acuozzo

33 ms·

421.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Related: The WWW + globalization has made even the process of purchasing consumer goods more difficult and stressful. It's not even a matter of having a paradox of choice. It's that you now often have to spend hours becoming a min
422.
by acuozzo 3y ago
How does being selectively private work for deductions made by connecting several dots? e.g. 1. Buying several pregnancy tests 2. Missing several periods in your menstruation tracking app 3. GPS data for having traveled to an OB/GYN 4.
423.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Are there instances of compilers with targets having both 128-bit ints and alignof(max_align_t) != 16? I'm asking because I can't imagine writing a custom allocator against anything other than alignof(max_align_t). Unless you&#x27
424.
by acuozzo 3y ago
I suppose this depends on how perfectionism is defined; where the barrier lies. If a perfectionist is concerned only with perfection at release time, then lots of imperfect unreleased material can exist. Prince is likely an example of thi
425.
by acuozzo 3y ago
"Nightlife" just outside of your door seems like it would actively discourage the kind of garage tinkering which built SV in the first place.
426.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Perhaps, but it seems more like Toriyama changed the target demographic as his set of "original readers" aged; similar to what Rowling did with Harry Potter. And as an adult I find media targeted at pre-teens and teenagers to ofte
427.
by acuozzo 3y ago
> For anyone feeling like revisiting DBZ as an adult I watched DBZ as a child/teen, but now that I'm an adult I find that I'm much more entertained by DB than DBZ.
428.
by acuozzo 3y ago
> I’m sure the errno state is not checked at every line, as it is a trivial human error to leave that out While writing code it's trivial to ask yourself if the next statement will include a call to a function which is not defined w
429.
by acuozzo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacit_collusion
430.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Fast "hard bop" Jazz from the '50s-60s e.g. Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers. It's intense, upbeat music.
431.
by acuozzo 3y ago
At some point copying does become tacit collusion , though.
432.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Yes.
433.
by acuozzo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Russia
434.
by acuozzo 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Russia
435.
by acuozzo 3y ago
What future? Between the war in Afghanistan in the 1980s and the collapse of the USSR, Russia has only a few generations left before experiencing demographic collapse. There simply aren't enough young men there to keep the Russian popu
436.
by acuozzo 3y ago
> Each project suggests five new projects along the way. This depends on the nature project, no? I've been working for years on advancing the state-of-the-art for spatio-temporal comb filter design for NTSC (SD)TV signals and I&#x27
437.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Can we assume then that your child doesn't have special needs?
438.
by acuozzo 3y ago
For every weary graybeard there is a bright-eyed & bushy-tailed young hacker eager to "stick it to the man" while also lacking in the experience of having been burned which forms the foundation of the cynicism from whence the
439.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Sure, but isn't the argument that the current situation is akin to a frog in a pot? There's no hard threshold under this line of thinking and, I imagine, if something terrible were to happen to a vulnerable population abroad, then
440.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Gatekeeping is the right solution sometimes, no? What if the goal is to keep the relevant communication channels populated exclusively with technical users? I've seen F/OSS projects completely overrun with support requests from
441.
by acuozzo 3y ago
What's your plan for when the boy cries " Wolf! " and he's actually there?
442.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Define "still here". If the population goes through a Toba-esque bottleneck due to climate-change-imposed breadbasket failures and there's no free energy (oil) left to bootstrap the world back to complexity similar to today,
443.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Does "it's actually decreasing" mean "it's decreasing on average in the US" or "it's decreasing on average in every county in the US"?
444.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Do you know if any of the popular static analysis tools detect mistakes like this?
445.
by acuozzo 3y ago
codepages?
446.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Doing so would necessitate the addition of another type: character/grapheme cluster. Representing arrays as maps would impose no additional requirements outside of validation which is already considered as part of the proposal in quest
447.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Reduce it further: strings and maps. Arrays can be represented as a map.
448.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Perhaps combined with the approach they take in Soylent Green in the Thanatorium!
449.
by acuozzo 3y ago
Will do. I hope for the sake of those around you that your child(ren) never run afoul of your expectations as "My children would never…" parents are a special breed of annoying, nearly as much as "I raised my obviously-bette
450.
by acuozzo 3y ago
> Why would buttons also be a touch interface that perform the same function as the underlying buttons? Scrolling

More ›