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by ccapitalK 6d ago
Pareto frontiers are pretty commonly invoked to describe tradeoffs in computer science and have been for quite a while. I remember the term being used in one of my early algorithms courses to describe the tradeoff between data structures wi
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by ccapitalK 22d ago
I'll take a shot at this. Native applications ship as executable files. These files are basically a combination of machine code instructions (the program logic to be run) + a bunch of extra data that needs to be loaded into memory for
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by ccapitalK 2mo ago
From the article title, I was hoping that the author would argue that software development could be modeled as one of these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_system_(computer_sc...
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by ccapitalK 2mo ago
As someone who has been using D since about late 2024, I enjoy the following things about it: - It has a type system that catches most category errors, without having to think too much about types - It is quite easy to read and write,
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by ccapitalK 2mo ago
I wonder if there is a self consistent way to desire having your mind digitally uploaded into a computer, while detesting the idea of listening to the commands of the earring (and conditioning it to have all of my unconcious thoughts and de
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by ccapitalK 3mo ago
Obligatory https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
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by ccapitalK 8mo ago
He also posted https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/lets-be-honest-generative-... , which got flagged as low effort spam about 30 minutes ago. https://news.ycombinator.com./item?id=46605587
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by ccapitalK 9mo ago
I'm asking this question purely out of curiosity, and not as a snark, is there any particular reason why you don't capitalise the beginnings of your sentences? It seems strange to go to the effort of capitalising STEM and putting
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by ccapitalK 10mo ago
I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDMsr9K-rj53..
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by ccapitalK 11mo ago
Am I getting the math wrong here? Going from O(n) to O(log n) (with no change in constant factor) for a million items would be going from ~1000000c ops to ~20c ops, which would be a 50000x improvement?
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by ccapitalK 1y ago
Behold, I've brought you a compiler bug. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
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by ccapitalK 1y ago
Gaussian Blur isn't the most efficient way of doing a frosted glass blur effect though. IIRC the current state of the art is the Dual Kawase blur, which is what KDE uses for its blurred transparency effect, I've never observed per
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by ccapitalK 1y ago
It's sites like this that make me extremely grateful for firefox's reader mode.