Sean1708

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by Sean1708 8y ago
He never did as far as I can tell, the FBI did presumable because they initially thought he was hacking and the name stuck.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> The output is consistent if your tab settings are always the same when you look at your code, and you use the same tab size across all languages. I don't really understand what you're getting at here to be honest, surely if y
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by Sean1708 8y ago
But if you're using a formatter then it doesn't matter whether you use tabs, spaces, minimal whitespace, or any mix thereof because that's what the formatter is for. Also if you're using a formatter then you can do the c
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> IMHO less people should default to using a database upfront. At least while protyping the idea. Surely it should be the opposite? While you're prototyping you should use a DB by default, then switch to your own implementation if y
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> And boo-hiss tabs. At the risk of starting a flame-war: boo-hiss not using a formatter.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Like https://hjson.org/ ?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> If your configuration file is a programing language this interface is not that well defined. While I do agree with the rest of your comment I don't think they were advocating using the full language for configuration, just the map
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by Sean1708 8y ago
They went back only until they got another offer, which makes complete sense to me.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
That's really awesome, thanks!
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by Sean1708 8y ago
It's not particularly obvious, but you find a release for which `has_sig` is true then you take the URL from that release and append `.asc` to that URL. $ curl -s $(curl -s https://pypi.org/pypi/cryptography&#x2
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Do you have an example of what R would look like without the C-like syntactic sugar? It doesn't need to be complex, I'm just intrigued about what it might look like.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> Generally I've found you carry around fewer n +/- 1 type expressions when you index from 1. I've actually found the opposite, though admittedly it doesn't come up often enough to be a major nuisance.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Not on a personal computer, no, but the vast majority of managed systems won't let you install anything outside of your home directory. Of course you could install using `pip install --user` but you will inevitably run into problems wh
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by Sean1708 8y ago
They're in the run-up to their first stable release at the moment (I think they're aiming for August, but could be wrong about that). I can't speak for popularity, but development is certainly going strong.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Ah ok, so I'm guessing that strcat is Daniel Micay then? That wasn't obvious to me (I initially thought that Mozilla might have been funding CopperheadOS or something).
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Sorry if I'm missing something obvious, but what does Rust have to do with CopperheadOS?
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by Sean1708 8y ago
As far as I can tell it's only the Hacker News title that mentions PyTorch 4 (in fact the repo description says "PyTorch0.4 tutorial ..."), and I think it's far more likely that that was just a typo/misunderstanding
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Ah sorry, I didn't realise that the original link pointed somewhere else.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
JuliaLang are the Julia developers, PackageCompiler.jl is no more third-party than cargo is.
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by Sean1708 8y ago
I suppose the question is, which of these optimisations are actually useful for the compiler to do automatically? Yours is the example that's always thrown about, but it always seems like the kind of optimisation that the programmer sh
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> De Beers has produced synthetic diamonds for years through a subsidiary called Element Six, but it has limited their use to industrial applications. I'm guessing "industrial applications" includes scientific research, so
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> De Beers has produced synthetic diamonds for years through a subsidiary called Element Six, but it has limited their use to industrial applications. Considering this, I don't think this is going to bring about the Diamond Age unfo
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> With that new interface, could you see yourself jotting down a "sentence" of APL that maybe you think of in a meeting or something? If you've got an Android device you could give MyScript Calculator a go, if writing APL
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> TLDR: they saved 400 to 1000 cores by switching off the switching off of the GC during requests. Isn't that exactly the opposite of what the article is saying? > An OOBGC is not really a Garbage Collector, but more of a techniq
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by Sean1708 8y ago
At which point it becomes "Legitimate Interests" (or whatever the correct term is).
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by Sean1708 8y ago
There's a couple in this section[0] of the FAQ. I don't know whether it's because I'm too used to using traditional languages, but it does not look at all pleasant to write (IMO). Interesting idea though. [0]: http:&#x2
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Am I misunderstanding you here? Instapaper's email literally starts with: > Starting tomorrow May 24, 2018, access to the Instapaper service will be temporarily unavailable for residents in Europe
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by Sean1708 8y ago
Well that's terrifying...
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> I have argued above that I legitimately need interview notes for the operation of my business. I agree that you do legitimately need interview notes, but I don't understand why this conflicts with GDPR. In other words, why am I no
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by Sean1708 8y ago
> As for the prevalence of disorders, that's a pretty big bag, diagnostic criteria change, and diagnosis itself is iffy. Would you mind explaining this one to me, please? Is Xuper trying to suggest that being a feminist makes it mor

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