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> If I build a Markov chain based on a statistical analysis of word sequences in Hamlet, and then use it to produce a new sentence that isn't found in the text of that work, I have…

I’m gonna give this a very charitable read by saying that while I find the ways that the treatment of burn victims was advanced by abhorrent means, we as a society have still benef…

So there's a bit of a misunderstanding here in the chain of blog posts that I can clear up. First, from this article: That’s the question I’ve been mulling over for days, because I…

I'm no rustc expert, but from what little I know it seems like disabling panics for a crate would be an obvious first step. You make a great point though. Turning that into a compi…

What caught my eye in the article was the desire to have something that doesn't panic with a release profile, while allowing for panics in dev profiles. Based on other comments I t…

Does anyone know if there's an obvious reason that adding a `no_panic` crate attribute wouldn't be feasible? It certainly seems like an "obvious" thing to add so I'm hesitant to ta…

Absolutely correct! Had the bird strike not occurred, there wouldn’t have been a crash. Had things with the go around been handled properly, there would have been no crash. Etc etc…

There’s a few more than three. https://leanpub.com/cppinitbook https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/8nn4fw/for...

That’ll just depend on whatever code was deployed to the cluster. For the clusters I used to operate, the answer would be absolutely all nodes talk to all nodes all the time. I per…

> If you actually have 1000 nodes worth of work, the heartbeats are not at all a big deal. I think you’re missing the fact that the heart beats will be combined with existing packe…

Most likely those are just the states where they already have a tax presence. For whatever reason they happen to currently employ folks in those states so adding employees is easy.…

A wild tangent but reading “heritable metabolizing” really hit me on the “are viruses alive” question. I’ve been around enough biotech to have considered the differences between pl…

Sometimes science doesn’t have to be precise to demonstrate a result. Consider trying to measure feedback from a microphone and speaker. You don’t have to be an expert to know that…

This matches my experience. I spent a decade operating Erlang clusters and using hot code upgrades is a superpower for debugging a whole class of hard to track bugs. Although, with…

> Introductory summary: The current scientific consensus is that the placebo effect is a real healing effect operating through belief and suggestion. I have no idea what the rest o…

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I made it through a few paragraphs before noping out because of how terrible this article is. Your comment made me go actually look to see what they could possibly be arguing again…

You can make a video, but odds are it won’t be good or get traction. I think you’re better off with a book. Books can remain indexed and accumulate readers for centuries, whereas m…

“Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.” — Edsger Dijkstra

Also, for anyone not completely familiar with Erlang's terminology, the translation of "per process garbage collection" to Go would be "per goroutine garbage collection". As mentio…

FWIW, I’ve been working on a project that has transitioned from a standard-ish CMake super build to vcpkg and it has been a fantastic upgrade in terms of usability and reliability.…

Probably so! Although, given that C++ doesn’t have ABI contracts to begin with, I’m not sure how it would matter in practice.

Information leakage since they have a timestamp component. Some people may not care, but plenty of folks do. As others have said, anything security related likely should UUIDv4. UU…

Worrying about UUID collisions is like worrying about being hit in the head by a meteor. Sure, its technically possible, but it happens so rarely that worrying about a collision as…

Royal Road is a place for a lot of folks to get audiences seeded before they inevitably move on to some combination of Patreon, Amazon Kindle Unlimited, and Audible. One very notab…