Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
If the implementation of a poor algorithm is robust and bug-free, that would be something that is well-made, despite being bad. Consider a chair that is sturdy and load-bearing, while still being lightweight, but it wildly uncomfortable to
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by Karellen 3y ago
If your own user-agent or OS is working on the wrong timezone, that's your fault. A website/app shouldn't have to find your timezone. It should use whatever one you've set. If you've set your timezone to one you did
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by Karellen 3y ago
Surely when someone posts content, that date/time that happens is captured by the server in epoch time. And javascript natively converts epoch time to whatever timezone the client has set. If your user-agent (aka browser) is working
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by Karellen 3y ago
Why not just display it in the viewers' timezone?
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by Karellen 3y ago
No problem. Looking back at it again now, I can see the intent of the original sentence where "it had an operating business" refers to i4i, but "in a manner that was..." refers to Microsoft. I didn't get the change
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by Karellen 3y ago
> it implies the relevant tool is the disk format for every Office file Does it imply that? Another commenter has already pointed out why it's likely not the case. But also, I don't think the article is well written. Partly b
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by Karellen 3y ago
> this revolution won't occur until after I'm elected God-Emperor of Mars, And you'll have to make all your intervals slightly longer, due to Mars' solar day being 24h39m35s by standard Earth time.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Are you sure? Isn't the average calculated by dividing by n , an integer? Edit: I mean, you're right that nearly every number is irrational. But I think averages are going to be some of the tiny fraction of numbers that aren&#x27
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by Karellen 3y ago
> you have to bets many many times to make profit from stock market You also have to take into account transaction fees and broker spread. (If you get a great deal on one of these, check the other very carefully!) I'd be quite surpr
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by Karellen 3y ago
I'd give ytnef and libpst a try. They both come with a command line tool suite for working with Outlook files. https://github.com/Yeraze/ytnef https://www.five-ten-sg.com/libpst/
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by Karellen 3y ago
Heh. Kind of like Clever Hans. It keeps tapping its foot until you relax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clever_Hans
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Because it slows down as you use more RAM compression, Wait, are you claiming RAM compression uses an adaptive compression factor that compresses more as memory pressure grows? Are you sure that's how it works?
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Also you need to install different plugins from random anonymous guys from Github Do I? Strange, I've never noticed needing to do that myself.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> > Procrastination exists because there are two distinctly different personalities living inside all of us. > Respectfully, this is a discredited scientific model of the brain. Agreed. There are three personalities in my brain. Th
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Is VS Code a text editor? Um, I thought it was? I've not used it, because I'm happy with (neo)vim for my dev needs, but I thought that's what it did? If VS Code isn't used to edit text, what is it for? Edit: (neo)vi
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by Karellen 3y ago
https://www.debian.org/donations > The easiest method of donating to Debian is via PayPal to Software in the Public Interest, a non-profit organization that holds assets in trust for Debian. https://www.spi-in
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by Karellen 3y ago
> For example, if you want to install Sublime Text, or VS Code, there is no way to do it securely, without giving untrusted software access to your browser history and SSH keys. First, if you don't trust a bit of software, why are y
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by Karellen 3y ago
There's an "anti-sysv-init train"? `sysvinit` is still available in the current version of Debian, Bookworm , released less than 4 months ago: https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/sysvinit Note that `runit` i
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by Karellen 3y ago
Does anyone know how this compares to incogni.com ? I've seen a few sponsored slots for that from vloggers who seem to be pretty on the level. It's always possible that enough slick marketing and paid search results could thwart r
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by Karellen 3y ago
I thought that GCs are often run in their own thread, and because scheduling at the OS layer is seen as non-deterministic from the application's viewpoint (you never know when your own threads are going to get stopped/started), yo
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by Karellen 3y ago
Because distinguishing between types of error is important and useful. A buffer overrun is different from a stack overflow, which is different from a division by zero, which is different from "else die()" on unexpected input, whic
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by Karellen 3y ago
It's a bit tangential to the main topic, but > When people say “It’s a matter of principle!” they are usually doing something self-destructive. Oof. That's an interesting perspective on some of the choices I've made in the
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Just get the newer compiler to build the newer code. I think part of the problem is that this is backwards to how people coming from other traditional languages (like C, or C++) think. With those, you deliberately choose your target co
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by Karellen 3y ago
I tried to find a copy of Rusty Russell's API Design Manifesto to get another respected voice to back this opinion, but the most-linked to version of it now sits behind a Google sign-in, and (somewhat ironically) search results for Rus
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by Karellen 3y ago
> In real terms that means a saving of around 1MB. That doesn’t sound like much, but at 4 million weekly downloads, that would save 4TB of bandwidth per week. Yeah, who cares about 4TB/week? What is this, the '90s?!
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by Karellen 3y ago
> The simplest possible encoding for Unicode is UTF-32. It simply stores code points as 32-bit integers. Skipping over UTF-32-BE and UTF-32-LE there... (I mean, it might not be an issue if it's just being used as an internal represe
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by Karellen 3y ago
Good catch doh.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Where are the decimal numbers in that image?
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by Karellen 3y ago
lol iswydt
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I’m surprised ONLYOFFICE isn’t more popular in more distributions. There's an RFP/ITP (Request For Package/Intent To Package) issue for Debian filed in June 2020, but no evidence that any DDs have wanted to pick it up or

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