HelloNurse

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by HelloNurse 3mo ago
The "amazing" organizations seem amazingly evil.
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by HelloNurse 3mo ago
Vocabulary please. A "codec" is software that CODes and DECodes multimedia content, while specs describe an encoded file or stream format (occasionally involving network protocols and other concerns). In a normal standard develop
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by HelloNurse 3mo ago
Email domains of employee addresses aren't necessarily owned by the company. For example: - a startup with legacy personal email addresses from one or two universities - a spin-off sharing the email domain (and the whole IT infra
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by HelloNurse 3mo ago
With a company-managed list of owned domains where real employees have their work email addresses (unrelated to website domains).
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
My experience with responsive breakpoints is that they require compromises and therefore it's hard to make a manager commit to them: everything must look perfect, and identical, on every different device that exists, and if it doesn&#x
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
You need to distinguish the prevention of actual type errors during the execution of a Python program, which would require mutilating the Python language, and linting Python code to find proven or likely defects, which is merely fraught wit
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
The rhyming is good, making "Oldavista" a generic wordplay that is merely more obvious to find for German speakers, and the name is insignificant compared to the effort of reproducing the whole Altavista page.
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
Declaring types only where one wants to introduce a constraint would be nice, but unfortunately calls with obvious wrong types like "foo(5, {})" are a minority; in most cases types in a call depend on types of the calling function
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
Buying a router, as opposed to connecting whatever your Internet provider gives you, is a very high technical bar. You need to know why you want to spend money, which implies evaluating features, needs and possibilities, virtually guarant
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
Even wilder: > SQL was not designed for application development, and every attempt to integrate it into higher level programs (ORM, fluent query builders, raw strings, macros/preprocessors) comes with unpleasant rough edges. Forgett
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
> Remember how the 0 and 255 bins poked slightly beyond the [0,1][0,1] range’s edges? In the standard approach, the range of representable values is actually [−0.5/255,255.5/255][−0.5/255,255.5/255], meaning the bin
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
Is there a written explanation of the "Flatpak Next" plan? What is it supposed to change, and what does it need from systemd? The article contains only a vague half paragraph of architecture: > they want to move the permiss
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
There is an easy way to take control: read the volatile variable only once. volatile int x = 5; ... int y=x; printf("%d in hex is 0x%x.\n", y, y);
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
While, for the purpose of avoiding gratuitous mistakes, C is a serious disadvantage compared to less low-level languages, your discussion of UB pitfalls in C is aimed at a strawman. First of all, traffic rules are good, and similar to good
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
"Just don't do that" is the correct approach to errors, even when they are easy to overlook and the programming language provides many opportunities for mistakes. For example, you seem to underestimate how wrong placing negat
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by HelloNurse 4mo ago
Some of the examples are somewhat formally true in theory and bullshit in practice; some are quite hallucinatory. - Creating a potentially troublesome misaligned int pointer is a precisely localized and completely explicit user mistake,
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by HelloNurse 5mo ago
The final value of a is that if you write this you are fired. It's worse than a racist joke.
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by HelloNurse 5mo ago
It is worth noting that some rather "enlightened" type system features are common in other imperative languages, not particularly novel ides in Zig. For example Swift enums, while in some ways clunky, can do a decent job both as n
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by HelloNurse 5mo ago
Normalizing repeating groups doesn't offer significant savings when they are completely populated (e.g. each entity has the full 12 monthly values per year), but other types of normalization do. For example dependent data are actually
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by HelloNurse 6mo ago
Formally, it doesn't appear to be so (tests can be added to each early return); in practice, encouraging the reorganization of messy early returns would be zero cost developer reeducation.
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by HelloNurse 6mo ago
Or a small step that enables actually problematic real compliance, combined with a bad precedent: a "secure" way to populate that birth date field is a plausible future drive-by contribution.
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by HelloNurse 6mo ago
Why didn't systemd reject these changes? Was there an internal debate that the article doesn't cover, or is it the arbitrary decision of other "volunteers"?
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by HelloNurse 6mo ago
So it depends. Float parsing performance is only a problem if you parse many floats, and lazy access might reduce work significantly (or add overhead: it depends).
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
As an example of the likely future of science in the USA, read about Trofim Lysenko.
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
What things to learn are more important for "engineers" than using VC messages and history for communicating adequately (including communicating with themselves in the future) and using VC merging, staging etc. to put source code
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
This is naive pathfinding that adopts the shortcut of perfect information. Good looking pathfinding simulates realistic terrain ignorance (no "psychic powers"), but it is likely to be expensive enough to require other compromises
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
Serious loss of life is a plausible LLM outcome, particularly for Microsoft who does both operating systems (incidents can be much worse than the Crowdstrike bricking) and chatbot assistants that can offer lethal advice. Catastrophic proper
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
Neither deadlines nor cheap work for hire help any sort of review process, while an hobby project is normally done by someone who cares.
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by HelloNurse 7mo ago
> "everything is moving very fast" Then slow down. With this objective lack or control, sooner or later your LLM experiments in production will drive into a wall instead of hitting a little pothole like this diagram.

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