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by 0x264 5mo ago
Thank you for mentioning those! I saw both Robotech and Macross Plus (in French) when I was a teenager. I still think about the SDF more often I would admit and the soundtrack is a regular occurrence in my work playlist :)
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by 0x264 11mo ago
The secretary problem is a bad way to formalise the problem of dating and the stopping rule doesn't work in that context, for a very simple reason. The secretary problem is a solution to the problem of having to make repeated choices.
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by 0x264 11mo ago
Teaching
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by 0x264 11mo ago
> I don’t know really how ppl that solve it fast accomplish getting to that level Just like everything else in life, they do it really slow and with lots and lots and lots of errors at first, but (and this is where the magic happens) kee
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by 0x264 11mo ago
On your CV ? Has any recruiter or hiring manager ever commented on it, or said the mention gave you an advantage ?
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by 0x264 11mo ago
You can definitively play like that if you want to. At day 2n (n > 0) you do the puzzle of day n.
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by 0x264 11mo ago
JavaScript code and Haskell code ultimately both get turned into instructions for a microprocessor, so there really isn't much of a difference between both.
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by 0x264 1y ago
Yep, another developer enthusiastically proposing mmap as an "easy win" for database design, when in reality it often causes hard-to-debug correctness and performance problems.
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by 0x264 1y ago
Yes, pictures of the user interface will help a lot. Thanks!
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by 0x264 1y ago
The situation is not going to improve as long as business stakeholders and engineering managers (some closer to MBAs than actual engineers) think of software engineers as construction workers. They think we are fungible, they don't und
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by 0x264 1y ago
No they can't. Myself, and quite a few other people, need it for work.
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by 0x264 2y ago
I would imagine that the alien civilisations would also make that kind of studies, and pre-emptively prevent the extinction scenario from happening.
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by 0x264 3y ago
That's correct. It's (and they are) French.
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by 0x264 3y ago
> like chores by the 10th problem or so and I drop out That they get so involved is the reason I participate (despite also working at the same time). I love the fact that the difficulty starts low and then goes up to levels where I feel
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by 0x264 3y ago
Set of related trades.
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by 0x264 3y ago
Hi thaumasiotes, Mathematician here, and somewhow interested in this discussion. I am curious of your definition of full_sqrt, what would be the value of full_sqrt(-3) ?
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by 0x264 4y ago
It's a completely factual statement, and relevant in the context of the article. It doesn't claim that the same cannot be observed, or doesn't happen, somewhere else.
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by 0x264 4y ago
As somebody currently learning Rust, I totally echo this sentiment.
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by 0x264 4y ago
Have an electronic version of it (the main version) 1. Update it every year or so, and 2. Everytime you update it you print a copy version and distribute that as needed.
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Twitter agrees Elon Musk takeover deal(theguardian.com)
5 points by 0x264 4y ago|0 comments
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by 0x264 5y ago
Oh yes, they do :)
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by 0x264 5y ago
BitTorrent is 20 years old, IPFS only 6. So, might just come down to familiarity. Definitively many more people, even outside tech crowd, have heard of BitTorrent whereas IPFS is still mostly unknown.
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by 0x264 5y ago
There always is a simple explanation: Resulting from (1) removing irrelevant details (details crucial for an implementation, but irrelevant for an initial mental model) and (2) making use of analogies built around already known concepts.
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by 0x264 5y ago
Somebody is using a database (sqlite in this case) to store JSON objects. There is nothing strange or unusual here. When doing this, though, the problem is that it's more difficult to run search queries with the same expressiveness as
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by 0x264 5y ago
It's stack based. Written like RPN (Reverse Polish Notation).
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by 0x264 6y ago
Hehehe
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by 0x264 6y ago
There is a difference between, on one side, questioning one's understanding of the universe, which is how science works and progress and, on the other side, being unable to accept facts, which is where moon landing skeptics are.
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by 0x264 8y ago
GDPR and Cyber Essentials
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by 0x264 8y ago
Answer to the questions in order: (1) Not enough, not many for the moment, and (2) I have just noticed somebody else on this thread made a visualiser for the game map. But a real time view of user fleets is yet to be made. Because the view
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by 0x264 8y ago
The game is very young and few people are still working on their client code. I haven't actually got a chance yet to measure behavioural complexity but I will as first opportunity :)

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