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Easy human readability is a massive win when you have to diagnose problems.

> resulting in the compiler having to guess if you really meant 0 or whatever NULL

IIRC you had to cast 0 to a pointer, which made it a null pointer as distinct from arithmetic zero. Or am I confusing myself... It's been a while.

English English: "innit?"

I like your "pure violence" comparison. As the other guy says, trick is to use it sparsely. Think of it as salt to be used by the pinch rather than sugar to be used by the spoonful.

I can well imagine doing that with French mustard, or as I do, spooning it straight out of the jar. I certainly wouldn't consider doing the same with English mustard.

Nah probs mate, it happens

dave333 said

> So which of today's accepted theories are in error? Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity do not agree so at least one must be incorrect yet both are widely if not completely accepted.

You (FredPret) responded

> We're certainly zero-ing in on the truth though, which is extremely exciting

I had to read that as you implying closing in on some resolution of QM with relativity. Hence my confusion.

Have you any evidence of quantum and relativistic theories converging? If so, please point. I'm unaware of any.

> Pessimism much

I'm asking for facts, hope doesn't come into it.

> ...our mental model is asymptotically converging

Which is not what I'm picking up, so have you any evidence to change my mind? TIA

Apparently forests aren't part of the ecosphere :) Who knew.

Are we though? All I see is a lot of effort followed by a lot of reaching (yet again) for the aspirin and/or whiskey.

Have you any examples showing recent convergence between quantum & relativity?

Right, I'm starting to get the picture. I've never worked with an ORM as my SQL is pretty solid. I have to put my hands up here and say I don't know, sorry.

Perhaps I can help, or maybe learn something.

I don't really understand the confusion here, you write a stored procedure, you document it, test it, peer review it, then stuff it into the database. You then write code that uses it. No sarcasm, but what's the problem?

If you are allowed to create new schema objects then you can create views over the tables. Give the views a consistent name, but create the view to reference the actual table you want. Then update the view.

It's just a petulant rant against authority figures. Ignore stuff like that.

umm, "Even negative reinforcement and beatings are a way that was a "learning style" at one point" is a teaching style, not a learning style.

Thank you, but I did see the whole answer (the second paragraph) when I responded. I sort of know what you're saying about not spoon feeding people, but learning happens best for a person according to that person, and working backwards from an answer can be as illuminating for me as it was for the other guy (and it can be illuminating for the wrong reason – revealing that it was a poor question in the first place).

I don't think you can be prescriptive about how people should learn. In the end we'll have to be able to operate without someone giving us the answers, but in the beginning however we get the learning process we need, that's all that counts.

> but I understand them as quite dysfunctional, and not something that should be catered to

I'd be happier to accept this if you'd explain why it's dysfunctional.

> anti-science propaganda meant to fuel distrust tends to have a very weird upvote to comment ratio on HN these days

I've not noticed that, have you any examples?

Beats waiting 280 million years.

Exactly what I understood, that Haskell was intentionally a language laboratory.

There are many books I want to read, and even more things I want to do. Then there are things I need to do like pay the rent.

Didn't have time to read it but listened via LibriVox. It's a story of a violent age where thuggery ruled. Women were at the mercy of men (E.g. Penelope having to just about control a bunch of 'suitors').

I can't find it at the moment but IIRC Odysseus and his men put in at a port at a village, put all the men there to the sword and taje the women for slaves, sex and bounty. You get the picture. Scratch the surface and it gets ugly.

(Fascinating read nonetheless)

Dunno, but Monkey ('Journey to the West') by Wu Cheng'en was a great book as I remember. Wish I had time to read it again.

Perhaps I misread "Maybe take a walk and get some fresh air?" - no worries though.

Philosophy: are we quite sure it's the mushroom growing out of the frog? Reminds me of a joke:

A policeman walks into a doctor's surgery with a pig on his head.

The doctor says "errr... I think I can see the problem".

The pig says "yes, I've got this thing growing on my foot".

Interesting, thanks. A quick note, SPARC designers apparently did not talk to the compiler writers so didn't understand how much inlining could do, and implemented register windows as the wrong solution. Conversely I understand the alpha AXP ISA was designed with the hardware and compiler writers pretty much in the same room, and its beautiful and fast.

If I understand you correctly, I think the solution is to have ISA-independent low-level code (ANDF and C-- were/are examples)

I think register pages might bring you right back into the same issue as register windows; blocking of 000 execution.

Given the extraordinary cost of cache I think the idea of scratchpad memory is very promising, but I don't know how it would best be exposed to the compiler.

Not my area but...

> the other of course is the sad truth that hardware people need to innovate under the compiler instead of in cooperation with it

Can you expand a little on that please.

> register windows was one. but maybe we can wire up producers and consumers more explicitly in the ISA?

Register windows, at least in sparc, were a bugger because they substantially block OO execution, but I'd be curious about what your 'wiring up of producers and consumers in the ISA' would look like, can you elaborate?

I share your distaste for people whose only contribution is subtraction but suggest you lay off the sarcasm though. Trolls; don't feed. (Well done on your project BTW)

"And because it [cat-sup] was fermented, it boasted a shelf life of one to seven years."

does that really follow?