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They are talking past each other. One is saying, "metric is better than imperial", the other is saying "imperial works". Neither claim is relevant to the other.
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Interesting. How do you avoid users misusing such a tool? How do users know you won't misuse the tool against users? On a technical note, do you rotate IP's on each request, even for sub-resources of the same page?
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I suppose my point is that the readers who will wonder about this are a) very likely to know about complexity classes already, or b)capable of learning about it themselves. Perhaps a simple link to something like https://complexi
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Be generous - it saves a lot of time. Once you say "polynomial" readers will think, "like, ANY polynomial, even like n^100?!" and you'll have to explain, yes, but that's STILL better than exponential, etc. They
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by simpaticoder 1y ago
It would seem that Pixar's Wall-E took more than a little inspiration from The Machine Stops. The ending of the original is better, since it acknowledges the universality of decay. The ship in Wall-E, the Axiom (the rough analog to The
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>this Chrome graph with 140k nodes would also be too much I've heard the rule of thumb from Tufte is that a visualization cannot have more than 1000 elements and still be useful. However, I'm not sure he said that and I canno
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Really cool, but has anyone built software to do this locally on a PC? For example: sudo tcpdump -i "eth0" -w - -U | aplay -f S16_LE -r 44100
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If the trend continues a program will look like "JavaFactory("<prompt>").compile().run();".
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This has the flavor of a post written by a programmer who got a particularly interesting interview question. They continued working on it when they got home. Hey, it's happened to the best of us (I was once asked to write "tic tac
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Mise is pretty new, and it's userbase is tiny (afaik), so the overlap with it and anything is tiny. But I've enjoyed it as a replacement for ruby/node/java/python version managers, and I think it's a solid, tho
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You might want to consider writing a plugin for R with Mise en Place https://mise.jdx.dev/core-tools.html This would extend your reach and might take some of the heavy lifting out of the project. (At least for the runtime p
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>Sabine has the most nihilistic view of the field "The field" in her case is "particle physics". And she's been making a very good case against the non-science being done in that field. Unfortunately, like phys
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This is very good news. Especially in light of recent attention given to the possibility of CPU shortages. Lots of programming tasks can be done comfortably on a smartphone. For example, no build front end programming. The description &quot
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OOM off by one OOM is 10^10, so its a factor of 10 billion.
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I imagine that a really useful piece of information is where the QR code was spotted. So that means treating the photo of the QR code and its exif data as part of the puzzle. No doubt some URLs are more common in some parts of the world tha
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Listening to Cryptonomican 20 years after reading it. It is a curious embodiment of this "cult" but from a deeper, more epistemic place. The way Steaphenson treats the world, the way he describes it, is frenetic, packed with trivi
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There is a sense in which wilful ignorance IS malicious. Whether the fruits of that ignorance are therefore malicious is another question. I'm not a lawyer, but I know that they make a clear distinction between intent and ignorance. Th
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I've paid attention, and I don't think his goal is to "destroy the USA". His goal is self-enrichment, and side-effects don't matter. He is a master at promising the world, and then deflecting blame when he doesn&#x2
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There have been several bottlenecks, the worst one was pre-homosapien (~1000 individuals for 100k years): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_bottleneck . It is remarkable to imagine that every person alive now, or
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What if the valid input for quantity must be greater than 0? A reasonable constraint, I think. The OP's example is contrived to line up with Rust's built-in types, and ignores the general problem.
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I don't get it. Isn't this a runtime problem and not a compile-time problem? buy() or sell() is going to be called with dynamic parameters at runtime, in general. That is, calls with concrete values are NOT going to be hard-coded
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Interesting. "Animation" seems to cover a lot of ground, like "programming". They seem to fit into "artistic" animation, designed to be looked at, and interactive animation, and in this list mainly for UI compo
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I'm not so sure about the author's thesis. One quote alone explains it, "it increasingly appears that humanity is a biological bootloader for digital superintelligence." If indeed Musk believes this, then his actions now
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There is one way to pay rent which requires no RAM or CPU cycles: write a check, and mail it. In my experience, most payees accept the date a check is mailed as the date of payment. (There may be exceptions to this, and I'm not sure wh
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But shipping is in service of curiosity, though! There is nothing more fascinating than watching your work come into contact with real users. They will find error modes and use-cases you never imagined. If you code for fun and no-one ever s
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>web dev/gradle/java knowledge to build something like this Web dev (and not just in java) is dominated by "component integration" concerns, containing lots of structure but little content. Computation is delegated
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Strictly speaking, a philosophy can't turn away from values. A person can, but philosophy itself is, to a first order approximation, an immutable bundle of values. Of course this naive view quickly falls apart when interpretation comes
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>Things don't deserve loyalty. Your company is a "thing". A country is a thing and loyalty to it is called "patriotism". A sports-team or TV show or band is a thing, loyalty to it is called "fandom".
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I can say "Gee whiz $335M per F-22 seems a bit much!" without being an expert in jets, military equipment, or going into the details of its production. I know a bit more about software so I can safely say something similar about M
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I almost edited my comment to anticipate this comment. It is not large compared to the budget. Nothing is. It's large in absolute terms. $50M is a lot of spend compared to most businesses with a similar scope. The product is a database

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