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by arinlen 4y ago
todo list file formats are far from new or novel. Vim even has plugins that automate updating todo lists which, amusingly enough, matches the file format mentioned in the submission. https://vimawesome.com/plugin/vim-t
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The value of web3 is difficult to explain because different aspects of it appeal to different people. The problem with web3 is that no one can actually explain the value of web3, even when they are free to point out what they feel is
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The value provided by Web3 is simple: now you can program property and ownership on the web. Can you please define "property and ownership", and why do you feel that's relevant? > This changes banking, finance, pub
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by arinlen 4y ago
If you create a social media profile, thus represents a repository of public information explicitly designed to be shared with anyone, then I'm not sure what leads anyone to expect specific members of the public to be barred.
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by arinlen 4y ago
I wonder how this is related to Elon Musk's recent damage control on his impeding sexual misconduct scandal. https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/uu1h8g/whats_...
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Link-Time Optimization (LTO) Overview (GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) Internals)(gcc.gnu.org)
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> Creating those estimates alone is more than the sum of total work usually. If that was true then it would be trivial to just push a pull request and update the ticket to review it. > Then the problem of convincing others is itsel
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Because the annoyance means it will get fixed? In issue tracking it just gets archived. That makes no sense at all. If a ticket is archived them that means the issue was evaluated and considered irrelevant and a distraction that should
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by arinlen 4y ago
> That TODO item is just the receipt for a few bytes of technical debt you took with the universe. It really isn't. A TODO item that you feel does not justify a ticket is just a subjective nice-to-have expressed as noise/a de
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I want to believe it means one day we will do that TODO, it'll beat the priority of all the other tickets in the queue. > But it never does, there's always some critical new feature sales wants, or something bigger on fire
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Looking at apple's website, their MacBook Air (which I assume is their main model?) has a "retina" resolution of 2560x1600 with a 13.3' display, whereas the framework has a resolution of 2256x1504 with a 13.5'
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I used to create a lot of TODOs in the code to track things but some developers just do not prefer this way. Requiring TODO items to be created and tracked in an issue tracking system instead of sprinkling comments in source code is
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by arinlen 4y ago
> It was just to ensure it wasn't forgotten. Why don't you just add a ticket in a ticket backlog, then?
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by arinlen 4y ago
> A todo is a todo. I don't see why a date is necessary. Indeed a date in a TODO is irrelevant, and more importantly revision control systems already track the date when the TODO was added and updated.
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> Got a failure and need to get past it for now? No problem: bump the date for a week or something. Now at least two people are aware that it exists (author+reviewer)... and one is in the git history for that line. That sounds like an
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by arinlen 4y ago
> anti-aliasing matters a lot less when you have a high resolution display. The original claim is that turning off anti-aliasing would make things look better, and not that it looks bad but not that bad. Even in high res displays, isn&
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by arinlen 4y ago
> (...) just tell applications to render their windows 1.5 times larger, map the inputs properly, and turn off font anti-aliasing. Doesn't disabling anti-aliasing make things look worse? Unintentional and random jagged lines never
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by arinlen 4y ago
> I have pretty good vision and I don't notice individual pixels on my 1080p screen. 1080p doesn't mean much if you leave out the screen's pixel density. There's a world of difference between a smartphone with a 5&#
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by arinlen 4y ago
Other submissions: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431866 * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31431530
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Yikes; half a meg of code! It's plausible that the lib you checked is the output from the project's default build target (zstd), which " (...) includes dictionary builder, benchmark, and supports decompression of lega
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Sure, that makes sense, but you can write a compiler in languages that don't require it themselves. I don't follow your rationale. With C the developer manages heap memory by basically calling malloc and free. This means th
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Honestly, I think I'd prefer pseudocode that I can read to understand the idea and then work in my language of choice rather than C. What stops you from understanding the idea by reading C? It's a tried-and-true language wh
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by arinlen 4y ago
> To avoid ambiguity I usually use `flop/s` but not everyone likes that :) Flop/s makes no sense and is outright wrong. The whole point of flops is to express how many floating point operations are required by an algorithm. How
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What an outstanding read. It even had an element of suspense. In the very least, it makes us appreciate those cheap raspberry pi alternatives that work out of the box.
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by arinlen 4y ago
> The Bloomberg article is incomplete, it doesn't mention that depending on how big the error is it could be considered securities fraud and that might automatically void the agreement. No, not really. The Bloomberg article goes i
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by arinlen 4y ago
> In the hypothetical where that's what he wanted to do, maybe he's hoping (or even knows based on conversations) that one or more of the companies that agreed to finance his debt will say "sorry not any more, now that Mu
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by arinlen 4y ago
> Regarding Keycloak, it is a great project with high maturity and a lot of features, but lacks in support for B2B, cloud-native and manufacturer support. Is this really true though? Last time I checked Keycloak was a RedHat project, m
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by arinlen 4y ago
> This kind of sounds to me like he's decided he doesn't want to buy and is creating a reason not to. Bloomberg's article points out that this sort of desperate copout is not possible under the merger deal that Elon Musk
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> Maybe he just decided to expose the real amount of bots on Twitter and this is the only way it could actualy end in something accurate and something most people will take as a fact? This hypothesis lacks any credibility given that, a
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> Of course you could. Just carrying your identity (even an anon one) between applications alone can be useful. You already have that without requiring any buzzword-driven marketingspeak. And if your goal is to stay anonymous, in the v

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