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by SloopJon 7y ago
From the Exhaustiveness and Usefulness section: "inspect can be declared [[strict]] for implementation-defined exhaustiveness and usefulness checking." "having a __: case makes any inspect statement exhaustive." "an
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by SloopJon 7y ago
According to freedomonthemove.org, there are 22,236 advertisements. If I search (registration required) for transcribed ads, I get 6,920 results. Transcriptions are not visible in the default view. Select the icon on the right to see ima
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by SloopJon 7y ago
This is the HN post that got the most traction since this was reported in July 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18831370
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by SloopJon 7y ago
Not sure how far he got, but Ryan Gordon's (aka icculus) fork may be more portable: https://github.com/rcgordon/Serious-Engine
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by SloopJon 7y ago
One thing I notice about the C program is that it uses the double-precision exp(), fabs(), and sqrt(), rather than the "q"-suffixed variants from quadmath.h, a feature that appears to be specific to GCC. However, changing the pro
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by SloopJon 7y ago
The description of SmartSummon about halfway through the talk is interesting. One of the views looks like SLAM using a particle filter, but Andrej seems to say that it's done entirely within a neural net.
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Their own page says, "our recommendation algorithms ... learning characteristics that make content successful ... optimize the production of original movies and TV shows ... optimize video and audio encoding, adaptive bitrate selection
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by SloopJon 7y ago
I've read several articles and discussions about the topic, but I'm still a little fuzzy on where biometrics fit in the context of authentication: username, password, just another factor? What is the role of the fingerprint in th
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by SloopJon 7y ago
I've seen this TUI term come up a few times on Hacker News. The term I've heard at two companies that had extensive terminal interfaces with menus and screens is CHUI (rhymes with "chewy"). It's funny, though: the
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by SloopJon 7y ago
Take a look at this article from the IEEE Computer magazine: https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/co/2012/02/mco2012020... It links to a video interview with Brendan Eich: https://youtu
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by SloopJon 7y ago
On the contrary, I'd say that competition has been good for all involved. For such a maligned language that was born in a little over a week, JavaScript is better and faster than it has any right to be. The amount of resources that ha
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by SloopJon 7y ago
It strikes me that the example is a bit contrived: why is howmany decremented unconditionally? The first loop populates out with howmany numbers. The second loop may set none (other than the ignored value that you point out). I suppose y
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by SloopJon 7y ago
From a QA perspective, I feel like you buried the lede on this Loom tool. Benchmarks are nice, but confidence is an elusive thing when it comes to non-trivial concurrency. I'll be spending some time on the CDSChecker and dynamic parti
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by SloopJon 7y ago
Somewhat related: if I tracked down a copy of Snow Leopard Server and ran it in a VM, would I be able to run old PowerPC apps using Rosetta?
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Just curious, do you feel the same way when Apple "Sherlocks" developers in the iTunes and Mac app stores?
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by SloopJon 7y ago
This documentation seems to describe 2.0: https://www.tensorflow.org/install/gpu It says CUDA 10.0 and cuDNN >= 7.4.1.
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This is a very convenient library for getting started. It even has a mode that made it possible for me to parse numbers into a decimal class. I would point out that its convenience in large part depends on extensive use of cast operators,
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I've been wary of Gatekeeper and SIP as moving Macs towards an iOS-style walled garden, but this is a perfect case of SIP protecting the user from bad software.
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I think it really depends on when you read it. Code Complete was in the first handful of books I read about the practice of programming, apart from language-specific books, and I loved it. Years later I bought the second edition, having
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by SloopJon 7y ago
The very first line of the readme had me searching through this thread to figure out what exactly this repo contains. Is it the standard library, or just the STL? Very cool release, but confusing naming. I'm sure it's longstandi
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by SloopJon 7y ago
There's an article in a recent issue of IEEE Spectrum about a plug-in hybrid ferry: https://spectrum.ieee.org/transportation/marine/happiness-is... It can cruise purely electric, although with just 100 kWh of
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by SloopJon 7y ago
There are trade offs other than just cost. Want a long, thin, flexible cable to charge your laptop? Then you prioritize power delivery at the expense of data speed. If you insist on 40 Gbps capability, something else has to give.
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I just ran into a similar booby trap the other day: whereas BigDecimal::BigDecimal(double) does the full decimal expansion, BigDecimal::valueOf(double) goes through Double::toString(double), which is generally a lot fewer digits.
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Thanks for that background. I was thinking that the (for lack of a better word) politics of CJKV and Han unification likely had a lot to do with it. To my eyes, the letter "A" in English (Latin), Greek, and Russian (Cyrillic) loo
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I haven't gotten past demos yet, but I'm intrigued by WebView [1] as an alternative to Electron. [1] https://github.com/zserge/webview
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Everyone has a different path, but frankly, I wouldn't recommend C++ as a first programming language. It's much easier to comprehend if you have some background in another language. My three favorite C++ books are C++ Common Kno
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The "compile-time programming" category of this survey is dominated by constexpr proposals, where constexpr can replace some pretty ugly template metaprogramming.
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Case law on copyright for fonts is complicated, with fonts generally having less protection than other works. My impression is that Comic Code is no more derivative of Comic Sans than, say, Arial is of Helvetica.
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TIL that Java 10 added local-variable type inference, to which I say, about damn time. I indeed decry having to type (and read) Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<Bar>(), and no, Foo<Bar> baz = new Foo<>() isn't much bette
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Hypothesis is my favorite. I also use TestCheck.js [0] for JavaScript and RapidCheck for C++ [1], but the Hypothesis generators seem the smartest, and they're easy to customize. [0] http://leebyron.com/testcheck-js&#x2

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