johnday

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by johnday 2y ago
"This is impolite" is not a truth statement, it is a value judgment. It can be impolite to do something even if someone has said that they don't mind.
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by johnday 2y ago
There are a few confounding factors here: 1. It may be legally permissible, but it is impolite, to change the license away from the well-known Apache software license towards something which has not been legally vetted, and is in fact gener
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by johnday 3y ago
This seems like too much effort has been put into it for it to be a purely satirical exercise, but I really cannot see why anyone would prefer to use this within Python, rather than (say) reaching for a proper type-safe functional language
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by johnday 3y ago
Describing something in the imperative voice doesn't make sense. Why would you ever say "TL;DR perform this action" instead of "TL;DR performing this action", when trying to describe something that people should not
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by johnday 3y ago
No? It's in the imperative voice, it wouldn't make sense to read "do this" as a description of an antipattern.
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by johnday 3y ago
That's older than the median age of a human being. Granted, people don't tend to play games before the age of about 7, but that still seems suspect.
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by johnday 3y ago
> It has 995 open issues in its Github repository. This is not a sensible metric for code quality. For one thing, only about 20% of the currently open issues are tagged as bugs - more than that are suggested improvements. > Haskell pr
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by johnday 3y ago
Then a very recent _increase_, even beyond that, is notable, no?
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by johnday 3y ago
Sorry, but no. Edmonds clearly maps "efficiently-solvable problems" onto the notion of P in a complete way, not only as a subset of P.
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by johnday 3y ago
> The question being asked Where was that question asked?
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by johnday 3y ago
P vs NP is not an "in practical terms" question. It is a theoretical question with theoretical definitions of theoretical terms, including "efficient", which directly corresponds to the class P by definition.
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by johnday 3y ago
> Even a P=NP result doesn't tell us that NP problems have efficient solutions. Yes it does. That is literally exactly what it means. The class P is the class of problems which are considered theoretically "tractable"&#x2F
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by johnday 3y ago
The value of purely functional programming languages, as opposed to functional programming languages like lisps, is that you get referential transparency, which means that when you define `a = b`, you know that you can always replace any in
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by johnday 3y ago
Subtraction is truth preserving on the sign bit. It's not truth-preserving in the actual subtractive bits. (I disagree with their claim that the subtractive bit is functionally complete on its own - you're right, since it's t
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by johnday 3y ago
Without trying to defend this particular carve-out, I would suggest that things like computers and video game consoles are improving in capability over a much faster time scale than TVs and video cameras. Hence there is much less of an expe
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by johnday 3y ago
Technically speaking, batteries do get lighter when discharged! But not in any useful way, and entirely unlike the situation with aeroplanes, of course.
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by johnday 3y ago
That's not really fair. systemd does a lot more, and with good reason (among other reasons: there are many, many economies that can be made when "booting" and "managing" services happens in the same hat)
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by johnday 3y ago
It's a term of art from the community, that also draws in the intellectually curious with a "wtf is half an A press?" - it's an excellent title.
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by johnday 3y ago
Actually , if you start working out which one is the next to run, you have reinvented selection-sort and you are no longer linear time. (Hence why this is not a sensible sorting algorithm in reality :) )
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by johnday 3y ago
Godot is a super impressive piece of kit. I'm waiting for a reason to start a new game project so that I can get to grips with it more firmly, but what they've been able to do with a relative small team puts Unity to shame. (Even
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by johnday 3y ago
This is a great point! In order to find out, perhaps we should engage some experts at a leading research institution to do some wider studies that are able to account for such factors. Maybe Stanford could do it?
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by johnday 3y ago
I fail to follow your chain of reasoning. How can the claim both be "clearly false" and unclear in its statement? The use of "should" as the very first line of the body text actually makes the argument extremely clear, w
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by johnday 3y ago
> ULEZ and CAZ mostly force poor people to spend money on newer cars. I don't think there's any reason to believe they mostly do this. Mostly what they do is encourage people to use public transport to get to areas well-serve
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by johnday 3y ago
Wholly dependent on what you mean by "took off" but I'd argue Haskell qualifies. It was a nothing language for two decades before finding its footing and is now used in quite a lot of places (TIOBE puts it near TypeScript).
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by johnday 3y ago
Most games make so much use of OS-level features (especially Windows APIs and their analogues under Wine/Proton) that a minimal system for running a game wouldn't be that much slimmer than an OS. All you would really drop would be
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by johnday 4y ago
The title is a bit bombastic but it's also not wrong! That vehicle looks like it's moving in all the right directions, so to speak.
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by johnday 4y ago
Agreed, they are profoundly ugly objects. Looks like someone manifested a 3-year-old's drawing of a milk float. Surely we as a species still appreciate things looking _good_ as part of an objective goal?
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by johnday 4y ago
Mastodon trades one set of problems (centralised authority, terrible management, beholden to advertisers) for another set of problems (expensive n^2 bookkeeping of decentralised model, moderator fiefdoms, less polished UX). Whether you find
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by johnday 4y ago
That's not what a walled garden is. You can't take the background from The Starry Night into the Mona Lisa either.
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by johnday 4y ago
Yep, everything not CC is still under the sword of Damocles. The good news is that the vast majority of players and third-party publishers are using 5e, so this announcement protects them forever. It would not be unexpected for them to us

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