chrisandchips

its cool that it still works across all locales (US, UK) for words spelt differently between countries.

E.G. searching “aluminum” still got both US and UK results, even though the later writes it “aluminium”.

And which of those implications bare importance on string templating?

Of course there are examples of situations where this heuristic doesn't apply, but that doesn't mean its a bad idea that we should totally disregard. This kind of thinking has plagued engineering fields for a long time; Don Norman talks about it in "The Design of Everyday Things". Engineering teams get mad when users don't use their products the "right way", when really they just won't admit to themselves that they've implemented bad design. Simpler, cleaner designs and use patterns tends to win as time goes on.

This movie is incredible. To many people, its lack of characters and a traditional storyline makes it alienating and boring, but there’s such a deep beauty embedded within that. There might not be a story, but there is a narrative that is clearly commenting about our relationship to nature, and in lacking those traditional elements of mainstream cinema it exposes us to a new way of thinking. We see life on earth taken at face value; the scenes are familiar to us but without any characters or words to ground and bias us. I’ve always felt that its as close as we can get to observing earth for the first time from a distant place. It forces us to detach from all the basic axioms that fuel our day to day experience, and in doing so makes an extremely salient point about our societies relationship with nature. Paired with the words « life out of balance », its hard to complete a viewing without a sense of dread that we’re doing a wildly bad job of taking care of our planet.

That's super interesting! I'd love get the names of some people working on that stuff.

> This is true in principle, but the reality is more complicated. When we say “NP-complete is hard” we’re talking about worst-case complexity, and the average-case complexity is often much more tractable. Many industry problems are “well-behaved” and modern SAT solvers can solve them quickly.

This is a really cool point, no one ever mentioned this to me when I learned about this stuff at university. I wonder though, is there data for this ? Are businesses willing to take the risk and how do they mitigate ?

I'm not sure how popular they are in the wild, but there are a lot of approximation algorithms as well for solving version of these problems that are almost-but-not-quite the same. I wonder if that's just what lots of real-world use cases actually need.

Wow, thank you for sharing that. Most of us don’t like to discus death and we do our absolute best to pretend like it will never happen. It really pains me to read this and I hope you and your partner find some peace.

I’ve reflected on this argument recently but I struggle to see the real logic behind it. Putin claims he wants Ukraine as a neutral zone between russia and NATO. He then proceeds to invade Ukraine … if successful, territory under his control (whether explicitly shown or not, he could instil a puppet government) will now border NATO countries. How does that provide him with any security ?

There are recipes and sticky situations where having a near instant heat switch is a real convenience, if not a real life saver. That said, if you've made it this far you probably aren't going to get much out of them. I love gas because I love cooking with a direct flame, but I think from an environmental perspective we're going to have to start making due without them

Even though I can see the value in what you’re saying and agree completely, I can’t help but feel like my attention span has been ruined by my casual internet usage.

I’ve been reading again, before I go to bed, and after months of picking back up the habbit I still only feel half as able to concentrate on novels as I was as a teenager.

I agree with OP - the language seems to re-represent the languages key words in ways that are natural for Spanish speakers to understand.

I think the value this will bring isn't very high. I personally believe that early programming has less to do with reading the code as natural language and more to do with understanding what the individual constructs achieve. This is purely anecdotal, but I taught programming to a few students in French and the presence of English never came up as a blocker.

Fun story : for the hell of it, I once tried to code an entire project with some friends in French exclusively (that is, mainly variable/method/class names etc). As much as I love my mother tongue, its not always very concise. The whole thing became super bloated. We ended up reverting back to English.