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drewhk

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About drewhk

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #44581470

    Not it is not stable, it was 1.38 last year (source, from the central statistics authority: https://www.ksh.hu/stadat_files/nep/hu/nep0006.html ). This year will be even worse, see…

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    Comment #44312485

    Grug hurt itself in its confusion!

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    Comment #44156429

    Also, judgement alone might not be enough. Judgement can take you to "something is off", but not necessarily further. I mix music as a hobby and it takes a good amount of practice …

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    Comment #44123950

    It is also interesting to consider, that if all transcendental numbers exist physically, then it basically means that there is an experiment that yields the Nth digit of such a num…

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    Comment #44123826

    > The set of all possible mapping from all possible finite strings to booleans is definitely not countable. Just to add another perspective to this, this is one of the places where…

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    Comment #43482213

    This warms my heart in an otherwise bland day :)

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    Comment #42823202

    You clearly did not read the article...

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    Comment #41433594

    One way to think about it is to ask yourself, is your personal project actually _playtime_? Playing is not goal oriented and therefore very relaxing. There is nothing wrong with th…

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    Comment #41433546

    > But honestly, why ruin your fun projects by turning them into work. Agreed! For fun, it is completely fine to not finish things if you enjoy the process more than the actual resu…

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    Comment #41338319

    The email verification email itself does not show up properly in Fastmail for some reason. I had to switch to the text only view to get the actual link...

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    Comment #41336922

    One more addition, there is a subtle but very important difference between how TypeScript's "erasure" works compared to Java's. In the case of Java, an explicit cast is emitted in …

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    Comment #41336877

    The problem with generics type erasure is less of an issue though in practice because the ecosystem is generally compiled from typed code and hence the compile-time guarantees redu…

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    Comment #41336811

    > the JVM has no type safety whatsoever. This is just partially true (or completely untrue in the mathematical sense since your statement is "_no_ type safety _whatsoever_" :P ). T…

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    Comment #41328393

    It is not so clear-cut though. There is a hierarchy here that the article misses a bit I think. There will be participants of various awareness level: 1. Members of the audience th…

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    Comment #41226380

    Well, instead of complaining here about 1 and l, I just filed a ticket on their GH repo and it already got resolved... https://github.com/internet-development/www-server-mono/issu.…

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    Comment #40721039

    > I'm concerned by the number of misunderstandings expressed in short time here. I have a feeling you misread my comment completely, and the misunderstandings are on your part? > N…

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    Comment #40715711

    I am a bit worried of the overuse of Little's formula, especially in these catchy educational presentations. In reality queue sizes will dictate your consumer observable latency pr…

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    Comment #40533028

    > But any child can look at the sun (with eye protection :) and see that it is a disc, not a point of light. The disc is about 0.5 degrees, which is not so small. Page 11-12 explic…

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    Comment #33106251

    And don't forget multi-stage programming which generalizes the concept and allows for partial evaluation at compile time and runtime as well.

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    Comment #30465199

    The time our election comes, the Ukraine conflict will likely be mostly over, at least there would be nothing to stop serious Russian movement. We will have an election with russia…

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    Comment #30452575

    Many of us are trying, trust me. Things got out of hand here, big time. If the next election is lost, I will go through half of my life (20 years!) under the rulership of one singl…

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    Comment #30452393

    From Hungary with deep shame because of our traitor government. There are many of us that are deeply disturbed with what is happening, and our government is not representative of a…

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    Comment #29142054

    I used to work on the Akka Team, mostly on streams, but I was doing different stuff elsewhere in the last years, not touching Akka much. To be honest, I am quite emotionally distan…

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    Comment #29035894

    No, you are not wrong: https://akka.io/team/ (check the Honorary Members section)