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by al2o3cr 6y ago
I assume there's a document describing the processor's operation just like most chips - BUT I'd guess you need to work on the right team at Apple and/or write a check with a lotta zeros to even see it.
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Re: https://github.com/rails/rails/issues/39456 - feature requests without PRs attached are usually going to stale out. If you really really really want that feature, you'll need to help make it happen.
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
There's an extensive section in Hacker's Delight ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%27s_Delight ) that derives 32-bit constants that, when used with 32x32 -> 32 multiplication, produce division by small
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
National Review back in March: "this whole COVID thing is a scam, nothing to worry about" 200k+ dead National Review now: "trust us, we know the right course of action for sure this time"
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Depends on the decoder's default settings - some applications of base64 ignore padding but not all of them. As an example, Elixir's stdlib includes a base64 decoder; passing "padding: false" will give the "decode an
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Get a bunch of little paper bags and fill them with different metal salts - then you can turn the money bonfire all kinds of colors!
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Shorter this article: "It's time for fundamentalist Muslim homophobes and fundamentalist Christian homophobes to join forces as one unified 'I hate gay people because my imaginary friend and this book told me to' block&q
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
So one thing that always comes up in relation to PWAs is the "Add to Home Screen" functionality. Literally the only time I've _ever_ used that button is when I was testing the headers involved for a client project. Am I an ou
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
I'll save you a click: the author doesn't read the message "git status" gives during a conflicted merge ("run git add"), blames Git.
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
First off, that link doesn't work. Second off, nothing says "legitimate charity" like a "Maryland" organization whose phone number is from Nigeria. https://www.facebook.com/pg/help4humanityintl.
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
TBH if this is the "worst code you've ever seen", bless you sweet summer child.
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Summary and comments on the points of this article: * remote work widens the competitive playing field. Boo hoo. If you think non-remote work is somehow immune to offshoring, take a look at the last three decades for counterexamples. * remo
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Backup tapes for a artificial general intelligence with "That is not dead which can eternal lie, / And with strange aeons even death may die." printed on them
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Shorter CEOs: "Dear doctors, who among you has no scruples and likes money? We'd like your help lying to the American people, because their deaths are a price we're willing to pay to keep our profits up"
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Step 1: post spam on HN
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by al2o3cr 6y ago
Sure, "enterprise customers with a combined value of over $50B" could just pay some folks for a month of R&D work. But why do that when you can get a bunch to work on spec and only pay one team? #capitalism
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
IMO marshaling int64 to string is required for interoperability; RFC7159 recommends not assuming that more than IEEE754's 53 bits of integer precision are available: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7159#section-6
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
only the language runtime and operating system would be allowed to raise exceptions So you still need all the exception machinery, but "normal" code can't use it? Seems like a terrible situation. Also, who'
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
query a redis db General rule: if you're looking for "fastest", pulling data over the network is not part of the solution. As for the choice of language, it's going to be heavily motivated by what languages yo
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
That page errors out with "TypeError: undefined is not an object (evaluating 'i.unobserve')" and shows zero content when loading in Safari 11, making it INCREDIBLY high performance!
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
Wait till the poster of that finds out that there's RADIOACTIVE CARBON-14 IN THEIR BODY RIGHT NOW
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
Can't wait for the followup article written by Ella in 15 years: "Today I told my parents they were going to have to get used to living in a cardboard box because they didn't save for retirement. They asked me to help pay for
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
IMO that post is specifically calling out the mutable part, not claiming to have objects completely without state.
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
This article's premise doesn't hold up, IMO: arguing there's "no point of contact" between pieces of code doesn't make sense when one part can write something like (from the article): sync({ block: '
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
how would a company that helps to clean the streets make profits Here in the US, the leading model is "win the government contract to clean the streets and then do as little cleaning as possible and outsource that to the ch
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
AFAIK both of these have been experimented with, though without much ultimate success. For what it's worth, both ideas are represented by weapons in the old Cyberpunk 2020 rulebook so they must have been in the zeitgeist someplace: * t
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
Missing with the keys to the cold wallets, to be specific https://www.ccn.com/crypto-exchange-idax-missing-ceo-exit-sc...
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
We have designed the network under the assumption that with regards to search, such a thing as malicious behaviour does not exist. An entire SEO industry would beg to differ, and that's before you get to seriously m
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
I remember reading almost this exact argument about VRML back in the 90s.
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by al2o3cr 7y ago
CORBA called, they want their ideas back

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