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That depends on how often you use it. If I needed to write quicksort as often as the quadratic formula, I’d probably remember it. And if I only used the quadratic formula as often as I do quicksort, I’d just derive it each time.

You don’t need to memorize quicksort. If you understand how it works, it’s trivial to work out the exact details.

LLMs are a type of neural networks.

Since PHP has to maintain backward compatibility, many of the issues are not and will never be fixed.

Since when are literally all rich people violent criminals?

So you advocated for violence against a specific group of people and got banned for advocating for violence against a specific group of people? How unexpected…

Do we have an equivalent of r/ComedyCemetery here on Lemmy?

It tries to auto-determine when to trigger, but you can explicitly trigger it by putting a question mark after your query.

Do you have a link to the research? I’m a math educator and I’d like some good materials for encouraging my students.

I have no rebottomal for this comment.

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

You’re so close to reinventing Smalltalk…

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.

Try writing 20 algebraic manipulations of the equation on paper and you’ll quickly understand why it’s written that way.

Why not just add function overloading to the language and have a function named copy that takes a string and an optional character count?