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by davemp 7y ago
That's unfortunate. Whenever I talk about rust with my coworkers, getting crates through IT comes up as a major deal breaker. I imagine cooperate approved "packs" would make it much easier for us rust hobbyists to get some pr
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by davemp 7y ago
I know of at least three projects (with huge budgets) right now that are spawned from the corpses of old, failed projects that never worked. Those old projects make up the legacy of the current effort and can’t be easily thrown away.
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by davemp 7y ago
> China is the most populated country on earth and an emerging superpower. They have every right to consider themselves exceptional, just the way the US considers itself exceptional. Being highly populated and powerful is not really an e
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by davemp 7y ago
My tin-foil theory is that the two pages are only there to add more friction relative to just keeping their login cookie at all times.
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by davemp 7y ago
Considering that polygraphs are mostly a sham, I'd say no, these couldn't be used to detect emotional state.
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by davemp 7y ago
I imagine the communities would kind of serve as a public index in aggregate that have a barrier to entry / reputation. If one turns to crap just ignore it with whatever search tool you're using. It wouldn't be about policing
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by davemp 7y ago
Sometimes it just takes a small changes to make an idea work. Neural networks weren't viable until GPUs/backpropagation. Dismissive comments like this aren't very useful.
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by davemp 7y ago
Obviously a naïve web directory isn't going to cut it. What would make the approach viable is if there were a nice way to automate and crowd source most/all of the effort. Maybe that means changing the idea of what makes a website
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by davemp 7y ago
Perhaps there exists a happy medium between: manual curation -- unfiltered PageRank is kind of a pseudo manual curation. The manual effort is just farmed out to the greater internet and analyzed.
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by davemp 7y ago
> I often see several suggestions that the alternative to Google is curated directories but I can't tell if people are unaware of the early internet's history and don't know that such an idea was already tried and how it u
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by davemp 7y ago
The problem is that current search engines are indexing what is essentially a stack of random books thrown together by anonymous library goers. Before being able to guide readers to books, librarians have to the following non-trivial tasks
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by davemp 7y ago
I’m not sure why valve doesn’t just ship a 64bit client with their own compatibility layer(s). There’s a lot of problems on various linux distros hunting down and setting up the correct 32bit libs. Windows is fine for obvious reasons, but v
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by davemp 7y ago
Do you think people don’t know that dumping and littering in nature is bad? There is an inherent selfishness at play, especially with little threat of punishment or shame.
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by davemp 7y ago
Most of those issues are solved by carrying a pack of markers in your bag. My biggest annoyance with dry erase is when people leave markings on for a really long time and board gets stained.
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by davemp 7y ago
I may press too hard, but I've had a few packs of them and ~50% would break on me and start leaking ink like a squid. Great pens otherwise though.
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by davemp 7y ago
Whenever software patents come up I think of Knuth’s letter to the US patent office: --- STANFORD UNIVERSITY STANFORD, CALIFORNIA 94305-2140 DONALD E. KNUTH Professor Emeritus of The Art of Computer Programming Department of Computer Scienc
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by davemp 7y ago
Looks like the repo and github account were made today. [1] That’s pretty fishy to me. Crates.io has all sorts of other problems where it assumes good faith. [1]: https://github.com/kollaborator
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by davemp 7y ago
My mistake. I read the first line of the ripgrep readme and assumed because utils like `find` run slower with regex matching for the same searches that ripgrep would be similar. > ripgrep is a line-oriented search tool that recursively s
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by davemp 7y ago
AFAIK ripgrep always uses regular expressions. So for straight substring matching grep will usually be faster.
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by davemp 7y ago
Those filters are essentially useless garbage that exist for the purpose of attracting potential buyers on a show floor. If the filters were actually desirable, most could be applied at the content level.
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by davemp 7y ago
I assume OP is in grad school. I took a few grad classes during my undergrad and the difference was night and day (teaching and cohort). So maybe your school was fine and you were just in the wrong classes. :)
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by davemp 7y ago
Unity3D has this sort of license, though it's not OSS last time I checked.
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by davemp 7y ago
> This is standard terminology within programming and cryptography. This is the only practical definition to use, as cryptography commonly deals with arbitrarily sized inputs, which can of course not all run in O(1). How about 'cons
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by davemp 7y ago
That's when it's time to rip and tear the monopolies apart ;)
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by davemp 7y ago
Yeah I meant it more as a bad habit, because when you move to other languages you'll have problems. In rust I don't think the style would even compile, and in C you're just playing with fire.
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by davemp 7y ago
`i > -1` isn't quite right. I'm not sure about how C# does implicit casting, but arrays should be indexed by `usize` and comparing signed w/ unsigned is a bug waiting to happen or UB in other languages.
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by davemp 7y ago
People (mostly) already don't physically own games on PC. Steam can in theory shut right down and most people's games would just be gone.
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by davemp 7y ago
Because we’ve learned time after time that one size fits all is a fool’s dream.
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by davemp 7y ago
> Apple Pencil latency is dropping from 20ms to 9ms, This is why I respect Apple. Most tech forums would have been flooded people whinging about how mere humans can’t perceive such low latencies and how improving them is a waste. Meanwhi
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by davemp 7y ago
I've always wondered how many engineer hours have been lost on the phone with helpdesks sorting out expired passwords.

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