tailrecursion

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by tailrecursion 14d ago
One of the things I'm often curious about is how various BASIC interpreters organize memory for string storage. You'd think there's some way to reclaim memory after an expression involving intermediate strings is finished.
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by tailrecursion 1mo ago
Yes. I don't know Swift, but it appears that Swift's protocol and class are similar to Java's interface and implementation (class), and defining a protocol would be required in Swift in order to define a generic table.LOOKUP
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by tailrecursion 1mo ago
Smalltalk's been enormously influential and successful... There is however a better way of understanding objects. Namely, "objects" are [defined to be] processes, "messages" are asynchronous, and Smalltalk's
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by tailrecursion 2mo ago
Do the AI labs in the U.S. publish the AWS IP address sets that their crawlers use? Is that not an effective way to block those crawlers anymore?
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by tailrecursion 2mo ago
I'm starting to think that complaining about these kinds of practices isn't having an effect.
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by tailrecursion 10mo ago
I understand you about the implied contract. I think it's more complex than that. People were making videos before the promise of ad revenue, and they were better videos. If people go away who make videos for money - which will neve
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by tailrecursion 10mo ago
I'm not generating revenue for a lot of companies who are in the advertising business. That's not the definition of piracy. Find another word.
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by tailrecursion 10mo ago
I agree with this. There was no meeting of the minds, no contract. But, the terms in the Google account probably include something about the terms for viewing youtube videos.
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by tailrecursion 10mo ago
No, piracy is defined as stealing a vendor's exclusivity by making copies and putting them up on a web site. Ad blocking is not the same as making copies and distributing. You might as well argue that covering your ears during a TV ad
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
Judging by the response to the parent come back, evidently TSMC deserves the high prices it will be charging. Why? It's unrealistic to expect just anyone to start up a new fab. But if not one person among billions will start up a new
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
The story at the beginning proves that choosing your VP is significantly more important than choosing a PL.
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
> I was daunted by making the jump to C, then c++ and python. Only over time did I overcome the nerves and move on with Java, [...] It sounds as if you did skip C++ and moved to Java instead. If so you serendipedously avoided the one la
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
Let the team choose the language they're most familiar with or most happy with. Then if they choose the wrong one, get a different team.
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
> A new language / style / technology / whatever very often will leave us less competent. This may be a big factor in rejecting unfamiliar languages. Over time the brain trains itself to grok a specific syntax, and unders
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
I too appreciate detail-free programs, and I wonder at the value of including all the typedecls and pointer markings, and lifetime markings, and mutability markings interleaved with the logic. Some people I guess believe that the details a
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
> [...] show people posts from the people they follow or that the people they follow liked. Yes, this is a good system. It'll work particularly well at filtering spam because people largely agree what it is. One thing that will ha
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
Yes the symbols in a way are the letters of APL, and the phrases are the words.
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by tailrecursion 11mo ago
I never did any real programming in APL, but I studied it over about 2 months. When you get used to the symbols, reading spelled-out words feels like reading in slow motion, or being stuck in molasses. Most (not all) APL code I've see
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by tailrecursion 1y ago
I saw a video where a mechanic replaced a pack on his Model S with a 100Wh pack. There were some minor issues of fit, which he had all figured out. There was a connector change and some sheet steel around the edges that needed changing ou
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
If Google has failed so far to resolve mem safety issues in their decades old giant code base, then I'd rather hear standardization ideas from someone who succeeded. If G succeeded at resolving those issues, then that's a concret
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
The article in question is published on Google's blog. Has Google resolved memory safety issues in its C++ code base? Did G port their code base to Rust or some other memsafe language? What's preventing them from doing that by
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
I notice you don't make a definite claim that it wasn't stolen. You're annoyed by the fact others believe it was, based on what you feel is insufficient evidence, yes? But if you can prove it wasn't, I'm interested
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
> Because I'd much rather my grandma get a COVID vaccine than trying to find a source of Ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine. So the misinformation didn't affect your decision making. Instead, the misinformation you were exposed
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
I agree with the first part totally, and you're probably right I invented something there. I only meant that free speech / "more information helps" seems to resonate with the right, and censorship seems to resonate with
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
Those are all valid disadvantages of community notes, and free speech in general. How do you explain that there are smart people who have known about these very disadvantages for many years, and still respond positively to "the solutio
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
I take it that left wingers feel that "community notes" isn't effective or sufficient to combat right wing beliefs that are wrong? The people on the right seem satisfied for now that they can "combat misinformation with
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
One of the two echo chambers was bound to be correct in terms of vote counting.
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
> "specification of system behavior" sounds like a programming language to me. A systems programming language, even. Lamport has directly and repeatedly addressed the differences between what's desirable in a specification
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by tailrecursion 2y ago
This appears to be downvoted, but why? I'd like to see the counterargument that we need to put each executive, author, director, or artist through a purity test before we can appreciate or purchase their work. How about listing a few

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