michaelg7x

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Comment · 20 days ago
Be kind.
Comment · 11 months ago
This was my first thought as well.
Comment · 1 year ago
The newer parts aren't all that bad. It's taken a while for us to catch up with other cities with properly functioning trains, for example...
Comment · 1 year ago
You make deliberate and subtle errors so you can detect later plagiarism more easily.
Comment · 1 year ago
I wonder whether swimmers benefit from this, after all, they're breathing-constrained (if going at anything more than a comfortable pace).
Comment · 1 year ago
I use it on Linux and think it's great. My laptop has a screen with some crazy-high DPI and a monitor which doesn't. Changing the font sizes in settings to suit has never left me with a poorly rendered view.
Comment · 1 year ago
The Shockwave Rider is brilliant, and the savant hero reflected in many subsequent works. Neo, anyone?
Comment · 1 year ago
Amen. Even with those 5k word monsters it's brutally hard. Andreas Fertig's cpp-insights is really helpful, when is able to complete the coroutine transform.

FWIW, I think a useful addition would be for compilers to output the intermediate source code, so you can reason more easily about behaviour and debug into readable code.

Comment · 1 year ago
I don't find this surprising at all. Humans are tool-users, and valuing an object's utility and experiencing a feeling of something like loss when it's neglected or loses efficacy would seem to be an advantageous trait.
Comment · 1 year ago
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Comment · 1 year ago
It's entirely possible, have done it at few times. For example, the `fby` verb[?] annoyed me one too many times, so I pulled it apart to see what was going on. In contrast to json.k it's quite short. I usually split each separable idea into a new line and introduce a bunch of new variables to track state that would otherwise be passed from right to left. Lengthy end-of-line comments are my chosen way of understanding q or k when I come back to anything later.
Comment · 1 year ago
> I just don’t understand where they went wrong on curtailing free speech rights of their citizens, privacy rights, etc.

Security establishment's innate desire to read and listen to absolutely everything. Blair/Bush's war on terror. Id card proposals. Smart phone use sky rockets. Supposed E2E comms. Hate speech. Something must be done! Right wing policies on pretty much everything cause more protest. Tories criminalise (*some types of) protest. Labour government raises TCN to Apple.

Comment · 1 year ago
Surely any peacetime military contract in the US (or, perhaps anywhere) is just a signal to get snouts in the trough and start hoovering up the cash? While wartime begets its own kind of profiteer, my sense is that it could only be done when businesses put the national interest first.
Comment · 2 years ago
I've found that the challenge is to "think in vector operations" rather than of iterating over the same data. The tricky part is figuring out how to get an operator to do the right thing over an array of stuff on the left hand side and this list/bag/etc of arguments on the right
Comment · 2 years ago
I'm not sure if anyone's yet suggested that you embed your code as a library for KDB, that it could load dynamically? There's some pointer walking fun involved which Rust may _hate_ but it's not that hard and after that you'd be left with a the numerical arrays you're interested in.

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