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by lindig 22d ago
How do you compute page rank for billion of pages that have cyclic links? Is that not the problem right after the initial idea?
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by lindig 2mo ago
> In defence of Mr Musk, despite his character flaws, Tesla is the only Western electric car company in the top 20, and this includes Korea and Japan. Also, SpaceX is ~90% of the world's commercial rocket launch capacity. This confl
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by lindig 4mo ago
> Instead of regular expressions, Janet’s text wrangling is based around parsing expression grammars. Parsing expression grammars are simpler, more powerful, and more predictable than regular expressions. I would dispute that this is the
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by lindig 4mo ago
> native ocaml repl has landed What does this refer to? Most people use the OCaml `utop` REPL which isn't okay for some printf debugging but nowhere near what a Lisp could do.
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by lindig 4mo ago
The repository link on that page does not work. Is there a preview?
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by lindig 1y ago
The public transport service in Hannover/Germany once had a screensaver that you could configure to show the next departure from your nearest station. I thought that was clever marketing. Today you probably could implement this as a we
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by lindig 2y ago
I like the idea mentioned in the article of exploring limited higher-order functions: functions that can only take functions as argument that themselves are not taking functions as arguments. But what simplification does this buy (in the im
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by lindig 2y ago
This makes you appreciate curation in a museum. Why are these objects shown together? Historical period, size, design feature, material, production method? It looks completely arbitrary.
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by lindig 2y ago
The main feature of interval parsing appears to be that it can jump over content such that a later part in a file does not depend on knowing everything that comes before it. Has Dogma similar expressiveness?
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by lindig 3y ago
Filecoin, which is based on IPFS, creates a market for unused storage. I think that idea is great but for adoption it needs to be as simple as Dropbox to store files. But visit https://filecoin.io/ and the dropbox-like app
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by lindig 3y ago
"Show, don't tell" is lost on the authors. They only talk about visual ugliness.
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by lindig 3y ago
The argument for annealing in the original paper is that accepting regressions is essential to escape from local minima. https://www2.stat.duke.edu/~scs/Courses/Stat376/Papers/Tempe... "Annealing, a
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by lindig 3y ago
My understanding of simulated annealing is that solutions that are not improvements are still accepted with some probability in early steps but that this probability decreases as "temperature" drops. Looking at your description (b
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by lindig 3y ago
Links are unreadable in that blog post on iOS/Safari.
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by lindig 3y ago
For covering the subject of writing, the typesetting of the PDF is remarkably poor. The mix of serif and sans serif, the font sizes don't match the structure of the document, and enumerations have inconsistent indentation - to point ou
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by lindig 3y ago
What does your business do? Stripe might not have listed your business model explicitly but could still prefer to not have you as a customer if it is an edge case.
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by lindig 3y ago
Since list traversal is very common in OCaml, could the compiler emit code that pre-fetches the next element?
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by lindig 4y ago
Suggestion: parse any number like 12:03 as 12 minutes and 3 seconds (and 04:12:03 with hours) and represent it as seconds. It makes working with durations a lot easier. This is just an additional parsing rule (could also use 12m3 or 4h12m3)
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by lindig 4y ago
This guy needs a copy editor. The meandering writing is off putting when someone is writing on the subject of becoming efficient at a task or process. He is in love with his own writing, maybe considering it entertainment, which he proclaim
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by lindig 4y ago
That's a great service. I can think of various features to support more use cases: * provide an optional label - for the use case where several clocks are used and shared. * start and share several stop watches from a single page: star
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by lindig 4y ago
> I actually really wish I had something similar for video... Try this: https://github.com/mifi/lossless-cut I am using the binary on macOS. The UI is a bit idiosyncratic but it works quite well and is ideal to cut
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by lindig 5y ago
> A much better effort, for anyone interested, would be to vastly simplify the OCaml build and package management story to be more Go-like. OCaml's package management and build system is not complicated for consumers and builds are
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by lindig 5y ago
I’d like to see support for FIT files as they are emitted by Garmin fitness devices. It’s a clever binary format that in-stream defines the format of records which then contain the actual measurements which may be scaled for more compact re
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by lindig 5y ago
The valuation of Apple on a P/E basis is attractive and constant stock buybacks make it a safe bet. At the current scale you can’t expect startup-level growth but it is still attractive as a stock. Likewise, look at the valuation per c
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by lindig 5y ago
On my Safari 14.1.2 the hero image (demo) on the landing page does not show properly. The URL is https://slacklatex.com/static/media/demo_img.5ddca5f3.webp and I assume the format is a bit too esoteric.
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by lindig 5y ago
Compiler bugs outside undefined behaviour are not rare; calling conventions as implemented in C compilers are complex and random testing found bugs in several compilers. However, the bugs are in parameter lists and types that are rare. htt
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by lindig 5y ago
As is any business that sells 1 dollar bills for 80 cents. Not a good business to own, though. "Making it up by volume" seems doubtful.
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by lindig 5y ago
* Deliveroo lost money last year that probably provided the best possible business environment with many people willing to work for them and ordering from home during a pandemic. * Deliveroo has basically no assets * What is the barrier to
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by lindig 5y ago
I find this painful to read. It's always about what Stephen Wolfram has done and how it is realised in Mathematica. If you are a true expert in a field you should have less trouble acknowledging other people's contributions. I mis
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by lindig 5y ago
Python is distributed in source code and it sounds like Scala dependencies are distributed as JAR files. The compatibility problems when moving compilers are not entirely unexpected, I'd say.

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