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by Someone 5y ago
I think so, too, but only because that’s idiomatic go. In general, it’s not a good idea to have functions that logically return a value or an error return a value and an error. If you use go, that’s what you do, though. I see that that
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by Someone 5y ago
I agree. Pragmatism is what you need in war (and also was what made the USSR produce way more tanks than nazi Germany in world war two. You really don’t need paint on a tank that’s expected to last less than a few months). However, I would
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by Someone 5y ago
So, how much of this is hardware, and how much software? What’s the minimal hardware you would need, and how powerful a CPU would you need with it? Is this thing close?
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by Someone 5y ago
I agree that we should look at maths to see whether/where it’s racist, but don’t think the single example of Pythagoras is a strong enough argument. Firstly, if I had to guess and put a race label on him, I wouldn’t guess he was white.
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by Someone 5y ago
I wasn’t making any claim it’s simple. Writing a compiler is simple (1), writing a compiler that produces good code is hard, writing a compiler that produces good error messages is very hard. Once you can produce good error messages, error
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by Someone 5y ago
0.1%. Speed of light is “299792458 metres per second (approximately 300000 km/s or 186000 mi/s)” ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_light )
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by Someone 5y ago
> and the solution was to disable search indexing. It isn’t clear to me from that text, so just in case you don’t know: you can disable Spotlight indexing for specific directories ( https://support.apple.com/en-gb/gui
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by Someone 5y ago
Sun did tons of research on Gnome usability. Microsoft did tons of research on MS Office, for example to design the ribbon. I also am not sure having that iOS button on the top right is bad. It’s inconsistent, yes, but when that screen open
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by Someone 5y ago
WhatsApp puts their logo on https://emojipedia.org/french-fries/ I wonder whether any big player ever considered selling advertising on their emoji.
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by Someone 5y ago
Is that “Speadsheet” in the top right of the first screen dump a bug or a typo by whoever made that screen? Also: interesting choice for a 50% gray pattern, with those vertical lines instead of a checkerboard. Is that purely artistic, or do
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by Someone 5y ago
> HIG (human interface guidelines) studies, which is something no other vendor has bothered themselves with. Many platforms (including KDE and Gnome) have UI design guidelines. https://usabilitygeek.com/usability-user-exp
4452.
by Someone 5y ago
I strongly disagree. Compilers should autocorrect “obvious” parse errors. I also am not aware of any that doesn’t. What they shouldn’t do is produce a binary based on their (smart or stupid) guesses about the programmer’s intention. That al
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by Someone 5y ago
> compared to the energy a single shipping tanker, long-haul truck, car, or even microwave compute energy is microscopic. I don’t think that ever is a good argument. Efficiency improvements likely will come from thousands of small steps,
4454.
by Someone 5y ago
In general: battery life, difficulty of fitting, limited usefulness for the costs. Also, for your task, you’d need the precise location of your subject, or highly reliable obstacle detection (including “there’s nothing, not even a good path
4455.
by Someone 5y ago
Why are there so many different hammers? Why don’t we use a single handle to which you can attach different heads, maybe even click on additional weight to a head, if needed? That works for drills and drill bits because it’s relatively easy
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by Someone 5y ago
> The confusing part for non-developers is how to get back from Safari to Twitter. Very few people are actually jumping between apps and so they don't know the swipe left/right gestures. I always use the (small) button in the t
4457.
by Someone 5y ago
And have tool 1 happily create files that, according to tool 2, compiled with a different flag setting, cannot exist or create multiple files in a directory that, according to tool 2 have the same names? I know two sort-of examples of this.
4458.
by Someone 5y ago
Agate has about the same hardness of quartz (6½-7 on the Mohs scale). I expect patience may have helped. If they did the carving with a slightly harder stone, it may have taken months to make (almost by keeping scratching it, rather than ca
4459.
by Someone 5y ago
Could be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow-Face_illusion (“an optical illusion in which the perception of a concave mask of a face appears as a normal convex face.”)
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by Someone 5y ago
> if the creat system call normalized the strings it receives Nowadays, there’s an understanding to assume those bytes are strings encoded in some ISO-8859 variant or UTF-8, but technically, the creat system call doesn’t receive string
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by Someone 5y ago
I’ve seen photos, too, but always wonder how big firms handle these, given anti-discrimination laws. Yes, names, addresses, and education are proxies for race, gender, age, etc., too, but those also carry information that is necessary to ev
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by Someone 5y ago
Why would it be related? Losing the O’Reilly platform makes your ACM membership less valuable. I don’t see this making it more valuable. If anything, it makes it less valuable, as subscribing won’t gain you access to papers published before
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by Someone 5y ago
Not necessarily. A mathematical proof that one-way functions do not exist need not say anything about non-one-way functions, so it need not say anything about how hard it is to invert what we now think might be one-way functions. But yes, t
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by Someone 5y ago
> In the case of Norway, the only legal party in the country was the Nazi Party from 1942-1945 Norway was occupied by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_occupation_of_Norway ), so I
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by Someone 5y ago
https://opensource.org/blog/court-affirms-its-false-advertis... (Linked to from the article): “The facts, as described by the trial court, are that Neo4j, Inc. had been through several releases of its software and sev
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by Someone 5y ago
This doesn’t challenge me because, somewhat paradoxically, it’s too hard. With such small differences in answers (typically about 3%, or 10% between smallest and largest), I feel it’s impossible to reason about what could be the right answe
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by Someone 5y ago
> a resource humanity has depleted and not effectively replaced or otherwise made irrelevant? If we were to have depleted something we need without finding a replacement, humans would be extinct by now, or at least on a path towards it.
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by Someone 5y ago
One thing I do when I want to make a selection of similar photos is to sort them by size (in kilobytes) and keep the largest one(s). That selects for the photos with the most details. I don’t advocate automating that, though. You still want
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by Someone 5y ago
For GNU make, it depends on the makefile. https://okmij.org/ftp/Computation/#Makefile-functional : The language of GNU make is indeed functional, complete with combinators (map and filter), applications and anonym
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by Someone 5y ago
Nitpick: it is only guaranteed to be unequal to any character and less than zero. (And no, I don’t know any implementation that has it unequal to minus one. I would love to see a devilish C compiler/standard library that would make all

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