reginaldo
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Comment · 2 years ago
My advice would be to read Piumarta's "Optimizing direct threaded code by selective inlining" paper [1] first, and then read the references from the wikipedia article [2].
If the piumarta paper is still over your head, take a look at its references, but they will refer to Java, SmallTalk and Forth which might be a distraction.
[1] https://groups.csail.mit.edu/pag/OLD/parg/piumarta98optimizi... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-patch
Comment · 2 years ago
I wonder if anyone tried this in Android, which also has a logo partition. Maybe not the flagship phones, but if I were to guess, I'd guess the TV sticks and other Android streaming devices might have similar issues.
Comment · 2 years ago
You nailed it. This is so vendors can rebrand without having to rebuild and re-sign.
Comment · 2 years ago
And Clojure has "Simple made easy" [1]
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxdOUGdseq4 -> on of Rich Hickey's best talks
Comment · 3 years ago
The Panama canal saves about 8000 miles, which about 2 weeks time at 20 knots, plus fuel and crew, insurance, etc. That comes to $285k per day. Depending on the wait time (I've seen 20 days wait time in the past), that might be a rational decision even without considering late penalties.
Comment · 3 years ago
I skimmed your substack, and it seems to me that you would like SICP. Give it a try.
Comment · 3 years ago
For the initiated, this is SICP[1] Exercise 1.19. That exercise walks you through a proof without explicitly using linear algebra. I remember having a blast solving this back in the day.
[1] https://web.mit.edu/6.001/6.037/sicp.pdf => page 61
Comment · 3 years ago
Also interested in the answer, and I thought a bit about this and have a hypothesis that DNA does not encode everything, instead it depends on implicit assumptions about the environment.
To give an example, gravity is likely not encoded in the DNA, but instead, there are many encoded behaviors that would make sense only on an environment where gravity is present. The same for the presence of predators, wind, solar radiation, etc., i.e. many of the things that we take for granted.
That's how you would get more than 750MB of behavior on 750MB of DNA data [1]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome#Information_conte...
Comment · 3 years ago
I did it on 2.5 million domains from the various top 1 million lists and here are the ones with over 10 thousand matches:
11308 include
12284 stripe-verification
13377 cisco-ci-domain-verification
15123 zoho-verification
15621 knowbe4-site-verification
18764 Sendinblue-code
19472 amazonses
21264 adobe-idp-site-verification
23791 klaviyo-site-verification
24156 docusign
27694 yandex-verification
34068 globalsign-domain-verification
55512 atlassian-domain-verification
65353 apple-domain-verification
70535 _globalsign-domain-verification
74467
155337 facebook-domain-verification
400513 MSComment · 3 years ago
Multiple people intuitively pointed out that the OP is actually quite wrong. The shocking fact, to me at least, is how far this goes: all of humanity share a single male ancestor [1] (and no, it was not the first man to ever live), and a single female ancestor [2], who likely lived thousands of years apart.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-chromosomal_Adam [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial_Eve
PS: see also references fromthe linked wikipedia pages
Comment · 3 years ago
Try the awesome numberphile video "EVERY baby is a ROYAL baby"
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm0hOex4psA
Comment · 3 years ago
I hear GNU Hurd will hit 1.0 any day now[1] :) /s
Comment · 3 years ago
Quote them some Henry David Thoreau[1]: "Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. As for work, we haven't any of any consequence."
[1] From Walden: read at https://www.gutenberg.org/files/205/205-h/205-h.htm
Comment · 3 years ago
So years ago there was a corruption scandal in Brazil, where gambling is illegal. A guy named Carlinhos Cachoeira[1] found that fact a great opportunity and built a gambling empire, which involved financing corrupt politicians so that they would vote according to his interests. Among those on the payroll was a senator, Demóstenes Torres. Well, one day an audio of a conversation between Demóstenes and Carlinhos leaks. It went something like that:
Carlinhos: so I want you do vote in favor of [law X, which toughened restrictions on the kind of gambling Carlinhos promoted]
Demóstenes (naively): but, professor, that will make things harder for you, won't it?
Carlinhos: oh, don't worry, it's not going to be used against me.
Comment · 3 years ago
Both the article and your "gift as a burden" remark reminded me of Walden:
"I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and I threw them out the window in disgust."
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