patrec

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by patrec 2mo ago
> Dependencies on the body of a runtime function are impossible (at least in the simplified view I’m presenting here) How does this work given that e.g. a constant can be computed by a comptime function?
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by patrec 2mo ago
Sounds interesting, have you put it online somewhere?
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by patrec 2mo ago
https://www.tamaspapp.eu/post/common-lisp-to-julia/
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by patrec 4mo ago
The policies I mentioned (just as nepo-baby Mamdani's programs to abolish programs for gifted children) have, of course, precisely and deliberately the effect of cementing an existing parasitic elite and screwing over talented and hard
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by patrec 4mo ago
And of course the reason that there is a lot VC capital in Europe has absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you'd be crazy to do a startup in e.g. Denmark (because doing so will likely be personally ruinous even in the unlikely c
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by patrec 6mo ago
What do you mean by this?
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by patrec 6mo ago
Is there some more concise and ideally written summary of Thiel's lectures? One that doesn't require sitting through 3h of video? I've only got some superficial acquaintance with Thiel's ideas, but he's been objecti
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by patrec 1y ago
And using Google Firefox instead of Google Chrome is more than a temporary bag aid?
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by patrec 1y ago
Nordic countries have essentially exactly the same 1/3 two year recidivism rate as the US, the one exception being Norway at 1/5, and mostly not for rehabilitation policy reasons. https://inquisitivebird.xyz/p&#x2F
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by patrec 1y ago
Thanks! > they are better for most use cases of string templating where what you really want, is just a string. I think use cases where you want to unconditionally bash a string together are rare. I'd bet that in > 80% of cases t
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by patrec 1y ago
The problem with f-strings is that they make an extremely limited use case convenient (bashing unstructured text) and thus people people invariably use them for the less limited use case for which no such covenient mechanism exists. Constru
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by patrec 1y ago
My memory is that ES6's template strings preceded f-strings. If that is correct, do you happen to know why python was saddled with f-strings, which seem like an obviously inferior design, in the first place? We are now at five largely
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by patrec 2y ago
Great point – I should definitely have mentioned Julia as your best bet for playing around with multi-methods. I think it's basically the only language with any eco-system to speak of that has them. Julia also happens to be the only ex
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by patrec 2y ago
Dylan is simply a historical curio, so there are no situations in which anyone should use it apart to study programming language history and to take inspiration from roads not taken. It's basically Common Lisp, with Algol-like syntax,
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by patrec 2y ago
When you are prepared to die in a plane crash because of your decrepitude, how much risk to others is entailed in a case like this? If the plausible answer is “not that much” I am with you. But nonagenarian self-actualization at the cost of
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by patrec 3y ago
Personally, I think the butterfly keyboard is great. Assuming, of course, that you got one that does not suffer mechanical reliability issues. This opinion is hardly universal but seems to be shared by quite a few good typists. I'm typ
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by patrec 3y ago
> he's basically saying Sam is the best in the world at being a ruthless mofo in these situations and obliterating those who oppose him Exactly, it's not all that subtle, so I find it hard to even come up with an alternative in
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by patrec 3y ago
> I thought (and could be wrong) that all of these concerns are based on a very low probability of a very bad outcome. Among knowledgeable people who have concerns in the first place, I'd say giving the probability of a very bad out
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by patrec 3y ago
What is bewildering is that you expect that the world has turn around in the blink of an eye to humor the Japanese, who are now suddenly having second thoughts after telling everyone else to use Firstname Lastname for Japanese names in an i
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by patrec 3y ago
Unless there is a quoted comma or an empty column beforehand (nl “helpfully” skips empty lines for numbering purposes).
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by patrec 3y ago
I don't doubt you, but maybe your usage was never much memory constrained on either macOS or linux? What sort of software are you running? For what it's worth, I've got an even lower spec machine (4GiB), which works fine for
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by patrec 3y ago
Of course -- thanks!
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by patrec 3y ago
Apple's computers appear to have working memory management, whilst Linux doesn't. Anecdotally, an old 8GiB intel mac feels fine, an enormously more powerful 16 GiB linux laptop with Gnome is basically unusable (but runs great once
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by patrec 3y ago
Are you using cloudflare's DNS? https://jarv.is/notes/cloudflare-dns-archive-is-blocked/
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by patrec 3y ago
Of course it changes much. AIs can synthesize information in increasingly non-trivial ways. In particular: > If a language model spits something out it was already available and indexable on the internet, Is patently false.
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by patrec 3y ago
Why would it need overflow checks when subtracting two valid pointers?
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by patrec 3y ago
Isn't the only reason you might run into this with floating point but not with fixed point for the same task that you basically "waste" 10 bits or so on range which you could instead have used on precision (assuming all quant
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by patrec 3y ago
Updating your custom registry with new upstream dep versions after testing in CI with the all services you care about is fine. But the OP seems to just blindly pull the newest wordpress images from upstream or am I missing something? How is
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by patrec 3y ago
Plastic consumption only consists of lots of equally important tiny things like Netflix DVD subscriptions if you unable or unwilling to do basic arithmetic (i.e. are innumerate). In reality of course there are a few big things that matter,
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by patrec 3y ago
> Great Netflix is shutting down the business that produces so much unneeded plastic. I'm baffled to see such an innumerate take on HackerNews of all places. Yearly US per capita plastic consumption is a few hundred kg. How much do

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