rnentjes

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by rnentjes 3mo ago
Keats blamed Newton for taken the magic out of the rainbow with a prism. Personally I think the magic only got greater.
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by rnentjes 3mo ago
To be fair, the average person already doesn't know how to do simple arithmetic.
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by rnentjes 9mo ago
After reading all that (ok skimming), he does mention nullable types, but doesn't go into them at all. What's wrong with having the option of defining if something can be null or not? This is how I understand nullable types, don&#
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by rnentjes 10mo ago
I am using this mouse because of that, and it works for me: https://www.contourdesign.com/collection/contour-slidermouse
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by rnentjes 1y ago
Seem to me that whether or not people will be asked to "come out of retirement" will completely depend on how good the LLM's will be in 20 years. This seems to happen a lot in the discussions around LLM's. Some people di
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by rnentjes 2y ago
Diplomacy has been tried multiple times before, even with security guarantees from the usa. Still Putin invaded. There can not be lasting peace without actual guarantees (for which use is not even a trustworthy party anymore). Because Putin
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by rnentjes 2y ago
The PAL (Platform Abstraction Layer I assume) is just the stdlib that is provided. The stdlib is not the same for all platforms, as can be seen in the documentation. A regex implementation is provided for all platforms, but is not quite the
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by rnentjes 3y ago
I'll add my julia attempt that animates and works with webgl: http://julia.perses.games/
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by rnentjes 5y ago
This might be an example of what you are looking for: https://medium.com/@noclador/putins-plan-4652895de8ba
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by rnentjes 5y ago
Alternative way to count the vowels in Kotlin: val numVowels = countVowels(getDTO()?.string ?: "")
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by rnentjes 5y ago
I would like to see that number as well, I actually expect it to be a lot more than a million. Take 1000 times the clock rate, 4 cores, multiple instructions per clock instead of multiple clocks per instruction. Operations on 64 bits i.o 8
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by rnentjes 6y ago
It's saddening to see that wearing a mask to prevent infection from a virus is in any way political.
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by rnentjes 7y ago
> No one will ever suggest cutting the budget for this. This is not completely true, farmers have been protesting the increase of this tax: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/nieuws/nederland/artikel/4942211/we.
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by rnentjes 7y ago
Yes, the upside of one language should be that you don't have to write the same stuff multiple times. But if you don't want the downside of having one common denominator holding you back, then you have to write some parts specific
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by rnentjes 7y ago
There is nothing keeping them from not making some constructs not portable to certain platforms. Mostly they try to do this with standard language constructs (of course), but for example the 'dynamic' type is completely javascript
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by rnentjes 7y ago
Also the taxes are changing so everyone wants one before the end of the year. Q1 2020 wont be this good.
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by rnentjes 7y ago
This must mean nothing gets done right? Guess again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)... Netherlands is number 5.
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by rnentjes 7y ago
Last night a new version of the vera documentation was uploaded ( https://github.com/commanderx16/x16-docs/blob/master/vera-mo... ). It looks like the changes will allow for more memory, up to 1mb. Of whic
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by rnentjes 7y ago
So you're saying the climate is changing? But seriously, the article you link to is directly stating rising CO2 levels as one of the causes as CO2 is good for plants.
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by rnentjes 8y ago
As a hobby I have been working on an online tracker, you can fin dit here: https://www.music-tracker-online.com/tracker.html?song=XfK&p...
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by rnentjes 9y ago
With the 1.1.4 version they have added a dead code eliminator which really helps with the resulting javascript length. In the example above the resulting javascript file is 440 KB (zipped 113 KB). Which is not bad if you take into account t
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by rnentjes 9y ago
Actually the javascript target has been fully supported since version 1.1. For example here is a single page app written with kotlin: https://github.com/rnentjes/simple-password-manager
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by rnentjes 9y ago
A while back I was looking for an online password manager that you can host yourself (I don't trust my passwords with anyone else). I couldn't find one that matched my requirements so I build one myself: https://github.
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by rnentjes 9y ago
Actually I would argue that the only "morals proper" are those that one makes for themselves. Externally enforced behavior is not "morals".