benibela

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   by benibela 6y ago

   It can be done even better. I read an article about that recently. Nowadays pointers are 64-bit. So the simple xoring already saves 64 bits. But, in most cases allocated memory blocks are close together, so that xoring of those 64-bit value
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   by benibela 6y ago

   So the lesson is to not throw people overboard?
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   by benibela 6y ago

   I have tried it a few times. Perhaps the worst physical feeling I have ever experienced. Almost made me afraid of showering altogether
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   by benibela 6y ago

   I get something like that as well I just sit there normally and my arms start tingling. Or the leg falls asleep. It has been getting worse since I am 30 Not so good to sit 14h/day at the PC
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   by benibela 6y ago

   It is weird: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraternal_birth_order_and_ma...
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   by benibela 6y ago

   The audience is too small On Twitter you can easily reach thousands of people, in person you only talk to a handful
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   by benibela 6y ago

   In Germany you are not allowed to change the car E.g. there are these additinonal brake lights one could place at the top of the rear window. For a long time it was illegal to use them, even if you just glued them on the inside
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   by benibela 6y ago

   That is why I got NoScript when the attacks were discovered Although many pages do not work with it, so I disable it quite often I wonder if it is possible to activate the mitigations only for the browser? Or only for one user? I have creat
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   by benibela 6y ago

   But it is There are several algorithms that calculate the causal structure from correlations: PC, GES, FGS, FCI They are proven to be asymptotically correct
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Some programs also use URLs Today I wanted to send a screenshot by mail. Should be simple, but with not Gnome. I make the screenshot, Gnome creates a file "Screenshot from ...", but does not tell you where. Then I search it in the
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I bought crypto shortly after it peaked in 2018 or something from FOMO I have not tried to login since, but now I tried and it is locked, verification failure :(
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    by benibela 6y ago

    In school I was thought: with lower demands, come lower prices
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Does that affect HN replies? Or does it have other issues? I have not received any notification mails in the last days
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    by benibela 6y ago

    But I do not think it will run on Windows 98 It needs the Unicode APIs
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I have been using qalc for that How does it compare? $ qalc > furlongs per fortnight furlong / fortnight = 1 fur / fortnight > to m/s 1 fur / fortnight = approx. 0,0001663095238 m / s > 1
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    by benibela 6y ago

    That does not actually need DOSBox, it runs great with WINE: https://i.imgur.com/YgOw2Zc.png
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I learned programming when I was 8 years old from books and experimenting Mostly helpful was that I had a 386, QBASIC and GORILLA.BAS, but not much else. No games and no internet
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    by benibela 6y ago

    There are schools as bad as prison, read about Elan
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    by benibela 6y ago

    What about the standalone flash version, "projector"?
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >It was trivial to know when you had to return a book. Is this done differently in Germany? It should be. The due dates are all listed on the webpage And some libraries even send reminder emails before the due date But that is how they g
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Compared to almost anything else not involving libraries There are more people reading books than there are people reading books from a library. If I had just made a tool (in English) to keep a list books without involving (German) librarie
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    by benibela 6y ago

    FreePascal has a lot of containers, perhaps more than the STL, but they all suck I wanted a good hash map, so I spend a lot of time comparing them. There are like 10 separate map implementation in FreePascal, but they are all slower than
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    by benibela 6y ago

    My German library app to track books borrowed from a library: http://www.videlibri.de/ It was doomed from the start, because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore. But you cannot go to a library without it. Like
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Or this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9163782
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    by benibela 6y ago

    >- A 10x10 board with an unreachable edge has some advantages when laid out as a linear array because it allows for much easier memory management (premature optimizations and all that...). On an 8x8 board laid out linearly the edges have
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    by benibela 6y ago

    FreePascal works without libc
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    by benibela 6y ago

    XSLT/XQuery is like that With XSLT you put the XPath on the outside and update the elements choosen by the XPath. With XQuery you put the XPath in the HTML (actually XML) and it inserts something. I build my webpage with my own XQuery
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    by benibela 6y ago

    MiHsC/wuantized inertia would be fringe
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    by benibela 6y ago

    I usually profile everything with valgrind callgrind
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    by benibela 6y ago

    Usually people say std::sort is faster than qsort