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by firethief 5y ago
That might have more to do with the variety of screen resolutions than progressive loading per se
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by firethief 5y ago
Fighting with the borrow checker is just a phase you have to get through, it will click. The need to write anything that can't be done without unsafety is rare (probably never unless you are writing a data structure library).
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by firethief 5y ago
That's the typical approach to varints except optimized for hardware with 9-bit bytes. It's not the kind of thing that dedicated instructions can make faster, or we'd be using them all the time.
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by firethief 6y ago
> Indeed, it's true, horses don't create demand, but neither do unemployed humans. Unemployed humans don't create supply . Incomeless humans don't create demand.
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by firethief 6y ago
Surely it would be easier to use neutrinos?
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by firethief 6y ago
We don't know how much it changes. We don't have much information on the difference between the ratio of $measurement0 : $measurement1 between the two groups. Once everyone is vaccinated (antivaxxers don't count, they get wha
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by firethief 6y ago
You haven't noticed a slightly higher risk of heart attack? That's not very surprising
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by firethief 6y ago
Coffee is not a diuretic if you consume it regularly
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by firethief 6y ago
Interesting. That doesn't seem to be specified in the RFC1122 standard or the Linux ip(7) docs, but it's an explicit special case in the kernel (ip_route_output_key_hash_rcu): if (!fl4->daddr) { fl4-&g
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by firethief 6y ago
Here I am naming my machines like a chump when I could be memorizing their numbers like oh yeah, I went to MIT
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by firethief 6y ago
0 is 0.0.0.0, which is not a valid address for most purposes. Some programs, like iputils ping, have special handling for that case (i.e. using it as an alias for the unroutable host address); some programs, like FreeBSD's ping, do not
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by firethief 6y ago
Hard enough bread keeps for years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardtack Yeah it's not that palatable, but we're talking about a survival strategy. It's biscuit or death.
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by firethief 6y ago
Depression != suicide. Depressed people don't usually kill themselves, even under modern circumstances where suicide rates are elevated because means of easy suicide are widespread[1]. 1: https://med.stanford.edu/news&#
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by firethief 6y ago
Humans are not so logical. They are also known to be much worse than they think at reporting their own experiences[1], and prone to shared delusions, especially under stress[2]. There are always wild rumors under circumstances where reliabl
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by firethief 6y ago
To add another anecdatapoint, I had exactly the same thought. It kind of makes sense; I think of ADHD as being a matter of intrinsically-driven attention rather than motivated attention.
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by firethief 6y ago
It seems society's tolerance for mortal danger depends more on the cause of the risk than its magnitude. I guess the occasional gas accident is one of the acceptable reasons for people to die.
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by firethief 6y ago
There is no way to make a stove safe in the face of incorrect usage. I wouldn't be able to judge whether flame interlocks should be mandatory without any statistics about the frequency of this type of accident.
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by firethief 6y ago
> but even the evaporated vapor from a pot of simmering soup can make it momentarily angry. It sounds like it can't tell the difference between water vapor and harmful pollutants. Not that it needs to for it to do its job, but the m
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by firethief 6y ago
Sugar.
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by firethief 6y ago
That would never make sense to do. The atmosphere is heavily enriched with CO2 already, so plants don't need help obtaining it. If you want to grow plants in an area where water is so scarce you have to import it, but you have oil, don
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by firethief 6y ago
This will eventually lead to The Whorf Effect[1]. Nice work while they can get it though. 1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheWorfEffect
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by firethief 6y ago
You don't have to be root to read snapshots. It would be nice if every fs operation was a micro-snapshot (like an undo tree), but in practice frequent scheduled snapshots work pretty well. (If it didn't exist 15 minutes ago, you c
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by firethief 6y ago
It does. If you care about your data, you're running ZFS
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by firethief 6y ago
Use /proc/meminfo. What could a caching service possibly care about the bit of memory that is reserved for system use? It's not getting its hands on those pages under any circumstances. There is no interface for that informat
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by firethief 6y ago
> The more of the language you lift into the parser (decidable! easily-analyzable memory bounds!), the less you need to worry about types. Doing the easy cases of type-checking at a different time doesn't allow you to worry about ty
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by firethief 6y ago
If software developers aren't engineers, why are we judging this person's engineering? I think this case is an argument that software developers are engineers, even when their employer fails to see it that way
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by firethief 6y ago
Because the parser can't typecheck "ident '+' ident", so why make it vastly more complicated only to overlap with a later pass that is necessary anyway?
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by firethief 6y ago
The parts of this that are fully-baked aren't about parsing or type-checking. - the trivial language given doesn't solve anything - dependent-typing is more type-checking, not less - preferring internal iteration over inde
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by firethief 6y ago
You don't have to kill them to eat them, as long as you aren't eating all of them. A lot of poultry live in conditions where they have no use for wings or thighs anyway.
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by firethief 6y ago
> It is worth pointing out that this strategy can likely overfit on the data that you have used for training: when you change the track, your car may not behave as good as before. In other words: the coefficients are only good for that s

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