andriamanitra

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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
Don't think of it as a grind! I play some Leetcode almost daily purely for my own enjoyment. The problems are actually pretty fun for the most part. They can force your mind to think of a problem in ways it isn't used to which is
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by andriamanitra 11mo ago
As much as I hate to be on Google's side I think they're doing a reasonable thing here. Valid bug reports are valuable contributions on their own, and disclosing security issues is standard practice. Not disclosing them doesn&#x27
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I think you're completely missing the point. The problem being solved is not that coreutils is bad and thus they should be rewritten, the problem is that coreutils is not specified well enough to make new implementations straight-for
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
A subprocess (git) can't modify the working directory of the parent process (the shell). This is a common annoyance with file managers like yazi and ranger as well—you need an extra (usually manual!) installation step to add a shell in
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Climate has absolutely nothing to do with this discovery. All of the other Northern countries, many of which are colder than Iceland, already have mosquitoes (Greenland has lots of them!). Culiseta annulata is well adapted to cold climate.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
You may not want a fresh scope for control flow as you often want to use variables from the outer scope inside the if statement. Imagine you wanted to do something like this with your if statement implemented with a function (this is how th
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
The so-called "natural" sort makes sense for version numbers and enumeration (without zero-padding) but I'm more often dealing with file names with a datetime (like in the article), a hexadecimal hash, or just randomized stri
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I don't find the argument very convincing. If anything you should have more time to carefully vet your dependencies when you don't need to spend time manually doing the tedious bit. Making things more difficult than they need to b
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I go between different languages a lot so having a command line interface that is consistent with the one I use in Python (uv) would definitely be appreciated. I mostly use Ruby for single-file scripts with no dependencies, which means I do
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
In theory it would be nice to have one tool for all languages but I think it's never going to be practical because programming languages can be different in arbitrary ways. I can't imagine how the same tool could ever be ergonomic
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
> For example, there is nothing wrong with an programming language that only allows ASCII in the source code and many downsides to allowing non-ASCII characters outside string constants or comments. That's a tradeoff you should care
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Unfortunately it's not widely available yet. [1] If it was supported by all majors browsers it would be nice for that one project I have that still generates a .html bar chart using style="height: ${height}px;". [1] https:&#
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
> So they hurt quality of life by making it more painful to get anywhere, taking time away from everyone’s lives. You can achieve no traffic deaths by slowing everyone to a crawl. That doesn’t make it useful or good. The goal should be f
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Just off the top of my head I can think of plenty of functional reasons why residential floor space cannot be analogous to cars. Most importantly location matters. Space and buildings are not something that you can easily ship from one mark
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
It's not too much effort to find µBlock Origin filter lists that hide them. The only time I see YouTube shorts is when I deliberately navigate to the shorts tab on a channel page.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
It's always a minority pushing the weakening of encryption, which is why the proposals have never made it very far. What separates Europe from the US is that our political system is way more diverse and involves many more political gro
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
> Language evolves, words change, and AI means what it means now. It turns out it’s actually really useful to have an abstraction above the concept of LLMs to talk about the broader set of these types of technologies I agree that "A
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Depends on the language! If "if" wasn't a keyword, in Ruby that would be calling a method that takes one positional argument and one block argument, such as `def if(cond, &body) = cond && body.call`. In PureScript
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I don't believe in the "fixed pie" view of the economy (does anyone..?) but wealth consolidation is still problematic because the ever-growing pie is rarely distributed among those who actually do the work, and concentrated p
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I don't see how the failure of Soviet Union is supposed to disprove my argument – correlation does not imply causation. It was an incompetently managed and corrupt state. Collectively funding infrastructure projects and science is not
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Most great things that require a large amount of money are funded mostly by collectives (historically the state and church, more recently companies) rather than wealthy people. SpaceX has certainly done some cool stuff (even before it start
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
This is a compelling argument but there is an upper limit of how much wealth can be intrinsically tied to a person. When we start talking about 8, 9, 10, 11, even 12 figures it's really hard to argue that the value of the wealth would
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
The obvious question to ask is could you take it to the third dimension and make a cube out of double-doubles? What about other shapes, perhaps a pyramid or a tetrahedron? Squares are simple enough that it's still easy to come up with
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
According to a post few days ago on the Rosetta Code Discord they're trying to get the domain transferred from Network Solutions to "literally anywhere else" (sounds like they're not having a great time with that service
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Not "still". That is not the same game that was on the website when I first got into Minecraft in 2010 but a JavaScript recreation made in 2019.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
..in what National Weather Service described as "once-in-a-generation storm". Walking 2 km on a normal winter day (or even a mild blizzard) is not dangerous.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Rail Baltica will connect the Baltics to European rail network using 1435mm gauge. It is scheduled to be fully operational in 2030.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I hadn't considered throughput but that's a good point. Under normal circumstances even a few hours is meaningless but if you need to get lots of trains across the border in a short span of time it starts to accumulate.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
I understand that but it is still economic: I highly doubt fixing a minor delay in material movement is the most effective use of these billions.
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by andriamanitra 1y ago
Currently the leading plan is to build another narrower track alongside the existing ones (so the old trains can keep operating), but it is still in the planning phase. [1] I am not convinced this project is ever going to pay for itself. I

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