stoppingin (u/stoppingin)

stoppingin commented on Can Fortran survive another 15 years? gcn.com/cloud-infrastruct... · Posted by u/pjmlp

stoppingin · 3 years ago

Does Fortran need to? Does Fortran still have any real advantage over Julia, MATLAB, etc.?

Please forgive my ignorance. I've never written any Fortran. I understand how and where it's used in modern computing though. I also understand why it's faster than C in some cases.

stoppingin commented on Mostly adequate guide to FP (in JavaScript) mostly-adequate.gitbook.i... · Posted by u/JNRowe

stoppingin · 3 years ago

I really, really hate the way this author writes. It's so needlessly verbose, obtuse, and condescending.

I've written Node for a living. Mostly Typescript in recent years. I've encountered multiple codebases where previous developers have used all kinds of novel constructs to make Javascript codebases resemble a purely functional language. I've never seen an example of this where the developer has actually managed to make their codebase more concise, understandable, testable, extensible, or more robust. The usual outcome is a complete birds-nest of spaghetti code that only the original developer could ever understand. These codebases usually never outlive the tenure of the original developer: They're usually thrown out the second another dev even lays eyes on it.

Reading through this article, I don't really see anything that would make my real-world coding job easier. I don't see any constructs that would actually make my code less complicated. Not to mention the elephant in the room that adding thousands of lines of scaffolding code (that only the author understands) so that Javascript supports monads (that the developers asked to maintain the code won't understand) adds so much more surface area for bugs. If you want to write an application in Haskell, just do that instead. At least then the company knows to look for a Haskell developer to maintain the mess you've made.

stoppingin commented on Why Is Colorectal Cancer Rising Rapidly Among Young Adults? cancer.gov/news-events/ca... · Posted by u/paulpauper

jakewins · 3 years ago

Isn’t that article contradicting your point? They weren’t able to find any effect for dish detergent, and the effect they did find for rinse aids was not present at the concentrations used in residential dishwashers?

stoppingin · 3 years ago

Where did you get that from the article?

From their results section:

> "Interestingly, detergent residue from professional dishwashers demonstrated the remnant of a significant amount of cytotoxic and epithelial barrier–damaging rinse aid remaining on washed and ready-to-use dishware."

stoppingin commented on The Samsung Galaxy S23’s bloated Android build somehow uses 60GB of storage arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/carride

gjsman-1000 · 3 years ago

Even if your device lets you root it (many don't), you will trip the "Knox fuse." It's a small fuse inside the CPU that permanently burns out if you root, and permanently blocks Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, a few other Samsung security apps... and on the Galaxy Z Fold 3, your camera (though on the Z Fold 3, apparently, if you re-lock your bootloader the restriction goes away). Also said fuse cannot be reset so if you reinstall completely stock firmware, it's blown forever.

stoppingin · 3 years ago

> ...permanently blocks Samsung Pay, Secure Folder, a few other Samsung security apps...

Yet another good reason to root your phone. You wouldn't catch me using any of this Samsung shovelware.

stoppingin commented on Japanese explained to programmers lajili.com/posts/post-1/... · Posted by u/iraldir

agalunar · 3 years ago

The English verb system can be devilishly difficult, my favorite example being this "conjugation" of watch:

She must have had been being watched.

= It must be the case that someone watched her for some duration of time prior to the current moment in the story (which is either a hypothetical story or narrative of the past).

stoppingin · 3 years ago

That's a very fun example. However I'm a native English speaker, and I can't imagine actually writing a sentence like that. It's technically grammatically correct, but no one speaks like this. You would say "She must have been watched", alternatively "She had been watched".

stoppingin commented on Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? · Posted by u/maerF0x0

stoppingin · 3 years ago

I think that the human mind is not evolved for, and does not cope well in societies at the scale we now live in. I think there's a certain tipping point where social cohesion begins to break down, and people's psychology begins to shift from participation in a society of their peers, to guarding themselves from a society of potentially dangerous strangers. I think this phenomena has been extrapolated to a large scale. I also think that the society consisting of people who are largely genetically different from yourself has an impact as well on social cohesion, and by extension, on how people behave in society.

stoppingin commented on Please don’t film me in 2023 theverge.com/2022/12/26/2... · Posted by u/ColinWright

stoppingin · 3 years ago

I'm not sure what it's called, but I've seen a product which is a database of the time/location of US car license plate sightings. As I understand it, these are OCR'd from a combination of private, and public footage. I wonder if something similar exists for faces, and if some company is performing facial recognition on publicly uploaded footage. It sounds quite paranoid, however we know for a fact that such technology exists, and that there's a motivation for it.

stoppingin commented on The i3-gaps project has been merged with i3 github.com/Airblader/i3... · Posted by u/harporoeder

stoppingin · 3 years ago

I've been a long time i3wm user, and I couldn't be happier with my workflow. What network managers are people using together with i3? I've been using wicd for a while, however with Debian deprecating Python2 this won't be viable for long. I haven't found another lightweight GUI network manager which works well with i3. This might not be the perfect place to ask, however I don't use Reddit.

stoppingin commented on Canada bans most foreigners from buying homes voanews.com/a/canada-bans... · Posted by u/vincent_s

JumpCrisscross · 3 years ago

> Doesn't this contradict your central thesis?

No. In development-constrained world, particularly one with long approval timelines, you need to make money on margin. In a less-constrained world, you can bring to force economies of scale and make money in volume.

The thesis is: if you have an anti-development environment, developers will maximise margins. This isn’t a conspiracy and it isn’t artificially increasing value. It’s survival. If ten houses will get built but there is demand for twenty, and everyone pays the same for labour and materials and lobbyists, all those houses will be as high end as the market will bear. You’re competing in getting the right to build; the market is inelastic. If anyone can build twenty or thirty houses without years of approvals, you’re going to prioritise your costs, because there is a chance you don’t sell every single house. You’re competing on price and value; the market is elastic. (You also get a learning curve.)

This is why Sydney has price inelasticity for detached housing. The scarcity is a policy choice.

stoppingin · 3 years ago

This sounds intuitively correct with regards to the economics of property development. I'm not a property developer though. I'm not really that concerned about their profits. I'm a young person renting an apartment in a city that is rapidly becoming unaffordable for the average Australian. The point of my post above was: If property developers are legally able to artificially constrain supply to maximise their profits, then how does all this YIMBYism actually benefit me? The main argument I hear for urban consolidation is that increasing supply lowers the cost. If this doesn't actually happen, then what's in it for us again?