mik1998

They don't "naturally" lean left. It's not a wild animal. They lean left because every other corpo makes them.

All models are political. The rest of them are just sufficiently woke for you.

This was fine when N = 28. Now it's life of the author plus 95 so there is almost no possibility of anything released in your lifetime to be a part of the public domain before you die.

There's nothing intolerable about pickled vegetables. I eat them all the time

Every language is ambiguous. There's a gap between language (description) and reality. No formal logic can bridge this.

You would use it if it was useful or convenient

The fact that webdevs believe it is shit UI is a big indicator that it is quite good.

Batteries simply raise the price of power up by 10x if not more. Not a viable solution.

Ukraine is far poorer than Russia.

I think it is worthwhile to explore cryptography that is not based on the discrete logarithm problem. Currently, we're keeping all eggs in one conjectured basket. Even if quantum computing will never be viable, there is a non-zero chance that the discrete logarithm problem will be solved in some other way.

No one sells scans of older books, which are often sparsely available in obscure (often private) libraries.

Libgen is a civilizational project that should be endorsed, not prosecuted. I hope one day people will look at it and think how stupid we were today to shun the largest collection of literary works in human history.

There has never been one.

So, what do we do with actual people who have a very similar voice to some "more famous" person? It's quite silly when voices are far away from being unique to a person.

All I can read from this article is "the end of mathematics is on the horizon". Hopefully nothing he says actually materializes.

It used to be pretty bad on old intel processors but nowadays it should be faster than an L1 fetch.

    for i in 0:7
        c += (r >> i) & 1
    end

Some kind of Casio watch?

Mathematica.

"Europe" is not USA. I don't know why the author wants it to be. Germany and Spain are different countries, even if we have some degree of a unified market.

From consumer markets, languages, laws, education systems, taxes, to funding – Europe acts like a network of small countries instead of one unified market.

"Europe" does not ACT AS, it IS a network of "small" (not quite) countries.

Really only a thing in the USA due to the ridiculous American rule wrt. attorney fees.

linked lists invariably result in terrible cache locality

With a compacting GC (ie most of the relevant ones) lists often provide better memory locality than arrays. They only lose at a large scale due to having +8 bytes of memory, which makes arrays occasionally cheaper for large sequences.

Traditionally, middle-grade book discovery happens via parents, librarians, and—most crucially—peers. At recess, your best friend tells you that you have got to read the Baby-Sitters Club, and boom, you’re hooked

I've never experienced this in my school life. Used to be the one guy who spends all of his time helping out and reading at the school library back in elementary school. Later in high-school, I stopped reading as much due to the appearance of the computer in my life, which had great things like the Internet and such.

If you spend all your time on TikTok, I feel like it's unlikely you'd read too much.

In Poland, admission to public universities is only based on your standardized test score. People grading standardized tests don't know your name or anything beyond a number, so discrimination is simply impossible.

I recall thinking it was a compass before. They should've chosen a more complicated Chinese character if that is what they wanted to portray.

I personally had no idea that icon let you change the language of articles (a concept I explicitly looked for before). Still confused at what the icon is actually supposed to mean.

it makes the process of retroactively changing the sequence in which these tokens are delimited impossible

Is the author claiming you cannot write a reader macro for postfix code? Am I understanding that correctly?

I don't personally understand how the authors readtable system is much different from Lisp (or even some Forth macro systems? Although I only touched the surface of those).

Russia has attacked basically every neighboring country in Europe that is not in NATO.

What are you talking about? Russia hasn't invaded anyone in Europe except Ukraine since WW2

Calendars is a part of why I've been wearing Casio digital watches for a long time.

It's a bill of attainder, which is unconstitutional in the USA. May or may not be struck down in court.