pingucrimson

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by pingucrimson 7y ago
We used Z a lot when dealing with modular arithmetic and complex roots of unity, mostly just to quantify our variables. I can't recall ever using N or Q in high school, though. Also, you don't need to mention Dedekind cuts at al
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
I don't think so - I can't imagine Apple caring much about Hackintoshes, which are already a pain to install, when the main draws of Apple laptops are their trackpads and cases, and the tight integration between hardware and softw
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
Re representative democracies, why are opinions on disparate issues like the economy, abortion, climate change, etc. all packaged into one party? At least 99% of people won't find a party that agrees with them on every single issue, so
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
This. Subsampling is kind-of the most primitive method of "lossy compression" there is.
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
I assume you can't just do that since GitHub might offer to give donors regular activity updates.
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
Yeah, it's a shame the GitHub is starting to actually take advantage of their hosting monopoly, to the detriment of solutions like OpenCollective and Liberapay. On the other hand, Git is distributed. Can't you just use GitHub as a
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
> Maybe that is good. How is that good?
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
That's a good point, but it's not implied by "JavaScript is functional and oh boy!" at all.
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
What does "functional" mean to you? If "OO" has a hundred different meanings, then "functional" must have at least a thousand. To me, JavaScript is definitely not functional - it lacks a notion of purity, and i
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
That problem already exists with tables, doesn't it?
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
This is all standard HTML5.
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
You could try looking at what Fabrice Bellard (creator of QEMU and FFmpeg, among many other things) did for [JSLinux]( https://bellard.org/jslinux/ ). Edit: Although, it's a low-level emulation, not the insanely hig
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
Out of curiosity, why'd you decide not to use LLVM?
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by pingucrimson 7y ago
That is exactly the same way Haskell does "parametrized enumerants", and in C terms, str is like any pointer to a string, while String is like a heap-allocated string. What's "new" about any of this? C++ has the s