PDoyle

Reeeealy? How long would you like to sit in a room with a natural gas furnace whose exhaust is not vented outside?

No particulates != no pollution.

People, listen. "Damping" means to reduce the amplitude of an oscillation. "Dampening" means to make something wetter.

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This is news? They do this on the subways in New York and Toronto too.

> you're blaming what appears to be a weakness in Javascript's "Date" library on MongoDB

But this is the point: that SQL is a better query language than Javascript (which is what MongoDB uses).

> Surprisingly, (to me, at least) Go is the big winner here. There’s a ton of search results for people moving from X to Go.

You mean ... Google search results?

I'm not trying to suggest that Google's search engine is intentionally biased toward Google projects, but I think it's reasonable to assume that their own projects wouldn't fall into whatever unintentional blind spots their search engine may have.

[citation needed]

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All the instant body-language experts. Let's convict her because her motions on a blurry security cam definitely rule out "nervously pulling a prank on a stranger" and are only consistent with "highly sophisticated international assassin with no escape plan".

No, obviously it does not mean that. That known flaws have been fixed says nothing about the prevalence of unknown flaws.

Dumb question - don't both of these concerns exist with normal taxis too?

How many pixels does an input need to occupy before it's considered "visible"?

This Hacker News headline is bogus. The linked article doesn't prove that at all. This is click-bait.

A simplistic one-paragraph $13,000 UBI proposal was made, and the question was whether it was better than the status quo. Many of the economists chose "disagree" because they felt the details of the UBI proposal were unworkable; not because they disagree with the idea of UBI.

Here are some of the comments from those who disagree:

"And the children get nothing? The basic idea is sound but too simplistic as stated."

"A minimum income makes sense, but not at the cost of eliminating Social Security and Meidcare."

"John Cochrane proposes variants that would be better."

"13K is inadequate for anyone with no other income."

"The simplicity is attractive, but deceptive. Coupled with universal health care & tax reform it could work. but we are far from that."

They'd differ for floating-point NaNs.

> Assert easily allows lazy programmers to let their programs freely crash without properly handling error conditions.

This is what he meant by misuse. Properly-used assertions are meant to document and check conditions that were thought to be impossible by the developer. Not just unlikely, or illegal, but impossible. If a condition is possible, and you check it with assert, that's a bug.

> Zookeeper & Curator make it nearly foolproof to implement a distributed lock correctly, whereas with Cassandra, its the other way round.

Cassandra makes it nearly distributed to implement a foolproof lock correctly?

I'm not sure it's the only way. There are ranked-ballot systems that are good too, like Single Transferable Vote.

The point is, first-past-the-post has almost every possible flaw you can have in a voting system.

...until they divide by 3.

9999999999999999.0 can't be represented as a double. Depending on the rounding mode, it could become 9999999999999998.0, so when you subtract them, they're zero. That happens when the rounding mode is round toward zero, or round down. Any other mode rounds it up to 1e+16, so you get an answer of 2.

If there's a problem here, it's that large integers are being treated as floating-point numbers with insufficient precision to represent them properly. With the exception of Perl 6 (?!), programming languages all seem to agree that putting a period in a number gives them a license to return answers that don't agree with normal arithmetic. If you think about it, that's an odd thing to be unanimous about.

Also, BigDecimal doesn't give "exact calculations" unless you stick to numbers with finite decimal expansions. BigDecimal can't do 1/3 without rounding.

"stack allocation is much, much faster than any sort of heap-based memory management"

No, it's not. For short-lived objects, at least on the JVM, allocation is a pointer bump, and collection is free, because unreachable objects are not even walked. Stack allocation doesn't beat that by much.

Huh? Are you talking about a particular GC? Because every object-oriented program I've ever seen could be described as "Large graph-like data structures (lots of small nodes linked by reference)".

Here we go again.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11422064

Why post your opinion without even doing the simplest of google searches?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...

They looked like that on the Gameboy.

Because that's the sort of thing you think of only when you already know the answer.

Oops... The first sentence in the "Fast" section says "SIMD (Single input multiple data)".

In Canada? No cost at all.

What's strange about that? Applications should be using a computer's resources. That's like declaring that employees now get more of a company's payroll than management.

But if you assign your options the same value as magic beans (ie. zero) and find that the job is worth doing anyway, then you can avoid filling your head with a lot of financial mumbo jumbo.

Nope. I draw your attention to this paragraph:

> Zeroing the page at fault-time...

Shameless self-promotion: by chance, I happened to write a blog post today that's all about information theory:

"Measuring Information in Millibytes" https://engineering.vena.io/2016/07/12/measuring-information...