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by beltsazar 3y ago
I have a relatively minor tinnitus, which I thought was caused by my drum lessons in my early twenties. But when I tried to remember it, I always heard something like a tinnitus sound (albeit quieter) whenever I closed my ears with my hands
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I don't know if I agree that it's an autocorrelation, but one way to explain The Dunning-Krugger Effect is by acknowledging this simple fact: Most people think that they are an average person, but they can't be all average—th
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Ah yes, silly mistakes—I mixed up getenv and setenv. Those examples transitively use getenv, not setenv. Having said that, my point still stands. You can only control what you directly use / don't use. Third-party libraries you us
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> This is silly, setenv() isn't reentrant for the same reason that getopt() isn't reentrant: there's no valid reason to use it except at the very beginning of the program. It is not, unless you'd argue that "ther
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> When animation went digital, we graduated more storyboard artists and digital animators. When music notation software and sampling could replace musicians and orchestras, we graduated more musicians and composers trained on those tools
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by beltsazar 3y ago
If AI will render some jobs obsolete, I suppose the first one will be audio book narrators and voice actors.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I always prefer ffmpeg to HandBrake, except when working on HDR videos. I couldn't find a proper ffmpeg command to copy the HDR metadata from input source to output. Last time I checked it was not possible. I needed to extract the meta
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> But when a once in a blue moon issue crops up in prod and all other connections are dropped, the fact that a simple defer+recover couldn't have been preemptively placed on their goroutines is a huge nightmare Yeah, this is one of
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Sounds like you may be confused thinking that a panic in Go is like throw in other languages? Not at all. I knew that panics in Go shouldn't be used for error handling in general. > Third-party libraries should virtually never
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Yes, "usually", but not always. That's why Go has a mechanism to handle a panic with the `recover` function. The issue is more on the inability of handling a panic in a "foreign" goroutine.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> Rust made the same call. Completely different. In Rust when you spawn a thread [1] or an async task [2], you'll get a handle from which you can check if a panic happens inside the thread/task. Even if you ignore the handle, a
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by beltsazar 3y ago
There are a few surprises of Go, but one thing that surprised me the most is the fact that an unrecovered panic in any goroutine will crash the whole program. To make things worse, you can only recover a panic in a goroutine that you spawn.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
What you said is probably similar to what they said at the early invention of shoes. Professional runners today already use an "external device," aka running shoes. If they ran barefoot or even wore mediocre shoes, they would perf
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Maths in other planets or universes can be different only if they have different sets of axioms and/or different logical inference rules.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I'm using uBlock similarly! I've accumulated hundreds of custom filters for the past eight years. My newest entries on uBlock's "My Filters" tab are for hiding spoilers on IMDb: ! 2023-09-05 Hide episode's
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Yes, the loopvar change will break some programs, and hence the compatibility promise. But the Go team argues that the change will fix much more programs than it will break [1]. This makes me wonder, though, what guarantees that a similar b
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by beltsazar 3y ago
If no one could do bad things in the world, then there would be no free will. No free will, no genuine love. You'd love God and other people because you were programmed to do so.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
What's the average FPS?
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Speaking of the expansion of the universe, in a very distant future when the expansion speed is so high that most of the galaxies won't be visible from earth, their astronomers will be thinking the whole universe contains only a few ga
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by beltsazar 3y ago
>> Solving problems is the only way to understand physics. There's no way around it. The reason is that you think you understand what you read, but as Richard Feynman said: > The first principle is that you must not fool yours
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> If you search for white/brown etc. noise on spotify for songs you won't find longer tracks. I noticed it too recently, but it's not always this way. A few years ago I could find white noise songs with hours of duration.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> To some extent, all languages do this: there is almost always a tradeoff between performance and slower, safer implementations. Well, probably except Rust, from which you get both performance and safety. Sometimes it's with a cost
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by beltsazar 3y ago
As much as I like the functional paradigm, I don't think it will work well on Go due to two simple reasons: 1) Go doesn't have a concise lambda expression. This makes the functional approach in Go will be more verbose and less rea
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by beltsazar 3y ago
> When historian Charles Weiner looked over a pile of Richard Feynman’s notebooks, he called them a wonderful ‘record of his day-to-day work’. > “No, no!”, Feynman objected strongly. > “They aren’t a record of my thinking process.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
What? This is beyond the inconvenience of 3rd party launchers that PC gamers often whine about. I'm glad I play on PS5.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
Can I migrate from TST to Sidebery without losing all my tabs with their tree structures?
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by beltsazar 3y ago
No, I was genuinely asking because I had found many HN posts were editorialized.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
I wonder if HN should have a rule that prohibits editorializing.
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by beltsazar 3y ago
What makes Sidebery better than TST? I'm consider trying it, but I don't want to lose all of my TST tabs.

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