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by eska 6y ago
I really like the separation between the semantic content and the visualization there. HTML/JS/CSS throw everything together instead. But XSLT is nothing I want to have to work with..
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by eska 6y ago
Your website specifically says that Gemini intentionally isn't extensible and that any such attempts are shunned by the mailing list. This sounds like the same fragmentation disaster that we had with the web.. An Internet Explorer come
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by eska 6y ago
By streaming I meant live streaming as opposed to video playback. There one can offer the video at different qualities by switching between different files, or change the quality adaptively within the same stream. I'm not aware of site
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by eska 6y ago
Out of curiosity, why is adaptive bitrate something you want for video playback outside of streaming? Personally I prefer having to buffer a bit but getting the video at the desired minimum quality. E.g. having to seek back because text sud
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by eska 6y ago
Oh how I wish that everyone would support pkgconfig! I've been adding pkgconfig support to various libraries, sometimes being shut down or ignored (dangling PRs). Meanwhile cmake etc often write their own proprietary support (find modu
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by eska 6y ago
You don't, if your application code is not OOP.
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by eska 6y ago
This analysis completely misses the mark and spreads a lot of untruths. The two major points are: 1. Discord makes money by letting users elevate their status, while offering core feature for free. 2. It is 10x better than other offerings.
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by eska 6y ago
Working at a hosting provider in the past I realized I'd be out of a job if web browsers implemented native support for torrents real fast.
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by eska 6y ago
My previous employer would just sent requests to delete negative reviews on Google Maps because the reviewer didn't use their real name, and poof, it was gone. Easy as pie.
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by eska 6y ago
I decided to ditch NVidia due to bad linux compatibility and went with an AMD. Had no issued whatsoever since then (half year). I was also surprised to see a Phoronix benchmark for Blender with many graphics cards and different GPU off load
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by eska 6y ago
This article answers all of that with an emphatic "no" https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/diagnostics/how-ibm-wat...
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by eska 6y ago
I found the OOP chapter to be very questionable and against industry practice. Even for simple software you don't want to clobber rendering and collision detection together into the same object. The algorithms also naturally become O(n
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by eska 6y ago
I've seen demos of Jonathan Blow's language Jai where he shows how fast his current video game project in Jai compiles. He's doing the opposite of what you say: just give all input files to one compiler invocation without hea
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by eska 6y ago
TLDR ask your customers what they care about instead of just showing them what your product does.
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by eska 6y ago
We're still ignoring the entire Asian and African continents then, though.
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by eska 6y ago
That contradicts with the article. The article states that the Muslim scholar theorized that god actively mutates the animals that want to adapt, i.e. god didn't just invent "the mechanism" of mutation, as you say.
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by eska 6y ago
I was excited to hear about this due to the golden age of science in the Arabic world, which was a high point of Arabic culture that has since then unfortunately declined. But wondering how the scholar was able to do this research despite I
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by eska 6y ago
Just because somebody is a native speaker of English, doesn't mean they'd be good English teachers, true. But somebody who only knows English from text books can't possibly teach it properly, no matter what.
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by eska 6y ago
A couple of weeks of stifled productivity versus years of buggy, insecure, and inefficient software (e.g. because you'll be afraid to use asynchronous IO, threading, etc). I'll choose the former.
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by eska 6y ago
I think you should worry. One of my math professors taught us how factoring to a (x+b (x+c*(...))) is a great optimization in an introductory class, because he had no idea about CPU pipelines for example.
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by eska 6y ago
I don't think it's harsh. It is a reasonable question to ask. Academia is rife with people who have never worked in the industry, completely disconnected from reality.
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by eska 6y ago
This gives me flashbacks to the DOS filesystem timestamps. It's exactly the same mistake. By splitting the date into multiple fields, bits are wasted. If they hadn't tried to be smart and just made it one number, it would've
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by eska 6y ago
I couldn't even figure out what he's talking about. People who want to see race will see race.. Facepalm
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by eska 6y ago
You shouldn't use time in this scenario at all, but wait on a condition. It's unreasonable to expect a non-realtime kernel to offer this precision with timers. Doing serious audio work on non-realtime kernels, you have to expect s
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by eska 6y ago
> This is easily shown by imagining an absurd C++ codebase where each method or function is in its own module That's the musl codebase, in C. It does this in order to be able to remove unused code in a static build. It compiles ridi
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by eska 6y ago
That's common for generated code, though. It makes it so that the other code can always use "else if".
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by eska 6y ago
> many (young) people seem to spend most of their time watching videos (as in, watching videos is their equivalent to my being idle). But admittedly, those videos usually last 10s or so (and if not, they switch to the next video anyway),
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by eska 6y ago
If your database queries are so bad that you can get such big improvements by changing the queries and indexes, then obviously focus on that, not the client programming language. But once you've done that your programming language is r
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by eska 6y ago
That's basically why I dislike languages like this. I used to write World of Warcraft AddOns in lua. Refactoring was a pain. There'd often be some edge case I'd only notice days later where now a function argument was missing
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by eska 6y ago
I pasted Japanese text and it turned into Mojibake.

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