Yep! There was a submariner-turned-astronaut that mentioned the smell was pretty similar, and also that submarine deployments can be described as "breathing recycled farts for six months." At least submarines have…
Iirc they've got a one-year timeout for updates, after which they'll make you sign in with a unifi web account in order to update. Deeply frustrating.
IMO this is a strong argument for proper threads over async: you can try and guess what will and won't block as an async framework dev, but you'll never fully match reality and you end up wasting resources when an…
Agreed. Vermont, Maine, Alaska and Hawaii all ban billboards, and they're all nicer to drive in as a result.
The docs could do a better job of spelling it out, but csexp's really do only represent "trees of bytestrings". They're not a particularly rich format. If you're looking for "transfer this lambda over the network"…
The "suffix" there is a docs mistake. if you look at the example csexp's on the page the lengths are prefixed. I think that the csexp's of this package are compatible with Rivest's format.
An EMT friend described her take as, you need empathy in order to help people, but you need to be able to switch it off because sometimes what you're about to do is going to hurt them. It's like any of our instinctual…
I think parent was talking about navigation more than surveillance, so VORs and similar. Between that and inertial navigation, there's plenty of other location sources if your GPS receiver does fail. Though if we're…
Municipalities don't have airspace regulations. That's all managed federally. Also the Alpha Electro is already legal to test. It's apparently registered as an Experimental aircraft in the US currently, which means it…
They suck. I've flown in a Cessna with a touchscreen transponder, and it was nearly impossible to enter the required four-number code in light turbulence. edit: That said, you could probably make a decent aviation…
The nature of commercial flying is such that actual incidents are pretty rare (150 or so a year recently[1]), and very very expensive. So taking the "data-driven" approach to pushing what's safe really isn't…
> As in nature the language that thrives is the fittest for its environment, not the most powerful. Now hold on. The most successful sprog of nature is humanity[citation needed] and we're a case study in the fact that…
wrt "darcs is slow": the darcs source repo is 59M and took 3:27 for me to clone. Git's repo is 117M and took 6:02 to clone. So per repo size they're pretty similar. Darcs has its issues, but under normal conditions it's…
Well, you could embed a machine-checked proof that instruction sequences of the targeted form will sometimes survive previous optimization passes and therefore the given optimization will always be contributing…
I think by "vacancies" they mean "vacant homes on the market", versus "vacant homes the owner is sitting on." A tax would encourage vacant homes to be put on the market.
Excuse you, that was General Ripper. As for fixing this: it will not be difficult, mein fuhrer!
Plus the closer you are to the equator, the less (very fuel-expensive) orbital correction you need to get to geostationary orbit. Being close to the Tropic of Cancer, Florida's pretty well-positioned in this respect.
Not necessarily. The Fortran standard allows for floating-point reordering that can produce value errors. All that's required is that the new system's compiler optimize differently than the last one; there isn't…
Bluespec's thing is that rules are atomic, so they won't ever (appear to) fire in parallel. This is in contrast to Verilog and friends where that isn't guaranteed. The nondeterminism comes in when two conflicting rules…
Practical Common Lisp is a very good introduction. It's very much targeted at competant non-academics.
What advantage does this site give over just pasting the data directly? The shortened URL aspect is gone, so the only "advantage" I can see is obfuscation. And if you want that you can base64 your text directly.
It's not even an issue in languages (C) that don't strongly type for performance reasons, or because you get closer hardware access as a result (though these count as features themselves). The problem is that in…
>love or hate it This move is bad precisely since a lot of web and native developers alike realize that Javascript is a terrible language, and rightly hate writing it. This move serves to alienate all those devs who…
Python is dynamically typed, but it is still strongly typed. It throws type errors consistently when you try to do things that don't make sense. Contrast with Javascript, where {} + {} is '[object Object][object…
I think that the language is not necessarily so disconnected from the design as you say. Language influences thought, and can thus have a large effect on how people solve problems (ex. When's the last time you used a…
Yep! There was a submariner-turned-astronaut that mentioned the smell was pretty similar, and also that submarine deployments can be described as "breathing recycled farts for six months." At least submarines have…
Iirc they've got a one-year timeout for updates, after which they'll make you sign in with a unifi web account in order to update. Deeply frustrating.
