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by hvis 4y ago
Also: indentation, beginning-of-defun/end-of-defun navigation, and probably Imenu later. All the basics of major modes that up until now have been implemented using bespoke algorithms, rewritten ad-hoc for each language.
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by hvis 4y ago
> As mentioned above, the service we were building was a fairly straightforward CRUD app. The expected load on this service was going to be on the order no more than a few queries per second, max, through the lifetime of this particular
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by hvis 4y ago
People using laptops, for instance.
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by hvis 4y ago
When the completion is not context-sensitive, it's not really what "code completion" is taken to mean these days (the last decade, at least).
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by hvis 4y ago
To quote the article: Did they work? Yes! Performance on lightly loaded systems was about the same as OSSpinLock but on loaded ones, they provided massively better responsiveness. They also did something extremely useful for laptop user
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by hvis 4y ago
It's better than the "copyright theft" slogan pushed by the media.
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by hvis 4y ago
The moderators only really need to review the videos already flagged by the automatic process, and the classification ML thingy can add the timestamps with positions the "objectionable content" is featured at, so the mods wouldn&#
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by hvis 4y ago
I would have liked this kind of promise, but for the general public this marketing message might have sounded differently: "We might shut down before 2024". Even if some people are kind of used to this happening, stating it more
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by hvis 4y ago
Your compensation bands (linked from https://handbook.sourcegraph.com/benefits-pay-perks/pay-expe... ) are not publicly available.
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by hvis 4y ago
> It'd take one or two graybeards with too much free time to sustain Atom. Perhaps. Does Atom have said graybeards? The motivated ones are hard to come by.
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by hvis 4y ago
I've worked with Visual Studio, and Eclipse, and NetBeans for a few years. Then tried Emacs while learning Clojure, and after a few to and fro, stuck with it. This was before Visual Studio Code (or Atom) became a thing, though.
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by hvis 4y ago
All "properties" are functions too (methods, to be exact). There is no difference. `attr_accessor` is a macro which defines two methods.
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by hvis 4y ago
I suppose they wouldn't be able to boast 14 hour long life with a better screen. Definitely agree, though.
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by hvis 4y ago
I suppose you and I cared about different aspects of it. But at least some of the things you enumerated should be possible to add. Maybe file an issue, see what happens.
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by hvis 4y ago
Unity was a great project, but not all is lost. I've been using this GNOME extension for years, and it's been very solid: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/1287/unite/ It emulates Unity quite w
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by hvis 4y ago
The vast majority of users of Telegram come from (and reside in) a country whose jurisdiction you probably wouldn't trust. Most of its developers, too (though they have relocated).
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by hvis 4y ago
I love how half of the top10 replies here (including #1) is about Firefox not being supported. See Google, cross-browser compatibility is important.
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by hvis 4y ago
There aren't many companies with that capability and scale outside of US. And the States are watching you anyway: most of the Internet resides there. Even the websites that don't are likely using Cloudflare or etc to save on traff
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by hvis 5y ago
> I have no reason to trust random American companies more than my local ISP. I don't trust the USA more than I trust my own country. You know you are quite fortunate to be able to say so. Firefox is a project with global impact. A
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by hvis 5y ago
It's a good political move. And Mozilla doesn't live on donations anyway (they are used to finance "initiatives" of various sorts).
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by hvis 5y ago
Immunosuppressed humans are a minority. And each of them would be less likely to get infected (at all) if the regular people around them took vaccination seriously. Regarding Omicron, there is some cause for hope: so far it does seem to pro
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by hvis 5y ago
Without any solid guarantees (e.g. laws), you're just out $300 and back where you started.
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by hvis 5y ago
Not having every block be a separate value makes it easier for the Ruby VM to optimize such code without escape analysis (which is something that's pretty hard to do in this language). Don't have to allocate the container => do
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by hvis 5y ago
> And Firefox has multiple backup of sessions to the point even if your previous session was corrupted you can still recover a session saved slightly earlier. Yup. You might have to root around in the profile's directory, though, wh
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by hvis 5y ago
Browsers these days routinely persist the contents of the current session to disk, exactly to defend against a crash (computer or the application itself). Of course, bugs and disk corruption happen, but you need more than a computer crash t
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by hvis 5y ago
> I assume there's some reason why the parser can't read `{ x, y }`, as ruby is notoriously hard to add syntax to. Something in the parser using the colon after the first identifier to disambiguate between hashes and blocks, pr
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by hvis 5y ago
> Crypto mining hardware is >100% efficient It also makes the hardware depreciate (simply with the passage of time, but also because of the particular usage), which in practice effects the balance and can easily turn the monetary effi
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by hvis 5y ago
I guess that's what made Twitter rise in popularity as a source of news: difficult to stuff much filler in 140 characters.
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by hvis 5y ago
> It's just that enough people saw enough value and purpose in it, to go out and get it themselves. This happened at the time when no other browser vendor drove any kind of serious marketing campaign. Even so, Firefox only reached 3
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by hvis 5y ago
That's also what jumped out at me. Good if true, of course. But really needs independent evaluation.

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