captaincrowbar

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Physicists link the Riemann Hypothesis to phase transitions in quantum systems(phys.org)
4 points by captaincrowbar 2mo ago|0 comments
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by captaincrowbar 4mo ago
‘Non-IO functions can't call IO functions.’ How do you handle logging then? If f() calls g(), how can I add logging to g() without having to change or recompile f() (and everything in the call stack above it)? ‘You can’t’ is not an acc
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by captaincrowbar 5mo ago
"This open-access course is directed at those who are already familiar with C and object-oriented programming" ... but not C++ That's a very, very small target you're aiming at there.
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by captaincrowbar 6mo ago
Has anyone got the hang of Thursdays yet?
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by captaincrowbar 10mo ago
This feels like a restatement of the trivially obvious observation that, if your type system is Turing complete, you're going to run into the halting problem.
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by captaincrowbar 10mo ago
Because making every jet engine in two different models would make them a lot more expensive. It would also cause maintenance issues because of non-interchangeable parts.
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by captaincrowbar 1y ago
I'm in Australia, you're Swedish (but I don't know if your business is based there), and most web sites show US prices by default. So I wouldn't like to guess whether it was meant to be AUD, USD, or SEK.
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by captaincrowbar 1y ago
I like this and would seriously consider buying it - except that the purchase page only has prices in something called "AA$". I have no idea what currency that refers to (AA is Aruba, but they don't use dollars), or how much
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
Non-paywalled version on one of the authors' site: https://www.liyiwei.org/papers/noise-sig12/
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
That doesn't make it open source, just "source available".
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
"The `await` keyword means "turn the rest of this function into a callback for the when the Task I'm waiting on finishes, and return the resulting Task"." Oh my god thank you. I've been trying to wrap my head a
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
Broken in Safari on Sequoia, unfortunately.
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
Does the command line to remove the quarantine flag (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename) still work?
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
Put it this way: Can I build an executable using this, that I could confidently give to a Windows user who has never heard of WSL?
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
This looks useful but I'm worried about portability. Are there any plans for native Windows support?
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
I'm disappointed that they passed up the opportunity to call the project Stargazy Pi ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargazy_pie )
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by captaincrowbar 2y ago
Just waiting now for someone to find a spectre exploit in quantum mechanics.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
Some people, when they have a problem, think, “I know, I’ll use floating point.” Now they have 1.9999998 problems.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
It can't be any harder to search for than C.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
Well, what actually killed it historically was AMD64. AMD64 could easily not have happened, AMD has a very inconsistent track record; other contemporary CPUs like Alpha were never serious competitors for mainstream computing, and ARM was no
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
“Daft? Of course it’s daft - it’s traditional!” - Terry Pratchett
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
Thanks. Strangely I'd never heard of this site before.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
Is there a (legal) way to get this book in pdf?
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
Math is integer, unless declared real.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
"The awesome unstoppable terribleness that is Postel's Law." Eloquence for the ages.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
1. Facebook has more than 10 times as many users as Twitter. They don't need to add new users, they just need to make it easy for FB users to also use Threads. 2. But the whole point here is that others aren't doing this any more.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
I believe I hear the sound of a True Scotsman knocking at the door.
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by captaincrowbar 3y ago
The big problem with AI R&D is that nobody can keep up with the big bux companies. It makes this kind of project a bit pointless. Even if you can run a GPT3-equivalent on a web browser, how many people are going to bother (except as a s
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
Yeah, this. One of C++’s biggest problems has always been the number of people who have spent years writing C and think that qualifies them to write C++.
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by captaincrowbar 4y ago
"The first non-stop flights to Hawaii from mainland US" (looks at map of Pacific) Hang on ... where did the earlier ones stop?

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