LnxPrgr3

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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
> SD Card readers are also not used much these days. Buy a $10 adaptor if you need it. Photographers. Photographers were still using that. You know what my mid 2009 MBP can still do? Pull images from my DSLR while charging while plugged
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I will be upgrading ASAP because my current machine is a Mid 2009 MBP. If it were a 2014 model? I doubt it. I am anti-motivated by the touch bar and everything-is-USB-type-C, but I've got iOS dev work lined up so I'd better get ov
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
So? You're getting together to build things for money, not pounding back beers on the front porch and ranting about politics.
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
The problem is the number of people that fail FizzBuzz or morally equivalent interview questions. It's so bad I think companies that don't ask candidates to code could skip interviewing about general background entirely, replace i
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
My experience with Web browsers is they expand to fill all available memory and then some. This Firefox process has grown more than 50% since launch, and will stay mostly that big even if I close all but one new tab. Chrome does a better jo
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Not the parent, but that stuff adds up when just about everything's written as if it owns the machine and the machine's guaranteed to be blatant overkill. Disclaimer: it's not my only machine, but I'm posting from a Pi 3
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Debuggers are special--the OS won't let unsigned binaries control other processes, no matter how they came to exist on your system. Outside of that, Gatekeeper applies to executables fetched from the Web, can be disabled (harder on Sie
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Apologies if I'm missing your point (it's not clear who you meant to reply to), but the article went through that analysis and determined that there's no income correlation, but an obvious correlation by racial makeup. That a
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Data-dependent audio pipeline callbacks? In the schemes I'm aware of, they rarely change after setup--hence my thinking effectively fixed targets were the representative case. (After an update, pipeline stalls plague you until the pred
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Unless your hardware has to be fed sample-at-a-time, your deadline isn't 700 times worse. A fairer comparison would point out for HD video, you have mere nanoseconds per pixel, vs. microseconds for audio samples. That is, my laptop has
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
> Interpreters are slow pretty much for that reason. Having to chase pointers. Here's a test I did on the Raspberry Pi 3 (with source so anyone can repeat it on more Intel-y hardware): https://gist.github.com/LnxPrgr
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
How about the Web of 2012? WebSockets changed wire formats multiple times before we settled on something. Last I checked, the API still isn't final, and changes in browser behavior forced a project I was on to abandon it for socket.io.
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Not to mention the effect of time. The Web is not a stable application environment, and you may get caught in limbo, where the old way to do something is technically deprecated, but only one browser implements the new scheme, and only in ni
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Recently had a project with a C++-on-Linux deliverable. I developed on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, the most recent LTS at the time. Someone else tested on 16.04 LTS, which came out between me finishing development and him testing. Code compiled and f
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
My first development job worked like that--a one-month trial that got turned permanent something like 2 weeks in, at a tiny company hiring at a slow rate. I'm glad it got me my first gig, but I'm not sure I recommend it. IME, any
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I for one actually appreciate coding interviews. Besides, I know my resume isn't a bunch of stuff I made up yesterday, but how are you supposed to know that? I do wish most were done differently though. A few months ago, I interviewed
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I don't ever unconditionally trust code, but my faith rises: * a little, if it passes a decent unit and/or integration test suite; * a fair bit more, if it survives a round with humans who didn't write it but did set out to b
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
If family socioeconomic status is the best predictor of your own wealth, it's hard to argue "wanting it" is the most important factor. Unless you genuinely believe most everyone living in poverty is perfectly happy to stay th
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
Heh--it's like nohup(/daemom), except you make a SOAP call through some middleware to beg some more middleware for mercy so you can do the thing your user asked you to do, because everyone's being punished for a few programs&
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
I loaded this in Firefox on a Raspberry Pi 3 (don't ask), and never got to see below the fold--burned CPU for a minute or two before I gave up and closed it. I had pressed page-down once--don't know if it ever got around to proces
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by LnxPrgr3 10y ago
How else are you going to do stuff like this? https://github.com/phresnel/metatrace I'm just sad that Java's accidental compute system managed to be uglier (and apparently far less useful) than C++'s. Th
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
> The same feminist group that twitter appointed to ther new free-speech censorship board has said some of the most horrific stuff about men. It’s beyond offensive, yet there are no bannings or accountability. Because not enough people d
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
RNNs are good at learning the structure of their training input—even character-level networks can output vaguely plausible English. Of course, what you end up with often looks like a computational model of a thought disorder. They have seem
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
I'd be surprised—I'm pretty sure the photographer does own the rights to photos they took, unless he/she explicitly signs them away, so there's nothing to fuss about. That said, I'd expect to be thrown out more of
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
I doubt it's what's going on with most TVs (especially since LCD TVs don't seem to have this problem), but my old, cheap TV tuner card emits a 15.9kHz squeal on its line out, so it's not impossible.
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
Do you have benchmarks for this? The linked paper only evaluates performance of optimizations applied on top of this idea, and the idea vs. Rhino. Besides, not all bytecode interpreters are made equal: http://vvm.lip6.fr/pub
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
There's a good explanation here, including a tool to read the key from a running Mac: http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter7/tpmdrmmyth/ Summary: important system binaries (such as Finder.app) are e
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
Lazy hack, or using OS/browser/whatever features instead of reinventing them poorly? What's the benefit you get from programming like that?
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
A shame, too, because there's a (small, admittedly) lesson buried in the fix--one that can be applied even in low-level languages. If you have a buffer with odd semantics (such as wrapping out-of-bounds addresses back into bounds), it
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by LnxPrgr3 11y ago
When I care about performance over most anything else, I take this guy's approach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kdwwvps4J9A It's not appropriate for every project, but if maximizing performance is your goal, yo

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