CodeMage

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by CodeMage 4y ago
Microseconds per operation
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Heads up: the gray_code function does not return the results shown in the table of correspondence above it. I suspect that this is because both the table and the code used were sourced from Wikipedia, and they correspond to different Gray c
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by CodeMage 4y ago
It "recharges" when exposed to light.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> ChatGPT is like fresh air because it can actually answer questions Can it, though? The whole point of the article is that ChatGPT "makes shit up".
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I'm not. I was just trying to find out what you're actually trying to say, instead of going against HN "most generous take" policy and assuming it's a political stance ;)
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I wouldn't call that "obvious". For starters, it's incomplete. Yes, "some" people think humor itself is offensive. I would wager that there have always been some people like that, since humor itself was invente
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by CodeMage 4y ago
This looks like a PR piece disguised as an engineering post.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> The key problem has been that the resulting programs are fantastically hard to understand. One of the things I think Dijkstra got right in "Goto Considered Harmful" is that humans can reason about programs better when there&
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by CodeMage 4y ago
On the contrary, anywhere this is a popular opinion is a place the has a long way to go. "Just find another job" either assumes that everyone can do this or that those who can't don't deserve a better environment. The fo
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Van Eck phreaking FTW! :)
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I wonder whether this handful of Hollywood studio owners will have any influence on Twitter's revenue at all...
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by CodeMage 4y ago
In the hypothetical fantasy scenario in which I'm assuming leadership of a company that I claim is plagued by poor engineering practices -- practices which include bad documentation -- the last thing I would want to do is order people
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I mean, yeah, we should have brought his helmet, even with training wheels on. You can still fall and crack your skull. I know that and I don't dispute he should've been wearing his helmet. As for why we didn't go back, his d
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I'm sorry, are we honestly entertaining this idea? I try to write measured, patient replies on this site, but holy crap, it's hard sometimes. Think about what you're proposing. You want me to drag my son, a kid who was little
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by CodeMage 4y ago
It's easy to call someone an enabler, but it might be more generous to assume they have reasons other than being "comfortable". The first thing you learn as an immigrant to the US is to avoid escalating conflicts, especially
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> There will always be people who overreact and call the police for inappropriate reasons. That isn't the problem. It's not the problem, but it is a problem. There's no reason we shouldn't try to work on both. &
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Reminds me of the time my son finally gathered the confidence to take the training wheels off his bike and learn to ride it without them. My wife and I were walking, and he was on his bike, and he was so happy and pumped about his achieveme
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by CodeMage 4y ago
I wish someone decided to make ZX Spectrum 48k and Commodore 64 again. Those were my childhood micros and I'd love to have them. And by "make them again", I don't mean "stick an emulator on a Raspberry Pi and then s
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> Or perhaps we don't need HN exceptionalism? It's not exceptionalism to lament the downfall of the tradition of carefully cultivated discourse. I still remember when this community used to be different, and this site was the o
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Oh, man. I forgot how much I hated that particular scene. It was almost as bad as the "60-second crack" scene.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
"Sneakers" and "War Games" were my favorites, because they were so realistic and thought-provoking. "Tron" was my favorite from the "magic disguised as computers" category.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
When I said "more closely", I meant it. Click on "search" and then click on individual thumbnails to see full images. I have yet to see one that doesn't have something misshapen in it. Eyes that remind me of Corin
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Did you look more closely at the results of this generator? The generated images are really not suitable for the same purposes as the content you can find behind those paid memberships.
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Scott Adams has claimed a great variety of things over time. A lot of those claims don't hold up well under scrutiny, so I'm a bit skeptical of this one. Especially since I'm one of those people who think Dilbert stopped bein
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by CodeMage 4y ago
Maybe I'm just an old curmudgeon, but it seems to me there's way too much emphasis on speed of development in general. Time to market seems to be more important than quality, robustness, security, performance, or any other concern
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by CodeMage 4y ago
> It’s not like Musk’s personality and tweeting was unknown. His political leanings shift and all of a sudden he and his behavior is intolerable? Please. Well, at least you're finally willing to address my points about their letter
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by CodeMage 4y ago
So let see if I understand your position: It's not okay for a small group of employees to try to impose their chosen morality, but it's okay for one person to impose his own morality on the whole company, because he owns the contr
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by CodeMage 4y ago
It's not about math. It's about responsibility, both in the case of ownership and in the case of people depending on you. You asserted that he has a moral right to destroy the company because he built it. He might have built it, b
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by CodeMage 4y ago
When other people's livelihoods depend on the thing you created, you lose the moral right to wantonly destroy it. When what you built stops being wholly yours, you lose the moral right to wantonly destroy it. Those are just two example
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by CodeMage 4y ago
He might have built the company, but he isn't the company. Building the company doesn't give him the moral right to run it into the ground or make it toxic. He might have that legal right, but I explicitly said that I'm

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