IMO this is a strong argument for proper threads over async: you can try and guess what will and won't block as an async framework dev, but you'll never fully match reality and you end up wasting resources when an…
Agreed. Vermont, Maine, Alaska and Hawaii all ban billboards, and they're all nicer to drive in as a result.
The docs could do a better job of spelling it out, but csexp's really do only represent "trees of bytestrings". They're not a particularly rich format. If you're looking for "transfer this lambda over the network"…
The "suffix" there is a docs mistake. if you look at the example csexp's on the page the lengths are prefixed. I think that the csexp's of this package are compatible with Rivest's format.
An EMT friend described her take as, you need empathy in order to help people, but you need to be able to switch it off because sometimes what you're about to do is going to hurt them. It's like any of our instinctual…
I think parent was talking about navigation more than surveillance, so VORs and similar. Between that and inertial navigation, there's plenty of other location sources if your GPS receiver does fail. Though if we're…
Municipalities don't have airspace regulations. That's all managed federally. Also the Alpha Electro is already legal to test. It's apparently registered as an Experimental aircraft in the US currently, which means it…
They suck. I've flown in a Cessna with a touchscreen transponder, and it was nearly impossible to enter the required four-number code in light turbulence. edit: That said, you could probably make a decent aviation…
The nature of commercial flying is such that actual incidents are pretty rare (150 or so a year recently[1]), and very very expensive. So taking the "data-driven" approach to pushing what's safe really isn't…
> As in nature the language that thrives is the fittest for its environment, not the most powerful. Now hold on. The most successful sprog of nature is humanity[citation needed] and we're a case study in the fact that…
wrt "darcs is slow": the darcs source repo is 59M and took 3:27 for me to clone. Git's repo is 117M and took 6:02 to clone. So per repo size they're pretty similar. Darcs has its issues, but under normal conditions it's…
Well, you could embed a machine-checked proof that instruction sequences of the targeted form will sometimes survive previous optimization passes and therefore the given optimization will always be contributing…
I think by "vacancies" they mean "vacant homes on the market", versus "vacant homes the owner is sitting on." A tax would encourage vacant homes to be put on the market.
Excuse you, that was General Ripper. As for fixing this: it will not be difficult, mein fuhrer!
Plus the closer you are to the equator, the less (very fuel-expensive) orbital correction you need to get to geostationary orbit. Being close to the Tropic of Cancer, Florida's pretty well-positioned in this respect.
Not necessarily. The Fortran standard allows for floating-point reordering that can produce value errors. All that's required is that the new system's compiler optimize differently than the last one; there isn't…
Bluespec's thing is that rules are atomic, so they won't ever (appear to) fire in parallel. This is in contrast to Verilog and friends where that isn't guaranteed. The nondeterminism comes in when two conflicting rules…
Practical Common Lisp is a very good introduction. It's very much targeted at competant non-academics.
What advantage does this site give over just pasting the data directly? The shortened URL aspect is gone, so the only "advantage" I can see is obfuscation. And if you want that you can base64 your text directly.
It's not even an issue in languages (C) that don't strongly type for performance reasons, or because you get closer hardware access as a result (though these count as features themselves). The problem is that in…
>love or hate it This move is bad precisely since a lot of web and native developers alike realize that Javascript is a terrible language, and rightly hate writing it. This move serves to alienate all those devs who…
Python is dynamically typed, but it is still strongly typed. It throws type errors consistently when you try to do things that don't make sense. Contrast with Javascript, where {} + {} is '[object Object][object…
I think that the language is not necessarily so disconnected from the design as you say. Language influences thought, and can thus have a large effect on how people solve problems (ex. When's the last time you used a…