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Strawman detection activated. The goal of giving money is not to make those who receive it more educated, better parents or making them politically active. I mean, why did I have t…

OTOH, 99% of use cases don't care about performance and just want a portable implementation. While it could be useful to have a "fast" variation that offers no guarantee at all, wh…

Knowing that a typical maze will have branching paths at the beginning, but necessarily one good path at the end, I find it easier to start from the goal and work my way backward.

But your example is not reflective of the study. Are you saying that the 17% reduction is for some reason significant but the other ones, all of which would inconveniently disagree…

Well, we read the article, which cites many studies. Maybe she is doing a super selective review of the field, but she does not merely quote one study, but several, all of which in…

Ah, the old "if you do not spent your time, effort an interest where I have chosen to spend them, then you are an inferior human being to me." Everyone judges people who do less ab…

Isn't this whole description a lie, both ways? You can embed/tunnel any network transport into another. There is nothing magical about the internet and IP. It is actually being tun…

No, since they use an integer (Z) as the denominator. So their representation support having -1 (i.e 0) as the denominator.

I wonder why they chose to represent rationals with subtracting one from the denominator. It makes human parsing of the value harder and in many case makes the implementation code …

Some of the ideas in the blog must be speculative, given that it fell through a wormhole, being published September 17, 2024.

... or simply that the LOGO language syntax and choice of commands is confusing? Without formal explanation, how surprising is it really that a child would assume that STOP mean st…

Looking at the code, "maintainability" is quite relative: it might be maintainable by the original author, but the code has no comment and is chuck-full of magic constants without …

The article is just plain wrong about classes: if you have declared any constructor, then the language will not provide a default constructor and default-initialization will fail w…

I'm utterly confused by the description of the solution of Hilbert's 10th problem. On one hand, the article claims that Diophantine equations are polynomials. On the other hand, it…

Interestingly, there is a common pattern for fixed-points and cycles for different number lengths: numbers made of 4, 5 and 9. For example length 3: fixed-point 495 length 5: 2-cyc…

Reading the example, I really wish the syntax for push and pop had been " bar" (pop from stack into bar). I find the choice of $ and ^ not obvious. Especially since, for me, ^ impl…

Was it firing was it not? It's all semantics, people on both sides of the fence have legitimate reasons to choose one over the other. Get over it. The real interesting bit, is that…

IDK, if my explanation is correct, but I do believe it is. I t goes as follow. Imagine that you have a container of potential limitless capacity. The container starts with smalls c…

I have a hard time swallowing the hubris of the teller. No one was to be able to approach or chat with Orson Wells... except him, of course, who "connected" with Orson, so it was a…

Read the example code, have a sinking feeling that is not taken from a real tested example. Either there are multiple unexplained symbols or teh code does not actually run. For exa…

The problem with this thinking is that you are creating dissatisfaction for 25 cents. Let's say, you sell your software as a single-version perpetual license. You sell it for 150$.…

The fact that science and religion can have similar flaws or components is shallow. Churches in the US and universities in the US both use English. That does not make them the same…

The explanation could be a combination of experience, details, survivor bias and true scottman. That is with experience you can select something on the ocean far away that you can …

I find the use case where you have a system in production but could not possibly use the official Python for that system... unusual? Double so since Python code (.py) is itself por…

I suppose it may also apply to voodoo dolls. Make an effigy, put pins in it, burn it for emotional release.