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by dataflow 1mo ago
> Per Cambridge Dictionary, it means: to be unwilling to do something You agree balking means being unwilling, right? So not balking means being willing, right? He did not balk, therefore he was not unwilling , therefore he was wil
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> Merriam-Webster has balk as to stop short and refuse to proceed . To understand the intended meaning, put the emphasis on the first part: If the mayor did not balk, he did not stop, that is, he refused to comply and proceeded with h
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by dataflow 1mo ago
If he did not balk that means he did not refuse. Which means he complied. What he did not do was comply/capitulate/etc.
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by dataflow 1mo ago
By "balk" did you instead mean "budge"? Or am I misunderstanding what you meant?
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US has used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war(reuters.com)
32 points by dataflow 1mo ago|4 comments
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> Haha I guess we discovered the mysterious country you were referring to when you said, "Elsewhere in the same country." I wonder why you didn't want to reveal it? Reveal what? The country of the airport and my travel was
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> Big Dairy got to you, huh. Common sense did, not Big Dairy. > There’s nothing wrong with referring to other kinds of milk as milk. There very much is. For most people, if they go to a shop and ask for milk and get handed goat milk,
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by dataflow 1mo ago
When people ask for chicken do you also introduce them to your timid cousin? Or when they ask for meat, do you also show them the meat of the latest math problem you were working on? Just because it's in the dictionary that doesn'
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by dataflow 1mo ago
Perhaps you should visit more of the US, or visit different types of restaurants? Neither meaning is as dominant as you make it sound. You see both within five minute walks of each other. Heck, the top result I get for "what is a mushr
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> or, just let people call things what they want, and focus on real problems instead. Even this comment as I’m typing feels like too much time committed to the subject. If a problem isn't yours that doesn't mean it's fake.
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by dataflow 1mo ago
I've seen the meat version plenty of times too, it's not like I couldn't understand that either. That was the entire reason I checked the ingredients, which had never failed me until then. Restaurants normally list something
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by dataflow 1mo ago
Just replied to the parent, linking so you see it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165769
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by dataflow 1mo ago
Sorry for the late reply. > If you use recursion, both the absolutely necessary state and the temporaries are pushed onto the stack (along with the stack frame the language runtime wants). If you use iteration, the programmer just pushes
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by dataflow 1mo ago
You might be surprised, I had a similar kind of confusion myself: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49164552
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by dataflow 1mo ago
Anecdote: I asked for the "mushroom burger" on their menu at an airport years ago -- I didn't want meat and it had nothing indicting meat in the listed ingredients that I checked -- and they brought me a hamburger beef patt
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> After all, a cheesesteak is not a steak but a sandwich. I don't know if you're not seeing the obvious or deliberately ignoring it, but the rather-salient differences between those are that (a) "cheesesteak" being on
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by dataflow 1mo ago
> You should know the top 5 dishes of the 10-15 most popular cuisines of the world, at least. Leaving aside how ridiculous these numbers you pulled out of nowhere are, what godsent culturedness list are you using that is somehow so commo
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by dataflow 1mo ago
Usually, when I travel, it helps me to better understand and respect that other people may have different perspectives or experiences than me. This is probably the first time I'm seeing someone so cultured achieve the exact opposite, s
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by dataflow 2mo ago
That was terrible, I used to always turn it off. It's like speaking one word and the person interrupting you based on the prefix you had uttered so far... every single darn word. Imagine writing "how do I kill" and having it
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by dataflow 2mo ago
Not being from Toronto, never in a million years would I even think of that as a visitor.
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by dataflow 2mo ago
Honestly, I wouldn't worry about this. Indentation never got in the way of Python's success. There are plenty other things to worry about besides this.
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by dataflow 2mo ago
Or in other words, they agreed the Windows approach was better, and tried to retrofit it (;
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by dataflow 2mo ago
FYI, Windows's approach is better in some respects, like letting you avoid syscall overhead in some cases.
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by dataflow 2mo ago
What do you like about halogen bulbs?
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by dataflow 2mo ago
> because we now know the exact precision requirement for those functions over all 64-bit doubles Do you have a link or something on this?
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by dataflow 2mo ago
> let me try arguing it this way: it is impossible for a non-tail-call-optimized recursion to use constant space. [...] What you're really saying here is that if you have a non-tail-call-optimizing compiler (i.e. if your compiler
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by dataflow 2mo ago
> maybe the wrong terminology, but non-tail-call-optimized recursions spray their state across space with each iteration consuming a new stack frame, where iterative algorithms live in one stack frame and can re-use temporaries If that&#
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by dataflow 2mo ago
This feels like a strawman and doesn't really attempt to answer my question. These kinds of broad generalizations really need good evidence/citation.
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by dataflow 2mo ago
Re: your first paragraph, I don't get it, what does spatial locality have to do with recursion vs. iteration? And the blanket speed claim doesn't make sense either. I feel like you're thinking of a specific algorithm or acces
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by dataflow 2mo ago
IIUC that particular case has details that don't fit into the general scenario I mentioned, and they affected its outcome.

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