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New comment by theaeolist in "The Recursive Book of Recursion"

theaeolist — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:50:32 +0000

Recursion is natural and easy to understand when the argument of the function is a recursive data structure, and the cases are patterns on the constructors. These are natural and useful cases, much better than the alternative. Starting with misguided examples like factorial is demotivating.

After years of zero-Covid China is suddenly opening up

theaeolist — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 08:54:52 +0000

Article URL: https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202212/1281111.shtml

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33863096

Points: 2

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New comment by theaeolist in "Moore’s Law is dead – Long live the chiplet"

theaeolist — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 07:33:41 +0000

Even if the Moore's law is not dead, single-thread performance and clock frequency have plateaued 10 years ago. This is the key factor. Because of heating even if you squeeze more transistors onto a chip you need to reduce the clock, so even if you may get higher computational throughput the latency will go down. And this is another argument for chiplets or any other alternative computational architectures.

New comment by theaeolist in "Socialist Romania Computer Chips"

theaeolist — Fri, 30 Sep 2022 07:09:18 +0000

"The consumption of electricity in everyday life was limited (it was forbidden to use a refrigerator during the winter, and the use of a vacuum cleaner was banned all year round), hot water was supplied to apartments twice a week,"

This is all false. Source: I was there.

New comment by theaeolist in "The culture of rejection in computer science publications"

theaeolist — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:20:02 +0000

Program Committee

New comment by theaeolist in "The culture of rejection in computer science publications"

theaeolist — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:14:29 +0000

A clear exposition of an obscure and hard to understand result is lack of 'respect for readers' time'? How so?

New comment by theaeolist in "The culture of rejection in computer science publications"

theaeolist — Fri, 26 Aug 2022 15:08:15 +0000

> 3. While the size of any one conference has to be fixed, tech has made it infinitely easier to create new conferences and journals with other focus areas. They may not start with the prestige of a larger journal, but if the papers published start to have an impact, it can catalyze an entire subfield of work.

Does it though? The largest conferences I go to as a CS academic have hundreds of people. There are academic areas where 10x people participate. The size limitation is a self-imposed excuse to keep acceptance low. I have been PC chair of two conferences and my attempts to expand the conference numbers were shot down by the steering committee precisely for this reason, not because we couldn't find a larger room.

F Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Hexadecimal

theaeolist — Thu, 25 Aug 2022 10:50:57 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-022-10206-w

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32592002

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

SMIC (China) has started shipping 7nm chips despite US sanctions

theaeolist — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 07:59:03 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/china-s-top-chipmaker-makes-big-tech-advances-despite-us-curbs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32221692

Points: 4

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New comment by theaeolist in "Real peer review has never been tried"

theaeolist — Fri, 22 Jul 2022 09:04:01 +0000

Journals can still do curation of the stuff that's on preprint archives. Some already do. It's a lot less friction than the current model.

New comment by theaeolist in "Meta slashes hiring plans, girds for 'fierce' headwinds"

theaeolist — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 05:54:51 +0000

Maybe not so slow.

New comment by theaeolist in "Cryptocurrencies Have Broken Almost All of Their Major Promises"

theaeolist — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:47:54 +0000

> For example, in Sri Lanka, there is no way for someone to accept payments or send money through PayPal or Stripe. However, people will be able to send money through the blockchain and bypass these restrictions if more people begin to trust crypto.

If Sri Lanka blocks PayPal and Stripe are you sure they will not block commercial entities from converting between rupees and crypto-assets? Individual and small scale operators might still do it, flying under the radar, but that is not a scalable proposition.

New comment by theaeolist in "The next Google"

theaeolist — Wed, 06 Apr 2022 08:22:16 +0000

Maybe Google should start a new thing, a "search engine", which actually searches (rather then guess, anticipate, and interpret).

Deep Hole Geothermal Energy

theaeolist — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 13:59:11 +0000

Article URL: https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/geothermal-energy-renewables-quaise-hole-b2036201.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30711223

Points: 1

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New comment by theaeolist in "Umeshisms"

theaeolist — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:51:38 +0000

10 hrs waiting (i.e. catching up on email and social media, eating or shopping) for 4k? Does this seem reasonable to you?

New comment by theaeolist in "Umeshisms"

theaeolist — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:42:56 +0000

At the airport I don't merely sit and wait. I catch up on email and paperwork, maybe start watching a movie. It's not wasted time so I don't mind being there 30 mins extra for safety.

New comment by theaeolist in "Umeshisms"

theaeolist — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 09:41:03 +0000

If you need to flip your USB A connector three times before pushing it into the port you are not pushing hard enough.

A library for effect handlers in C++

theaeolist — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 12:58:52 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/maciejpirog/cpp-effects

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30345833

Points: 36

# Comments: 10

New comment by theaeolist in "The Dark Side of Smart Contracts"

theaeolist — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:45:24 +0000

> Smart contracts offer revolutionary new to transact gloablly.

They certainly do that.

New comment by theaeolist in "The Dark Side of Smart Contracts"

theaeolist — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:41:36 +0000

You don't seem to understand what the previous poster said: all of this can be achieved with a database that allows some open access. You don't need a consensus protocol on a distributed system.