ryanmk

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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   I've plugged this before, but this is something that has really, actually, worked for me: beeminder.com
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   Dude sounds like he's stuck in his own head.
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   I tried using locals, and there was no change to the time. Using a boolean return value for isPrime shaved off two seconds.
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   Thanks, using % did the trick.
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   I've placed my port here: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/ce176d7ab4f6b7b1ba91 If you see anything wrong with it, or odd, feel free to share. I'm still investigating what is happening to make the run so slo
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   It would be nice to see the numbers, in addition to the graph. I did a straight port of C to lua, and ran it with luajit. The C code ran in 49.901s. The luajit code ran in 14m16.547s. C code was compiled with -02 -std=c11 -lm (version 4.8.1
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   I use lua for most scripting. A big reason for this is that the entire lua environment is in lua.exe. This allows for me to distribute scripts easily without having to include a C++ installer with them.
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   by ryanmk 11y ago

   Love Ted Chiang!
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   by ryanmk 12y ago

   Isn't that called a "paycheck"?
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I agree with the parent. Upon encountering the page, my first feeling is that this is one of THOSE landing pages. Of course, I know this is just me bringing my biases to the thing, but that's the way it is.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I'd like to see what his take would be on a Groundhog's Day scenario.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    The website doesn't say what LTS haskell is. A curated set of packages? Of what?
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I use Beeminder.com to stay motivated. They have githun integration, which helps.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    Bandwagon hopping is a Good Thing. Furthermore, if you continue to bring something to the bandwagon, people will continue asking you to join them.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    You don't think they'll put humans on Mars within this century? Really? That's not a conservative statement. A conservative statement is, yea we'll probably get to Mars this century, but maybe not in the next 20 years
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I'm glad I read this article. I just started experimenting with javascript for web development, and I've encountered so many Named Swords.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I'm intrigued by your comment that being forced to do a lot with a little is powerful. Do you have any arguments or evidence for that you could point me to?
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    It sounds like he doesn't think the level of abstraction offered is high enough. If you are using an FPGA as a general purpose device, and not for prototyping, then a higher level of abstraction would be helpful. Otherwise, if you ar
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    I see Android as the future of the linux desktop.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    There's also GreenArrays GA144, which has 144 forth machines on a single microprocessor. http://www.greenarraychips.com/
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    So she just appeared in her current form out of nowhere with no causes and conditions?
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    See this study from Johns Hopkins: http://www.heffter.org/research-jhus.htm takeaway: Psilocybin may have a long-term anxiolytic effect.
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    by ryanmk 12y ago

    Can other computer-on-modules in a SODIMM package be used in the Compute Module IO Board they are developing? I've searched online, and I think the boards that the SODIMM modules are plugged-in to are called "base-boards" or