Drakim

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by Drakim 3y ago
You can kinda use a WeakMap to later detect if an object has been dereferenced, and thus run some sorta cleanup routine.
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by Drakim 3y ago
It's neat, but if I understand it correctly, if you forget to write the "using" keyword the code will still work just fine but the dispose will never be called, resulting in a memory leak. I don't suppose there is a way
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by Drakim 3y ago
What if that content includes personal data about me? My hopes, dreams, preferences, plans, goals and political opinions?
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by Drakim 3y ago
It's true, that dying man giving the butcher quest will simply sometimes not be outside the entrance to the cathedral. I was surprised too.
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by Drakim 3y ago
He is saying that those profitable powerful industries will lobby the government to help increase it's profit though various means. Not enough labor? Instead of paying more to attract talent, lobby the government to legalize child labo
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by Drakim 3y ago
There has been lots of instances of bad quality mods and mod abuse, which I assume will only become a bigger problem in the future. Having embedded community talent leave is never a good thing.
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by Drakim 3y ago
I'll grant you that, it's not the medium that matters. But pen on paper wasn't my objection, it was the post-it note on the bezel of your monitor.
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by Drakim 3y ago
That's basically an analog password manager, we have gone full circle. Or we return the metaphor to github repos, having a separate cabinet is like having a secret vault so that secrets are not directly in plain view in the repo itself
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by Drakim 3y ago
For your home desk? I can buy that. But for your work desk? No way is that even remotely more acceptable than having a memorizable password.
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by Drakim 3y ago
Yeah, I reacted to that too. It's like nonchalantly saying that you have all your passwords written on post-it notes at your desk. The topic of discussion shouldn't be how to secure your desk from spying eyes, but about why having
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by Drakim 3y ago
There is no "necessarily" about it, but it's obviously how history ended up unfolding. The big cultural-media-pop conflict in the west this very moment is centered around acceptance of diversity regarding gay and trans folks.
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by Drakim 3y ago
So you buy something else like Nest, and then google buys the company and removes your functionality anyways. That is, if vendor lock in will even allow you to get some other product without having to replace every device in your home (and
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by Drakim 3y ago
It's crazy, when I remove the YouTube Shorts pane it says "Shelf will be hidden for 30 days". It feels like a slap to the face by some promotion seeking Google Manager who tells me that he knows better than me. It's craz
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by Drakim 3y ago
It's the "too big to fail" scenario all over again. Just like with too big to fail companies and banks, only half of the equation is being applied: CPU industry wants to start using risky design techniques to get an edge on t
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by Drakim 3y ago
Not a fan, it looks kinda alright when you are using a string like that, but {num 5, val 4} looks alien to me. If you used this style in a programming language you'd even get {num var} which is even worse.
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by Drakim 4y ago
Ah issue is that some (most?) architectures can't do math without messing with registers such as an accumulator, carry flag, negative flag, etc. While it looks convenient, I'm not sure I'd feel very confident about what happe
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by Drakim 4y ago
As far as I understand Amazon makes a deliberate choice to reinvest their profit into research, marketing, etc, with the promise that it will grow more in the future. Musk has been very upfront that Twitter is bleeding money (hence why he i
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by Drakim 4y ago
It's extremely common to send a time input to GPU shaders, although this time input doesn't need to be tied to anything like a system timer or frame counter, it can be arbitrary and adjusted at will. Think of it like this: Imagine
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by Drakim 4y ago
There is a very strong disconnect between the value created by the lower class though their labor and what they are paid in wages. Companies don't use some formula where they give a percentage of what you create to you in return, they
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by Drakim 4y ago
Gmail launched on 1st of april and was thought to be a joke since it gave you a gitabyte (I think) of storage wheras email providers like hotmail gave you 50mb. Chrome launching was also a pretty big deal, I recall.
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by Drakim 4y ago
I recall reading that when training AlphaZero they would start pitching it against itself doing millions of games in a few days, which worked great because there is an external metric (who wins the chess game) that would objectively be a go
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by Drakim 4y ago
You are totally right, I was trying to ELI5 my language but ended up taking it too far.
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by Drakim 4y ago
If you violate the license that allows you to use some code, and the license says that any violation terminates the license, then you are technically stealing the code by using it (basic copyright infringement). So you could be sued for tha
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by Drakim 4y ago
Indeed, simply saying that it's just "more of the same" misses the point that quantity has a quality all its own.
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by Drakim 4y ago
You sure that leaving this comment up on the internet where a potential future AI might see it is a good idea?
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by Drakim 4y ago
Some people prefer localhost, others like 127.0.0.1
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by Drakim 4y ago
The same question goes for how computationally expensive it is to generate a key that kinda-resembles a known key? If you are just eyeballing the key "yeah that looks like Github's key" when the terminal ask you, you might fa
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by Drakim 4y ago
I've always been curious about this, if you have a stable coin that's in the billions like some are, can't they just put the fiat into a bank account and live on the interest rate?
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by Drakim 4y ago
But who created Satan, and the forbidden fruit? If Satan is responsible for the later consequences of his earlier actions, then surely we should apply the standard equally?
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by Drakim 4y ago
This conversation is clearly talking about the good or bad that the EU does. Are those books banned because of the EU? Would they stop being banned if Poland or Hungary was not part of the EU?

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