warmfuzzykitten

Um. There is no S in IoT. I think that's the joke.

Several things surprised me, both in the blog post and the other comments. (Though hpcjoe's and enriquot's comments took care of the "What? Fortran is dead?" reaction.)

- (Comment) "array operations, ... are slower than explicit loops" May be related to the following:

- No mention of vectors.

- No mention of LINPACK, LAPACK, etc.

- No mention of GPUs.

Because human beings can be described in four bits.

Oh, four bits isn't enough? Four scales, then. That fixes it.

Agreed. Though it's fairly simple to opt out now, just delete the Facebook app. The browser still works just fine.

Good link, thanks. But I don't find the points/comments reliable indicators of things I want to read. For example, I only read one out of the Top 10 today.

It seems a mistake to format JSON as non-JSON text (SEN Format) in the name of "pretty". That will inevitably lead to copy/paste and monkey-see errors.

How about a peppa.h to generate a parser for the PEG syntax - like in the comments of the other examples - so users can define parsers in a natural way?

I'm guessing you didn't mean to say "An open discord is needed" but thanks for the humor. :)

Wow. The written equivalent of a YouTube conspiracy video. The factual claims aren't facts, e.g., the NYT had nothing to do with the demise of local papers, if you could point to a single cause it would be the loss of classified advertising. And the accusations are outrageous. Far from "all", nobody at all is "being controlled...and enslaved by the evil octopus of the New York Times."

The link below may overgeneralize, but it dissects the piece in some detail.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...

How about a Julia-like syntax for Clojure?

That link seems to be broken, at least for me. Hangs establishing secure connection in Chrome and times out.

Really? We did almost all our Christmas shopping on Amazon and had no complaints. Other businesses delivered late.

Last night I ordered soft drinks from Amazon Fresh and they were delivered in less than 12 hours.

I do agree with sloaken. Read the 1- and 2-star reviews, and make sure the 5-star reviews aren't talking about a different product.

This is from November. Summary: "...there are no other jobs on the island."

https://fortune.com/2020/11/21/larry-ellison-hawaiian-island...

It won't be a problem for local republican politicians as long as people keep moving to already democratic locations like Austin, whose impact has already been gerrymandered away.

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/11/13/texas-redistricting-...

You left out scorpions.

It's a great place to escape taxes, as long as you don't need any services like public schools or Medicaid.

The trick employed by the "good taste" solution is to ignore the type of the object containing the pointer, which is different for the head, and focus only on the type of the object pointed to, which is the same for all the pointers. This frame of reference shift makes the solution look tricky to people unaccustomed to working with pointers, or languages in which pointers are not explicitly represented. It is also not quite true, as the pointer in the last element in the list does not point to a list element.

> Google didn't copy any of Oracle/Sun's Java source code base into Android Java. Oracle lawyers acknowledge this.

You're saying the textual contents of the interfaces that define the APIs are not part of the source code base? Of course Google copied them, or a nearly identical paraphrase of them.

I'm not quite sure what Google's legal theory is. Listening to the oral arguments this morning certainly didn't make that more clear to me. But I don't think it includes redefining what we mean by copying text.

And interfaces, in common parlance, are certainly lines of code.

Nor do I think Oracle's argument is that no one else can define interfaces that use the same words as in the Java standard library interfaces. read, write, get, put, etc. did not become Oracle's property by virtue of them being used as method names.

I have a bit of trouble with the concept "the threshhold of too much", too, as it applies to this case. Google copied or paraphrased essentially _all_ of the text of interfaces they used from Java libraries.

It's not useful to speculate about things that are unfalsifiable. That's why Penrose wants these things to be observable traces from before the big bang.

Typical brain-teaser interview question that will have absolutely no correlation to on-the-job performance but makes the interviewer feel really smart. I thought Google had gotten away from these.

In the US, credit card companies don't allow sellers to disclose credit card fees or charge separately for them. You do sometimes see a discount for cash, which is probably due to lax contract enforcement, and, of course, many sellers only accept the subset of credit cards with the lowest fees.

The best part: "...only three or four of the dozens of people who commented on his top post on Hacker News raised suspicions that it might have been generated by an algorithm. All those comments were immediately downvoted by other community members."

And yet, almost all workers live somewhere. Common strategies not mentioned in the article:

1. They live in areas with below average rents.

2. They allocate more than 30% of income to rent.

3. They find other workers to share rent with.

4. They live in studio apartments instead of 1-2 bedroom.

5. They live in rooms instead of whole apartments.

6. They live with family.

7. They live in an inherited home.

That would be an excellent question if you had any intention of trying to answer it. As a rhetorical question, not very useful.

The article doesn't live up to the title (on Hacker News). Or, really, the actual title. SaaS means nothing to the developer of an iPhone/iPad app. Apple offers distribution, collection, and a limited form of discoverability. In addition - people don't talk about this much, but it's real - if you sell an app direct, no matter how much you protect it, if it's popular sooner or later some hacker will break your protection and offer downloads of your app for free. Apple protects you from your revenue suddenly going to zero because somebody "cracked" your app. That's why it's still possible to make millions from a $1 app. Not a bad deal.

This?

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20081114005550/en/TRA...

Pretty thin. Even ignoring the accuracy of the source data, there are plenty of outliers on that graph. Before I'd assume vitamin D has any effect at all on COVID-19 death rate, I'd compare Sweden and Scotland.

A company is not just one thing.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/response-tim-brays-departure-...

Not quietly. By mid-day people were buying up all the Pepcid AC they could find.

https://www.businessinsider.com/heartburn-medicine-pepcid-sh...