say that it’s a shade of green. It’s just orange.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
That gets to the core of the issue doesn’t it? There are two cultures: Do you prefer to refactor DogView into Dog.View, or do you prefer to refactor Dog.View into DogView. Personally I value uniqueness/canonicalness over conciseness. I
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The way that XKCD did it is the best, you ask people to give a name to each color then the responses are entirely natural and unprompted. I don’t think that forced choice can give accurate results if a substantial number of people perceive
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by zarzavat 2y ago
C is so much worse than that. Many people declare symbols using macros for various reasons, so you end up with things like DEFINE_FUNCTION(foo) {. In order to get a complete list of symbols you need to preprocess it, this requires knowing w
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Go to definition and find usages only work one symbol at a time. I use both, but I still use global find/replace for groups of symbols sharing the same concept. For example if I want to rename all “Dog” (DogModel, DogView, DogControlle
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Even Joe Average will appreciate how fucking creepy this feature is when they surface private information that they never told the computer to store.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Usually, wealthy people pay capital gains tax not income tax. People who pay higher rate income tax are just normal people with a larger salary. Not every country works like this however.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s both. Each emoji has a pictographic meaning as defined by Unicode, but there’s also a language that has arisen contextually on social media. For example the “painting nails” emoji may refer to painting one’s nails, but it can also mean
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Kind of like homeopathy where water supposedly has a “memory” of the substances previously dissolved in it. Inanimate objects apparently have a memory of their designers’ political opinions. I can’t say I know who designed even 1% of my pos
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by zarzavat 2y ago
> I don't think this is true either - a large part of the Rust community seem to think that it's as complicated as it needs to be. As a beginner/outsider, I found it kind of cumbersome to get started with, but that's
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Yes for example many Python users switched to Go, a native code GC language, and are satisfied with the performance. There’s also the middle ground of Swift’s memory management which uses compiler-elided refcounting - i.e. the compiler dete
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by zarzavat 2y ago
My reading is: people use Rust because it’s fast but then they complain about the semantics that make it fast. In other words, be careful what you wish for. Most people would probably be better served by a language that was a tiny bit slowe
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by zarzavat 2y ago
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s a hell of a way to treat your customers who may have spent thousands of dollars on your software over the decades. Exactly what I’d expect from MakeMusic though, they have always been shysters.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s surprising to me that someone could know what a for loop is but not summation notation. Is summation notation not taught in school? You have to learn about summation before you learn calculus, because any definition of integration requ
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by zarzavat 2y ago
> Without the government we'd be much, much worse off. Who is “we” here? In some countries tax revenue goes to improving services, in some countries it goes to the President’s brother-in-law, in some countries it goes to military in
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by zarzavat 2y ago
At the risk that I’ve missed a joke, the unified memory architecture reduces the amount of RAM you have available since “RAM” for any computer with discrete graphics doesn’t include VRAM.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Telegram always elicits bizarre reactions from the public. On one side there’s actual security professionals saying don’t use Telegram because it’s not fully E2E encrypted, and on the other side there’s people who are convinced that it’s se
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It’s some kind of Mandela/Berenstain effect because the old one is also slightly green but I don’t remember Ruby’s documentation ever being green and apparently nobody else did either.
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by zarzavat 2y ago
It feels unfinished. It doesn’t work very well on mobile. Though, I’m not sure that the old one did either. There’s too much white space. Documentation should be compact so that you can fit as much as possible on the screen while remaining
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Yes, it’s the games stupid. There is one group of people who are willing to spend ludicrous amounts of money for this product, and that’s gamers. Unfortunately Apple does not and has never understood games as art. They only care about casua
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Poor tuning often leads to cascading failures. If an instrument is out of tune it limits your technique because your brain is expecting frequency X but you are hearing frequency Y. To play quickly and accurately you have to be able to trust
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by zarzavat 2y ago
I don’t use ChatGPT or chat AI for coding, at least not often. It does help me get unstuck on occasion, but most of the time the context switch is too much of a productivity sink. However, I use copilot autocomplete consistently. That mak
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by zarzavat 2y ago
What language do you use? If you can beat copilot in a typing race then you’re probably well within your comfort zone. It works best when working on things that you’re less confident at - typing speed doesn’t matter when you have to stop to
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by zarzavat 2y ago
The reason it works in asia is because people drive slower - by necessity. You can’t barrel down one of those chaotic streets at 30mph, you’ll kill someone. You need to slow down to deal with all the chaos. We can have the same advantages i
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Yes, the idea is that extending life is important but not every year of life is equivalent. If you spend a year bedridden that’s not as good as a year housebound, which is not as good as a year when you are in perfect health. So when people
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by zarzavat 2y ago
Let’s imagine that exposure to UV gives you more statistical QALY than melanoma and skin aging remove. I believe this is false but let’s imagine it’s true. Okay but there’s many other things that also give you more QALY, things that don’t
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by zarzavat 2y ago
You can already build iterable WeakMaps. And people do, because they need iterable WeakMaps. Your argument applies just as much to iterable WeakMaps distributed as libraries as it does to iterable WeakMaps distributed with the browser.

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