Miiko

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by Miiko 6y ago
But real Swiss army knife does not include any magic either - even simply extracting text from PDF (ignoring all formatting) is completely non-trivial. Do not know any (non-magical) specialized tool that can convert PDF formatting.
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by Miiko 6y ago
Frankly, I believe that the criteria for the language selection for throw-away code is just that: > This certainly is in part because I’m more proficient in Rust than in Python. It’s also because the Rust mental model is closer to how my
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by Miiko 6y ago
> I really struggle to help people when typing their question in Google verbatim would lead to an excellent answer, especially so when I am the author of that answer. Keep in mind that nowadays Google does not always gives exactly the sa
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by Miiko 6y ago
Here's much more readable version, produced by TRIM web service: https://beta.trimread.com/articles/38118 (you can also go to the main page of this site and enter the URL there)
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by Miiko 6y ago
Yes, if there're 2 mines left, that would require a guess. But not so if only 1 mine is left (or 3 of them)
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by Miiko 6y ago
A bit janky indeed - could not figure out how to actually play the game? any hints? (in text, if you can, hate to watch instruction videos)
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by Miiko 6y ago
> if [Soviet block] ever came up with their own CPU architecture. To the best of my knowledge, BESM-6 and Elbrus were not clones https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_(computer)
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by Miiko 6y ago
Some of these points look like a common sense nowadays (is there any software team in year 2020 that does not use any VCS?), but do not agree with a couple of them. > Do you use the best tools money can buy? This is just unrealistic, and
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by Miiko 6y ago
I got a feeling that unfair negative reviews work for reason different than "empathy". Seeing a 1-star review, it is safe to assume the person writing it was very angry and tried to make the review as bad as possible. Which means
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by Miiko 6y ago
I see a World Turing Championship in the future. Half of participants are humans, the other half is AIs. After a series of matches - each consisting of opponents trying to figure out whether its adversary is human or not, - two champions ar
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by Miiko 6y ago
Do not quite agree with "safely continue" - at the moment you got ArrayIndexOutOfBounds that unvalidated value might be already stored somewhere / used for changing the state, and it may be not possible to revert those change
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by Miiko 6y ago
Yes, if user entered some bad data, crash dump is not a good option - but OP did separated that into different case, and crash dumps are only suggested for "programmer errors", i.e. case that were not expected during development.