tom_mellior

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by tom_mellior 5y ago
With HN recently devolving into a propaganda site for the lab leak conspiracy theory, recent UFO mania, and now long-debunked miracle cure truthers making a comeback, I guess this will be my last visit to this site. The chaff is just not wo
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Thanks for submitting this interesting issue. Out of interest, what system are you on, and did jq come from a package manager? If you build it from source, it should work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27362060
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
For whatever it's worth, on a somewhat-current Linux Mint, with the test from https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/1387 : System jq: $ jq --version jq-1.6 $ echo '{"number":2
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> I’ve long thought that a sensible constitutional guarantee would be the right to leave the country at any time. In totalitarian regimes, constitutions aren't worth the pixels they are printed on. Rights guaranteed by laws must be
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Since jq does something completely different from a browser, it would be reasonable for it to try harder in some respects. A tool that is supposed to pass certain data through unchanged... Should not change that data. Even if we can expec
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Every enterprise timesheet and expense system I've ever used was a slow, barely usable, confusing disaster. But I don't think that was because the VM failed to pre-allocate memory for some operations. Without the superlatives and
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> I believe, computer science is a branch of mathematics that deals with large but finite structures (so they need an algorithmic description). This is a strange claim since the entire field was founded upon the investigation of potentia
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Turing machines are arbitrary and rather unmathematical. Thus proving the point that a field that studies them cannot be considered a branch of mathematics.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> If I'm reading conference papers, why would I worry about whether one of them is the product of review collusion? Because the one you are reading may have crowded out a better one. Even if the current review system is essentially
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
"Diet = dental health" is bullshit. My partner was raised sugar-free and has horrible teeth with many cavities. So does their entire family. I was raised on a diet which included many forms of sweets, and I have never had a cavity
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
I hate to link to the Daily Mail, but this article actually has plan sketches for the movements that are accommodated in the plan: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8945619/Worlds-tran...
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Thanks, I also found https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/28/worlds-first-floating-sky-po... . So, unlike what some of the renderings suggest it's not an "infinity pool" but rather has high glass walls
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
https://www.embassygardens.com/sky-pool/ says this is "coming soon". It will be interesting to see how the actual thing will differ from the architects' renderings.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> I'm not certain whether they intend to allow users to upload their own content, or if UGC actually just means "build structures in game out of built-in assets". I suspect it's actually the latter. The Kickstarter (
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Newspapers have always had opinion sections.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> The key is to require some defined overlap of working hours. Sure, that's not what I'm disputing. > When someone has to wait until the next day to get a response to any blocking questions, work slows to a crawl. Blocking q
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Superstar engineer only works a couple hours per day? Replace the superstar with someone working "normal" hours but in a time zone offset by >= 5 hours to your own. You seem to be saying that cooperation with such people c
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Thinking about this more, we know that the author saw a hot "write" method in the profile for the fast run and doesn't have a profile for the slow run. The slow versions could be spending most of their time in a completely
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
By "the entire thing", do you mean an entire file, without knowing if all functions in it will be used? I'm just baffled because there are several posts here from V8 developers, and quotes from the FAQ, saying things of the f
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
If it's going to be a hodgepodge anyway due to user-generated content, wouldn't that be another argument for not trying too hard to develop their own integrated visual theme? (Not that I think that "user-generated" con
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> Here's the summary: [...] But running multi-process is heavy on the JVM as it has to load the virtual machine and JIT for every process start, special when the processes are short lived. This is a valid summary of some facts, but
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
We don't know that it's really I/O, as in "pushing some bytes to the system". All we know is that the author saw a hot method called "write" and stopped the analysis there. It might well be something like
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> default unreal 4 templates, art from asset packs I don't understand this criticism. Using existing asset packs seems sensible to me. It's a tiny team that seems to have more software engineering than graphic design experience
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> With a compiler (not jit), the whole bytecode would be further fully compiled to some C apis before being executed, making it effectively an "ahead of time" compilation. This hinges at least on the question of what you mean b
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Statements of the form "there is X on the Internet" are typically more convincing when accompanied by links.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> full-codegen was not a jit By what definition?
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
So it's Basic for 99% of the overall programming, with something like CSS or Android's layout engine thrown in to solve the remaining 1%, specifically laying things out on a screen? Maybe you forgot to link to a convincing example
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Where do I need to look for declarative examples? This: https://github.com/magicmouse/beads-examples/blob/master/Exa... looks like good old imperative Basic.
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
Cool, thank you for the quick fix!
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by tom_mellior 5y ago
> defective or damaged. Which is true of every type of charging cable or connector. Yes, that's my experience with USB-C as well. (Seriously, my Dell laptop and Dell dock connected by a Dell cable can't keep up a reliable conne

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