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by eoi 11y ago
Also worth noting is multirust-rs, a reimplementation of multirust in Rust, which notably adds Windows support. I haven't tried anything fancy with it yet but so far it just works. https://github.com/Diggsey/multir
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by eoi 11y ago
The article defines bias as follows: > Want to know if the selection process was biased against some type of applicant? Check whether they outperform the others. This is not just a heuristic for detecting bias. It's what bias means
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by eoi 11y ago
"How does Rust's speed compare to C/C++" is something of an interesting question. I looked at some micro benchmarks that Rust did poorly on, and listened to some chatter, and this is some of what I saw: 1. Alioth's
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by eoi 11y ago
I'd like to mention that I've been happy with the docs, once I learned to find them. To take the given example, I would start at http://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ and hit `s` to start a search. Searching for `str
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by eoi 11y ago
I clicked one of the legitimate downloads. The link takes you to a new page and waits a few seconds before starting the download. The most prominent element of this page, centered just below the header, is a large bright green "Start D
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by eoi 11y ago
I agree with you that there is value in these varied opinions. I think it's part of why this sort of post tends to get upvoted regardless of whether it is positive or negative about the technology. In his blog post written roughly a ye
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by eoi 11y ago
I think it's more likely a deliberate move by the White House. They want us to believe it was Russia, but they either aren't ready to publicly substantiate the claim or don't want to be held to it politically, so they make th
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by eoi 12y ago
I think a machine learning model provides a nice version of Graham's "The same book would get compiled differently at different points in your life." Using an artificial neural net analogy instead of a compilation analogy: &q
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by eoi 12y ago
In a way I agree with this at the level of a package's external interface, but I think it's nice that with CL style packages you can call your local functions by their natural name. E.g. it may be "my-package::string-split&qu
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by eoi 12y ago
I've used StumpWM before and enjoyed it. It's pleasantly surprising to see how much development seems to have happened on it in the last year.
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by eoi 12y ago
I'm not familiar with Julia, but from a Common Lisp perspective it is very natural to closely link OO and function dispatch. Generic functions were added to lisp as part of its object system and make up a large part of it.
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by eoi 12y ago
I would add that the court's opinions are typically prefaced with an excellent summary, which can be a solid alternative or supplement to an article.
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by eoi 12y ago
In a recent interview with Democracy Now[1] Greenwald talked about the status of his relationship with the Guardian at the time he went to Hong Kong to meet Snowden, and it made me view his move to create The Intercept in a very different l
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by eoi 12y ago
It's interesting to see how some of these opinions are reflected in Go, because Rob Pike helped design Go about 20 years after writing this essay: Typography: Automatic formatting is part of the standard Go tooling and culture. Functio