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New comment by fabriceleal in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

fabriceleal — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:29 +0000

As far as conspiracies goes, this one pretty much borders on open secret.

> In his first term, Schröder's government decided to phase out nuclear power, fund renewable energies

> Since leaving public office, Schröder has worked for Russian state-owned energy companies, including Nord Stream AG, Rosneft, and Gazprom.

Gerhard Schröder has not worked for russian nuclear reactor companies for a reason.

New comment by fabriceleal in "Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return result’s sign? (2004)"

fabriceleal — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 09:28:05 +0000

> Okay, you also get some obscure information like whether there were an even or odd number of 1 bits in the bottom 8 bits of result, but that’s hardly useful nowadays.

I'm honestly curious, was it ever useful, or is it just an expression?

New comment by fabriceleal in "Original 1851 reviews of Moby-Dick"

fabriceleal — Fri, 22 Oct 2021 15:33:08 +0000

I'm a non native english speaker trying to read this book, sort of gave it up around (i think) half to read other books in the waiting list. Most of the interludes are not that engaging to me (whale classification chapter comes to mind), which is a pity since I enjoyed the actual narrative.

New comment by fabriceleal in "PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life"

fabriceleal — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 16:46:56 +0000

> If

Is it not?

> certainly not unique to PHP

Doesn't stop it from being an issue in my book, one that prevents updating to newer versions of the interpreter without breaking production.

New comment by fabriceleal in "PHP 5 and 7.0 end of life"

fabriceleal — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:59:00 +0000

So the issue is not breaking backwards compability in the "standard library" between versions?

New comment by fabriceleal in "Chess World Championship: Stockfish live-analyzing game 7"

fabriceleal — Tue, 20 Nov 2018 09:57:24 +0000

Sacrificing material for positional compensation is hardly a new concept

New comment by fabriceleal in "Recursive fibonacci benchmark using top languages on GitHub"

fabriceleal — Fri, 28 Sep 2018 12:57:42 +0000

Probably more about the difference between "echo" and "std::cout << ... << std::endl;" than the recursive function call.

Google: Introduction to Machine Learning

fabriceleal — Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:02:25 +0000

Article URL: https://developers.google.com/machine-learning/crash-course/ml-intro

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17292187

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by fabriceleal in "Computing glitch may have doomed Mars lander"

fabriceleal — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 13:09:30 +0000

Reminds me of that robocop scene "You call this a glitch???"

New comment by fabriceleal in "Big data and poker-playing bots are blurring the line between man and machine"

fabriceleal — Mon, 13 Jun 2016 08:42:14 +0000

> They made very annoying, aggressive plays that were difficult to counter, not taught anywhere in professional videos, forums or training sites

Mind sharing more on these strategies? I'm curious about what sort of strategy a poker pro would find so unique as to not recognize it from anywhere

New comment by fabriceleal in "Bobby Fischer: from prodigy to pariah (2011)"

fabriceleal — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 21:55:58 +0000

That one is an urban myth of sorts i believe

New comment by fabriceleal in "Chess Move Compression"

fabriceleal — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 09:29:26 +0000

I've been doing some spare chess programming on a GUI myself (non-intensive on-off work for 1 year so far) and I decided to stay with the naive method (12 bits, straightforward src and dest squares) for compressing moves. It's obviously easier and faster to implement, I'm not hostage for some wacky bugs I could have done, and it's straightforward to parse and to format to long algebraic form (e2e4), which is the format UCI likes to receive (stockfish, for instance) and to store to a file.

Having said that, I might take a look into this 8 bit format :)

Data Structures for Text Sequences (1998) [pdf]

fabriceleal — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 22:03:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cs.unm.edu/~crowley/papers/sds.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9208381

Points: 103

# Comments: 7

New comment by fabriceleal in "Why Lisp macros are cool, a Perl perspective (2005)"

fabriceleal — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 10:41:25 +0000

Let over Lambda uses this (maybe something like this?). Very cool book.

http://letoverlambda.com/

New comment by fabriceleal in "Rosetta comet landing – live stream"

fabriceleal — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 15:04:21 +0000

Ah, the pictures here https://www.flickr.com/photos/europeanspaceagency/sets/72157... remind me of Eraserhead :)

New comment by fabriceleal in "What is Gradual Typing"

fabriceleal — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 12:12:33 +0000

Check opendylan [1], which blends dynamic typing with optional type annotations [2]. There's a paper [3] and a "dead" branch in github [4] with an actual implementation of gradual typing.

[1]: http://opendylan.org/

[2]: http://dylanfoundry.org/2014/08/28/type-system-overview/

[3]: http://www.itu.dk/~hame/ilc2010.pdf

[4]: https://github.com/hannesm/opendylan/tree/typed-opendylan

Curry-Howard, the Ontological Ultimate

fabriceleal — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 08:32:50 +0000

Article URL: https://psnively.github.io/blog/2014/10/14/Curry-Howard-the-Ontological-Ultimate/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8497200

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by fabriceleal in "Ask HN: Beginner pointers on SAT solvers?"

fabriceleal — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 13:14:04 +0000

Minisat is definitely on my read list; I'll probably need to read it 2/3 times to fully appreciate it's content. Thanks for the "superoptimizer" pointer, I'll explore that.

Ask HN: Beginner pointers on SAT solvers?

fabriceleal — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 08:49:37 +0000

I just got started on writing a SAT solver (https://github.com/rjmacready/sat-solver) (this is not working ATM) and while I’ve been finding some resources, I feel like I’m missing something … does anyone have some beginner pointers on SAT solver implementation? I was looking for something like pseudocode, algorithm visualization (like this http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~galles/visualization/Algorithms.html, for instance), anything.

Also if anyone knows about how can they be applied in a compiler (typesystem, optimization, …), feedback is also welcomed.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8457631

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by fabriceleal in "XOS: Build your own operating system"

fabriceleal — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 10:27:46 +0000

Now this would be very interesting! Been trying to find good resources on this for a while, but found none ...