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Notes on structured concurrency, or: Go statement considered harmful (2018)

vorpus.org
2 points·by masfuerte·2 maanden geleden·1 comments

There Was a Time before Mathematica (2013)

writings.stephenwolfram.com
4 points·by masfuerte·4 maanden geleden·1 comments

£656m legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead

bbc.co.uk
3 points·by masfuerte·5 maanden geleden·0 comments

'Factory flaw' spurs toy horse to instant popularity

chinadaily.com.cn
2 points·by masfuerte·6 maanden geleden·0 comments

Mystery of the Quincunx's Missing Quincunx

blog.plover.com
4 points·by masfuerte·7 maanden geleden·0 comments

comments

masfuerte
·8 uur geleden·discuss
Holy slopfest Batman!
masfuerte
·gisteren·discuss
> Python uses floored division so the remainder has the sign of the divisor instead

Serious question, how is that a footgun? In decades of software development I have never needed a negative divisor for modulo. What would you use it for?
masfuerte
·gisteren·discuss
e.g. President Drumpf.
masfuerte
·gisteren·discuss
That should call it coccyx. That sounds like something Trump would support.
masfuerte
·eergisteren·discuss
This is risk scores for celebrities looking for free tickets. Does anyone really care?
masfuerte
·eergisteren·discuss
I'm old enough to remember Walkmans coming out in 1979, which was the start of the end of the boombox era. Approximately no-one was using 8-track at that point.
masfuerte
·4 dagen geleden·discuss
Fire!
masfuerte
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
Because the EU passed a law making it illegal and the temporary exemption recently expired.
masfuerte
·6 dagen geleden·discuss
Yes. These methods don't work reliably. Apply a blur and they still don't work reliably.
masfuerte
·11 dagen geleden·discuss
The American embassy considers them to have sufficient legitimacy to invite them.
masfuerte
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
> Shouldn't offending side reimburse the expenses?

In an ideal world. They might even be legally liable in this one. But you still have to sue them to get the money, which is an expensive gamble for a very small pay off.
masfuerte
·13 dagen geleden·discuss
Part two:

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20260626-00/?p=11...
masfuerte
·14 dagen geleden·discuss
Eh? We already tax them. The UK is not alone in having a digital services tax.
masfuerte
·23 dagen geleden·discuss
How many times have you been to a hospital and thought, I could have fixed that myself if only I'd known how? With no equipment. In my case, never.
masfuerte
·26 dagen geleden·discuss
There's one here:

https://phys.org/news/2026-06-global-mycorrhizal-fungi-revea...
masfuerte
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
I've been using otvdm (aka winevdm) and it is very good. It works like the original ntvdm did when running on non-x86 platforms. It emulates the processor and translates 16-bit api calls into 32-bit api calls so things work as you'd expect.

https://github.com/otya128/winevdm
masfuerte
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
Is this the same Paul Graham who says that founders need to be the kind of people who are prepared to break the rules? That is, cheat.
masfuerte
·27 dagen geleden·discuss
Same, and it is a shame. Reading it is wearisome.
masfuerte
·28 dagen geleden·discuss
No, because it's a trade secret. But you might not be in breach of copyright.
masfuerte
·29 dagen geleden·discuss
I suspect it's not possible (as an end user) to get a thinking trace from one of the models. But what happens with "thinking" is that the model has a conversation with itself in an attempt to home in on a better answer to the original prompt.

The "amount of thinking" is how long this internal conversation is allowed to progress. The longer it goes on the more it costs. It's all part of the token budget but, because this internal dialogue is hidden, it's not obvious to the end user.