bitwalker

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by bitwalker 1mo ago
I too loved this book, though my copy is titled _Dove_ - one of my all time favorites. My dad, who gave me the book, knew Robin during his own solo sailing days, and figured I could relate to a lot of what he wrote about. Sadly I never got
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by bitwalker 3mo ago
They seem to be much less active on hot days compared to cooler days in my experience - though I can't say why. I've definitely observed a difference over the years though. That said, whether it is hotter or cooler doesn't ma
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by bitwalker 3mo ago
The benefit is that floats are allowed to be unboxed values - without NaN-boxing, you must heap-allocate them. The tradeoff is that immediate/unboxed integer values end up being smaller than the full machine word range (i.e. you have e
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by bitwalker 6mo ago
AIUI, that is what the MIR formalization work is about, and it seems to be moving along fine. My impression is that covers essentially all the interesting parts of Rust worth specifying formally.
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by bitwalker 10mo ago
Nobody is out here arguing that privacy is important because they want to make it easier to get away with things that are immoral or criminal. The importance of privacy is in retaining as much control over what information you share with ot
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by bitwalker 1y ago
> There is a separate concern around denied data environments in the software realm but that is not on many people's radar. Most software devs would not know where to even start to protect systems from this. The concept of a denied
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by bitwalker 1y ago
That's surprising, I have a '23 X6, and the built-in navigation is actually really nice. The maps have more detailed information than both Google and Apple Maps in many areas. I also haven't observed any lag/stuttering,
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by bitwalker 2y ago
At least to me, the difference is that one is ostensibly an explanation of how the AI arrived at the joke, the other is a post-hoc explanation of the joke.
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by bitwalker 2y ago
> It really sucks the heat out of it. One of the problems with halon, and the write-up mentions this, is that it is super effective at starving the fire of oxygen, but has zero effect on the heat of the fuel that was burning. So the fire
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by bitwalker 2y ago
> Some societies optimize for the individual. If 8 lights is better for me then I get 8 lights. The experience gor other drivers us a "them" problem not a "me" problem. > > Other societies optimize for public go
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by bitwalker 2y ago
I'll disagree only a tiny bit here: To me (also a compiler engineer), a transpiler is shorthand for source-to-source translation from one language to another at a similar level of abstraction (e.g. Lua to Ruby, Java to C++). The implem
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by bitwalker 2y ago
> In 2008 gas cost as much as it does now and fast food did only pay $8/h Did you deliberately pick the time where the cost of gas skyrocketed before eventually coming back down to more normal levels? Gas where I lived at the time w
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by bitwalker 2y ago
It it apparently _is_ an actual problem, which is why an attempt at solving it is being made. A black market for reservations is bad not just for customers, but for the establishment that loses out on business if the reservations aren'
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by bitwalker 2y ago
So the NY government shouldn't be trying to solve problems for NY residents? Make it make sense.
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by bitwalker 2y ago
You might not need to go to college, but you're going into significant debt if you do, so now one has to decide which disadvantage they want to start their career with: no degree, or crippling debt. A fast food job might be $17/hr
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by bitwalker 2y ago
> To my understanding, no it doesn't, as the value is resolved when the function pointed is created, not when the underlying function executes, which the code you linked shows too. I know it uses the "env" as a structure f
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by bitwalker 2y ago
The example you've given here does not work the way you think it does. I would agree however that the mechanics of closure environments is simpler in Erlang due to the fact that values are immutable, as opposed to closures in other lan
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by bitwalker 2y ago
Ah right, good point - I was trying to remember the exact behavior, but couldn't recall if an error is raised (and when), or if the underlying module is just replaced and "jesus take the wheel" after that.
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by bitwalker 2y ago
Erlang absolutely has closures, you are mistaken. What you are referring to are "function captures", which bind a function reference as a value, and there is no environment to close over with those. However, you can define closure
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by bitwalker 2y ago
My reading is that they were evaluating leaders on their introversion/extroversion, intuitiveness, and overall success. So you could have both introverted-intuitive and extroverted-intuitive leaders, and overall, the introverted-intuit
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by bitwalker 2y ago
BZ2 was one of my favorite games for quite some time after it released, just a blast to play. I had been really into BZ98 before it, and didn't think a sequel would be able to match the magic, but I ended up playing more of BZ2 in the
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by bitwalker 2y ago
iOS does support a form a call screening, called live voicemail, which transcribes the message being recorded by the caller and lets you pick up the call if you want. iOS also supports ambient song identification, with history, which I use
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by bitwalker 2y ago
Those aren't the only failure modes - you can have two sets of servers partitioned from one another (in two different data centers), both of which are reachable by clients. Do you allow those partitions to remain available, or do you s
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by bitwalker 2y ago
Pretty disappointed to not find sources for the compiler yet, which is the part I'm by far the most interested in. Hopefully that will follow this release soon!
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by bitwalker 3y ago
I wouldn't read too much into the syntax - the Haskell-like definitions are just a succinct way to describe the AST representation for the toy call-by-push-value language the post is talking about. Similarly, the syntax that resembles
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by bitwalker 3y ago
This is said so confidently, but clearly with little to no experience with the military or the VA to back it up. No vet is receiving benefits without something to back up their disability rating, even if that rating is higher than it seemin
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by bitwalker 3y ago
No, you’re exactly right, they are just regular singly-linked lists of tuples, nothing more.
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by bitwalker 3y ago
The only time `is_` is used, is with functions permitted in guards. These are functions defined in Erlang, and only a small handful exist, and you learn them very early on. With the advent of `defguard`, it is conventional to use `is_` with
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by bitwalker 3y ago
I haven’t seen a Blame! reference in the wild before! The concept of runaway AI that never stops building more infrastructure seems like one of those dystopian scenarios that is at least semi-plausible, and the idea that humans effectively
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by bitwalker 3y ago
Cars have a lot of trim/seals/insulation/carpeting to reduce road noise and be aesthetically pleasing, and military aircraft cockpits don't care about either of those things, and are largely just a metal tube with racks

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