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by a_lieb 4y ago
To be fair: titles and headlines are often written in the tense you used, often to give a sense of energy and intensity. In fact, this is the most common form in news headlines, like "Smith wins 2022 election" or "new statist
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by a_lieb 4y ago
Ah, OK. Now I wish it wasn't too late to edit my original post :) The stats on the CIRR site across schools did always seem a little... odd to me, with differences in outcomes too big to believe at times. Sounds like I would have found
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by a_lieb 4y ago
> There used to be a site that categorized boot camps by results. Maybe try that? I think you're talking about either the Council on Integrity in Results Reporting (CIRR) [1], or Course Report [2] (both still up). CIRR is a body run
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by a_lieb 5y ago
To Chalmers' credit, he's been writing about this stuff at least back to 2003, when he had a paper called "The Matrix as Metaphysics" defending the idea that the claim that we're living in a simulation is not a skep
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by a_lieb 5y ago
"Rightsizing" is a weird one, because it's occasionally used for benign stuff like reducing the rate of hiring. Much like "enhanced interrogation techniques," the broader meaning provides shelter for what it's
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by a_lieb 5y ago
Here's a business model for successful open-source projects—one that's already in use, but I think is rarely seen as a business model per se. I'd be interested to see if there's a blog post or the like about this already
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by a_lieb 5y ago
Agreed. I whinge about this all the time. The C-based system is convenient for piano players but it's a mess for guitar players, violinists, and other instruments where there are no There have been many attempts at a chromatic music no
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by a_lieb 6y ago
For me it's simply a matter of convenience of searching; even pages with great and comprehensive docs can be hard to search. And the average is so poor that I often don't even bother to check if a particular project actually has a
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by a_lieb 6y ago
The easiest way to think about Tcl is simply, "it's a Lisp, but with strings instead of lists." It turns out that when you make a language like that, you end up something where your code looks and feels like a list of command
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by a_lieb 6y ago
I've found that one a lot more common than the "Hello" thing, but I'm sure it varies by the team.
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by a_lieb 6y ago
This is glorious. The only way I could tell with any confidence it wasn't real was the clean, modern HTML and CSS (get with the program folks, this should be non-validating XHTML 1.1!) Nice easter egg from the source code: <!--
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by a_lieb 6y ago
Are there any online stores where we have good evidence that they have good practices around COVID-19? Despite the crushing demand, Costco seems like one employer that might try extra hard to see after the safety of its workers.
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Huh, maybe his intro-level materials are far different, then. I'm not going to die on the hill that there's any connection; I don't even know whether he claims there is. But it at least seems that this specific stuff (at le
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by a_lieb 7y ago
All good points. I don't know much about his actual higher-level mathematical stuff (I'm pretty bush-league about theory overall, really!) But I've heard that a lot of people in the music theory world say it's awfully cl
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by a_lieb 7y ago
For this, I would highly recommend the music theorist/composer Dimitri Tymoczko. His career project is to rebuild the basics of harmony from the ground up from (mostly simple) rules, closely based on how people hear. A catchphrase he u
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Due to exactly this issue, an increasing number of languages have an operator just for "if exists and not null": the null coalescing operator[0]. What "exists" means depends on the language; it can be as loose as checkin
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by a_lieb 7y ago
I also worry about the increase in security surface area. A ton of additional C-level operations exposed to JS in all browsers. What could go wrong?
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Ah, interesting—thanks for pointing that out. That is practically the same thing. I only wonder if the fact that it's two dots tends to discourage it from general use for things like arithmetic, compared to a single character.
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Good question--just stack them up on the left on the same order as they appear in the expression, I guess.
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by a_lieb 7y ago
I've always wondered if a good way to do infix would be to simply have the ability to mark an item with a character that means "move this to the front of the expression." Let's say the char is ":". Then this:
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Forgive me if the answer to this is already widely-known, but at this point is Racket making a play to be a general-purpose, "batteries included" Lisp, rather than a stripped down tool for PLT stuff and making languages? It seems
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by a_lieb 7y ago
If the scoring scheme works the same as the results he shows on the site (higher is better), then V8 is still far faster than QuickJS. Which wouldn't be all that surprising since the V8 folks have spent hundreds of thousands of man-hou
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by a_lieb 7y ago
Richard Stallman is mostly known for his activist/politics stuff at this point, but he was also a heck of a developer. He wrote Emacs, GCC, GDB and glibc. I'm not sure if he was a total lone wolf, but my understanding is that in t
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by a_lieb 7y ago
The benchmark scores [1] he gives only stack it up against other embeddable engines. It cuts those to ribbons, but can someone who's familiar with JavaScript performance weigh in on how it competes with the most popular engines like V8
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I've found a way to take this formula and make it into a very effective weight-loss diet. I've been at it for almost a year and have lost 20 pounds so far, and it doesn't seem like I'm going to have any trouble keeping i
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by a_lieb 8y ago
Mastodon/Diaspora seems like a pretty good fit for a small and tightly-knit community like Old School Revival D&D. (Granted I had to Google that acronym to find out what it was, so I can't claim to know much about the subcultu
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by a_lieb 8y ago
In Tegmark's case, his hypothesis doesn't necessarily imply that consciousness escapes the laws of physics in any sense, even somewhat. He's simply arguing that consciousness is a state of matter, like liquid, solid or gas,
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by a_lieb 8y ago
As someone who teaches JS on the side, I'm literally scared of the idea of introducing another construct called "case." Especially one that goes in the opposite place of where the "case" normally does: "switch
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by a_lieb 8y ago
This is wildly conjectural, but assuming the "CO2 is causing widespread cognitive problems" hypothesis is true, I wonder if there are whole colleges whose student bodies are getting slightly worse grades because of this. There are
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by a_lieb 8y ago
I appreciate any effort to make modern frameworks that can run in vanilla JS without compilation. I feel like the current JS compilation toolchain is still well in "uncanny valley" territory, where it can still be tricky to set up

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