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by cpeterso 3y ago
This is a good reminder to add code comments explaining why code is written a particular way. Also helpful is including breadcrumbs in comments and commits to relevant bug reports, docs, or commits.
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Sidley said to the researchers of this programmer, "He told me it came upon him when he was drunk and whacked out of his brain." Later research, however, suggests that although the original programmer and his mathematical collabo
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Chrome recently added a setting so you can display a tab’s memory usage when you mouse over the tab. In Firefox, you can check the memory usage of each tab in Firefox’s Task Manager ( about:processes ). https://support.mozilla.or
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Confronting taxonomic vandalism in biology, preserving nomenclatural stability(academic.oup.com)
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Invisible Bunnies That Power World of Warcraft (2017)(kotaku.com)
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Is There a Safest Seat on an Airplane?(afar.com)
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At the far end of the update frequency spectrum from LTS is Google's "live at head" philosophy. Google's Abseil C++ library, for example, recommends that consumers update to Abseil's latest commit from the master br
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A couple years ago, my Samsung TV slowed to a crawl. Each click through a menu took multiple seconds. I eventually discovered a new setting buried deep to turn off "real-time anti-virus scanning". That immediately fixed the perfor
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Correction: I mapped space to colon : not semicolon ;
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Map shift + space to underscore? In my .vimrc, I mapped space to ; to enter VIM command mode: noremap <Space> :
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Do any languages besides Ada use an identifier naming convention that merges PascalCase and snake_case like Ada_Identifier_Name? Popular languages like Python, Ruby, and Rust already mix both PascalCase and snake_case (for class and functi
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Or the college kids are acclimated to the Google ecosystem because they been using Google Classroom on the Google Chromebooks in their K-12 classes for years.
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The extension developer decides whether to mark their own extension as Android compatible. Mozilla doesn’t want a lot of users to install extensions that were never tested on Android. The users would have a bad experience and developers of
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Firefox's Android browser will have proper extension support again real soon(theverge.com)
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The only AI safety that companies care about is their brand safety.
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Related: a couple studies have shown that spoilers actually increase people’s enjoyment of the book or movie, even for mysteries or stories with twist endings. If a story’s enjoyment relies entirely on one secret that isn’t supported by t
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You can also create and switch between multiple Firefox profiles by entering about:profiles in the Firefox address bar.
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Another download ratio trick was to use a file transfer client like Leech Modem, an XMODEM-compatible client that would, after downloading the final data block, tell the server the file transfer failed so it wouldn’t count against your down
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by cpeterso 3y ago
True, AFAIK, but plenty of cross-platform software supports MSVC for compiling on Windows and clang and gcc for other platforms.
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> wchar_t (typically UTF-16) Complicating supporting multiple compilers in one code base, sizeof(wchar_t) is 2 bytes in MSVC (UTF-16) and 4 bytes in gcc (UTF-32).
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Yes! That's it: "word/off" by Mandala Wellness.
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Safari blocks third-party cookies by default and introduced a new Storage Access SPI so third-party sites that do need cookies can request explicit user permission. This is all part of Safari’s Intelligent Tracking Protection. Firefox doesn
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by cpeterso 3y ago
If you like Wordle, I recommend the iOS game “word/off”. You play against a friend, making up your own challenge words for each other. I find this much more interesting and fun. The game is free and has no ads.
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Wikipedia says The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction described the show as "dire" and The Best of Science Fiction TV included the show on its list of "Worst Science Fiction Shows of All Time”. But the full episodes are availabl
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I see what you mean, but don't "master" and "main" also imply some special authority? Trunk-based development with branches forking off and merging back into the trunk (a DAG, unlike a real tree! :) is an extremely
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by cpeterso 3y ago
Leaning into the tree metaphor (and following the precedent of other version control systems), git should have used the term trunk instead of master or main .
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> acts more like a bookmark In fact, Mercurial uses the term “bookmark” for its lightweight, git-like branching. Mercurial’s branches have slightly different semantics and can’t be deleted like bookmarks or git branches
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> Nevertheless, Firefox said it will adopt Manifest V3 in the interest of cross-browser compatibility. The article makes it sound like Firefox will have the same ad blocker limitations as Chrome. The article fails to mention that Mozilla
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Yes. The AI safety that companies care about is their brand safety. They don’t want their products going Microsoft Tay on their customers.
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What’s RL?

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