Sean1708

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by Sean1708 7y ago
To be honest sitting in a car with 2 "crazies" and a drunk doesn't sound any worse than sitting on a bus with 50 "crazies" and 25 drunks would be for the other 25 people.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> most GC gives no guarantees that memory will immediately be cleaned up once the last reference goes out of scope But in this example the last reference hasn't gone out of scope, the last reference is in the closure. If the GC ig
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by Sean1708 7y ago
It's impossible to write a compose function with the declaration fn compose<T, F: Fn(T) -> T>(f1: F, f2: F) -> F As far as I'm aware the only way to write a function like that is fn compose<T, F: Fn(T)
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> It is effectively a slow ... raw pointer. In my experience (unless I've misunderstood what you're trying to say) this is the fastest way to write graphs because of how much more cache-friendly it is than having to chase a l
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by Sean1708 7y ago
This is a technique often employed to help people suffering from anxiety, you can always break something down into smaller tasks and eventually you'll get to a point where the task feels doable.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Funnily enough I often have the opposite issue. I will sometimes start writing up a bug report, spend a couple of hours trying to get my thoughts down on paper, then give up because I have neither the time nor energy to finish. I kind of wi
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> Is it possible on one of the other hosting services, like Gitlab? Looks like you can on GitLab under "Settings" > "General" > "Visibility, project features, permissions".
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by Sean1708 7y ago
They would still catch all the incorrect spellings, they just wouldn't catch the incorrect grammar. The grammar of the post is fine, though, so that wouldn't matter too much. You could even just copy and paste it into a word proce
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Why not use a local spell checker instead?
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by Sean1708 7y ago
How did you deal with holidays and illness?
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by Sean1708 7y ago
From the Wikipedia page: > Microsoft said that the key's symbol was "_NSAKEY" because the NSA is the technical review authority for U.S. cryptography export controls, and the key ensures compliance with U.S. export laws. P
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Equally, something doesn't become ethical just because that's what your job is.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
I'm not entirely sure what your point is here, but the fact of the matter remains that the key that is being referred to in ryanlol's quote is not _NSAKEY.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Not to mention that the idea that the US is the one good country and must be protected to the detriment of all other countries is massively unethical IMO.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
It's worth giving the Wiki page a quick read, it's very accessible: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radix_sort TL;DR: I guess the hash unique approach is technically a radix sort in base-64 if you hash the in
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by Sean1708 7y ago
That's a seperate key, which doesn't seem to have an interesting name, not _NSAKEY: > In addition, Dr. Nicko van Someren found a third key in Windows 2000, which he doubted had a legitimate purpose, and declared that "It l
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> can account for a quarter of a program’s run time It can but it will more likely account for much much less than that, unless all your programs are massive loops that do little more than access the same attribute repeatedly.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> (through Cython) My personal experience is that you can actually get another factor of 2 or 3 speed-up by ditching Cython and using actual C instead (I think it's because optimizers have a hard time cleaning up the C that Cython p
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Not really, no. The only parallel is that you're putting things into buckets, but other than that they're very different algorithms.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
My point isn't that it has no downsides, my point is that it would be a far less pressing issue than Y2K was.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
The upside being that releasing a new version with a different version scheme isn't a time-sensitive task, the old version isn't going to stop working just because the new version number wouldn't be valid.
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by Sean1708 7y ago
What's the difference between a meadow and a lawn? In relation to the article that is, obviously I could tell the difference between a meadow and a lawn. Edit: To add a bit of context here a lot of people are talking about pesticides a
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by Sean1708 7y ago
One where everyone has at least a fiver: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bestway-BW51009-Ocean-Paddling-Mult...
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by Sean1708 7y ago
First class functions and pass-by-value have been in basically every language that was designed in the last 30 years, and have been added to most of the popular ones that existed before that. Homoiconicity is less common, but is still prese
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by Sean1708 7y ago
The problem I've had with async updates is that they often get ignored because everyone that could help is busy at the time, so you still need the actual standup to just remind them about it. How do you get around this?
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> I think it is fair to call C "unsafe" given the above definition of safe/unsafe. I don't think anyone would disagree with this. What they're saying is that a segfault is safe and that's because a segfaul
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> but he still drastically oversimplifies the space of GUI use-cases and ignores some of the key benefits of mouse-based interaction. I think you've still missed the point. He's not saying that keyboards should be used most of
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by Sean1708 7y ago
When it was still two guys in a garage?
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by Sean1708 7y ago
Why is it a necessary part of doing business in the US? What is different about the US compared to countries where this practice is unheard of?
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by Sean1708 7y ago
> Because the core proposition value of make is the dependency graph and incremental rebuild, which then trivially allows for parallelisation with -j<n>, In my personal experience 90% of Makefiles I come across not only don't

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