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by Someone 10mo ago
File -> Export also works, but, like that, only partially. Exporting tagged faces isn’t possible, AFAIK.
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by Someone 10mo ago
>> So, we need to swap to the logarithmic graphs to get a better picture > I wish more people would know about decibels. Huh? Is there any difference? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decibel : “The decibel […] e
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by Someone 10mo ago
> While a robot can keep beat at 123, most humans can’t keep 123.45. Isn’t it also true that while a robot can keep beat at 123.45, most humans can’t keep 123? Apart from training, there isn’t anything that links human biology and psycho
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by Someone 10mo ago
Tangentially related, there’s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema : “The tobacco smoke enema, an insufflation of tobacco smoke into the rectum by enema, was a medical treatment employed by European physic
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by Someone 10mo ago
and, depending on how you define the rationals, -0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer : “An integer is the number zero (0), a positive natural number (1, 2, 3, ...), or the negation of a positive natural number (−1
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by Someone 10mo ago
> Would honestly love to hear, how you move stuff between devices today In cases where iOS/macOS misbehave, I use (IMAP) email without sending anything: - create new mail message - paste text or add attachments - save as draft - ope
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by Someone 10mo ago
> My brain wants to think it's "too late" to set `user` to anything by then, because the value was already read out It doesn’t set `user`, it returns the User passed to the function. Computing the second return value modif
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by Someone 10mo ago
> I've always wondered at the motivatons of the various string routines in C This idiom: char hostname[20]; ... strncpy( hostname, input, 20 ); hostname[19]=0; exists because strncpy was invented for copying f
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by Someone 10mo ago
I feel the reverse. I can see one can claim Swift has everything but the kitchen sink, but its actors, to me, don’t look shoehorned in. Reading https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr... , thei
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by Someone 10mo ago
I think they’re in the Unix history repo. Browsing there, it may be https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/commits/Rese...
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by Someone 10mo ago
I can see your point, but that ( https://book.pythontips.com/en/latest/context_managers.html ) requires the object you’re using to implement __enter__ and __exit__ (or, in C#, implement IDisposable ( https:&#x
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by Someone 10mo ago
I think Swift’s defer ( https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr... ) was inspired by/copied from go ( https://go.dev/tour/flowcontrol/12 ), but they may have take
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by Someone 10mo ago
Could be as easy as them now properly redacting out the stuff they wanted to redact.
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by Someone 10mo ago
It doesn’t hav eto make money ever on us for it to be worth it to them. If you’re a Python shop, compare - writing uv and keeping it private makes package management easier for your own packages - writing uv and opening it up, and get
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by Someone 10mo ago
> If it was easier to interpret byte codes I’m not claiming anything, certainly not that; I’m questioning whether the additional complexity of designing a bytecode VM is worth it because it makes testing easier.
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by Someone 10mo ago
Is it truly simpler to do that? A separate “command line to byte codes” module would be way easier to test than one that also does the work, including making any necessary syscalls. Also, decreasing CPU usage many not speed up find (much)
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by Someone 10mo ago
If you want or have to build a large program, something must be large, be it the language, its standard library, third party code, or code you write. I think it’s best if it is one of the first two, as that makes it easier to add third part
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by Someone 10mo ago
Power ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_ISA ) and PowerPC ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerPC ) have a shared history but are not fully compatible with each other.
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by Someone 10mo ago
> The vector are usually pretty big and you need to keep them in memory to get truly great performance. FTS and grep are way less hassle. If you find disk I/O for grep acceptable, why would it matter for vectors? They aren’t much bi
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by Someone 10mo ago
I don’t think he is daydreaming; he is selling a job opening. If he said “by 2050” or “by 2100”, I bet he would get fewer applicants. I also think the applicants he would get would be of lower quality.
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by Someone 10mo ago
It’s confusing because you have to know the nationality of a person to know how to capitalize their surname (In Flemish Dutch, prepositions that do not start a sentence are uppercase if they’re part of a name) And nitpick: you likely meant
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by Someone 10mo ago
Good points. As to signal handlers, I’m not aware of any language that fully supports them by making it impossible to call other than async-safe functions ( https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/signal-safety.7
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by Someone 10mo ago
> I saw an article here that pointed out that there are keyboards today that have more computing power then the original Apple computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-48 : “The 8049 has 2 KB of masked ROM
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by Someone 10mo ago
> Rust has only succeeded in making a Memory Safe Language without garbage collection via significant complexity (that was a trade-off). No one really knows a sane way to do it otherwise, unless you also want to drop the general-purpose
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by Someone 10mo ago
FTA: “The changes to proximity pairing and notifications are only available for device makers […] in the European Union.” Will that mean we’ll see some last step assembly move into the EU, or does it only require legal presence?
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by Someone 10mo ago
Likely not. FTA: “The changes to proximity pairing and notifications are only available for device makers and iPhone and iPad users in the European Union.”
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by Someone 10mo ago
That’s not funny; it’s good use of the most prominent part of the site. A site (re)design starts with determining who’s your audience, and what you want to tell them. These sites will want to serve both existing and new developers. What the
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by Someone 10mo ago
On my iPad, without scrolling, the screen shows almost nothing, just a download button and some text that, I think users will ignore. I think that’s a waste of valuable screen estate. Also, apart from a quote from David Heinemeier Hansson t
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by Someone 10mo ago
I think all language definitions have lots of implicit non-functional requirements. When the main implementation of a language changes one of them, that technically isn’t a breaking change, but it still is one, as existing programs mays hav
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by Someone 10mo ago
> In a review of 246 deceased drivers, 41.9% tested positive for active THC in their blood, with an average level of 30.7 ng/mL — far exceeding most state impairment limits. That could mean they all had levels far exceeding most sta

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