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Somehow, I expected Deng Xiaoping to be number 1, pulling a billion people out of poverty. Then I read the methodology used.

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> Rust is equally bad at compile times

OCaml enters the room...

toolslive

8 дней назадdiscuss

3e+6 ?

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9 дней назадdiscuss

I always put my locale in Ireland: I want

  - "proper English"
  - metric system
  - Euro

It's amazing how many web applications give me a broken experience because of it.

toolslive

11 дней назадdiscuss

it's not that different compared to using the FFI.

The link below shows how it can work for Ocaml <-> TypeScript.

https://github.com/ocsigen/ts2ocaml

toolslive

11 дней назадdiscuss

You don't have to use TypeScript if you don't want to: you can compile Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, F#, ... to javascript. This is quite efficient, especially if your backend is already in one of those languages. It saves you from creating the same abstraction twice in different languages.

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11 дней назадdiscuss

For a bit of context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Metzitzah

"In three medical papers done in Israel, Canada, and the US, oral suction following circumcision was suggested as a cause in 11 cases of neonatal herpes " lovely.

toolslive

12 дней назадdiscuss

While the IEEE 754 standard ensures that individual basic operations are deterministic and strictly bounded, it does not guarantee that an entire program will yield bit-identical results on all CPUs.

CPUs and their execution environments introduce subtle hardware variations, architecture choices, and compiler optimizations that break bit-level consistency.

(same for GPU/TPU, ...)

toolslive

12 дней назадdiscuss

It's probably due to the fact that it's a cloud service. You have no guarantee that your next request will go to the same machine. So even with an identical seed, and temp 0 you might get different hardware and hence different accuracy/noise in the floating point operations.

toolslive

15 дней назадdiscuss

I have the 2012 print edition too and fully concur with the assessment. The best book about garbage collection at the time (and maybe still?)

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20 дней назадdiscuss

You will probably claim it's not "real" perfect pitch, but many people use their tinnitus to help them. They identified their ring as having, for example, F#, and suddenly their relative pitch became absolute.

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

They (Black Sabbath) were booked as a blues band by Jazz Bilzen in 1970. People just didn't know where to bucket sort them at the time.

toolslive

2 месяца назадdiscuss

really nice! For the inclined, there's also

https://www.metal-archives.com/

toolslive

2 месяца назадdiscuss

> *

I wondered about this too. Also, why was it framed in the context of JSON based RPC over HTTP ?

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2 месяца назадdiscuss

I come from the same lineage as the author. I did 6502 (doing C64 demos) long before I encountered the Z80. From what I remember, the Z80 offers a vastly superior programming experience. It has more registers. it has 16 bit registers. It has a shadow register set (you can switch between sets, which is handy for interrupt routines, for example) Programming assembly on the Z80 just is less of a fight.

toolslive

3 месяца назадdiscuss

maybe add: "the universe is winning" (in the design department). Full quote: "software engineers try to build "idiot-proof" systems, while the universe creates "bigger and better idiots" to break them. So far, the universe is winning"

toolslive

3 месяца назадdiscuss

ha! I found an online simulator. Just try to do a

    10 print "hello world!"

to get a feel for it.

https://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html

toolslive

3 месяца назадdiscuss

> This is what most programmers do. They type raw text into the editor; the compiler either processes it into structured data, or returns an error the programmer has to internalise before resubmitting.

In the 1980s structural editors were quite popular (fe the basic editor in the ZX81). Using these, it is impossible for the programmer to create text that is not a valid program.

toolslive

4 месяца назадdiscuss

the idea has been around (and implemented) at least since the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_(programming_language)

The CSP approach is also interesting. fe Limbo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)

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