ScottBurson

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by ScottBurson 5mo ago
Why is it too strong to say that functional point update operations on strings are not provided, when you seem to confirm that the supported way to manipulate strings functionally is to convert them to lists first?
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by ScottBurson 5mo ago
I did think about cache-friendliness and made them as much so as I reasonably could, mostly by trying to minimize levels of indirection; but pointers are inescapably involved, and there are limits to how cache-friendly such data structures
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by ScottBurson 5mo ago
If you see this — have another look — I think I've improved it.
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by ScottBurson 5mo ago
Okay, I buried the lede :-) Good suggestion, thanks.
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by ScottBurson 9mo ago
Actually, formal verification could help massively with four of those problems — all but the first (UI/UX) and fifth (requirements will always be hard). A change in the API of a dependency should be detected immediately and handled sil
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by ScottBurson 1y ago
Dark chocolate.
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by ScottBurson 1y ago
I've done breathwork for years, and at some point the tetany simply stopped happening and hasn't returned.
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by ScottBurson 1y ago
> The model genuinely believes it’s giving a correct reasoning chain The model doesn't "genuinely believe" anything.
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
The thing to understand about the LVT is that we are pretty much all already paying it; not to the city in which we live, but to the previous owners of the land we live on. When we buy a house, we have to pay the previous owner a certain a
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
The plural is "corpora" :-)
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
> there should have been some kind of error handling This is the point I would emphasize. A kernel module that parses configuration files must defend itself against a failed parse.
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
Do you really think Putin would hesitate to arrest him if he did that? Snowden knows he is being watched closely. I suppose that is itself a reason to take what he says with a grain of salt, but I certainly don't take his silence on t
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
I've read somewhere that Seymour Cray used to write his entire operating system in absolute octal. ("Absolute" means no relocation; all memory accesses and jumps must be hand-targeted to the correct address, as they would ha
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
Probably not. She needs to spend her time campaigning.
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
Not a bad idea, but it remains to be seen how many people are up for starting a run at this late date. Also, I just read that Harris has money pouring in. The donors may effectively decide this before anyone else can get traction.
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
I've read that it was a driver of some kind, not an application. Applications can't cause BSODs (I hope).
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
Really interesting to me that none of the commentators I've seen in the press have even hinted that maybe an OS that requires frequent security patches shouldn't be used for infrastructure in the first place. For just one example
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
I prefer the term "deference" for treating someone as an authority. But you're right; people do often say "respect" when they mean "deference".
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
The elasticity doesn't matter for the equivalence of the two scenarios (head-on collision at 50 vs. brick wall at 50). We've assumed, albeit implicitly, that in the head-on case, the cars have equal and opposite momentum. Whethe
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
Walter's answer is good, but here's another. When the two cars collide, it's possible to imagine that they are exact mirror images of each other and hit exactly head-on, so that a large sheet of paper hung vertically at exac
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by ScottBurson 2y ago
What do you suppose one should do if one received such a warning?
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by ScottBurson 3y ago
Penicillin never kills viruses; only bacteria. This is true of all antibiotics. Antivirals are a separate category (and don't tend to work as well AFAIK).
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
That was my point.
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
But if the sunlight that produced that power had hit something else instead, it also would have been turned into heat. There's no net heating of the planet from solar power. (Of course, the distribution of heating can change.)
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
Funny -- this is why I love working in Lisp. I can edit the code and retry it, often by just restarting the stack frame. Compiling takes milliseconds.
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
You seem to be overlooking that in that scenario, your land has appreciated considerably. If you sell, you'll net a gain; if you don't want to sell despite the gain, you can borrow against the property to pay the tax. Here's
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
Cities that are getting bigger are presumably doing so because their economies are expanding. While I can guess why you don't like growth, you may be overlooking that your own economic opportunities are also improving. Be that as it m
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by ScottBurson 4y ago
If you buy property in the second city, then as values rise, yes your taxes will go up but so will the value of your property. Worst case, you have to take out a home equity loan to pay the taxes, but you'll probably still come out ah
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
Yes, clearly an homage to APL.
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by ScottBurson 5y ago
The Note series never went away -- I put four years on a Note 4 and am typing this on a Note 9, still in great condition. So I don't think it's really "circles" as much as Samsung deciding to have only one flagship mode

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