tomstuart

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by tomstuart 2mo ago
At the risk of straying into forbidden metacommentary: look, I understand (and also feel) the temptation to have a go at Stephen Wolfram every time he posts something wacky, but… he’s just a guy with a fun hobby, isn’t he? Sure it’s all a b
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by tomstuart 4mo ago
Among a strong field, this is the single most depressing comment I’ve ever read on Hacker News. Several grim components but it’s the “I don’t understand why” which seals the deal.
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by tomstuart 4mo ago
The game’s difficult to understand so it’s too punitive to not offer even a single practice/example puzzle to use for learning. One puzzle a day is nice once you’ve got the hang of it, but it’s discouraging to “waste” today’s puzzle on
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by tomstuart 6mo ago
I had to look this up: https://doi.org/10.7155/jgaa.00370
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by tomstuart 11mo ago
Congratulations on the new adventure, Steve, and good luck!
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by tomstuart 11mo ago
What do you mean by “Pagemorphs”? A quick Google search suggests you’re the only person using this term so it’s hard to know what you’re recommending. I think it must mean e.g. https://turbo.hotwired.dev/handbook/page_r
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by tomstuart 1y ago
Do you want another person (or yourself in the future) to be able to read your commits, in order, to get a clear account of what changed & why? If so, you should fix up those commits to address mistakes. If not, it doesn’t matter.
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by tomstuart 2y ago
https://www.hyrumslaw.com/
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by tomstuart 2y ago
Yes, it is.
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by tomstuart 2y ago
This sounds intuitively true, but it’s a (very persistent) myth: https://www.viget.com/articles/just-use-double-quoted-ruby-s...
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by tomstuart 2y ago
The branding is incredibly confusing, but: Hotwire ( https://hotwired.dev/ ) is a set of ideas about how to build dynamic web UI (“HTML over the wire”), and the Turbo, Stimulus and Native frameworks are complementary implemen
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by tomstuart 2y ago
Rails’ nightly CI already needed a fix: https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/52937
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Switch Ruby's default parser from parse.y to Prism(github.com)
5 points by tomstuart 2y ago|3 comments
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Switch Ruby's default parser from parse.y to Prism(github.com)
3 points by tomstuart 2y ago|0 comments
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by tomstuart 2y ago
Here’s the PR. I don’t know whether it was discussed elsewhere. https://github.com/ruby/rdoc/pull/1157
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by tomstuart 2y ago
That’s the joke.
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by tomstuart 2y ago
I’m pretty sure you’re talking to an LLM.
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by tomstuart 2y ago
Definitive reference: https://www.urbanautomaton.com/blog/2015/08/10/the-pledge-to...
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by tomstuart 2y ago
I did read your comment but I don’t really understand what you mean by “the memory system”. A linear bounded automaton is by definition a finite state machine for a given input (i.e. fixed tape size) because the number of possible configura
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by tomstuart 2y ago
Real-world computers are equivalent to linear bounded automata, not true Turing machines, because they have finite memory. This technicality is mostly ignored because a computer with a large finite memory is a decent enough approximation to
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by tomstuart 3y ago
Mike Dalessio, the maintainer of Nokogiri, gave an excellent talk about this at Rails World 2023: https://youtu.be/USPLEASZ0Dc?t=939
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by tomstuart 3y ago
You’re taking the use of the word “state” too literally. The original comment was complaining about how Ruby `require` adds names (constants) to a global namespace ; Python `import` only binds names in the local scope.
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by tomstuart 3y ago
You might be interested in Chris Salzberg’s Im [0], already usable on Ruby 3.2, or the discussion about the speculative “namespace on read” feature [1]. [0] https://github.com/shioyama/im [1] https://bugs.ru
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by tomstuart 3y ago
The target audience for this hack are people who carefully weigh their beans (and then put them into the empty hopper for grinding) each time they make coffee.
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by tomstuart 3y ago
I wouldn’t defend the idea that it’s “clear”, but the idea is to build a machine that combines the axioms of ZF set theory in all possible ways to generate all possible conclusions, checking each one for contradiction as it goes. If it neve
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by tomstuart 3y ago
It’s a student project, so the primary intent is to do the work necessary to graduate.
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by tomstuart 3y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/#tou
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by tomstuart 3y ago
Phew, thanks!
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by tomstuart 3y ago
What is going on with this comment? It was clearly made a couple of days ago, and Simon’s reply was also posted a couple of days ago, and yet they’re both appearing on an article posted in the last day, and (on that post) showing as being a
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by tomstuart 3y ago
This “podcast” is a radio show which was broadcast on July 2nd: https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/co...

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