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by dermesser 3y ago
It's a pleasant and practical language to write, yet fairly safe. Imagine the safety of Rust but looking more like Python (or Haskell...), the concurrency of Go (since V5), and without a borrow checker (but a GC instead).
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by dermesser 3y ago
I can confirm this, happened twice this week.
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by dermesser 3y ago
One piece of advice: some things in university might be pointless and/or hard. Treat it like a game, the goal is usually quite clear (grades, passing, etc.) and work as much as you can to achieve the best results. Don't think too
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by dermesser 3y ago
But that's only because (unfortunately for the airlines) miles are not a universally accepted currency. Just like some poorer countries needing to be bailed out by the IMF, despite issuing their own currency.
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by dermesser 3y ago
A single beam column with the machine around it costs millions already, and takes quite some space. Wafers are simply not large enough to accommodate more than, I'd guess, two or three columns at the same time. Each with independent op
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by dermesser 3y ago
Just putting chips into things that didn't have them before and still don't need them
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by dermesser 3y ago
This is called electron beam writing, and is done routinely in research settings and to write the lithography masks, but does usually not have the required throughput for a production line. The upside of mask-based lithography is that all s
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by dermesser 3y ago
If you look in another field, the default wavelength (wave number) unit is 1/cm. Meaning, there's not really a default wavelength unit.
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by dermesser 3y ago
Go ahead then, we'll read it if it's poetic enough!
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by dermesser 3y ago
Yes, if your bicycle costs $100. But why insure it then?
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by dermesser 3y ago
Once you're the schmuck, or your company starts laying off, you'll start appreciating it. (As has recently happened in my family)
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by dermesser 3y ago
Not to detract from Thunderbird's deserved attention, but I've been using Evolution for many years, and search is delightfully instantaneous.
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by dermesser 3y ago
Got it, so it's only for poor people :^)
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by dermesser 3y ago
Great, so now we're writing our own memory allocator?
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by dermesser 3y ago
Except that that's a linked list and not an array.
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by dermesser 3y ago
Except that more efficient solutions can be implemented much more practically? Solutions that you'd need to bend over backwards for in C?
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by dermesser 3y ago
Six arguments - seriously? Avoiding that is the point of generic programming, and probably more efficient there too
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by dermesser 3y ago
> Why not joplin? Mostly because joplin stores notes in an sqlite database instead of a simple folder structure making it not easily accessible by normal unix tools and editors. But instead much more accessible to any kind of software, i
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by dermesser 3y ago
Governments issue money, so yes they kind of do have magic money. Certainly a different access to money than private entities.
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by dermesser 3y ago
I'd like to see you drive your sedan through just 4 miles of Colombian Amazonas Jungle. See: Cars are impractical!
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by dermesser 3y ago
Right, because there's no reason at all to regulate a shared medium like RF bands except to make money.
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by dermesser 3y ago
It's not peanuts at all, given that it's an entirely different technology. Free space optics will have different applications, of course, but those applications where fiber is currently not feasible stand to profit quite a bit fro
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by dermesser 3y ago
I know about two newspapers who regularly say "ETH Lausanne", and I suspect these articles are written by similar pedants as some commenters here appear to be.
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by dermesser 3y ago
...yet, when saying "ETH" everyone knows what is being referred to. Except for crypto bros.
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by dermesser 3y ago
This appears very similar (my Haskell is a bit rusty) to the problem description in Real World OCaml ( https://dev.realworldocaml.org/imperative-programming.html ), although made easier by the use of non-pure functions there.
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by dermesser 3y ago
I read this as wanting a different "feeling" for the language. Go uses this approach, with maps and arrays being baked into the syntax, and things work just fine. Implementing Vec in user code is rather the C++ "feeling"
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by dermesser 3y ago
The rocks also need to be able to move a bit for elasticity, and have sharp edges. For that you also replace a part of the ballast every few years. That's hard to do when everything is sealed. Even with such "glue", the lifet
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by dermesser 3y ago
Can you elaborate on "not technically solid"? Or is this notion also based on a single experience?
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by dermesser 3y ago
Yet it is you who first made a sweeping generalization across continents based on what sounded like your inability to use one tool vs another.
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by dermesser 3y ago
In Cologne, like many German towns, ice and snow is an issue about two weeks a year (in a cold year). And even then, that's what the city's road clearing services are for.

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