adrianratnapala

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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Yes, although you don't have to be so perlish as to do the if in that order do: thing() thing() if condition: continue
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
It is not always economically rational though. The US has a history of using eminent domain to grab neighbourhoods full of small businesses so that they can be turned over to a big development projects of nominally higher value. Then the
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> Right, that's how you could plausibly have made one or two, as a palace amusement, or a circus act. It's a little surprising this didn't happen (as far as I know). You also need people to ride it. It wouldn't fly a
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> That does not sound like a good argument at all. Metal for vast majority of human history gave you massive edge in weapon technology. Some Mandarin just shut something like that down? Seems super unlikely The assumption here is that ev
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
That's one part of it. Another part is hiring a breed of test engineers who like breaking stuff and have a knack for it.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Fair enough.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Which is an example of the the euphemism treadmill. Secretary means secret-keeper and has built into it connotations at least of trust and often of power. Which is why top officials of many great ministries ion are called secretaries .
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
That's OK, we nowadays use icons that don't make sense to anyone at all. I mean how would you know that three horizontal lines was a "Hamburger menu", and if you do know that, why would you want a Hamburger?
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
It sounds like this guys employer has taken first step to inventing QA. There's whole classes of highly paid engineers whose job is to do this. But they work for old fashioned, boring, companies.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> ... and watch as your page hit Slashdot... And then fall over? I miss the days of The Slashdot Effect[1]. Now it's the JS that makes my PC fall over. [1] Come to think of it The Slashdot Effect would have been a good band name
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> Your code won't be pretty, Depends on the algorithms that use that code. Two separate arrays is not a bad way to represent a vector-of-tuples. And so if you think of everything as a vectorised operation (and if that makes sense
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
I would put it the other way around. wpa_supplicant is actually very good at doing what it does. But rolling it's functionality into ifconfig is probably "good enough". wpa_supplicant is an application of the "do one t
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Is it because people or so young, or that the pipeline to become a junior-but-still-responsible person goes through schools rather than something like an apprenticeship.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> Unison https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ is a tool to keep two folder structures in sync - that is its main goal but it can have other uses. And though I tend to be a GUI hater, Unison is one tool w
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
I think is what people might call "knowledge capital", "intellectual capital" or some such vague term. In my experience IP corresponds specifically to legally recognised property in otherwise copyable information.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> But a robust and affordable air travel network is a capability the business world needs to operate our economy. Then the business world can pay for it through ticket prices.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
How is that a contrary view. That guy seems very happy with the Ubuntu and X1 combo. Though he does spend a long time obsessing about the battery, after his initial take was "yup, it's good enough for me".
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
So that you can SSH into it from your server?
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Does OpenBSD have an alternative to wpa_supplicant? I've been using wpa_supplicant under the hood for ages, but only recently learned anything about it... and it's actually very good, except that it's CLI interface is so low-
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Circular references like that are called "recursive types" in formal type theory. They are one of those big issues that academics like to write papers about. Even if you just want to write a practical interpreter, and choose to g
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Smell is an interesting point As travisjungroth points out, the most obvious mechanism is feed- back where they eat something, it works, and the body is designed to do more of the same. But if there is a feed- forward mechanism, i.e. whe
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> By building this project [CrossRail], London is just catching up to its peers. Paris has had a similar system, the five-line RER, since the 1970s. Berlin’s S-Bahn predates World War II. I think I lived in London when CrossRail a just a
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> Look at how much slower CPUs are without those speculative execution tricks. But do I care? All my computers, except the really ancient phone I use, are snappy. Of course there are cases were CPU speed matters, but I don't know i
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Does #5 get around my worries about a "stringy-marcro-framework"? I.e. when things get too complicated, you can break out to a Heavy Duty (TM) language (aka Lua).
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
While mentioning ConTeXt, can anyone give me a sell job on when and why it might be nicer than LaTeX? It's not that I'm super fond of LaTeX, it's just that I assumed its warts were more or less inevitable in a stringy macro f
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
No, when people say "The thing is N feet down the road", I find that it is really N yards down the road. That is, I multiply the distance by three. Though it's true, the alrgorithm for doing the multiplication happens to
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
Interestingly, the headline on the BBC page is more accurate than the one I see on HN. BBC says: "Did the Romans Really Reach Scotland?". And even though it's a headline, the answer is "yes, duh." HN headline, &qu
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
> The "intuitive" argument comes up a lot in relation to units of measure, and it just makes me wonder how people can have such lack of self awareness. As someone who has grown up with a mix of various Imperial (not US) measure
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
The kids these days write JavaScript.
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by adrianratnapala 7y ago
But the POKE operation is specifically about writing to a given address. So it does capture what you are talking about. (Whether it is any clearer than "write-what-where" I leave as an exercise to the reader).

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