amptorn

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by amptorn 9y ago
The only problem here is that now I can make you appear to say anything I want you to say. http://urlme.me/success/I,%20captbaritone/lick%20goats.jpg This can get much nastier fast.
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by amptorn 9y ago
Your username is "analog31".
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by amptorn 9y ago
Yes, in the same way that a half-marathon is 13 degrees mile long.
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by amptorn 9y ago
http://kevan.org/wikitext/United_States "You can go nowhere from here."
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by amptorn 9y ago
In what universe is Amazon not Walmart's enemy?
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by amptorn 9y ago
Probably efficient for Walmart, sure.
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by amptorn 9y ago
After a while these start boiling down to "a difficult minigame where your score is also the volume setting".
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by amptorn 9y ago
> I think Excel was finished circa 2000 and now they focus mainly on Not breaking established behaviour?
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by amptorn 9y ago
Typically a cheat sheet should explain what the things mean.
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by amptorn 9y ago
Only if your browser game requires UTF-16 strings.
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by amptorn 9y ago
https://github.com/qntm/base65537
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by amptorn 9y ago
Not all of the code points used are (or can be) in the Basic Multilingual Plane. This means that when encoded in UTF-16, they come out to 32 bits, not 16. This skews the average number of output bits per input bit upwards.
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by amptorn 9y ago
> String-matching is really scary in Unicode Isn't this why NFKC normalization exists?
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by amptorn 9y ago
You haven't said anything at all about the risk.
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by amptorn 9y ago
> it's meant to be able to replicate technically all previous industry formats Even the DVD subtitle format, which is just a mostly transparent image overlaid on the picture? In XML ?
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by amptorn 9y ago
> Why split it into separate modules? Well, because of the unbelievable amount of engineering work involved in trying to get Git to operate at such insane scale? To say nothing of the risk involved in the alternative. This project in par
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by amptorn 9y ago
Do you have any performance benchmarks?
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by amptorn 9y ago
The speed of light is definitely too low.
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by amptorn 10y ago
> Every year the hot libraries change Front-end development is fashion.
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by amptorn 10y ago
> Some of the most valuable education one can receive isn't offered at school. Yes, but all the rest of it is .
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Capitalism.party is a paid Mastodon instance(capitalism.party)
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by amptorn 10y ago
> At age 13, give everyone a $100k education voucher. Good lord, how about just give that money to schools ?
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by amptorn 10y ago
In the case of an I.O.U., the sensible approach is to put the note in your wallet alongside your other banknotes and other things which technically count as, or can be redeemed for, money, like coupons and cards. Ideally the I.O.U. should b
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by amptorn 10y ago
> I'd lend some amount money to a colleague, and a few weeks later I'd have a hard time figuring whether they gave it back, and they too. Solution: An I.O.U.?
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by amptorn 10y ago
This subtracts from their responsibility.
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by amptorn 10y ago
Oh no, it turns out that pi also contains the worst, most draconian software licenses!
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by amptorn 10y ago
They'll take that risk for one single day. Then they'll wake up the next morning with their vehicle, which they rented out to Uber for taxi rides overnight, parked in their driveway full of vomit. That's the best case scena
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by amptorn 10y ago
It's not problematic at all. But it would require Uber to cease being a software company and start being, like, an actual taxi service, with physical assets and vehicles and garages and maintenance. The whole reason Uber is competitive
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by amptorn 10y ago
"Mumps" is a pretty awful name to use for the purposes of healthcare software. You might as well call your database system "Cancer".
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by amptorn 10y ago
I'm honestly amazed that anybody bought "pivot to self-driving cars" as a strategy. Even if it did work and they built perfect working autonomous vehicle software, right now, legitimately, what's the next step? Were they

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