Yeah, I find that a lack of a GC means that I don't reach for these languages unless I have a reason to think I really need that level of performance, you lose too many conveniences, the perf gains are usually not worth…
> ... this virus does a fundamental change to the human brain such that humans never ever could even think of hurting other humans. I do believe this is possible for a virus to achieve, I just don't think it's possible…
There are multiple ways to read what the author said. I personally read it as urgency relative to other stages in the lifecycle, not other tasks you are balancing it against. So if you have five things you are slowly…
TIL that the duckdb REPL supports reading json files (https://duckdb.org/docs/current/data/json/overview). This might actually be useful the next time I need to investigate a massive json file (`jq` can only go so far).
Pareto frontiers are pretty commonly invoked to describe tradeoffs in computer science and have been for quite a while. I remember the term being used in one of my early algorithms courses to describe the tradeoff…
From the article title, I was hoping that the author would argue that software development could be modeled as one of these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_system_(computer_sc...
As someone who has been using D since about late 2024, I enjoy the following things about it: - It has a type system that catches most category errors, without having to think too much about types - It is quite easy to…
I wonder if there is a self consistent way to desire having your mind digitally uploaded into a computer, while detesting the idea of listening to the commands of the earring (and conditioning it to have all of my…
Obligatory https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
I'm asking this question purely out of curiosity, and not as a snark, is there any particular reason why you don't capitalise the beginnings of your sentences? It seems strange to go to the effort of capitalising STEM…
I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular.…
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Am I getting the math wrong here? Going from O(n) to O(log n) (with no change in constant factor) for a million items would be going from ~1000000c ops to ~20c ops, which would be a 50000x improvement?
Behold, I've brought you a compiler bug. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Gaussian Blur isn't the most efficient way of doing a frosted glass blur effect though. IIRC the current state of the art is the Dual Kawase blur, which is what KDE uses for its blurred transparency effect, I've never…
It's sites like this that make me extremely grateful for firefox's reader mode.
Yeah, I find that a lack of a GC means that I don't reach for these languages unless I have a reason to think I really need that level of performance, you lose too many conveniences, the perf gains are usually not worth…
> ... this virus does a fundamental change to the human brain such that humans never ever could even think of hurting other humans. I do believe this is possible for a virus to achieve, I just don't think it's possible…
There are multiple ways to read what the author said. I personally read it as urgency relative to other stages in the lifecycle, not other tasks you are balancing it against. So if you have five things you are slowly…
TIL that the duckdb REPL supports reading json files (https://duckdb.org/docs/current/data/json/overview). This might actually be useful the next time I need to investigate a massive json file (`jq` can only go so far).
Pareto frontiers are pretty commonly invoked to describe tradeoffs in computer science and have been for quite a while. I remember the term being used in one of my early algorithms courses to describe the tradeoff…
From the article title, I was hoping that the author would argue that software development could be modeled as one of these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_system_(computer_sc...
As someone who has been using D since about late 2024, I enjoy the following things about it: - It has a type system that catches most category errors, without having to think too much about types - It is quite easy to…
I wonder if there is a self consistent way to desire having your mind digitally uploaded into a computer, while detesting the idea of listening to the commands of the earring (and conditioning it to have all of my…
Obligatory https://doesmysiteneedhttps.com/
I'm asking this question purely out of curiosity, and not as a snark, is there any particular reason why you don't capitalise the beginnings of your sentences? It seems strange to go to the effort of capitalising STEM…
I find 3blue1brown to be a great resource to build up good intuition about math topics, his videos about calculus and linear algebra are wonderful in particular.…
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Am I getting the math wrong here? Going from O(n) to O(log n) (with no change in constant factor) for a million items would be going from ~1000000c ops to ~20c ops, which would be a 50000x improvement?
Behold, I've brought you a compiler bug. https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&editio...
Gaussian Blur isn't the most efficient way of doing a frosted glass blur effect though. IIRC the current state of the art is the Dual Kawase blur, which is what KDE uses for its blurred transparency effect, I've never…
It's sites like this that make me extremely grateful for firefox's reader mode.