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by asalahli 3y ago
I've always been under the impression that the poor contrast is to discourage text posts. Can't remember whether I've read that somewhere or it's just my own assumption.
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by asalahli 3y ago
Huh, did twitter stop letting unauthenticated users read tweets? I can't get past login form.
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by asalahli 3y ago
> Since when is C a high-level language? Umm, since the day it was created? High level languages were understood to be the ones that abstracted away the implementation details of the underlying architecture. Pascal and C were definitely
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by asalahli 3y ago
Yup, I've misread and confused the two too many times
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by asalahli 3y ago
You snark is unwarranted IMO. How's this any similar to s-expressions than, say, TOML is? Or YAML
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by asalahli 4y ago
This is the kind of answer I was looking for. Thank you!
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Ask HN: Whats up with people trying to run Doom on everything?
3 points by asalahli 4y ago|9 comments
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by asalahli 4y ago
Yes. Is reinventing the wheel always a bad thing, though? Not if you ask me, not if the new wheel has novel characteristics and performs better in some aspects.
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by asalahli 4y ago
Parent is saying those crates themselves are reinventing the wheel, not talking about using a crate
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by asalahli 4y ago
> "I think the best thing that could happen to universities and colleges is that they're forced back to the Socratic method, this traditional system where we sit around with students and talk about ideas," said Daly. Man,
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by asalahli 4y ago
Open source =/= community, though, nor contributions. It just means releasing the source code with an open license
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by asalahli 4y ago
Welcome to Zombo.com :)
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by asalahli 4y ago
> an electronics project book, a breadboard and some simple components are all you need to get really really far in combining electronics like this. Well, don't leave us hanging, do recommend a book to start with
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by asalahli 4y ago
I just pictured a dude sitting on a chair, working, wires going to his testicles and a monitor on a side displaying a temperature chart and beeping regularly (for some reason).
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by asalahli 4y ago
It is absolutely a better interpretation. The former signals arrogance while the latter shows that OP accepts the inferiority of their guess in comparison to the actual architecture.
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by asalahli 4y ago
Austin McConnell has the perfect combination of good storytelling and finding the most interesting random topics. Love his videos.
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by asalahli 4y ago
I understood both this quote and the one I quoted above as OP arguing that automated testing will not save one from thinking about and fixing possible edge cases therefore automated testing has no value. I agree with the first part but not
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by asalahli 4y ago
The difference is that xor is available to him (he mentions that in the video), while addition needs to be achieved by combining multiple instructions.
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by asalahli 4y ago
In the accompanying video[0] at 7:36 mark, he goes to great lengths to express (A or B) as (A and B) + (A xor B). Can anybody explain why it can't simply be expressed as (A and B) xor (A xor B)? What am I missing here? 0. https:/
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by asalahli 4y ago
> Ultimately the best test is when you ask yourself "wait, what if someone sent this" and you try it to see if you can break your own code. That's just a spidey sense in the back of your head. If you didn't have the s
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by asalahli 4y ago
Wow, 8 years of using Django and I did not know about either of these. Thanks!
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by asalahli 4y ago
Fellow uWSGI fan here. Unfortunately uWSGI is now in maintenance mode, not because is complete which would've been fine, but because the maintainers are not able to dedicate time to it[0]
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by asalahli 4y ago
In my view (hehe), Django's class based views is a good idea implemented poorly. In theory you should be able to use any of the built-in class based generic views with minimal customizations to suit your needs, except when you want to
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by asalahli 4y ago
If they have no use for it, why would they?
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by asalahli 4y ago
It's amazing that the FAQ in the repo readme actually contains the first two questions I had when I saw this. And yet, I'm even more confused.
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by asalahli 4y ago
Does adding your website to privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains not work?
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by asalahli 4y ago
Also, caching can be done with materialized views
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by asalahli 4y ago
So can the services providing http APIs. What does that have anything to do with security?
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by asalahli 4y ago
But that makes it hard to refer to, search for or have a discussion about real REST, the architectural style. Why use a term that means a different thing when you can just invent/use a new term describing what you want to describe. RES
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by asalahli 4y ago
Yeah it was the other way around. As I remember it, libav devs were pretty hostile towards ffmpeg and refused to pull anything from it while the ffmpeg maintainer kept cherry-picking from libav for a long time after the fork. IMO it's

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