Leszek

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by Leszek 8y ago
Perhaps that's something you should evaluate about yourself then, because I don't think you'd raise the same ParseError if the profession were "nurse". Unconscious biases don't have to be malicious to exist, an
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by Leszek 9y ago
Something like https://blog.xamarin.com/android-in-c-sharp/ ?
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by Leszek 9y ago
I think you're missing the point that gsl::index, unlike size_t, is signed.
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by Leszek 9y ago
I like the idea behind your compression analogy, but it doesn't quite work. In particular, you assume the solution when saying that the set of all programs is incompressible. Indeed, there are programs which operate on the set of all p
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by Leszek 9y ago
What is the value of anything, really? The value of a metal brick, or a shiny stone, far exceeds any practical utility of the physical object itself. Even the value of a "real" currency is based, in broad strokes, on what you can
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by Leszek 9y ago
"This website uses cookies"
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by Leszek 9y ago
I really love the translation "hack". The 2D plane is mapped onto the z=1 plane, and then we apply an x-y shear in 3D space. This keeps the 3D origin at the origin, but shifts around the z=1 plane without distorting it, so that wh
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by Leszek 9y ago
Though spec bugs go the opposite way: if you discover an issue in the spec, then it is very difficult to change it because someone somewhere may have been - at the time correctly - relying on that behaviour.
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by Leszek 9y ago
You would if it were in an article about computer generated imagery.
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by Leszek 9y ago
Sure, but surely sketches can be just as twisted and misused (e.g. drawing a defendant with a menacing snarl), and even more so given that there's no source of real truth.
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by Leszek 9y ago
Well indeed, I suppose I should have also said "aside from photography being disallowed". Perhaps to phrase another way, why could anyone be against the reintroduction of photography into courtrooms?
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by Leszek 9y ago
I there any reason to prefer these illustrations over photos, other than "charm"? Something like not recording things that weren't the centre of attention?
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by Leszek 9y ago
I imagine the difficulty here is not in coming up with the idea of using a water tank, but rather in designing the shape and material of a container that is sufficiently strong to survive the forces acting upon it.
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by Leszek 9y ago
If you're carrying around a generator, you may as well carry around an internal combustion engine though?
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by Leszek 9y ago
The keyword you're looking for is "Steganography". See, for example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20863721/image-steganogr... .
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by Leszek 9y ago
> relatively low doses > roughly 80 to 100 cups of coffee You and I have different definitions of "low dose".
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by Leszek 9y ago
> Most airlines operate with a day or less of cash reserves That's kind of amazing, and kind of terrifying.
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by Leszek 10y ago
Your daughter will be glad to hear that she's in good company, in noticing the "Vergence-Accommodation conflict"[1] that is unavoidable on two-view stereoscopic displays. You're correct that light field optics don't
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by Leszek 10y ago
No, I know that I'll be getting a refund, I just wonder why the kickstarter money wasn't enough to fulfill the kickstarter rewards.
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by Leszek 10y ago
FitBit bought them for the equivalent of pennies because they were, it seems, deep in debt.
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by Leszek 10y ago
Very disappointing for this backer that the Time 2 will never come out. It makes you wonder where the kickstarter money went.
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by Leszek 10y ago
Also looks like a similar attempt to SEO and get customers by posting unrelated techie stuff under the same domain -- cf. instapainting discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12798767 .
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by Leszek 10y ago
var (ret, err) = Foo(); if (err != null) { ... }
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by Leszek 10y ago
Previous discussion (mostly about the blog post): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12792928
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by Leszek 10y ago
From a page linked within the original article: > The six horseshoes and the sixty-one nails themselves probably date from the 1360's. After being rendered to the Queen's Remembrancer, they are preserved in his Office and, with
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by Leszek 10y ago
> Lindtner compares the culture of Shenzhen’s manufacturing ecosystem to the open-source movement among software developers. This is actually an interesting comparison. There are plenty of open-source "clones" or (more kindly)
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by Leszek 10y ago
Correction: Tim Pope managed to hack in a mostly-functional version 4 years ago.
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by Leszek 10y ago
When I saw the title, I assumed this was satirical. By the time I reached the end, I became entirely uncertain. Is this a genuine post that happens to be a bit amusingly self-aware, or full-blown Poe's law satire?
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by Leszek 10y ago
Crack addicts also get withdrawal symptoms, it's not necessarily a sign of being in a good situation. I'm glad for you that you're in a position where your urges steer you in a healthy direction, but that doesn't make &q
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by Leszek 10y ago
> Listen to your body. I hate this advice. When I'm exercising, my body is telling me that I'm tired and that I should give up. When I'm eating chocolate, my body is telling me that it's delicious and I should have mo

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