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I've been happier once I tried using one of the myriad of tools out there for writing slides in markdown. If you don't need to deal with images or anything to fancy, it's worth con…

IIUC, you're not misreading. KPTI solves the problem of leaking data from the kernel address space (besides a bare minimum). But this was an issue because Intel was speculatively a…

It does seem to be rather poorly written, e.g. the next paragraph > they actually don't follow Newton's Law, they follow Schrodinger's Law so that theory is what we call quantum me…

It sounds like it creates a mapping from lines to "bugginess." How much value do you think there would be in some sort of semantic analysis, e.g. "new function foo is suspect bc it…

Weirdest? This is just a lolcode derivative, isn't it? What I found more amusing is https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10242 They even implemented a 2d N-body solver.

That's very much true; I should have been clear my objection was primarily to something Snapchat-like.

Ah, that makes much more sense now. You want to enable a community of plugins/widgets/apps built on top of the index. That's fascinating. I feel it would probably require some cent…

Haven't really looked at the source, but is the neovim dependence just for starting ranger async? In that case vim 8 support might come soon? I have a neovim build, but I tried out…

I understand why people are upset, but not why they are quite so upset. Apple always felt like the company that you went to when you wanted good UX. Unlike Android, they twist all …

I don't know if the majority of consumers would care in the slightest about Microsoft making their index public. Maybe among certain crowds like this, but what would it gain us? I …

I don't know if an open collaborative approach to search is really possible given that there's a whole SEO industry out there. If we could have the equivalent of white hat SEO folk…

I think the problem is that such statements (and worse) do come from professional adults. So I find assuming such views come from people with just enough wherewithal to type out a …

OT: 25 is now old enough to be jaded?

I agree it would be nice to be able to cast without Chrome on a laptop (looks like VLC had experimental cast support but removed it), but it's literally in the name... As for Andro…

Oh, that looks interesting, thanks for the link!

I had forgotten Cyclone's name, thanks for the reminder. I've always felt kinda sad some of the small features like int@ didn't make their way back into C. I'm glad at least C++ ha…

This is why I almost stopped reading when the article suggested a "normal statistician" would just use the mean score (it does later address this, for those who haven't read it yet…

It would definitely seem like ML could improve performance here, if they fed it all the right features. I feel like outstanding debts (amount, time since last payment) could be rea…

I feel like both of those get more attention than Red does. I've written a bit in both, but completely forgot Red existed (sample of 1, yada yada).

It looks like something that just gets complied to VHDL and friends? Is there some way to make the description available to user code/GHC? Now that would be interesting.

The macro would only be used to generate k for convenience. It could be all implemented in straight, macro-less C++98 in O(minutes). My point was just that you can implement almost…

You could implement the following with a decent bit of work (declaring k and reversed to be variables of special, hand-written/macro-generated types with overloaded operator, and o…

Vimium is available on Chrome, in case anyone gets confused. I got a nightly build a while back but didn't feel impressed enough to change my $BROWSER. Maybe now I'll give it anoth…

+1. But at least it's better than Zimbu where there's a closing brace but no opening one. That's my personal bar for bad language design decisions.

How strong is this bias? There are plenty of bad programmers who use vim (usually not well, though).