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by blux 9y ago
Who decides what the right story is? Right and wrong should be decided in public debate. Not be some private or governmental entity deciding for us what is right and wrong.
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by blux 9y ago
What does this have to do with the fundamental fact that Google decides to make access to information / opinions from certain sources less accessible than others?
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by blux 9y ago
Regarding the point "Don’t use floating-point operations when integers will do." I agree that using integer arithmetic can result in cleaner, easier to reason about code when applicable. It then follows that because of these trait
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by blux 9y ago
From the FAQ; "I believe efficiency while coding is a lot more important than efficiency while running." As a user, that would make me nervous at least.
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by blux 9y ago
Biased article; first sentence of the article: > As Tesla prepares to launch its 'affordable' Model 3 at $35,000, General Motors just unveiled a tiny electric car that costs only $5,000. Then later on: > The $5,300 cost is a
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by blux 9y ago
Do you have a link? I could not find it here: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/
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by blux 9y ago
I have been using Arch both for my work and private desktop for about ten years now. It is an absolute joy to work with. The biggest drawback is the very occasional breakage after doing a system upgrade. I would estimate such an upgrade b
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Value Categories in C++17(medium.com)
2 points by blux 9y ago|0 comments
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by blux 9y ago
I have the feeling your way of thinking is 'remove every abstraction so that we end up with a simpler system'. This works in some cases, but certainly not all of them. configure is one of them. Why? Try removing a configure script
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by blux 9y ago
For me, not good at all. I tried Sonic on an iPad, and it was terrible, control was not accurate. Played the first two stages and then gave up.
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by blux 10y ago
Fractal Technologies | Software Engineer | Eindhoven area, The Netherlands | ONSITE, Full-time | http://www.fract-tech.com Fractal Technologies is a small, fast growing company developing software for chip development and manufa
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Writing Good C++ by Default, in the STL – Nir's Blog(nirfriedman.com)
2 points by blux 10y ago|0 comments
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by blux 10y ago
See for example: https://awhan.wordpress.com/2010/04/28/urxvt-tabbed/ Configuration is done through ~/.Xdefaults.
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by blux 10y ago
urxvt supports tabs as well.
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by blux 10y ago
100% agree, to the best of my knowledge there exists no tool that adds scrollback support to a terminal emulator without doing anything else. My solution now is to use tmux for this, but it is not really elegant. Piping everything through l
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Silicon Photonic Neural Network Unveiled(technologyreview.com)
2 points by blux 10y ago|0 comments
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by blux 10y ago
> It essentially means restricting yourself to math that can be described as a (possibly infinite) algorithm. I'm confused. My impression is that it is the other way around where irrational numbers and operations like sine, square r
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by blux 10y ago
Yes, he sure is controversial. He does not acknowledge the existence of irrational numbers for example. In his lectures he avoids the use of any transcendental functions for the same reason, so no square roots, sine, or cosine. I'm no
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by blux 10y ago
Some years ago Wildberger gave some excellent lectures explaining quaternions using rational geometry, which, if I am not mistaken, is related to Clifford algebra in the way it is presented. Lectures start out by explaining the relation bet
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Sway 0.9 – One year of Sway(drewdevault.com)
2 points by blux 10y ago|0 comments
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by blux 10y ago
Anybody got an idea to which video series of Chandler Carruth he is referring to?
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by blux 10y ago
Not sure whether it is legal. The idea is not unique, Porsche also uses this idea in one of their concept cars: http://www.porsche.com/microsite/mission-e/international.asp...
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Amazon launches Amazon Smile(smile.amazon.com)
1 points by blux 11y ago|0 comments
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by blux 11y ago
> I just buy plain old dumb TVs, no need to worry about anything. This is a bit short sighted. In the near future, we will only have 'smart' TVs to chose from.
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by blux 11y ago
Death by a thousand cuts.
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by blux 11y ago
The shifting of the scale on the axes gives you insider information...got to $1B after a few tries :)
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by blux 11y ago
We already have a lot of those in the Netherlands. This is a step in the right direction. Ideally, I would like to see highways surfacing here and there between forests instead of the other way around. I think this is the direction we are h
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by blux 11y ago
I suggest marking the link that is not no. 1 as a duplicate then.
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by blux 11y ago
This reduces exposure for the story though. This was the no. 1 link on HN when you marked it as a duplicate completely removing this link from the front page.
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by blux 11y ago
> The source code of the syntax highlighting plugin is about 80 lines of code. Which is not that big of an achievement considering it depends on pygments for syntax highlighting...

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