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    You could manage those VMs with https://microvm-nix.github.io/microvm.nix/ that helps with mounting the nix store read only from the host into the vm. That should save more space t…

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    Comment #48381654

    STM is seldom used in modern Clojure projects, it is certainly not the dominant model. Most projects I am aware of use a few or even exactly one atoms with immutable data structure…

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    Comment #48277735

    No other mammal eats cooked or baked food. Raw meat or raw plant contain more water than our food.

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    Comment #47766052

    When you are administrating so many Java applications, you should investigate an hour or ask your favorite AI how to configure the logging library used in your application of inter…

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    Comment #47587023

    They wouldn't have to, if the file format accepted floats in proper exponential format.

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    Comment #47323735

    If companies are allowed to change the meaning of terms in legislation we are in even more trouble.

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    Comment #47321657

    > Garbage collection, by definition, trashes locality. No, it doesn't necessarily. It is correct if you are thinking about mark and sweep GC. But that is 50 years old. Generational…

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    Comment #47274247

    OMG no. Politician have no business making technological decisions. They make it harder to innovate, i.e. to invent the next generation of ECC with a different name.

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    Comment #46910415

    The same panel produces much more electricity in space than at the bottom of the atmosphere, because the atmosphere already reflects most of the light. Additionally, the panel need…

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    Comment #46555255

    Self-cataloging can be become a method of procrastination. But that doesn't mean that there is no value to be found in methods like Zettelkasten. The activity of looking through yo…

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    Comment #45832642

    So, in order to avoid the negative consequences of a European monopoly, we make sure that a Chinese monopoly prevails? That doesn't seem like a wining strategy for Europe.

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    Comment #45680181

    Even if we assume that JSON numbers are JavaScript numbers. There is the problem that some large natural numbers cannot be represented in double or float although some even larger …

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    Comment #45426016

    Because, Truffle is reused in multiple language VMs their overall attack surface is smaller than it would be with classical language VM architectures.

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    Comment #45311559

    But with a visible scrollbar you would have a visible indication which behavior you triggered. If the scrollbar is invisible you get a changed viewport in both cases but you have t…

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    Comment #44985110

    And still there are more modern idioms and language features that ML had in the 70s but are missing from Go. But, these have the fatal flaw of Not being Invented Here.

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    Comment #44847846

    The goal of teaching binary trees is not that you can write binary trees in your sleep, the goal is that you train your ability to derive algorithms and data structures. If you loo…

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    Comment #44847744

    Do you have source for this? Because as you write I've always read to derive protein intake from the overall weight. That would indeed be a very important distance.

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    Comment #44799983

    In every trade or art you start as an apprentice. That is the time when you learn the basics, the rules, the best-practices. When you have mastered the state of the art, you are a …

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    Comment #44649050

    I've tried perhaps one third of the samples. All of them ran in 120 fps in 3840x2160 px in Firefox on Linux on my machine. Perhaps it is a configuration problem. My screen has a 12…

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    Comment #44002840

    Do you have a link to that patched version?

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    Comment #44002478

    You mean such readable and understandable names like car, cdr, cadr, .... ? For the uninitiated, car is not about vehicles.

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    Comment #43734809

    I really loved it for a virtual conference

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    Comment #43678487

    Yes, nixpkgs is definitely missing the self-documenting part, or even the documenting part for most of it.

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    Comment #43673457

    Don't forget the self-documenting aspect. The manual is included, the api documentation is included, you can ask emacs which command is executed when you click somewhere or when yo…