copascetic

5 ms·

1.
by copascetic 6y ago
If you look closely at how that data was collected, what it's actually measuring is whether a binary links against the ObjC runtime library, which will be the case if a binary transitively depends on any ObjC framework, so even if all
2.
by copascetic 6y ago
If you just bought a new Intel MBP then you got a horrible deal by comparison. I also didn't say the review was nonfactual, just that it contains within it an inaccurate framing and conflation of M1 as a processor and the overall produ
3.
by copascetic 6y ago
Yes, and if you wrote such a review, and many have I'm sure, you wouldn't say that the electric drivetrain itself "has warts".
4.
by copascetic 6y ago
It's easy to rewrite that sentence to make that separation clear, and he doesn't. Gruber goes into detail about the author's history of being wrong and misleading in the past regarding Apple's processors, so in that cont
5.
by copascetic 6y ago
> Morehead's allegiances and work are relevant biases, as are Gruber's. But Morehead's review wasn't of the M1 processor or architecture as a technology. It was a review of the 13" M1 MacBook Pro as an end-user d
6.
by copascetic 6y ago
C, C++, Java, and Rust all have shift as lower precedence than addition/subtraction. Edit: and Javascript, Python.
7.
by copascetic 6y ago
If you'd carefully reread the post you'll see that your first assertion is false. It contains this sentence: "But it is a meaningfully distinct kind of type safety from the one I highlighted a year ago, one that is far weaker
8.
by copascetic 6y ago
Again, you are conflating newtypes per se with approaches using newtype as part of an overall abstraction and interface design including constructor hiding. The post makes this quite clear and the author and others have pointed out this dis
9.
by copascetic 6y ago
I think the request is rather justified given your response, which is engaging with a strawman version of the thesis presented in the post. What you wrote about the virtues of newtype was explained quite well in the post itself, but you see
10.
by copascetic 6y ago
If Timescale were AGPL Amazon would be free to just run it as a service for profit and all they need to do is publish their modifications to it, if they make any. Amazon has no problem running all kinds of other open source software for pro
11.
by copascetic 6y ago
How so? Corporations can use and sell software and run services for money that use copyleft software if they want to if they abide by the terms of the license, and some do, whereas the TSL specifically disallows this. How does AGPL exclude
12.
by copascetic 10y ago
The type of a string literal is array of char, and like other arrays, they decay to pointers to the first element when used in expression context, with three exceptions: sizeof, taking the address with &, and when used as a string initi
13.
by copascetic 11y ago
Because a macro in C/C++ is just text expansion, the given implementation will evaluate its arguments more than once, which will not be obvious at the "call" site and could have unintended consequences if the expressions have
14.
by copascetic 11y ago
This is entertaining. I've used Xilinx's tools for a while, almost exclusively on Linux (CentOS usually). I thought that renaming/symlinking libraries to get things to work was something only Linux users needed to do, and I f
15.
by copascetic 12y ago
See my other response, but I don't think you're giving the question enough credit. The other responses don't mention the fact that the line would likely be different if we swapped the variables. The question tests both whethe
16.
by copascetic 12y ago
The line of best fit changes depending on the choice of independent variable, even for the same data. The quantity being minimized is different for the two cases. (sum of squares of vertical distances between the line and the data points vs
17.
by copascetic 12y ago
When you specify the types of the numbers used, so that you are testing the transitivity of a single instance of Eq, you will find that transitivity does hold in this case. a :: Double a = 2^53 b :: Double b = 2.0^53 c :: Doub
18.
by copascetic 12y ago
This example is misleading, and I don't think the article addresses the subtleties. Basically, the third line is not like the other two. Because none of the numbers involved in #3 are Doubles, Haskell will actually use the Integer type
19.
by copascetic 14y ago
Linearity of expectation applies to any two random variables, not just ones that are independent. The issue is that these games are not random variables, they are random processes (sequences of random variables) with state affected by the c