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These guys are from Galicia. Maybe that makes a difference.

hold on. Just realised it's not even (part of ) a vector space. It's not linear, non-euclidian and can't be mapped onto 3 dimensions. It's not even constant or always reproducible:

    Look at an object; 
    Observe colour X; then look at the wrong thing; 
    then look back and you might observe colour X' != X.

I have some Spanish ex-co-workers. I just verified it. They both had it on their required reading list in high-school. (one of them is in his 30s, the other in his 40s)

Democracy is safe in Spain!

iirc, The Prince from Machiavelli is required reading during secondary education. That will surely awaken their political awareness.

Tetrachromacy !?

Doesn't matter: there's no RGB model that captures the colour space. That exactly the reason CIE exists.

Just going to sound really pedantic here, but RGB does not capture the entire colour space. In fact, it only captures about 35% of the colours the human eye can perceive.

https://www.oceanopticsbook.info/view/photometry-and-visibil...

Somehow, I expected Deng Xiaoping to be number 1, pulling a billion people out of poverty. Then I read the methodology used.

Rust is equally bad at compile times

OCaml enters the room...

3e+6 ?

I always put my locale in Ireland: I want

  - "proper English"
  - metric system
  - Euro

it's not that different compared to using the FFI.

The link below shows how it can work for Ocaml <-> TypeScript.

https://github.com/ocsigen/ts2ocaml

You don't have to use TypeScript if you don't want to: you can compile Haskell, Ocaml, Rust, F#, ... to javascript. This is quite efficient, especially if your backend is already in one of those languages. It saves you from creating the same abstraction twice in different languages.

For a bit of context https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brit_milah#Metzitzah

"In three medical papers done in Israel, Canada, and the US, oral suction following circumcision was suggested as a cause in 11 cases of neonatal herpes " lovely.

While the IEEE 754 standard ensures that individual basic operations are deterministic and strictly bounded, it does not guarantee that an entire program will yield bit-identical results on all CPUs.

CPUs and their execution environments introduce subtle hardware variations, architecture choices, and compiler optimizations that break bit-level consistency.

(same for GPU/TPU, ...)

It's probably due to the fact that it's a cloud service. You have no guarantee that your next request will go to the same machine. So even with an identical seed, and temp 0 you might get different hardware and hence different accuracy/noise in the floating point operations.

I have the 2012 print edition too and fully concur with the assessment. The best book about garbage collection at the time (and maybe still?)

You will probably claim it's not "real" perfect pitch, but many people use their tinnitus to help them. They identified their ring as having, for example, F#, and suddenly their relative pitch became absolute.

They (Black Sabbath) were booked as a blues band by Jazz Bilzen in 1970. People just didn't know where to bucket sort them at the time.

really nice! For the inclined, there's also

https://www.metal-archives.com/

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I wondered about this too. Also, why was it framed in the context of JSON based RPC over HTTP ?

https://www.war.gov/medialink/ufo/release_1/65_hs1-8342289+M...

404 ?

I come from the same lineage as the author. I did 6502 (doing C64 demos) long before I encountered the Z80. From what I remember, the Z80 offers a vastly superior programming experience. It has more registers. it has 16 bit registers. It has a shadow register set (you can switch between sets, which is handy for interrupt routines, for example) Programming assembly on the Z80 just is less of a fight.

maybe add: "the universe is winning" (in the design department). Full quote: "software engineers try to build "idiot-proof" systems, while the universe creates "bigger and better idiots" to break them. So far, the universe is winning"

ha! I found an online simulator. Just try to do a

    10 print "hello world!"

https://www.zx81stuff.org.uk/zx81/jtyone.html

This is what most programmers do. They type raw text into the editor; the compiler either processes it into structured data, or returns an error the programmer has to internalise before resubmitting.

In the 1980s structural editors were quite popular (fe the basic editor in the ZX81). Using these, it is impossible for the programmer to create text that is not a valid program.

the idea has been around (and implemented) at least since the 1980s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerald_(programming_language)

The CSP approach is also interesting. fe Limbo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo_(programming_language)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon_Phi#Knights_Landing ?

what's wrong with protobuf & friends ?

For CSV, I don't know how this comes out. It depends on the library/programming language. It might be 73786976294838210000 or it might throw an exception, or whatever. I'm just saying JSON will not solve your problems neither.