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by WCSTombs 1y ago
This is pure misinformation. First, a post on a social media site by the President has no force of law and does not "impose" anything. Second, the President cannot invent a new law and can only apply authorities given to him by ex
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
The article isn't claiming there is a "one true modern subset" of C++ that they use. It's merely pointing out that you can significantly mitigate the main criticisms of C++ by making certain sacrifices, which is pretty m
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Good article overall. There's one part I don't really agree with: > Here’s a rule of thumb I like to follow for C++: make it look as much like C as you possibly can, and avoid using too many advanced features of the language u
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
This looks really cool! When I was optimizing my SSG website, the big win was self-hosting the fonts. The fonts are still the biggest part of the payload on some of the pages, though, so I'm wondering how small I can make them. I think
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
If you find yourself needing einsum a lot, consider using the Xarray [1] package instead, which lets you name the axes of your arrays. Broadcasting and axis alignment is then automatically done by matching names. You don't need einsum
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
There are multiple problems here. First, there's the unsupported claim that the AGPL is somehow incompatible with being production-ready, which seems obviously false. But more seriously, there's the proposition that GitHub should
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I don't know about physics, but or math, it does happen from time to time.
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
It's cool that one of their screenshots shows off the desktop cube effect. It's just a fun and mostly pointless thing that gives the software a bit of personality. On its own I don't think it amounts to much, but it combines
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Pretty good article. The title sounds clickbaity, but I don't think it really is. "Don't write bugs" should be understood in the sense of "don't bump into things when you walk," meaning simply that writing
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
While this is basically just an advertisement for GitHub Copilot, written by GitHub and published on their official blog, it does make a couple interesting points. Here they are: 1. You can use LLMs to help you learn faster. 2. Review other
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I've occasionally experienced this in the past. The workaround was to add a video called "10 Hours of Nothing" to the end of the playlist.
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Ok, I understand that point of view. However, I would advocate in the opposite direction: I don't think we should normalize every store having its own app that customers are expected to install on their private devices, and therefore I
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
The GTK C API definitely feels like it's begging for a domain-specific language. I guess that language turned out to be Vala, and from what I could see it was a pretty nice language. My takeaway from all this is a little bit different
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I'm guessing it's not super common to receive an item with missing parts, and most of those who do would try to resolve it without physically going to the store. Thus, it seems such a feature wouldn't be worth the technology
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I have some experience in setting code review standards at the places where I've worked, and it's something I've thought about a lot (maybe too much). Anyway, I agree with pretty much everything the author wrote. This is a sl
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
But those are two different slashes? \\ for strings and // for comments?
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Yeah, it's probably not a great example, but you have to put it into context. Also, whatever problems there may be in Linus's communication style, are just about general professional communication and not specific to code review.
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
The "Getting Started" page is a 404. (Actually it seems all of the documentation pages are.) https://offline.bashnota.com/docs/getting-started More to the point, why should I hate Jupyter notebooks, and what
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Yes, and I'm not being ironic. The earlier Linus would have called the coder garbage, where here he's only insulting the code . I cannot emphasize how big of an improvement that is.
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
> With the advent of systemd-homed it might be desirable to convert an existing, traditional user account to a systemd-homed managed one. As someone unfamiliar with systemd-homed, I have a very basic question: why would someone want (or
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
The "why" was pretty clear in the article: the author thinks GitHub is doing unethical things with the code the author was putting there ( specific things, not "Microsoft bad"). Now you and I may not agree with those th
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
> Compare this to a Workflow. All that YAML, all that code from someone else, all that additional complexity in spinning up containers or maintaining runners—just to build a static site? Nah, we've been played for absolute fools. &g
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Luxi Mono is great. Do you have an opinion on Go Mono [1]? It's by the same creators as the Luxi fonts (Bigelow & Holmes) and very similar to Luxi Mono but fixes some legibility issues. Moreover, it's freely licensed. [1] htt
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I think it's because traditionally computer screens have pretty low DPI, and serifs can be really tricky to render well at low DPI. In print, that's not an issue, and serif fonts really shine. On high-DPI screens, like the one I&#
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
As a one-time mathematician, this was a really fascinating article. The similarities seem to be entirely coincidental, but what would have been my doctoral dissertation was also about generalizing some concepts from smooth manifolds to a
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
There could be some randomness to the points, but I definitely wouldn't call it a "random walk," which would have very jittery paths. These points are moving along some smooth curves. I think it's probably computing a De
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I think the confusion about Total Recall's reality is intentional. My view: there are scenes in the movie that are not from Quaid's point of view and that Quaid could not have direct knowledge of. That seems to imply that it'
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
Business owners are not called "The City."
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I'm a little disappointed that the photo on the landing page isn't, you know, a merlin [1]. [1] https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/merlin/id
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by WCSTombs 1y ago
I very strongly disagree. Without considering the whole ring to be an ideal, you can't even define "the ideal generated by some elements" because there may not be such an ideal, since it could be the whole ring. Likewise, you

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