cstrahan

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by cstrahan 4y ago
The arguments still carry their dynamic type, but you lose the type parameters for the functions applied to those arguments. Of course, at the call sites for known working code you can infer the type parameters -- let's say for examp
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by cstrahan 4y ago
I don’t get why, but it’s not uncommon for people to prefer the aesthetic of the trackpad being centered on the chassis, while being offset relative to the midpoint between the two home rows of the keyboard. Palm rejection nowadays is prett
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by cstrahan 4y ago
To add to this train of thought: different diets might change the use of the incoming calories in more or less favorable ways. If you hold calories constant, but otherwise vary the diet, conceivably the body could respond with differing amo
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by cstrahan 4y ago
I see where I got confused — I misread the tense: I thought they were talking about a present/recent push to change the oil used in the fries, not the one from the 1980s (which resulted in replacing the beef tallow around 1990 or so).
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by cstrahan 4y ago
Are you referring to the push to replace partially hydrogenated vegetable oils (which would likely mean they’d end up using non-hydrogenated vegetable oils), or do you mean something else?
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by cstrahan 5y ago
Not being surprised is not the same as being defeatist/conformist. There are things I would love to see changed that don’t surprise me, and there are things that surprise me that I see no reason to change. One does not imply the other.
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by cstrahan 5y ago
> The article shows a piece of code that makes that promise and then doesn't hold up its part of the agreement. Edit: disregard; I now see your other comments. Incorrect. The article shows a piece of code that makes and fulfills t
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by cstrahan 5y ago
Similar experience here. In my case, I didn't want to be administered a powerful substance (and experience any lasting effects) unless absolutely necessary. My understanding is that adverse reactions are very rare, but if the only upsi
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by cstrahan 5y ago
> Why, for goodness’ sake? It's offset to the left on the chassis so that it will be centered between your hands while typing. If the trackpad was centered on the chassis, your right palm would be constantly in contact with about a
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by cstrahan 5y ago
Yeah, it's pretty bad. > How do they try to stop it now? Generally, they don't. They have an in game reporting function, but it doesn't seem to do much good. Many cheaters live stream their exploits, seeing people through
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by cstrahan 5y ago
> relying on stock phrases to relay information You can see this in other common phrases. Take "miles per hour" for example. I've met plenty of people who can't figure out how long it would take to get from A to B at
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by cstrahan 5y ago
PipeWire looks like it's shaping up to be an excellent spiritual successor to (and unification of) both PulseAudio and JACK: https://pipewire.org/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PipeWire
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by cstrahan 6y ago
This was handled quite poorly -- a different course of action could have avoided all the chaos while also resolving the GPL violation. As the GPL FAQ states: > If a programming language interpreter has a license that is incompatible with
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by cstrahan 6y ago
Which features do you have in mind? I use NixOS as well, and I’ve been thinking of switching to PipeWire.
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by cstrahan 6y ago
> I mean you listed several database libraries, static analyzers, and a code optimizer. Correct. > Is it your suggestion that those kinds of applications do not require solid knowledge of a variety of different data structures and alg
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by cstrahan 6y ago
Not products in the typical sense, but these are some interesting technologies coming out of Facebook that I can list off the top of my head (many of which I have used personally): * https://engineering.fb.com/2014/06&#
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by cstrahan 6y ago
> For me this page render instantly. i5 2500K, 16 GB RAM on Linux (I do have some aggressive tweaks). My machine: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6850K CPU @ 3.60GHz, 128 GB RAM on Ubuntu Linux 20.04. > My mouse has additional buttons for these.
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by cstrahan 6y ago
The latest Chrome. This has been a problem I've experience for years.
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by cstrahan 6y ago
For one, they're using some sort of link / browser history hijacking (something like https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks , IIRC) which is buggy, for example: * say you're on page A * navigate to page
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by cstrahan 6y ago
> They are easy and painless. Waking up from the anesthesia I felt more relaxed than I ever have in my life. Alternatively, you can opt for no anesthesia/sedative, if like me your major concern is lingering after effects (and a fear
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by cstrahan 6y ago
How long the rocket fuel could offset the force of gravity upon itself, thus suspending itself in-place. In the real world, you'd need the rocket itself (which in turn contains the rocket fuel) which adds weight, and you'd have a
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by cstrahan 6y ago
The reasoning I've seen for iOS/Safari not supporting webm: there isn't hardware support on the iPhone, which would hurt battery life. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16319651 However, I think that
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by cstrahan 6y ago
No, rather C++ has many competing package managers, none of which have majority buy in from the C++ community. To name a few: https://github.com/cpp-pm/hunter https://conan.io/ https://docs.
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by cstrahan 6y ago
> How is the host supposed to evaluate the future? I don't see how "evaluation of the future" is relevant. The person hosting the game has laid out the conditions for his actions. If you say "you will not give me priz
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by cstrahan 6y ago
>> If we stopped making it a game, without points to earn and rewards for points, people wouldn’t cheat. > Nonsense. > There is an incentive to cheat any time there is a test, where capabilities are measured that are not routine
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by cstrahan 6y ago
"To Mock a Mockingbird" by Raymond Smullyan. From Wikipedia: > To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles: Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic (1985, ISBN 0-19-280142-2) is a book by the mathematician and log
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by cstrahan 7y ago
For more on statecharts, check out Ragel: http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/ > Ragel compiles executable finite state machines from regular languages. Ragel targets C, C++ and ASM. Ragel state machines can
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by cstrahan 7y ago
What are some examples of questions you would like to see?
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by cstrahan 7y ago
Check out https://graphics.wsj.com/what-percent/ Plug in $12,000 as the annual income, and that'll tell you that 24% of U.S. workers made that or less in 2014. Looks like the number of full time U.S. workers in 20
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by cstrahan 7y ago
> because "bilingual advantage" is subjective Yes, without any further qualifications, "bilingual advantage" is subjective... but then you're making a straw man argument. Here's that quote again: > Becaus

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