Amelorate

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A Small Unary Puzzle(amel.pw)
1 points by Amelorate 6y ago|0 comments
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by Amelorate 7y ago
It sounds like you were writing your documents in troff/groff.
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by Amelorate 7y ago
Wouldn't it be possible to, with a really strange number format for integers, define SIZE_MAX as INFINITY? C doesn't require twos-compliment numbers, after all.
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by Amelorate 7y ago
A while ago, while talking to a friend about game design, I had the realization: Players will quit over issues they see in a game, even when in actuality those are non -issues.
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by Amelorate 8y ago
You're forgetting. All these are cryptocurrencies. You need to have more than that. I own 30,000 different kinds of assets. Stocks, bonds, crypto, I even own all of the funds. You're suffering from way too much centralization.
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by Amelorate 8y ago
Rust sort of already has this, though implemented in a worse way. They use 0.[major/minor].[minor/patch]. When the library author wants to indicate that their library is stable, they go to 1.0.0 and promise that they'll never
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by Amelorate 8y ago
My interpretation of the article was that chrome ships with a blocklist of websites that have annoying autoplay features, but will automatically remove websites from that blocklist that you usually start by playing their videos, and automat
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by Amelorate 8y ago
Minecraft's Far Lands aren't actually related to floating point precision, although movement near the Far Lands is affected. My understanding of what causes the Far Lands isn't that great, but I think it's caused by one
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by Amelorate 8y ago
I assume Waterluvian is using the term to refer to a mac laptop with Windows or Linux installed onto it.
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by Amelorate 9y ago
Python uses * * , but that is ambigous with int a = 1; int *b = &a; int c = a ** b; // Am I casting b to an int (returning it's address) and exponenting it or am I derefrencing b and multiplying it's resul
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by Amelorate 9y ago
It is possible for a compiler to optimize long method chains into the equivalent imperative code. The rust compiler is an example, and in the case of the iterator trait, it can actually be optimized better than the equivalent imperative cod
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by Amelorate 9y ago
Counter-argument to changing the return type of a function with var: You can change the return type of the function to another type that might break some assumptions later in the code. For example, if the code assumes it has a type Foo with
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by Amelorate 9y ago
Small thing to note: While a lot of intelectual discussion does go on in /g/, the board's culture does often encourage misleading information and trolling. Browsers of reddit and Hacker News are often called out and ridiculed