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by gdwatson 4y ago
Python has keyword arguments to functions. In that context, a single star packs or unpacks a list of positional arguments and a double star packs or unpacks a dictionary of keyword arguments.
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by gdwatson 4y ago
Twitter dropped RSS support years ago when they were locking down clients and otherwise siloing themselves. Have they added it back?
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by gdwatson 4y ago
The article is using CSS "pixels," which are meant to reflect the size of one pixel on a 96-dpi desktop display, not device pixels. If you're using any kind of UI scaling, the width the CSS layout sees will be reduced accord
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by gdwatson 4y ago
“Implicit reference semantics” means that variables ordinarily refer to objects rather than containing them. “Value semantics” means that variables contain values rather than references, though there are pointer types that let you explicit
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by gdwatson 4y ago
While most camera companies have come to focus on full-frame (i.e., 35mm) sensors in the last few years, Fuji has stuck to APS-C (one size down from full frame) and digital medium format (one size up). Fuji’s medium-format line is called GF
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by gdwatson 5y ago
> The 'break' keyword does the exact same function as a goto, why not use a goto? The 'continue' keyword does the exact same function as a goto, why not use a goto? A break from a named loop is one statement and a lab
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by gdwatson 5y ago
I used to use the G2 and I liked it, but I think the Uni-ball Signo DX (the UM-151 the article endorses) is a better pen in the same vein. It’s smoother and doesn’t skip, and I can still get a fine, dark line that makes my handwriting legi
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by gdwatson 5y ago
I run Mint with 2x scaling on mine and I like it a lot. The screen's not quite as sharp as the one on the old XPS it replaced, but it's still quite nice. I run a middling-width monospace font, and I can't quite fit two 80-co
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by gdwatson 5y ago
When the load factor of an open-addressed hashtable gets too high, you allocate a larger set of buckets and rehash the table’s existing contents into them. You’ll have to do this with a chained hashtable anyway, as performance will start t
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by gdwatson 5y ago
"...in LLVM, all variables start with their address taken, so the optimizer needs to reason about when all uses of the address are known." Why is this? Does it simplify SSA construction, or is there another reason?
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by gdwatson 6y ago
Single-codebase compatibility means that the same code can run under both Python 2 and Python 3. The initial expectation was that translation tools would solve this problem, but it didn’t really work out that way. Adding language features
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by gdwatson 6y ago
I had some issues running latest on a desktop machine back when it was default. Switching to quarterly made updates smooth sailing; the only issues I remember after that were from a big X upgrade.
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by gdwatson 6y ago
454g is one pound, which is a very natural bulk unit for butter in English customary measures, so it's not too surprising that it survives in Canada. We Americans may have contributed to the survival of the size, but I'm sure we
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by gdwatson 6y ago
I'm sorry that you're being downvoted; I don't think that's warranted. >> Literal thought crimes. > These are explicit acts, not thoughts, and not new offences. > "Contempt of public official", I th
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by gdwatson 6y ago
Flym is pretty great; I use it on my tablet. It's simple and not as configurable as some, but it consistently does the right thing out of the box.
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by gdwatson 6y ago
Epic says that it made a deal with OnePlus to preinstall Fortnite, but Google leaned on the manufacturer to scrub the deal.[1] I think that puts joining the Play store in a different light. [1] https://www.theverge.com/2020
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My views on some conventions for Unix command line options(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by gdwatson 6y ago|0 comments
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by gdwatson 6y ago
In practice, little-endian machines have the first bit field in the least-significant bits of the data type they fit into (usually but not always an int), and big-endian machines have the first bit field in the most-significant bits.
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by gdwatson 7y ago
He didn’t say which platform it ran on. Was Microsoft still using Xenix internally at the time?
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Customary Semantics (2014)(arcanesentiment.blogspot.com)
1 points by gdwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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The browsers are probably running the TLS show now(utcc.utoronto.ca)
130 points by gdwatson 7y ago|127 comments
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The browsers are probably running the TLS show now(utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by gdwatson 7y ago|0 comments
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by gdwatson 7y ago
It seems to be a Ruby equivalent to sysexits.h.[1] I don't know how widely used the codes are, but the idea is neat. [1] https://manpage.me/index.cgi?apropos=0&q=sysexits&sektion=0&...
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by gdwatson 7y ago
I think those were included specifically to poke fun at Lisp. The list isn’t meant to be taken very seriously.
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by gdwatson 7y ago
I’ve loved this list for a long time. It’s a play on the old spam solution checklist: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt .
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by gdwatson 7y ago
My experience is that daylight-blue (5000K–6500K) LEDs or fluorescents feel unnatural unless they are quite bright; something in the animal part of my brain worries that the sun is broken. Low CRI bulbs also feel off, which makes intuitive
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by gdwatson 7y ago
Were you not able to return it?
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by gdwatson 7y ago
I think they are relevant to his discussion of RMS, not his discussion of Mike Weaver. I read the e-mail thread and was trying to understand its relationship to the ongoing public arguments over the leadership of GNU. Andy Wingo's blo
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by gdwatson 7y ago
I don't know anything about the current goings on, but I read Wingo's blog for his fascinating technical insights. He has written some controversial things on hiring and collaboration that I do not agree with but do find helpful
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by gdwatson 7y ago
It makes mobile web browsers be honest about the size and resolution[1] of their screens; without it, they lie and claim to have desktop-sized viewports. Once the browser is being honest about its screen, you can use CSS media queries and t

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