supergarfield

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by supergarfield 3mo ago
I agree that drivers should know not to reverse on a highway regardless of local signage. But in situations that could be ambiguous, I think this is a regional difference - the US, Australia, part of the rest of the Americas use lots of tex
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by supergarfield 3mo ago
If my coworker was part of a clone series of 100 million units, requesting a character sheet would be pretty reasonable
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by supergarfield 4mo ago
I really want to like QBE, but declaration blocks like this make it feel like 1970s Unix code more than a modern hackable piece of software: int t, x, r, rf, rt, nr; bits rs; Ins *i, *i1; Mem *m; Ref *ra[4]; I think
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by supergarfield 11mo ago
Carmack gives updating in a loop as the one exception: > You should strive to never reassign or update a variable outside of true iterative calculations in loops. If you want a completely immutable setup for this, you'd likely have
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by supergarfield 2y ago
> It's all fun and games until you realise you can't run a consumer economy without consumers. If the issue is that the AI can't code, then yes you shouldn't replace the programmers: not because they're good cons
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by supergarfield 2y ago
The French Wikipedia page doesn't talk about it, but the quoted text from the English Wikipedia page involving an iron bird (and not a bronze owl) is accurate. Here's the official report of finding it: https://cdn.shopi
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by supergarfield 2y ago
Huh, I was curious about how that was done, and it looks like it's a specialized Java to C++ converter: https://github.com/validator/htmlparser/blob/master/translat... . Looking at the source, it see
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by supergarfield 3y ago
Some laws are much easier to evade than others, and some laws have especially bad side effects when evaded. (A law about e.g. requiring a certain type of government certification before a large construction project can be undertaken, for in
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by supergarfield 4y ago
You can do high density without block housing! Many European cities are good examples of this. Paris, for instance, has very high density because it's packed with mid-rise (~7-8 floors) buildings[1]. Another good example is the section
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by supergarfield 5y ago
Aren't m/s the correct unit for wind speed? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_speed > Meters per second (m/s) is the SI unit for velocity and the unit recommended by the World Meteorological Organi
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by supergarfield 5y ago
What do you think the current text encoding footguns are? In a different direction, I don't know what your problem domain is/was, but in general when I'm dealing with UTF8, I don't need to convert back to bytes very ofte
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by supergarfield 5y ago
Letrec requires either laziness (which implies some sort of internal mutability, as thunks get replaced by values at some point), or "internal" mutability that may not be visible to the programmer (like in OCaml, where in a `let r
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by supergarfield 5y ago
I'm always interested in understanding animal neurology, especially in the context of trying to reach more general levels of AI. I find it interesting that modern ANNs perform near human level at some difficult tasks, and yet it seems
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by supergarfield 5y ago
visudo isn't a fork, it just locks the sudoers file against concurrent edits, runs whatever standard editor you want, waits for it to finish, and validate the new file before committing it to the real location. I can agree that process
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by supergarfield 5y ago
> This requires introducing a right-handed partner for each known (left-handed) neutrino, which some people don't like because right-handed particles don't partake in weak interactions, and weak interactions are the only (known
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Why Study War?(city-journal.org)
10 points by supergarfield 5y ago|8 comments
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by supergarfield 5y ago
Great graph! Another one I like is this one by Eric Levenez: https://www.levenez.com/unix/ . It's a little more detailed, as it includes specific releases and non-inheritance relationships, but it's only for U
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by supergarfield 5y ago
Not the OP---I agree they're very different, but there's a striking resemblance in how both countries think their political and intellectual culture is civilization's crowning achievement and the entire world should adopt it.
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Failed projects and a different approach: product discovery at Mindsay(medium.com)
2 points by supergarfield 5y ago|0 comments
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by supergarfield 5y ago
This might be somewhat subjective, as I don't know how you'd measure correlation between spoken and written, but French seems to have a much higher match between written and spoken language than English. Going from spelling to pro
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by supergarfield 6y ago
Thanks for the links! I wasn't aware of the PyMem_ layer above, the justification for that does sound bad. But Python runs a generational GC in addition to refcounting to catch cycles ( https://docs.python.org/3/lib
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by supergarfield 6y ago
> and Python still does AFAIK Don't you sort of have to do that if you're writing your own garbage collector, though? I guess for a simple collector you could maintain lists of allocated objects separately, but precisely cont
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by supergarfield 6y ago
> American SUVs built for Europe > they'll have that right-hand-drive that Postal workers love so much. Maybe you know, but the vast majority of Europe is right-hand-traffic, left-hand-drive like the US. AFAIK only the UK and Ire
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by supergarfield 6y ago
Really? I feel like having an opinion based on reasoning from first principles should make discussion easier, because you can try and challenge any element in that explicit chain of reasoning. On the other hand, if someone adheres to ideolo
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by supergarfield 6y ago
> The lack of .h files alone is a huge grievance for me That's an interesting point... Besides C and its derivatives, and OCaml, do other languages have separate definition files? It seems like newer languages, even statically typed
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by supergarfield 6y ago
Yes, that's exactly what I mean, I was replying to > One of the great things about Latex (or raw tex) is that you can simply type it into a buffer. and pointing out it also applies to HTML.
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by supergarfield 6y ago
Sure, but it's probably possible to design something better too, that would let users do more complex things without dying. Maybe you don't need it for your usage, but this seems a bit like a Blub problem[1]. Keep the same core de
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by supergarfield 6y ago
I think the grandparent is talking about a better WYGIWYG language, like HTML generally is. You can (and most people, at least on HN, probably do) edit HTML in a buffer. Edit: changed parent → grandparent
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by supergarfield 6y ago
Not OP, but I'm a bit against using cargo (or any other language-specific dependency manager) as a general purpose package manager. It forces me to periodically run updates on many different managers, it doesn't always interface a
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Rapid Evolution of Plastic-Degrading Enzymes Prevalent in the Global Ocean(biorxiv.org)
4 points by supergarfield 6y ago|0 comments

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