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by badpenny 3y ago
A Mathematician is a machine for turning amphetamines into theorems.
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by badpenny 3y ago
> For those reading above and thinking "I'll skip Linux, if that's the current status": it's not. I politely disagree. I recently installed Fedora on my desktop PC because Microsoft decided that displaying a full
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by badpenny 3y ago
> If users don't speak app soon Windows will turn into an ad-infested user abusefest. It already has.
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by badpenny 3y ago
AFAIK Casey Muratori isn't working on Jai, that's (entirely?) Jonathan Blow.
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by badpenny 3y ago
Didn't that book mention how, at the time, he used to live on pizza and cola?
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by badpenny 4y ago
I did it in my mid-to-late 30s. At that point, I had very little going for me. Now, I'm married, have a happy kid, have a decent job, and have just bought a house. It can definitely be done; you just need to be patient, love yourself,
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by badpenny 5y ago
VS Code is neither fast nor efficient. I'm not hating on it as I like it more than most Electron apps, but I use it on a laptop with a Core 2 Duo P8600 CPU (among other things) and it's pretty sluggish.
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by badpenny 5y ago
Did they mention in what way it's not as good?
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by badpenny 5y ago
Not having the APK available anywhere has an even more drastic impact.
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by badpenny 6y ago
I think that was, at least partly, his intent. He even stated in the letter accompanying his first cipher that it would contain his identity, then when it was deciphered it said "I WILL NOT GIVE YOU MY NAME BECAUSE YOU WILL TRY TO SLOW
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by badpenny 6y ago
Also that the code is indecipherable because one of the ways they got the code size down is by playing code golf. I wouldn't call it jaded, I'd call it experienced.
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Ping of Death Redux(news.sophos.com)
1 points by badpenny 6y ago|0 comments
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by badpenny 6y ago
The Clean Network being the same network that Edward Snowden spoke out about?
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by badpenny 6y ago
Why does CPU usage matter? Just buy a faster CPU. Why does memory usage matter? Just buy more memory. Why does network bandwidth usage matter? Just get a faster Internet connection. Why does stability matter? If it crashes, just restart it.
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by badpenny 6y ago
For those that don't get the reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3boy_tLWeqA
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by badpenny 7y ago
*unreliable ;-)
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by badpenny 7y ago
Good idea. I should probably knock up some kind of website for that kind of thing.
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by badpenny 7y ago
That's me. Thanks for the credit. I've had some help with people pointing me to some things that I don't already have archived so if anybody's aware of anything that I'm not, please tell.
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by badpenny 8y ago
Every third-party Reddit and Facebook app I've tried has seemed as if it was throttled or blocked.
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by badpenny 8y ago
Do you mean "encourages immutability as a default"?
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by badpenny 8y ago
I thought it was don't point it at anything you don't want dead i.e always assume there's a round in the chamber.
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by badpenny 8y ago
That's Chuck Person's Eccojams Vol. 1.
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by badpenny 8y ago
Kind of sad that a person as intelligent as him can get to his age and still not realise that talking to people that way is at best highly ineffective and at worst will make them actively hostile towards you. That's not to mention rude
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by badpenny 9y ago
Java saves me time and tends to make more correct programs, compared to C.
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Linear Programming and Healthy Diets – Part 2(jeremykun.com)
4 points by badpenny 9y ago|0 comments
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by badpenny 9y ago
I don't know what it is about programmers that we seem to love reinventing the wheel.
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by badpenny 9y ago
I've always had problems with IntelliJ IDEA feeling extremely slow and have never been able to figure out why. The mouse cursor even skips when it's doing anything intensive. This is on a machine with 4 cores @ 3.2GHz and 16GB of
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by badpenny 9y ago
You seem to be criticising them for doing the exact same thing that you ended up doing.
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by badpenny 9y ago
Hell, just optimising would be a start.
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The Batman Killer – a prescription for murder?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by badpenny 9y ago|0 comments

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