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by eska 5y ago
It boggles my mind that the author wrote an entire long article based on this. The rhetorical question saying that surely that weird refactor of two different functions into one, followed by calling that new, non-trivial function twice for
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by eska 5y ago
I've started learning it in March when the pandemic hit and I lost my job, so I had free time. I just started by making a side project, a static site generator of course. Now at my current job I was able to use Rust for an IoT data acq
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by eska 5y ago
I noticed this particularly strongly while discussing Chinese politics with Chinese exchange students. If I told them "in my country, we differentiate between the state and the people", then it became actually possible to discuss
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by eska 5y ago
Trivial AST editing is what I severly miss when using languages that aren't based on s-expressions. Diffing ASTs, searching for patterns in ASTs, patching ASTs, .. can literally be implemented from scratch in few lines of code. Meanwhi
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by eska 5y ago
I sent an email to a corporate Steam email address, asking whether I’d be allowed to post a screenshot from half-life in a computer graphics shading thesis. Ended up with a response from Gabe Newell, CEO, shortly after, and another engineer
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by eska 5y ago
I learned a similar technique during my first semesters of CS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrenfeucht%E2%80%93Fra%C3%AFs...
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by eska 5y ago
I agree. My problem with your previous post was just that it sounds like "either you're doing this wrong or you're doing that wrong" without acknowledging that it's possible to not have done anything wrong, or at le
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by eska 5y ago
I wish you had translated the first two medics' statements: The first one reports arriving at a bridge where somebody was about to commit suicide by jumping. A whole group of people started filming it. The second one reports that he&#x
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by eska 5y ago
I'll never understand how game artists put such immense effort and detail into hardly visible in-between frame details, while putting zero effort into 80% of the time visible base animations. They don't even bother to attach weapo
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by eska 5y ago
That's overly simplistic to the extent that it is dangerous. It takes two to tango. You can do everything right and your partner may still cheat on you, manipulate the children to dislike you, etc. It is unfair to say "you married
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by eska 5y ago
> The high-performance software industry is low-key carrying the hardware architecture industry on its back I don't understand this statement. To me it evidently looks like the opposite: the software gets worse (because most program
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by eska 5y ago
Good to know that China was able to buy the German robot manufacturer KUKA then. The German government is really getting slapped left and right.
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by eska 6y ago
You can screw the automation up, but when you fix the error it's gone forever. Compare this to having to do 5 manual steps every single time, potentially under stress. At some point you'll mess up. The errors in CI instead are sys
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by eska 6y ago
I watched a video by a successful streamer giving advice to new streamers on how to build a career in that industry. He said that all these ads and partner programs aren't even worth it, unless you're one of the top 1%. The pay is
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by eska 6y ago
Workaround, but I use mpv with youtube-dl. Offers rewinding, pausing (buffering for minutes), frame-by-frame stepping, slow motion.. You can just type `mpv http://twitch.tv/user_name `
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by eska 6y ago
No FLoC: try to make out an individual among millions of people by correlating various info FLoC: try to make out an individual among thousands of people by correlating various info Do you not realize how much easier it becomes to track ind
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by eska 6y ago
Nah. He took a break to reform himself, but has posted abusive messages since then again here and there.
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by eska 6y ago
This is what you want https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/std/path/struct.Path.html#...
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by eska 6y ago
I "audited" the generated c++ code (looked at it for 10 seconds) and immediately noticed that the decode functions all create a copy of the input buffer..
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by eska 6y ago
Call it a framework..
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by eska 6y ago
I read Google's announcement about Flutter 2, and saw that Google Pay switched to it. Of course their developers loved it. So I had a look at the app reviews for Google Pay: https://play.google.com/store/apps/
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by eska 6y ago
The pizza demo didn't even let me input text into the credit card input boxes..
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by eska 6y ago
Stop trying to use vim like your IDE. Vim doesn't have shortcuts, it has a whole language of commands that can freely be combined.
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by eska 6y ago
Something extremely popular in older games: Collection types with non-uniform elements. Imagine a kind of array or list where some elements are 4 bytes long and some are 6 bytes. There's this really funny reaction from the audience w
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by eska 6y ago
A technique I learned from Tanenbaum's operating systems book back in the day, that has served me well over the years, is to come up with the theoretical maximum and compare it to a naive implementation. For example right now I have to
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by eska 6y ago
So does this API look well-designed to you?
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by eska 6y ago
Making two teams compete like that is a horrible idea. Both teams know that no matter how hard they work, their work may be thrown away. I've heard horror stories like this in a post mortem about the development of Sonic 3D for Saturn
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by eska 6y ago
I use a rainbow parentheses addon for my editor. Makes stuff readable even when on a single line.
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by eska 6y ago
Agree. It's generally a bad idea to point at others in an apology, anyway.. Always turns it into a non-apology.
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by eska 6y ago
What's the argument for allowing null bytes in text? I think this wasn't argued for well enough in the article. I see a big risk of opening yourself up to all kinds of bugs with this, for no apparent benefit. The article mentions

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