eudox

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by eudox 9y ago
For those who haven't heard of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning
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by eudox 9y ago
Mandarin as in Mandarinate, not as in the language.
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A Wishlist of Zero-Cost Abstractions(eudoxia.me)
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by eudox 10y ago
No, it isn't. There's a difference between McCarthy's "Maxwell's equations of software" and the full-blown Common Lisp standard, which was designed by and aimed at industry.
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by eudox 10y ago
>The problem was that the Chavista regime bungled the state-owned oil company so badly that it didn't have enough money even when crude prices were high, and really doesn't now that they're low. Naturally, the problem is b
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by eudox 10y ago
>You see a lot of mixed-income neighborhoods in Houston - places where people are building $700,000 homes where 80% of the same street are 1000 square foot shacks with people living in them making $20k a year. Luckily for them, their lot
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by eudox 10y ago
Replacing malloc/calloc/free etc an application-specific xmalloc/xcalloc/xfree is seemingly a fairly common pattern. There's one example in libiberty[0] (-liberty, get it?) where, for instance, the return value of m
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by eudox 10y ago
The included header file uses the macro system, among other things, to bring C99 up-to-date with more modern programming techniques, using what we've learnt in the past decades since C was conceived. In fairness however the short POD t
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by eudox 10y ago
Actually, cubicles are a good thing.
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by eudox 10y ago
The frequency illusion is indeed real but there has been a definite uptick in posts about Gopher here.
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by eudox 10y ago
Yes, that's the point. But it's very hard to point to the effective engineering limit. For example: the ultimate limit to computing power is Bremermann's limit, but that's only reached in the surface of a black hole. The
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by eudox 10y ago
Probably not.
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by eudox 10y ago
The only context where Argentina can be in the same sentence as Australia is in a list of countries in the Southern Hemisphere, or countries whose names start with an 'A'.
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by eudox 10y ago
A better way to read this map: countries in the deep red are places where people have tamed this inhuman, unforgiving Earth, and people can lead happy and self-defined lives. Countries in the deep green are where people are at the mercy of
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by eudox 10y ago
>Singapore: 16000% So the takeaway from this is you should aim for high biocapacity deficit, right? I mean, I live in a deep green country, and it's a filthy dump.
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by eudox 10y ago
>they only shifted the problem once again Shifting the problem is a sometimes a good thing. In this case, because it means the energy can now come from effective sources (nuclear) instead of carrying petrochemicals in the vehicle.
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by eudox 10y ago
>Agricultural output is still growing, but there are physical limits. And people frequently confuse engineering limits with physical limits.
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by eudox 10y ago
>What they saw was that, not only did the star's light output occasionally dip by 20 percent - the weird behaviour scientists first spotted last year - but over the course of the observations, its entire stellar flux actually dimmed
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by eudox 10y ago
In that case, though, the immutability is a property of the operations rather than the data. And you can have mutating versions of most of those operations that alter the data they are working on, e.g. a mutating map.
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by eudox 10y ago
Equality, like copying, is often more complicated than that. You often run into a problem where you need a domain-specific equality function for your objects. Which is not to say that automatic derivation of generic functions is not useful,
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by eudox 10y ago
Algebraic data types and pattern matching are equivalent to having a class hierarchy and implementing the same method for each class. The idea that Haskell or OCaml or SML are specially suited for compiler writing is a nineties truism that
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by eudox 10y ago
>It lets you search by type signature. If you know the inputs and output then you know the type signature. So in short, yes. In short, no.
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by eudox 10y ago
>He was elected democratically, but then he behaved like a dictator. He was elected democratically to behave like a dictator . Most dictatorships advertise quite clearly what they intend to do.
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by eudox 10y ago
So there you go. That's how Communism is compatible with democracy. It burns the same fuel: the promise of mass political power.
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by eudox 10y ago
>since 2004 That's after two Chavez elections. Then the people were voting for Communism well before the elections were rigged in an observable way
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by eudox 10y ago
Firstly, that's not how replies work. Secondly, no, they were not rigged elections. A couple of links: https://www.cartercenter.org/documents/297.pdf http://eeas.europa.eu/eueom/missions/
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by eudox 10y ago
Venezuela elected Chavez in at least three internationally verified and observed elections (1998, 2000, 2006).
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by eudox 10y ago
That's not quite how I'd put it. The documentation is pretty scarce, but if it's anything like Rust, you have to be explicit about ownership and somewhat explicit about lifetimes. That is, it's not just "rewrite you
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by eudox 10y ago
>arbitrary lisp program Well, Carp is a dialect of Lisp so it's free to impose whatever semantics it wants. It's not a dynamically-typed language (where it would indeed be impossible to statically manage memory).
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by eudox 10y ago
Parsing is the smallest part of writing a compiler.

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