jacobmartin

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by jacobmartin 4y ago
fascinating! Does vendor cc link to a different libc? I wonder if that is the problem and the docs are for glibc. And testing just now, I can't even trigger SIGFPE with division by zero (integer or float). I guess all of these exceptio
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
You should be able to see the floating point exception by testing fetestexcept(FE_INVALID) (if it returns nonzero/true then you have a domain error). errno is also set as a side effect. (edit), for instance this gives me output of &quo
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Books are frequently useless. I only buy used (thrift books, local book stores) or get them from the library. If I dont have a compelling reason to finish it after about 20-50pages, I just re-sell/give away/throw it in the nearest
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
> Or rather, that was all true at the time when I first investigated Widevine-on-Asahi, several months ago. A few weeks ago, Google decided to enter the 21st century and started shipping aarch64 userspaces on certain Chromebook models. T
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
For sure. In this specific case, I'd add that because of Catholic belief on martyrdom (directly to heaven, no purgatory, no baptism required even), the standards are a lot lower to canonize a martyr. For instance they can (but don&#x
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I would agree, but as DoreenMichele pointed out, they were treated the same in ancient Greece. And it's not like the Greeks had extremely sophisticated climate models able to predict the harvest seasons in advance. As far as I know, ev
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Tangentially related but one of my favorite stories is that the earliest derivatives contract we have recorded was based on astrology: > A story, with different versions, recounts how Thales achieved riches from an olive harvest by predi
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I'm no expert, but you might be interested in: https://llvm.org/docs/tutorial/ There's also a Haskell version if you'd prefer: https://www.stephendiehl.com/llvm/ Idk how to do
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
For sure. Additionally, the syntax of lisp also makes these AST macros ergonomic and, in many cases, beautiful. Rust has AST-transforming macros, but they're harder to use because the syntax is more complex. They're also quite ugl
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I didn't downvote you. (In fact, I don't have access to the downvote button lol, but I wouldn't have used it here in any case.) But a comment above yours already discussed this possibility, and there were replies as to why th
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Yes, thank you for this. I just ran it with the floor() function actually called and it did give 56.000000. I didn't think to check the precision. Rookie mistake!
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Thank you!
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
This is great! There was a post on /r/softwaregore recently where someone showed a progress bar on Steam that said "57/100 achievements! Game 56% complete" or something like that. I snarkily commented something abou
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Yes, precisely. Sorry I wasn't clear about that.
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
The deontologist believes lying is against the universal maxim. If everybody lied all the time, we wouldn't have a functioning society. The virtue ethicist believes it is bad to be in a habit to lie because being predisposed to lying i
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
The rhetorical device here is called polyptoton. It have noticed it usually sounds clunky in English, though it was a favorite of Latin and Greek authors. For instance, "Et lux perpetua luceat eis," is usually translated, "An
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Found this guy's YouTube channel when I was a kid learning to play the piano, googling my pieces to hear how they sounded. He introduced me to Bach, and I've loved him ever since :)
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
This is an interesting question that gets to the heart of the constructivism debate, which I won't touch on here. As for the integer example, the integers are all easily (finitely) constructed (successors to 0 and their additive opposi
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
No, usually the cardinalities of infinite sets are represented by things called aleph numbers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph_number . But it isn't, in any case, an integer.
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
> If I can accept that there are more reals than reals with finite descriptions, why can't there be integers without finite descriptions/positions? Because the integers are defined as the finite successors to the number 0 and
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Where is 1⁄3? Is it before or after (pi - 3)?
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Yeah, I always read this as "bottom emoji" in my internal monologue, and that is how I search for it if I need to copy & paste it on a laptop or desktop lol.
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Here is a less anecdotal source to support what you are saying: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6024687/ There is about 10x more unesterified (absorbable) cholesterol secreted into bile than one
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Triply so if the choir is a professional choir. It's a job. They don't ask you the Creed before you audition.
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I appreciate your nit, but I have one myself: Can you curse the throne itself? Afaik you can only curse items, not dungeon features, and the NethackWiki doesn't list anything about a throne having B/U/C status. I don't s
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I have two kids, am self-employed (tutoring) in my community, and have many friends and acquaintances are over 40 (from church, for instance). Sending unknown numbers to voicemail has been completely fine in every case. I've never miss
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I've noticed that the further you get away from downtown, the more likely the bus driver is just going to tell you not to bother with it and wave you back if you reach for some dollar bills. But like you said, it'd be nice if it w
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
I recently downloaded this and got it to work. I loved it. So much nostalgia.
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
apparatus is first/second as a past participle. I suppose it could be used as a substantive, but there is also a fourth declension noun with the same lemma meaning implements, tools, etc.: https://logeion.uchicago.edu/a
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by jacobmartin 4y ago
Maddeningly, it doesn't even apply to all Latin -us nouns. For instance, the plural of apparatus should be apparatūs if we're applying the Latin rules. Apparati, as it might seem, makes no sense! So even when the pattern match cor

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