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by ufo 18d ago
What happened with the stackless python? Did they get rid of all the stackless stuff?
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by ufo 2mo ago
In fact, that's how Lua itself came to be. They started with a simple configuration language and added more and more features until at some point they decided to rip the bandaid and turn it into a proper programming language.
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by ufo 2mo ago
Just this past week, I have had to answer two surveys, from different sources, asking how I use AI in my work. Both had a "choose all that apply" checkbox, and, funnily enough, neither allowed me to select zero options. "This
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by ufo 2mo ago
In math, the utility lies in the proof itself. A novel proof of a hard problem usually comes with new insights and abstractions that help solve even more mathematical problems. To go with your analogy, mathematicians care more about the sou
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by ufo 2mo ago
The part in the beginning about Galois Connections is very worth learning. It has countless applications.
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by ufo 3mo ago
European banks offer the credit, but the payments infrastructure currently goes through US companies. The first step is to get those payment processors out of the picture. In Brazil, which is further along in the transition to digital cash,
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by ufo 3mo ago
Wouldn't help much. * Some kind of scans, like CT scans, use ionizing radiation and should not be done too often. * Looking at only imaging scans it is often impossible to tell apart a cancer and a benign growth. (More invasive tests
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by ufo 3mo ago
One important kind of seeded run are the daily challenges, where everyone gets the same seed once a day (like Wordle)
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by ufo 3mo ago
They want two players with the same seed to have a similar gameplay experience in terms of challenges encountered. For this reason they want to isolate the RNG that procedurally generates maps, card rewards, shop contents, from other RNG st
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by ufo 3mo ago
In the post, the ladybird maintainers say that they trust pull requests less than they used to, because many pull requests are authored by AI now. A big pull request no longer signals that the submitter put in a lot of work into it and it&#
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by ufo 5mo ago
The article has a section covering this. According to them, finding Haskell talent is not difficult, the bigger problem is onboarding them into the company coding style because Haskell developers come with strong opinions.
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by ufo 5mo ago
As you said, it's more like CPU stack frames. In a register VM all instructions can read and write to any position in the stack frame. In a stack VM, most instructions only read and write to the top but they are often combined with LOA
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by ufo 5mo ago
The author seems to complain about a lack of stack manip expressions like dup and rot, but at least for me that's what I would expect from an average programming language stack machine. Even Java, which does have those instructions, do
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by ufo 5mo ago
We do run the linter on CI as well, but I think our comitters would get faster feedback if they ran those checks locally.
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by ufo 5mo ago
I have always had this problem with hooks and new contributors: since hooks don't run by default if you just clone the repository, my open source projects get many PRs from new contributors that did not run the linting and commit hooks
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by ufo 5mo ago
It can also happen if the person has some disease that affects the liver, which in turns lowers how much of the drug they can take.
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by ufo 5mo ago
That EWD is one if my pet peeves. Dijkstra makes an unfair comparison because he lists plenty of examples where 0-based indexing is more convenient but ignores the equally numerous situations where 1-based is more convenient. For example, i
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by ufo 5mo ago
There's a little bit of far side on the right of the picture.
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by ufo 6mo ago
Tail call optimization optimizes the situations where the recursion doesn't actually need any stack space, but I think the parent poster is asking about situations that aren't tail recirsive.
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by ufo 6mo ago
It's indeed very mechanical and some programming languages can do it for you. I think you're mainly asking for heap-allocated stacks. Some languages always use the heap for stack frames instead of the native stack and can set the
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by ufo 6mo ago
Even if soaked, beans still take hours to cook without a pressure cooker.
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by ufo 6mo ago
Few students do optional assignments unfortunately. Other tasks that are directly worth a gradetend to take priority (e.g. studying for another class that has an exam this week).
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by ufo 6mo ago
Students are also people. If we're managing a software project, a single deadline at the end is sure to suffer from delays. It's better to split things into shorter deliverables with more frequent feedback.
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by ufo 6mo ago
Students are very grade-motivated and unfortunately they rarely do the homework assignments if they are not worth points. At-home coding projects, writing essays, etc also exercise different skiils than you can test for in a 2 hour written
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by ufo 7mo ago
J.K. Rowling is now infamous for using her vast wealth to lobby against transgender rights.
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by ufo 7mo ago
A microwave lifehack I recently learned: If you're gonna brown some onions, microwave them for a bit before tossing them into the pan. The first step of browning onions is just boiling away the water, which microwaves are great at. You
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by ufo 7mo ago
Indeed. The point I was trying to make is that an ad-hoc type inference scheme that works by recursively traversing the tree will probably be most similar to unidirectional or bidirectional type inference.
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by ufo 7mo ago
If your language is typed it's good to know at least a bit, so you can do the type inference properly; there are many ways to shoot yourself in the foot when it's ad-hoc. Bidirectional type inference is a type inference style wher
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by ufo 7mo ago
Considering that the primary source is South Korea's spy agency, I think it's worth taking this news with a grain of salt. When north and south korea release news about each other it is always hard to tell which parts are factual
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by ufo 7mo ago
Related to shadow stacks, I've had trouble convincing the C optimizer that no one else is aliasing my heap-allocated helper stacks. Supposedly there ought to be a way to tell it using restrict annotations, but those are quite fiddly: o

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