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by zests 6y ago
Good luck self studying for those -- I tried. I made AIME but had no chance there. There's no way a significant number of generic public high schools start caring about the AMC. It will just be helicopter parents, wealthy private schoo
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by zests 6y ago
Private high schools bother me much more then SAT tutors do. I went to $GOOD_UNIVERSITY and it drove me insane how many people had previously gone to a private high school. The amount of resources they had that I didn't have at my good
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by zests 6y ago
Wayland strikes me as the "shiny new thing" that is not ready for widescale use. If I was designing a distro and could only choose one I would choose X unless it was specifically a distro for shiny things that break.
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by zests 6y ago
It seems lazy for that website to not show per-capita numbers or positive test percentage numbers. https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en/test
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by zests 6y ago
Its probably selection bias. I liked KDE but it was too complicated for my use case. In general I have found that the fewer features a desktop environment has the more I enjoy using it. I’m surprised that the logical minded folk of HN aren’
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by zests 6y ago
Why does choice of desktop environment impact choice of distro? I ask as a question out of my own ignorance. I started with arch and I just bolt on whatever desktop environment or window manager I want.
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by zests 6y ago
> A racket is a kind of scheme. That's hilarious. It only took me 5 years to get.
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by zests 6y ago
This is the use case for why I started using org mode.
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by zests 6y ago
Most of those crazy looking Spring classes aren't used by users and are just used internally by the framework developers. Of all the complaints people have about Spring, I've never heard "these classes are too abstract"
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by zests 6y ago
I am a networking novice but the fact that my networking book (TCP/IP illustrated) has one chapter on UDP and several on TCP speaks (literal) volumes. My entirely uninformed opinion is that if its possible to do everything TCP does ove
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by zests 6y ago
In Java if you want to map a function over a list you write `list.stream().map().collect()` and in Kotlin you write `list.map()`. The functional programming APIs in Java are atrocious. Lambdas are much easier to write thanks to anaphoric ma
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by zests 6y ago
I'd imagine that if you didn't know the text might be written by AI you wouldn't recognize anything strange with it at all. I glance over typos and grammatical errors all the time. And then there's the the famous "t
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by zests 6y ago
It would be interesting to see how the Scala section would change after the release of Java 8 and especially the release of Kotlin. Java 8 introduced the bare minimum functional programming support in order for the language to be used funct
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by zests 6y ago
I don't really understand these array based J/K/APL languages but from a distance it would seem like they would primarily be useful for numerical based work such as finance or calculating patterns on 2d arrays (game of life).
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by zests 6y ago
I want to get some hands on experience with networking and am looking for a side project. Do you have any suggestions or know of any projects that I can use for inspiration?
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by zests 6y ago
Yeah, its quite amazing how poor our data is. Combine that with how politicized the issue is and I don't think we will ever have reliable numbers.
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by zests 6y ago
Is 1 a prime number? No, because we define it not to be. Why do we define it not to be a prime number? That's the real question. Is 0.999... = 1? Yes, because we define decimal numbers to behave that way. Why do we define them to behav
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by zests 6y ago
What are you integrating over?
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by zests 6y ago
The real issue is that we don't define the real number system before we use it. The fact that 0.999... = 1 is a consequence of a formal definition of decimal numbers. We can create a new definition of decimal numbers that does not sati
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by zests 7y ago
I actually enjoy the container types and callback errors. The wrapper type Mono<T> acts like a monad of type Promise<Either<T | Error>>. This completely isolates a computation from the rest of the code and puts all of the
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by zests 7y ago
Why do you prefer co-routines to reactor flux/mono? I have plenty of flux/mono experience and I enjoy the api so I didn't even consider coroutines. It looks like there is a kotlinx-coroutines-reactor module, I'm not sure
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by zests 7y ago
Both of your questions have the same answer. (x:xs) means x is the first element and xs is the rest.
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by zests 7y ago
Computer networking. I’m reading through TCP/IP illustrated. Also learning about Linux. I used macOS for about a year and thought that I knew “Linux” but now I’m seeing how far the rabbit hole goes. I installed arch linux and am curren
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by zests 7y ago
I’m about to leave my extremely safe job for a tiny startup. I have to put in notice by the end of the week. The startup seems to still want to hire me and is showing no signs of pulling the offer. I think they planned on getting more fundi
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by zests 7y ago
That feels like a bargain. Before I knew how software worked I thought TLDs were sacred.
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by zests 7y ago
I want some anti-facial recognition clothing just for the aesthetic. It fits a certain futuristic functional clothing vibe.
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by zests 7y ago
I feel like HN is becoming more explicitly political and I think that this is a poor direction for the site to move.
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by zests 7y ago
How did they even get the game running in the first place?
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by zests 7y ago
Single square bracket conditionals [] are the "older" (POSIX) version but do not have certain features that we would like to use in our shell scripts. Bash uses double square brackets to extend the functionality. This is my unders
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by zests 7y ago
The derivative of e^ix is ie^ix. Multiplication by i is equivalent to rotation by 90 degrees. The derivative of velocity is acceleration. Acceleration perpendicular to velocity is circular motion. With base 2 the motion is not circular. All

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