ekimekim

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by ekimekim 8y ago
Both you and the parent are correct. Decimal floating point is a long-established thing, but the vast majority of "Currency" or "Decimal" data types in modern languages are arbitrary or fixed precision (to some configura
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by ekimekim 8y ago
grpc is one that we're struggling with at the moment, psycopg2 is another that won't Just Work (you need to use a special "adapter" that teaches the underlying C library to hook into the event loop). In general anything
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by ekimekim 8y ago
As much as I love gevent I can't claim in good conscience that it always "just works" for me. It tends to just work until it doesn't, and then you're stuck investigating how a dependency of a dependency just switche
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by ekimekim 8y ago
I'll add something I've observed to that: In asyncio and similar systems, the choice between "is this code syncronous or asyncronous" is made at declaration time - either you define a sync function or an async one, and y
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by ekimekim 8y ago
Yep, and golang, and python with gevent (linked in the article). The general approach is often called "green threads" or "userspace threads".
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by ekimekim 8y ago
> Unless the new definition was based on the current IPK and set its mass as of today as the standard, and that standard now will be unchanging? Correct. The current IPK will still be 1kg to within margin of error at the time the new def
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by ekimekim 8y ago
This somewhat exists in the Australian system. A candidate and their workers hand out "How to Vote" cards at the polling places, which tell voters "I want you to put me #1, my mate #2, and those evil <opposition party>
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by ekimekim 8y ago
The main point of IRV is to allow me to say "I'd actually prefer third party C, but if it comes down to main parties A or B (which it probably will), I guess I prefer B". Under approval, I have two options: * Vote for B and C
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by ekimekim 8y ago
> There is no debt, though. No-one's disputing that. The parent post is supposing that because taking this to court and proving that United violated the law is expensive (in both money and more importantly effort), a large enough pe
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by ekimekim 8y ago
> In addition, Fuckr offers access to a trove of information about Grindr users not freely available > "Fuckr does not bypass any technical access control mechanism and does not access any work copyrighted by Grindr LLC" Fro
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by ekimekim 8y ago
It's a fair point that it's very difficult to avoid conflict of interest when doing your job better might mean your department has less money to use. My suggestion: Remove the incentive by divorcing all fine (and similar things li
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by ekimekim 8y ago
One previous employer, an analytics company, had their website's title set to "<Company Name> Analytics". It just so happened that at my browser's default tab width, this title showed up as "<Company Name&g
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by ekimekim 8y ago
This got me thinking about Mastodon, Peertube, etc. These are decentralised services for sharing content. Their user-base mainly favours them, iiuc, because the operators of centralised services were being too heavy-handed in their restrict
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by ekimekim 8y ago
IMO light-seconds is actually a really nice unit for interplanetary distances. 1AU ~= 500ls. Not only is the scale nice for human arithmetic, but it serves a dual purpose of also telling you the light delay.
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by ekimekim 8y ago
The context is that there's a lack of trust about the system being stable and implemented properly. Hence why it falling over proves them right.
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by ekimekim 8y ago
For the curious, this trial was eventually resolved in favour of Israel's national library, on the grounds that this was Max Brod's instructions in his will: "But Judge Kopelman Pardo rejected Ms. Hoffe’s claim that the paper
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by ekimekim 8y ago
IIUC you only need to semantically "delete" it, ie. record the fact that it is deleted, and then not use it. Consider an analogy to a filesystem. If I delete a file, the bits aren't actually gone and are recoverable (at least
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by ekimekim 8y ago
Depends on your criteria. If you only aim to feed a small group, it is significantly less cost to make a handful of enclosures than to clear a large amount of space for a field, even if the field is more efficient at scale.
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Yep, that would be 36m^2. If it helps, think of a grid of 1m by 1m tiles laid out on the floor. How many tiles could you fit?
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Very cool! I did something similar for the Game Boy Color recently - playing 18kHz ~7bit audio while also updating the screen at 60fps, using "hi-color" techniques where you change the color palette before each line is drawn. It w
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by ekimekim 9y ago
L1, L2 and L3 are unstable - if you start to drift away even a tiny bit, that drift gets amplified over time. Staying at one of these points requires at least some station-keeping. L4 and L5, by contrast, are stable - even if you're no
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Not to disagree with your second point, but that 200ft^2 of land can house a lot of people if you're building 20 stories onto it. It seems to me housing crisis is affected massively by the anti-high-density sentiment in SF preventing e
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by ekimekim 9y ago
That's because for decades binding to localhost has been taken to mean "only users on the local machine can access this". Now chrome is breaking that assumption through a leaky sandbox, and demanding everyone else change rath
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Then shouldn't it be fixed? Again, this is a chrome bug.
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by ekimekim 9y ago
This is ridiculous. Not that I'm defending Transmission on their slowness here, but this is fundamentally a chrome issue. Websites being able to access services running on localhost is a security vulnerability , a sandbox escape. Peop
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Because 200 years ago, when travel and communication was more difficult, this was a reasonable assumption. The problem is that these systems are resistant to change and thus will always be stuck in the past.
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by ekimekim 9y ago
> but has streaming really helped the average artist? Sure has helped most of the artists I know, who would never be lucky enough/know the right people to be among the chosen elite that got to participate in the record system. Strea
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by ekimekim 9y ago
Very late reply, just for posterity: I was mistaken about the GBC not having a Joypad interrupt. Turns out I just had a bug, and apparently misread or misunderstood something somewhere along the line that made me think that was the cause.
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by ekimekim 9y ago
I'd be curious as to what game the Gameboy Color was tested on, because that 80ms figure seems off to me. I don't know much about the joypad hardware so I'm not sure how long it would take from pressing the button to deliveri
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by ekimekim 9y ago
I believe the author intended that to be sarcastic. Their point being that being a Nazi should result in a stronger censure than losing a mostly-meaningless check mark.

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