SloopJon

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by SloopJon 4y ago
> All it had to say was that rust tells you when you keep reference to on stack variable after it goes out of scope. The author isn't just telling you that Rust is awesome because it tells you something, he's acknowledging the
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by SloopJon 4y ago
> After some time, on to the stage comes the car that many, including myself, had on a poster in their rooms growing up. One of my favorite posters growing up was a white Countach, about five feet long by maybe two feet high. I had a mu
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by SloopJon 4y ago
> Maybe I'm missing something but they don't seem to offer the book as a searchable PDF? There seems to be a Kindle edition and paperback only. The InformIT page linked from the review has (I'm in the US): * book for $64 *
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by SloopJon 4y ago
I've always been fuzzy on Excel's precision. It's frequently described as preserving or storing fifteen significant figures. I wasn't sure if it rounds before storing, or if that's just how it displays. After som
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by SloopJon 4y ago
I never played it, but Google turns up a game called Maelstrom that seems to fit the bill.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
See issue 1580 for a description of the change that displays floats using the shortestish decimal expansion that round trips: https://bugs.python.org/issue1580 I thought there was a PEP for it, but evidently not. Although t
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Um, am I the only one who had no idea that my Github stars are public knowledge? I don't see anything about this in the documentation or on my stars page. Can anyone see this, or just the admin for the repo that I starred?
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I've had regularly scheduled biweekly meetings for the last several years. If we miss a meeting due to PTO or something, we don't reschedule, so meetings are sometimes a month apart. One of my previous managers would just drop by
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Tim Bray wrote a post, "On the Goodness of Binary Search," in which he stated, "Simplicity is good, and binary search, coded properly, (see below) is awfully damn simple " (emphasis in original): https://www.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The context here is a tool that has to handle everything, so you won't necessarily run into all of these in your run-of-the-mill project. However, the author does claim: > The following examples were actually encountered either in
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by SloopJon 5y ago
According to a "birth certificate label" on the page, China.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I'm dipping my toes into self hosted services, but I haven't tackled photos yet. Ars Technica reviewed a few photo options last year: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/06/the-big-alternatives...
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by SloopJon 5y ago
It's really hard to tell based on an article like this. The ANS creator is quoted as saying, "I don't know what to do with it - [Microsoft's patent] looks like just the description of the standard algorithm." Howe
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by SloopJon 5y ago
My company has four IC titles, the description of which includes typical experience, with credit for graduate degrees. When we went from two titles to four, I was assigned the highest title, and joked that it was another way of saying &quo
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This question is incomplete without expanding on your "methods for safe handling of passwords on the web." Tell us what those methods are, and you'll get some thoughts on whether you should or shouldn't trust them. Pass
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I've bought at least two computers' worth of parts from Newegg, and generally had a positive impression of them, in part because of stories here about how they stand up to patent trolls. However, their reputation has indeed taken
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I think "debate" is the key feature of HN (indeed, most online discourse) that the author has identified. It's easy to base a comment on a flaw in an article, or someone else's comment on the article, so HN discussions
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This pretty much exactly describes my (ab)usage of tabs. I had a tab open with the HN submission for the death of Google Reader for two years, because there were so many interesting replacement suggestions. I finally admitted that Google
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The submission for the previous post didn't get much traction here, so I'm seeing it for the first time. I'm pretty sure that "YYYYYYY" (ugh, Medium tries to hijack copy) is still named later in the post. A few peo
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Discussion here is such that I sometimes read the submitted link as an afterthought. Apart from the occasional distraction of a comment by dang, I had operated under the polite fiction that this was the result of self moderation. Jeff&#x27
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I can't find the exact verbiage or screenshots, but my recollection is that Gmail used to be billed as effectively infinite storage, with the limit going up over time. However, that limit has been frozen at 15GB for some time. I am no
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Yes, I saw this installing 7.3.0.3 this morning: I started the computer, opened Firefox, then downloaded and installed LibreOffice. I have an aversion to closing my browser (and all of its tabs) unnecessarily, so I looked this up and found
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by SloopJon 5y ago
On Windows, the LibreOffice installer claimed that Firefox was using files that needed to be updated. This Reddit thread has some background on why that is: https://www.reddit.com/r/libreoffice/comments/aoqmv
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I always thought of MariaDB as a fork of GPLed MySQL code that is now owned by Oracle. However, I see that MariaDB uses a contributor agreement, and reserves some features for a proprietary(?) enterprise edition. Do I misunderstand the cop
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I looked online the other day for an 8 GB Pi 4, and could not find any, including at Microcenter (which claims to show store availability). I also looked to see whether the Jetson Xavier AGX is available. This used to go for $700, but I d
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Despite being contemporaries, both nominally for systems programming, Rust and Go are very different, starting with memory management. If you're used to writing (correct) C++ programs, particularly those that exploit move semantics in
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by SloopJon 5y ago
For those of you who have contributed to a Github (or similar) project in your capacity as an employee, do you use a work account separate from your own?
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The rust_decimal crate seems to use C#-style decimals, which always struck me as wasteful. Is there any particular advantage to that format over IEEE decimal floating point?
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Apple TV+ has a logo with an animated white-to-black gradient in which I always notice banding, even on a 4K OLED with Dolby Vision. I bet it would look better with this kind of dithering.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The article says that it's RH userland with an RH-compatible kernel built from SUSE sources: > All of the userland of the new distro will be built from Red Hat's official Source RPMs (SRPMs), with the exception of the kernel. T

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