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The most appropriate behavior is implemented by regex. Find the empty string and replace with say `($&)` where `$&` refers to the captured variable, and with input `xyz`, the resul…

I haven't done the analysis, but one major assumption that the whole result is based on is whether the rules of the game are pre-established or just revealed after the first pick. …

Are we siblings

Spherical Harmonics became extremely trendy in the graphics literature for dynamic lighting and pre-baked light maps of some sort, and completely dropped off at some point. Still r…

I often don't comment code, especially in personal stuff, but when I occasionally do, which happens mostly when things get overwhelming, I find bugs or fix things that I was stuck …

What I like about this approach is that if you are using any other protocols for transport, everything becomes instantly portable. Imagine having the same logic serving objects per…

Interesting to think how many 10^6 faster gates would be needed to do the work of 10^9 at the same speed. Say take the 8086 and make it a million times faster. At about 30K transis…

Computer science is much more like Mathematics than Physics. It feels wrong calling "computer science" a science, in the same sense of calling "Mathematics" science.

In addition to the other mentioned reasons, I guess it's valuable feedback for their providers, and if that feedback is acted upon, it's beneficial for them.

Bitcoin is more of ash rather than a battery in this analogy. I like bitcoin (the idea, not the burning of the planet, even though it's only a temporary hack to bootstrap the whole…

I knew this was happening, but reading it, hey, maybe that's one way to get anti-gravity. Just loop the topology on itself. Obviously commenting in jest, but now I'm intrigued to s…

C++ expression-power has increased considerably since C++11, and I believe, semantically, Prime Number generation in both C++ and Python could be python-line for c++-(line[s]) tran…

We all at least are dumber than we'd like to be. Nobody would refuse a pill that would make them smarter. Sorry for off-topic, but this has been gnawing at me lately, feels like so…

Just a question, isn't all criticism against bitcoin applicable to gold? Money/Currency/Value in general can't be reduced or derived from first principles. You always have to take …

Reading something allows one to create a proof of being after. Writing something allows one to create a proof of being before. Are there other ways of conceptualizing this problem?…

This kind of reminds me of the usual interview question: can you make a fair die from an unfair one. Similarly, us as humans, could possibly have the ability to get over some/all o…

From a capabilities point of view, they're native. You can access the OS api just like any other native app. From a developer side, it looks like developing a webapp without the us…

Are there similar predictions but on a short time scale. Like from now until 10,000 AD? Culture, technology, and geology (and hey, everything else, biology, astronomy..) I find it …

This is definitely interesting, but there's always Javascript in the browser. It's turing complete by design, and it can and is sandboxed to a lot of success. The fast and quick co…

A bit tangential, but this reminded of an idea I had when I was learning about containerization and overlayfs. Would postgres work with data stored in an overlay and allow a simila…

Users don't know about this performance gap, but there is a gap, and that gap is an economic opportunity. Since the current practices are so inefficient, users are having to pay fo…

I think people confuse two important things. 1- Energy consumption of the lower stack versus total of a single implementation (could possibly be very low) 2- Energy consumption of …

If you spend 80 hours you're being inefficient. If you spend 20 hours (and they're being charged for value,) they feel they were deceived. Selling your hours to anyone truly seems …

"ORM" is more like a compiler, it takes one language/(api can be seen as a language) as input and outputs another language (SQL) as output.