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by alcover 4y ago
> Come again? Of course it can. Oh come on.. I'm pretty sure Walter meant taking a view kind of slice. Obviously one can always copy part of a string, but that's not what slice implies I think. > It can't be done in
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by alcover 4y ago
Working on it so you don't have to ! You'll enjoy comfy stuff like let s = "string.." s += "handled" The runtime Buffer type is already operational ( https://github.com/alcover/buff
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by alcover 4y ago
for (let i = 0; i <= i; i++); // hmm If canBeRegex is smart enough to parse `return s.length === 3;` it could also detect the for-loop has no side-effect and skip it..
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by alcover 4y ago
No, they would know by the angle of your eyes if you were staring that low. Looking intensely at someone's lips is at times the prelude to a kiss. I think this ambiguity makes them uncomfortable.
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by alcover 4y ago
I meant the latter. This is very helpful ! Thx a lot.
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by alcover 4y ago
Could it be the deluge of televised fear-inducing content ? A great deal anxiety feeds on this distorted view of "what's happening". But go and have a walk. What do you see "happening" ? nothing.
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by alcover 4y ago
I love writing hardcore C code full or pointers and cross-calls but for some reason I can't get bothered with semi-advanced Git. There's a dread, a fatigue... I got burned merging (or was it rebasing?) and now I often just copy
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by alcover 4y ago
> C with only pointers Interested in what you meant by that.
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by alcover 4y ago
Maybe parent hinted at what GCC extensions like __cleanup__ variable attribute do.
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by alcover 4y ago
> "Siri turn off lights in the living room" No snark here : why don't you make a few steps and switch them off manually ? Saving these few steps doesn't make sense to me. You need to walk to be healthy.
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by alcover 4y ago
- Is 1.2.3 > 1.2.3omega? No - Is 1.2.3 > 1.2.3beta? No - Is 1.2.3gamma > 1.2.3? Yes I don't see ambiguity in your examples.
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by alcover 4y ago
> hate Twitter threads Me too. They are absurd, hard to read and a waste of resource (load time, requests, steaming pile of JS). They sould be penalized/barred.
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by alcover 4y ago
Alas, a formula for what you suggest (called fixed polyominoes) seems also out of reach.
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by alcover 4y ago
> Algorithms are a popular outrage-bait right now Oh yes. Media often lament people radicalizing online supposedly because of them. But nobody is forced to follow recommendations, which are moreover labelled as such. People stay logge
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by alcover 4y ago
Thanks for the link. we obtain 4.00253176 as a certified lower bound How intringing it's strictly just above 4 ! Maybe it has to do with symmetries. The proportion of symmetric polys in successive generations goes towards zero.
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by alcover 4y ago
Polyominoes have been obsessing me. Not tiling but counting them. No formula has been yet found. Their free numbers (i.e up to rotations and flipping) go 1, 1, 2, 5, 12, 35, 108, 369, 1285, ... Meaning for ex. there are 5 tetromino
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by alcover 4y ago
Let me stay upright. 15M seems a lot. What's in there ? High-def country flags for Retina ? edit: ok, size is ~4.5M on my Debian, of which transmission-gtk accounts for 3.6. Maybe graph libs are bigger on mac ?
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by alcover 4y ago
Get better [...] so that you stand out Please bear with me but this kind of advice is often a bit puzzling to me. I suppose you don't know the person you're replying to, so I read your advice as a general one - useful to a
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by alcover 4y ago
Interesting. But I meant only using a subset of current web stack, and insist on low resource.
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by alcover 4y ago
I would. I already use FF mainly under a locked-down profile for mere reading. (I use another profile for madatory interactive sites like banking and stuff). Others like me would. And resource-constrained devices. An eco-system of low-tech
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by alcover 4y ago
I think user pmontra meant that biometrics recorded by authorities could leak then be used to log in as you in your devices/services.
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by alcover 4y ago
Is it as good as Generation X ? Also I'd love Coupland to reiterate and do a 'Generation Z' about zoomers and digital natives.
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by alcover 4y ago
Forgive my pedantry but the ecosystem is not the language. Nor is practice. Ad absurdum, you could include the hardware pythonists usually employ. If you use python as glue, it should be compared to other languages used as glue.
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by alcover 4y ago
it wants to implement all of JS ES6 why not. But the whole Web API is crazy. Bluetooth ? Barcode ? Geolocation ? What the hell. Let's go back to a documents web. Also small JS engines already exist, like QuickJS.
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by alcover 4y ago
I've been using Firefox forever but the problem is - it's now too big. Because it's - like you mention - following Chrome. To stay relevant, FF implements all the bloat Chrome churns out. Even worse, it's tempted to foll
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by alcover 4y ago
So.. Chrome is too big to fork. Then why don't we make a bare-bones OSS no-DRM browser with only a subset of JS and CSS and promote at the same time an old-school webring of 'virtous' websites. If it catches on (and it could
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by alcover 4y ago
Allow me to hijack a little. I'm working on a new language. Would you people object to ':' for assign and single '=' for equality ? int i:42 if i=42 print "ok"
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by alcover 4y ago
Same with me.. are we both tired or is this whole thread about just the idea of a new syntax ? I scrolled the whole Readme. Are we supposed to parse the parser in /source ?
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by alcover 4y ago
Very interesting. I also regret FW fondly. Your post scratches an itch in me and I may be tempted to work on that. Sorry for my laziness to look it up but could you explain "Fireworks just stored projects as an extension chunk of a PNG
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by alcover 4y ago
Nice point. I think it's called 'adversarial training'. The Alphazero chess engine/model was grown this way it seems.

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