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by ekimekim 7y ago
The campaign donations those companies gave you last election.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
These games aren't portable to begin with - they use hardware-specific memory mapped IO, pixel processing units, DMA routines, etc. Simply taking the code and making it C doesn't let you run it elsewhere any more than taking the c
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I'm skeptical that applying decompilers to C makes sense for these old games that were most likely programmed originally in assembler. Many of the examples in the post show the decompiled C being more complicated due to type casts, cre
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by ekimekim 7y ago
This is something that is really nice in gevent. Under the hood it's doing something similar to what the article says - every time you make a blocking call (in gevent, this means yielding to the event loop until your event occurs), you
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I've been on a 28-hour cycle for the last 7 or so years. Since it lines up into a 6-day week I can still be awake for more-or-less business hours on weekdays (sleep at 4pm mondays, wake at noon fridays). I'm pretty sure 28 hours i
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I'm not sure how firefox could implement this entirely on their end. There would need to be cooperation on the OS (or dhcp client) side to expose that option somehow. We're in this mess because OSes haven't acted and Mozilla
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by ekimekim 7y ago
This is addressed in TFA: The fact that there are multiple problems and solving any one of them doesn't help much until they're all solved, should not be an excuse to refuse to solve any of them.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
A lot of very old government services are like that, they hail from a time before everything was expected to be "free market" and needed to turn a profit to justify its existence.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
The Expanse offers a more realistic take to the same effect: With sufficiently efficient fuel, the fastest path from A to B is by constantly accelerating (more or less) towards it until you reach halfway, then flipping and constantly decele
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by ekimekim 7y ago
In general, compression works much better the more data it has to work with. When you're talking about one or two KiB files, the overheads are going to eat into a lot of your gains. It's definitely still worthwhile, but I can see
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by ekimekim 7y ago
This would only be possible if you were talking from a jumbo-configured client (let's say you've set up your laptop correctly), across a jumbo-configured network (Starlink, in your scenario), to a jumbo-configured server (here&#x2
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Amusingly, it seems to be half-half, creating interesting results like a digits row 1-7 being: Religion, Continent, Appeal, Settler, Government, Political, Axii Sign. Also WASD being Great Works, Attack, Move Backwards and Strafe Right.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Generally my line is server-side vs client-side. It is unknowable to me what data you're saving on the server side using information that I willingly sent to the server as part of normal use (eg. my ip, what HTTP calls I'm making)
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by ekimekim 7y ago
It definitely uses the issue template nowadays, if there is one. If there isn't, and the PR is one commit, it will reuse the commit message. If it's multiple commits, it'll give you a commented out list of every commit messag
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by ekimekim 7y ago
One thing I really hope they keep from Hub is the way it creates pull requests, namely by opening $EDITOR and using the first line as the PR title and the rest as description, ie. exactly the same mechansim as git uses for "git commit&
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Original Washington Post article discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Given that: a) Flying is basically the only practical option for long-distance travel (edit: by which I mean humans travelling to be at a destination, not cargo/goods). b) Travel is a hugely important good for society (debatable, but c
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by ekimekim 7y ago
The thing that always gets me with retries is error handling. What errors should be considered retryable, vs raise immediately? Do you log a retryable error? I've had systems mysteriously "hung" before which on closer inspect
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Sounds like a fun hack, I encourage you to give it a try and then never EVER use it in real code :P
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Forcing you into their ecosystem (if you're lucky enough to run an OS they support) by giving the devs wads of cash.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
It's a curious feeling. Like reading code that is syntactically valid but utterly nonsensical.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
> The complexity of it always necessitates making a slower conventional version. I agree with this, but I feel that in most cases it's not nessecary complexity. It comes from poor APIs that don't make streaming easy, or mismatc
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I saw "6-stage" and "Ariane" in the title and got very confused...
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I stand corrected, thanks! What a bizzare choice when floating point standards already have a well-defined system for determining how to round things.
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by ekimekim 7y ago
I think the most correct way would be to explicitly set the rounding mode to down or towards-zero, then calculate largest_double_that_fits = (double) LONG_MAX, then check value <= largest_double_that_fits. Since largest_double_that_fits
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by ekimekim 7y ago
If you're after golang-style concurrency in python, I suggest looking at gevent. It uses "greenlets" - lightweight threads implemented in userspace - and monkey patches the standard library to do cooperative multitasking. For
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by ekimekim 7y ago
My main advice is avoid ELK. I have no clue how Elastic managed to convince the world that Elasticsearch should be the default log database when it is _terrible_ for logs. If you're logging structured JSON, then you'll hit a ton o
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Octal notation is traditionally used in several contexts - file mode probably being the most common. If you were writing a JSON object to describe a file to be created, and you were under the mistaken impression that JSON supported octal wi
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by ekimekim 7y ago
There was a game a long time ago called "Minesweeper Flags" that was a 2-person minesweeper, except it worked in reverse. When it was your turn, you'd reveal a tile. If it's a mine, you get a point and your turn continue
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by ekimekim 7y ago
Having the one thing you logged in to compromised is a lot better than having ALL your logins compromised.

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