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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
There's a promoted comment on the original post that addresses the question of interference between lidars from multiple cars on the same street (short version: coded pulses so each unit can recognise its own reflections). But your com
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Same for me. Maybe something changed about HN since the demo was written?
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
This sort of thing is why Swift treats grapheme clusters, rather than code points or bytes or "characters", as the fundamental unit of text. When I first started learning Swift I thought that was a weird choice that would just get
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Doctorow mentions the cases where a printer company has made their software lie about how much ink was left in a cartridge to make consumers replace them more often. I always wondered why a manufacturer would want to do that. I mean, I unde
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Let’s stop punishing IoT devices that embrace HTTPS(neosmart.net)
2 points by captaincrowbar 9y ago|1 comments
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Personally I like James Nicoll's definition of hard science fiction: it's hard SF if the author gives enough details that the reader can be _certain_ it wouldn't work.
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Reading that, I was prompted (translation: nerdsniped) into thinking about the Same Network Problem: how do you identify two machines that are actually on the same LAN and can communicate without NAT, without the risk of revealing any infor
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New Niche for C++: The Browser(ithare.com)
1 points by captaincrowbar 9y ago|0 comments
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Anyone interested in the search should follow Brown and Batygin's Planet Nine blog at http://www.findplanetnine.com/
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
I'm liking Paintbrush: https://paintbrush.sourceforge.io/
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
My definition of life: A forkbomb implemented in hardware.
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
Yeah, there's a long discussion about this on the official Unicode mailing list recently. You can read it at http://unicode.org/pipermail/unicode/
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
As usual, XKCD is ahead of us: https://what-if.xkcd.com/152/
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by captaincrowbar 9y ago
In the early beta release of Swift 0.x, they used x..y for half-open ranges and x...y for closed ranges. This confused people (especially since Ruby already used the same operators but the other way around), so they changed the half-open op
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Planet Nine may have been found(sciencealert.com)
4 points by captaincrowbar 10y ago|1 comments
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
There's an old saying among scientists: any set of data points will fit a power law if plotted on log-log paper with a fat enough magic marker.
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
The "Third Way" is to avoid both problems (diverging stable and unstable forks vs. a single line with frequent minor breakage) by making heroic efforts to maintain backwards compatibility even in the face of major changes. Someone
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
The likely reason Uber wouldn't play ball is that they wanted to be able to carry paying passengers in their test vehicles, which probably wouldn't be allowed under the test regulations, or even if it was, would leave them open to
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
Been there, done that. There's only one way to check email addresses: /.+@.+/ Anything else is going to give you a false negative sooner or later. Yeah, you can spend hours framing a complicated expression that carefully test
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
Me three. Tried it on Chrome/Windows and Safari/Mac, same breakage.
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
Back in the days of the Itanium debacle, Intel made the mistake of assuming everybody would be willing to rewrite their code to work efficiently on whatever hardware Intel wanted to give them. Instead, AMD won (briefly) by making a 64-bit c
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
Bog_Engine is totally going to be the next big AAA game engine. But I'm not sure I'd trust Data-Trater with my database.
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
I believe the standard SI unit for this sort of thing is the Olympic swimming pool, but I think we can allow the use of football fields in a forum where many users are still familiar with the US customary system.
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
100 billion stars, not million. So on the order of 100 stars per pixel, although obviously not evenly distributed. (Edited to add) The individual stars you can see when you zoom all the way in are the very brightest stars, mostly blue (O&#x
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by captaincrowbar 10y ago
I tried to phrase the submission title neutrally; the article uses phrases like "dead in the water", "utter lack of market demand", and "time to declare Valve's Steam Machine DOA". Not entirely unfairly, I
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Valve Steam Machine selling very poorly(arstechnica.com)
17 points by captaincrowbar 10y ago|19 comments
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by captaincrowbar 11y ago
I just tried that on several browsers; Safari and Chrome are fine, it seems to be only Firefox that has a problem with that. I have no idea whether that's a bug in Firefox or Github, and either way there's nothing I can do about i
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by captaincrowbar 11y ago
Because the whole point is to handle anything that needs Unicode support. A library that only manipulated Unicode strings would be incomplete if you still couldn't use Unicode in command line options, file names, etc.
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by captaincrowbar 11y ago
No idea what you mean, sorry. I'm just using Github's automatically generated web pages, so if there's a problem there it's probably a Github issue.
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Unicorn: C++ Unicode string library(github.com)
66 points by captaincrowbar 11y ago|30 comments

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