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by boardwaalk 10y ago
Are there any open source/self-hosted projects that do some of what Alexa, Google Assistant, Google Now, Siri do? Even without the manpower/big data/processing power of a big co I'm sure we could create something that&#x
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
Other things being equal (total number of deaths, age/health/profession ignored), I chose for the people in the car to die because "sudden brake loss" indicates that the people in the car are likely not taking care of th
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
I love the idea of "pumping entropy out of a system" and getting people do that vs. leaving more in than there was before.
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
Sometimes I wonder about the invisible costs of a popular messaging system that often drops messages and/or notifications. How much miscommunication and missed connections has it caused? It's really shameful to not have something
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
That really truly surprises me. I'm so much quicker and more in my element with a text editor.
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
Oh gosh, this is totally true. I honestly find it almost disrespectful when you feel some company is putting you through a pipeline. They set up an interview day, line everyone up, grind through them one by one. The other thing is the techn
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
I'm not being facetious, but this might be a personal problem (not being able to get your mind off of work). For people who experience this, something like meditation might help, seriously. I certainly wouldn't fault an employer.
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
It seems to me there's little reason to not just use another shell or scripting language (Python? Ruby? TCL?) You're not constrained by the browser only supporting JavaScript here.
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
Honestly I think the best thing you can do towards making good commits is having a good GUI client and using it well. What I do is, after I'm done making a mess of things, I click through each new/changed file and study the diff.
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
I agree. Unless it's out of necessity (C++ templates), all you're doing is killing my compilation time and I don't appreciate that. (And really, if it's that hard to add a source file to your project, your build system p
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by boardwaalk 10y ago
I like what I'm seeing so far. The mix of ease of prototyping (e.g. not fighting the type system if you don't want to) and powerful constructs from functional programming land (map and friends, currying) and powerful function over
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
Randomly modifying a filesystem image and then fixing up the checksums seems a little unfair. Would it not be reasonable to write code that assumes data that matches its checksum is valid? Isn't that the point of a checksum?
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
It doesn't look like that tested LuaJIT. The JIT part or the faster interpreter.
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
If they build a third observatory, can they triangulate where in the universe the events are occurring?
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
I figured this would be about the size of things. I suppose I'll start with a VM. I realized I mentioned Chromebooks in my first post -- reminder to anyone that ARM is not supported, so get an Intel-based model.
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
Practical question: If I was to get some cheap hardware, like a Chromebook, could I get a Debian GNU/Hurd development environment dual booting on it? What would I have available? I'd at least want a decent shell, tmux and vim and
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
Well, that update turned the app into flickering, unresponsive mess on my Mac (10.11). And I have to use some sort of old school contact form to report a bug to GitHub ? I'm a bit incredulous. I like GitHub for the basic "see wha
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
This is pretty specific, but Ruby has pretty terrible support for parsing Ruby. Libraries are either unmaintained or broken or for old versions. Python is great for parsing ('import ast'), compiling ('compile(...)') and
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
I signed up for an invite, but honestly I don't see why I'd want this over my current service, Ting, which does basically the same thing (an pay-what-you-use MVNO with nice app integration) and is already available for any band-ca
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
Does anyone know why Cisco would need a root CA on Windows machines...?
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
I was trying to install minix 3.3 for fun and ran into a bug in the e1000 driver that caused VirtualBox to throw up. It's fixed already, but not in 3.3: https://github.com/Stichting-MINIX-Research-Foundation/minix.
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
Somewhat related. Not a skyscraper, but a container ship: https://youtu.be/NE_ri8PkihE Impressive and unsettling.
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
For my own use, games. For example, multiple objects moving: The message updating the position of one taking longer than another shouldn't block the other from being handled. Also, an object being moved over time: You only care about t
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
enet looks quite interesting. The small, C code base is nice and the API looks clean. Thanks for linking it. I found this issue which looks related to your problem: https://github.com/lsalzman/enet/issues/23
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
I've played with QUIC [1] and SCTP [2]. QUIC does not have good documentation and SCTP's userlevel library feels like it's intended on being used a certain way (one-to-one sockets) and is easy to use incorrectly, which makes
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
The comments here are amazingly negative -- personally, if I was to live off the grid, the 4kW, 40', 220lb version sounds pretty great to me. At 220lb, you could easily raise/lower the thing as one person with some sort of mechani
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by boardwaalk 11y ago
A more compelling example would have been nice, considering you can write a single line constexpr function that calculates "My_Size". You can do some pretty neat (and actually useful) things with parameter packs and recursive temp
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by boardwaalk 12y ago
Seems to me like they should be using constants. Especially since this implies the 0xff/256 is elsewhere as well: elsewhere a 256 rather than 1024 wide window is being used too
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by boardwaalk 12y ago
In my toy scheme interpreter I used two bits, and so could store integers, pointers to C functions, symbols, bools and characters in an "immediate" form. With the caveat that cells (which contained things that couldn't fit in