ErikCorry

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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Obviously it may never crash, and it never did, even with a bad comparison function. But the JS engine does not protect against the page containing JS code that loops forever. How would it even do that? Edit: Perhaps some misunderstanding:
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Cool stuff. Is Glidesort1024 still stable?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
That's usually called Introsort, but I think you'll find that most of these still consider at least the middle element for a pivot, so they still have a more complex cache behaviour than the naïve linear sweep from both ends of a
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
In practice, to avoid worse case quadratic time, you have to have a rather involved pivot selection in Quicksort. Eg nine random or evenly distributed elements which you put in three groups of three and take the median of the median. Collec
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
If you provided an inconsistent comparison function I don't see how it's the sort implementation's responsibility to produce a sensible output. Or even to terminate at all.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Well these are the sorts of arguments I made on the V8 bug, and people were not happy.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
TIL.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
I hacked it up in Toit :-) Not the prettiest code, but it's in the examples directory at https://github.com/toitware/toit-png-display if anyone cares.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
How much of this is cataracts, and what are the other causes?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Such a huge reveal that it was on Tesla's wikipedia page in 2011, and still is. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tesla,_Inc.&oldid...
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Recreating classic games with a bare MCU(lcamtuf.substack.com)
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Three fun little projects to build hand-held computer games 1980s-style.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
As ben_w points out elsewhere in the thread, renewables are so cheap that losses matter less than you think. Put another way: Today in Denmark, electricity is free. Literally 0 cents (øre) before taxes and transport fees (of about 5 cents,
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
The bug was in profanity?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
This, but for SHA256, is basically what Bitcoin mining is.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
If the object is immutable you can't really tell if it was passed by value or by reference. It becomes an implementation detail.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Here's a better list. * Performance is very bad. * Misspelling a variable creates a new one. * __init__ is a really terrible name for the constructor. * Type annotations are ignored, so nobody bothers.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
This is true and actually the animations probably understate it because they sort all the 4-element sections, then merge to 8-element sections etc. The actual implementation in Toit does depth first, so eg. the leftmost 8,8->16 merge is
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Offline TV plus online Chromecast works fine for me.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
I had way too much fun making these animations.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Fascinating. Is there any benefit to having in a place that rotates in situ rather than going around in circles in a given day?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
I think part of the benefit of vim for RSI is that there's not much chording - pressing two keys at once. When not using vim you often need control characters on the left hand. Ctrl-C Ctrl-V Ctrl-X Ctrl-A are all on the left. Also, for
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
What about the actual South Pole? Looks like it might be over water.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
If the gaps are all the same size, isn't it fixed point rather than floating point?
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Somewhere in orbit around one of those starts is a civilization discovering that they have been hurled out of the galaxy. They are convinced that intelligent life can only exist outside the galaxy. "It's clear that the stars are
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Most of these issues are not technical so I stand by my assessment.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
And that is happening. There are multiple cross channel HVDC lines and more on their way. These make perfect sense.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Also a lot more expensive. The UK is not big enough for it to make technical sense.
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Strangely there already is one between Scotland and Wales and two more are proposed (see the article). I suspect NIMBYism is a big part of the explanation. Airborne AC links are efficient but ugly. Underwater AC links are tolerated by Nimbi
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by ErikCorry 4y ago
Interesting vulnerability. Having just written a DER parser I found the format way more complicated than expected. For security, simplicity is better. Note that every time you connect to an HTTPS web site, your browser is attempting to pa

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