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I don't run Emacs as a server because it freezes occasionally and it's very painful to have a couple dozen windows in eight workspaces go down.

If I could rely on Emacs never freezing, I'd be happy to run it as a server.

xkill ?

But I agree. Emacs should be faster.

You'd tax global profit based on the local revenue fraction. So if the corporation has global profits of 1M and the revenue is 90% in country A and 10% in country B, then country A taxes 0.9M of profit and country B taxes 0.1M of profit and neither has to care where the corporation is located 'for tax purposes'.

This has been my exact experience. So to me it's always been a read only site.

There's probably a trademark / misrepresentation / self image rights angle that could be argued, same as with say faces. That wouldn't seem unfair to me. It should require a lot more than just pitch similarity imo.

I haven't heard AC's speech, but the description sounds a bit like the way Donald the Duck talks.

English spelling is inconsistent. English phonology is complex. These are different things.

The patient can keep the data and have the doctor sign it.

Say YT censors after publication, NYT censors before. If you're liable either way, then the first model is just not possible.

The hardware could easily be designed so that whenever the light is turned on, it cannot be turned off for a second or w/e. Seems like an obvious solution.

From looking at the article, it appears that no dolphin has been sighted in the Venice canals at all.

There is a much more effective way to prevent people from buying more than they need... limit sales to x items per buyer, or rationing. The only thing rising costs ensure is that people without money don't get anything.

I write mostly C++ and Scheme and last year I wrote my first piece of code in modern Fortran (I had some experience porting/integrating old F77 libs). It's trivial to interface with C and lets you do numeric stuff immediately and without libraries using a plain syntax. Compared to C++ with template array libraries it compiles much faster and doesn't get in your way nearly as much. It has a module system... Compared to numpy/matlab/etc it takes some adjusting b/c it's still a lowish level language (errors lead to segfaults, etc.) but a lot less than going to C/C++.

So, how far are we from a fly simulation that works?

I build Guile on the Mac regularly. I need to pass the paths to these 4 libraries to configure: libgmp, libunistring, libiconv, and libreadline. The libraries themselves I get from MacPorts. Then make check && make install. Doesn't look all that awful to me to be honest.

I've been a Guile user since 2001 or 2002 and all these years it's been a workhorse for me. Even before there was a compiler or before the compiler started getting better, Guile was a solid choice for embedding. Each of the alternatives had issues.

Now that Scheme runs faster I get to write more Scheme and less C and I couldn't be happier.

That's why I put the speed in quotes. I get about 900 Mbps both ways on my computer that has only a 1 Gbps port.

I pay about that for ‘10 Gbps’ in CH. I don't even have a machine with a 10 Gbps port, but there isn't anything cheaper here that makes sense.

or recompute the data you're working with.

APL let you choose. It was only trouble and then Iverson made J 0-based.

Hand counting of paper ballots is a highly parallel process that can be done quickly at any scale. The only reason to introduce counting machines is so that someone can extract money from it.

Spanish double negatives aren't emphatic, they're 'grammatical'. If you need one ('Nadie lo sabe') you cannot add another one for emphasis, and if you need two ('No lo sabe nadie') you cannot remove one for less emphasis.

~22000 km is far above LEO.

> you do lose the greying-out of downvoted comments

sounds like a win, honestly.

The link is an outdated version r0, this is r2 (don't know if it's the latest) http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p090...

A solution would be to give you a fixed space, then make the font smaller or narrower as you write more. It's a softer limit and it accommodates CJK because usually those characters are bigger.

I was in the UK a few months ago for a meeting and they had a plate of sorts in the room with a list of company guidelines. One of them was ‘Everybody sells’.

It seems obvious but I'd never seen it put so starkly.

Here is my Blitz++-inspired hobby project, supports arbitrary rank: https://github.com/lloda/ra-ra

I'm sure you can find more polished efforts if you look around.

Looks like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology_optimization

The question was about automatic differentiation vs the method in the article (the complex step method) which is essentially a defective variant of automatic differentiation with a spurious numerical parameter.

Automatic differentiation works for any composition of those ‘simplest functions’ you mention, which is quite a lot of stuff, including whole programs.

Approximation methods have their place, sure. Sometimes they're good enough and sometimes it's all you can do. What does that have to do with anything?