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by quuxplusone 5d ago
Highly recommend on this subject John DeFrancis' "The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy" (1984)! https://archive.org/details/chineselanguagef0000defr/
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by quuxplusone 11d ago
I dunno, I've never done what TFA suggests, but it makes sense to me. The idea isn't that your new foo.go file would be ignored by default; it's that your Go project's repo's .gitignore file would start with * and t
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by quuxplusone 13d ago
What is this AI-generated gobbledygook actually trying to say? That there are infinitely many pairs of primes p,q with q=p+186? The first equation under "The result" seems to be saying they found an infinite sequence of primes who
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by quuxplusone 14d ago
The problem is that "predictable reliable NRVO" is still a research problem. Real-world compilers do NRVO a lot but not in a way that is perfectly predictable — that is to say, not in a way that could be standardized across al
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by quuxplusone 14d ago
Yeah, the second one is supposed to read `Apple&& Cat(Apple&& val) { return val; }` — but the return type's `&&` was omitted by accident.
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by quuxplusone 16d ago
Douglas Hofstadter, Le Ton beau de Marot (1997), pages xviii–xix: > Because I have always had a very clear sense of how thing should look on a page, I dearly wanted to be able to control every tiny detail of my book's overall look
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by quuxplusone 17d ago
Yes. This is what one wants, since if you have recently rebased it, you're clearly doing work with it. Meanwhile, branches you don't care to touch sink to the bottom of the list.
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by quuxplusone 19d ago
> One speculative interpretation treats these numbers as a distorted memory of prehistory. Under this hypothesis, the reign boundaries encode real climate shifts... "One theory" implies that someone somewhere has ever claimed t
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by quuxplusone 19d ago
Because English. If you're writing a data file and one row of data elements is like "one, red, 3.14, Tuesday," why wouldn't you write exactly that in your ASCII text file? And when you do, that's CSV!
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by quuxplusone 19d ago
https://archive.is/mRt9A
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by quuxplusone 19d ago
And that book is (naturally enough) borrowable on archive.org. :) https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse/page/n2...
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by quuxplusone 21d ago
I was thinking that "I come alive with 0 neighbors" wouldn't make a sensible rule: it's not reasonable to have the whole universe strobing on and off every clock tick. But "I stay alive with 0 neighbors" probab
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by quuxplusone 21d ago
Cleopatra was a contemporary of Julius Caesar, and played a major role in his biography. (Which is why Plutarch wrote about her, which is why Shakespeare wrote about her, which is why 20th Century Fox made the film about her.) Julius Caesar
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by quuxplusone 23d ago
And that book is (naturally enough) borrowable on archive.org. :) https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse/page/n2...
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by quuxplusone 24d ago
I'm sure a clever enough craftsman (not me) could do that, and even avoid the global clock. Each cell could send a "clock tick" to its neighbors whenever it updates its own state, and gradually adjust its tick interval toward
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by quuxplusone 28d ago
+1. Tom Di Mino hasn't posted anything on https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7471395... since June, nor has Stephen Kosloff posted anything more on https://aiclambake.com/cla
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by quuxplusone 29d ago
TFA includes a link to an archive of John Carmack's .plan updates, 1996–2010: https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive/tree/mast... (1) Looks like great reading. (2) Who compiled the archive, a
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by quuxplusone 1mo ago
That has a lot more to do with whether the cave started out containing anything "more complex than insects." 5 million years isn't, like, an evolve-monkeys-from-scratch number of years. It's arguably an evolve-humans-fro
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by quuxplusone 1mo ago
Oops! Should be fixed now.
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by quuxplusone 1mo ago
(Author here.) Oops! and thank you. Should be fixed now. Happily I used SVG for those images, or it'd have been harder. :)
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by quuxplusone 1mo ago
The submission is AI slop.
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by quuxplusone 1mo ago
Hm, but I think he's right. The problem comes when you try to break down the authority portion into host and port; TFA's parser treats the first colon as introducing the port, which is wrong. https://github.com/bka
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The 11 Types of Washington, DC, Metro Station Architecture (2018)(ggwash.org)
62 points by quuxplusone 1mo ago|21 comments
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
... which started with "Night of the Living Dead"... :)
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RFC/The future of Abstract Wikipedia(meta.wikimedia.org)
2 points by quuxplusone 2mo ago|1 comments
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
> to use the square root character (√) as a checkmark ([filtered out]) IMHO that's an old-school-ism: I've never seen that in the post-Unicode world, but I recall its being common in the days of PC-compatibles, when square ro
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
> it doesn't make sense to spend hours papering over a legal agreement with someone who wants to sell seven copies of a book at an anarchist book-fair Huh, you're right. That's not at all a correct use of the phrase "
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
Indeed, > (A writer to the Montgomery (Alabama) Advertiser of 1903-10-24 points out that you can get the apparently-most-common wrong answer if you read the puzzle incorrectly as “She was twice as old as Ann was when Mary [sic] was as
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
> Dozens of people declare solemnly that Mary and Ann are twins, though the slightest attempt to "prove" this shows it does not fulfil the conditions of the problem. [...] "About Mary and Ann, I think they are eight years
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by quuxplusone 2mo ago
Not the Flynn effect; just people having fun, and selection bias. I (the blogger) deliberately left out many boring responses, except for linking to the Evening World's letters page of 1903-11-11.[1] I filtered out scores of replies fr

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