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by cannam 7y ago
> I'm also partial to exposing it per-function so the control is actually in the hands of the people writing the code that know the context As a C++ programmer who routinely uses fast-math "until something breaks" with DSP
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by cannam 7y ago
Surely "How Not To..." is typically used when you're talking of a bad way to do something, or a way to fail - so this sounds like it's describing a bad way to rewrite something in Rust, which is not the case. It also isn
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by cannam 7y ago
Seems a bit superfluous to suggest commercial fonts when there are so many good free ones, but I am very fond of FontFont Attribute Mono ( https://www.fontshop.com/families/ff-attribute-mono ) by Viktor Nübel. It's
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by cannam 7y ago
Funny to think that writing a window manager once seemed like quite a good use of one's time. I wonder what today's equivalent is. I still in theory maintain one of mine (wmx), and this thread just prompted me to go and fix a few
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by cannam 7y ago
Scala was familiar enough by 2003 that I referred to it as a known utility (rather than a new thing) in a post to the mailing list for a different project in June that year. It's obviously a niche application, but I suppose within that
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by cannam 7y ago
It certainly seems on-point. "A loud clatter of gunk music flooded through the Heart of Gold cabin as Zaphod searched the sub-etha radio wavebands for news of himself. The machine was rather difficult to operate. For years radios had b
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by cannam 7y ago
> Eliud Kipchoge runs so fast that he used a number of fresh pacers for this particular effort And of course the pacers are also among the fastest runners in the world. (Here's a list: https://live.ineos159challenge.com&#
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by cannam 7y ago
> even the knockoffs of the Dyson design from other companies don't work as good as the Dysons I think the Mitsubishi one - which predates the Dyson by some years, so arguably the Dyson is a knockoff of it - works pretty nicely, a
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by cannam 7y ago
> It’s important to remember that “the deal” isn’t a thing that was mentioned on the pamphlet that went through everyone’s door before the referendum. This was the pamphlet of the official Leave campaign: http://www.voteleavet
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by cannam 7y ago
It's a slightly ambiguous parse. > we slowly start to see ideas we once would have rejected out of hand as "reasonable" only after... I think you parsed it as > we slowly start to see (ideas we once would have rejected
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by cannam 7y ago
Not any more: https://github.com/PowerShell/PowerShell/releases/ I quite like Powershell on Windows, but I'm not sure I dare try it on Linux. I think it might make my head explode.
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by cannam 7y ago
If you should happen to be in Bath, I think they still have a table at the Bell on Walcot St. (A very fine pub no matter what)
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by cannam 7y ago
I thought the post was pretty clear on both of these things. I'm surprised that all the top-level comments here (at the time I write) are addressing only the longer review time - it seems clear enough that the real problem is that it&#
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by cannam 7y ago
Nice! Ilford is obviously an old company, but it does also feel like a contemporary idea - responding to the collapse of film for general use by becoming a company with a very clear, singular niche: black-and-white photographic film and pro
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by cannam 7y ago
I have one too, and I agree it's an amazing device, but a while ago I discovered it had seized up and stopped working - the fast-forward and rewind had been dodgy for a while, but both of them had finally given up, and playback had als
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by cannam 7y ago
Adjective rather than verb, but that's how I feel about Apple's use of "Recents" as a menu entry in some of their software. Developers, if your application ever offers me a selection of Recents, I will delete it and then
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by cannam 7y ago
The Dyson combined tap-dryers are awful, awful products - we have some in newly fitted bathrooms at my workplace. I don't know how they made it out into the world without shame. They're hard to trigger reliably, they blow water ev
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by cannam 7y ago
Of course this is always going to be anecdotal, but I never saw them in the north-east in the 80s either. The predecessor to the BBC Micro that I remember was the RML 380Z. I was messing with computers at school and elsewhere throughout the
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by cannam 7y ago
> The most viewed Alan and Steve in Wikipedia are the Silicon Valley ones. You had me well baffled with this - who is the "Silicon Valley Alan"? The only candidate I could think of was Alan Kay who, with all respect, was never
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by cannam 7y ago
> Also, on page 14 Black has mate in one I think that's true of all the examples (isn't it?) - they all end at the move where Black has mate, but they admit nothing in the commentary. It's beautifully done.
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by cannam 7y ago
The 3a and 3a XL seem like sensible designs, the only disappointment here being how deeply the battery is buried. This feels like a very dumb question, but are the current Google phones any less usable than other Androids for people who are
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by cannam 7y ago
That's for the 3a, not the XL. The page for the XL only seems to have the video so far ( https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Google+Pixel+3a+XL+Teardown/... )
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by cannam 7y ago
I found this very illuminating. I had never heard of Bergson until a few weeks ago, when I read Naguib Mahfouz's trilogy about family life in Cairo in the first half of the 20th century. These novels feature a (male) character who stud
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by cannam 8y ago
See also this archive recovered earlier from a different academic study by Ben Fields et al: https://archive.org/details/myspace_thesis - this new archive appears to be much bigger, but I don't know whether it inc
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by cannam 8y ago
At the time he was writing, TVs didn't know how to blank out between channels. They just broadcast the noise. Blank television screens (when the TV was on) hadn't been invented yet. (edit: maybe that's not true, perhaps in 19
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by cannam 8y ago
"I actually composed that first image with black and white video static of my childhood in mind, sodium silvery and almost painful" ( https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/163304/what-color-... ) - so
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by cannam 8y ago
This was the most surprising part of the article for me. I had no idea an app publisher could tell when I had taken a screenshot. (I don't use iOS myself; I assume if it's possible on iOS it's possible on Android as well?)
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by cannam 8y ago
Oh that was disappointing - I hadn't heard of one of them so I hit what I thought was the "skip" button, and it took me straight to the results of all of the questions without letting me try any of the rest. I realise that th
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by cannam 8y ago
Narrowed me down to Yorkshire as well - wrongly, because I come from the north-east. My mother grew up in Derbyshire, so perhaps it split the difference.
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by cannam 8y ago
This older quiz from the same source, covering the US, came up in a comment here the other day: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz... The questions are quite different (presumably ch

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