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by ilammy 6y ago
There is a old joke that Americans are probably better off not knowing how a Russian word for "a book" is pronounced.
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by ilammy 6y ago
With a bytecode compiler, multiple implementation approaches, and a couple of macrosystems dissected along the line. Though, LiSP is geared a bit more towards Scheme semantics rather than pragmatics. There are some details like closures,
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by ilammy 6y ago
This is literally untrue. Zero-knowledge comparison protocols exist [1], and their goal is to prevent malicious party from obtaining any knowledge of the secret. Yes, the genuine server will have its copy of the password (or its hash, wha
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by ilammy 6y ago
Well, looking at various crates pulling in lots (dozens) of dependencies, I'd say crates.io is clearly moving somewhere into that direction of microlibraries with extensive code reuse.
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Pomperipossa in Monismania(lenbilen.com)
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by ilammy 6y ago
> why you would use a credit card when you don't need to borrow money To build a credit score. When everybody lives in debt, it is expected for you to do the same.
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by ilammy 6y ago
Many countries still have military conscription, so sometimes enlisted soldiers do not really have a choice: you are either drafted with national pride, or drafted feeling moral guilt, or jailed for dodging and then maybe still drafted afte
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by ilammy 6y ago
Seem sketchy, given > after growing up in the US for 25 years and the average lifespan of the species being 12-15 years.
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by ilammy 6y ago
It depends on what you want to do. If that's sending data into the kernel right now – like procfs or a socket – then write() is what you need. fprintf() will provide more throughput by buffering the data and sending a batched write()
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by ilammy 6y ago
Okay, let's take another thing turns out fine by itself but might cause harm with irresponsible behavior. If I discharge a gun at my spacious property while pointing it at someone and miss, should I be punishable for attempted manslaug
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by ilammy 6y ago
But if the worse scenario actually plays out, you go on to cut 5% every other month, and end up with a net 15% cut in half a year regardless. But now your people are uncertain whether they should expect another cut, given the track record.
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by ilammy 6y ago
> I haven't heard of Covid bloggers in Vietnam suddenly disappearing Might as well mean secret police working as intended ;)
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by ilammy 7y ago
For the same reason why in most jobs you usually don't work for more employers spread out over your week. Like, 2 hours on Monday for Alice and 3 more for Bob, then Tuesday is your Carol-exclusive day. Hiring people is costly, and if e
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by ilammy 7y ago
I'm not that sure about macOS, but on Windows that seems to be way more prevalent in my experience (had to deal with it when worked on clipboard redirection via RDP). The format also has some additional metadata embedded into it [1]. A
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by ilammy 7y ago
> Windows and macOS do carry italics, strike-throughs, and the like through copy and paste. There is no magic, they do it by literally exchanging HTML on the clipboard. Applications use it as a lingua franca and convert the text into wha
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by ilammy 7y ago
> GitHub Actions pull request checks are against the PR branch, while Travis pull request checks are against a merged tree Actually, actions/checkout will check out the merged tree by default.
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by ilammy 7y ago
> 3 weeks in February - quarantine weeks. Every year. But it's summer in the southern hemisphere that time of year...
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by ilammy 7y ago
When They Cry novels by Ryukishi07 have taught me the importance of truth and trust, plus countless other minor observations on miscellaneous topics.
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by ilammy 7y ago
There a few wrapper libraries that provide safe Rust interface for a limited feature set on top of system's crypto libraries like OpenSSL, so the applications can benefit from decades of testing and get security updates without timely
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by ilammy 7y ago
> 2 spaces at the end I prefer just plain "<br/>" because it does not mess with my editor configuration, which otherwise I have to constantly tweak between "strip all whitespace at the end of line" and back
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by ilammy 7y ago
That's when semantic line-breaking comes into a picture. Put a line break before each new sentence and before each clause in a sentence. That makes the text much more diff-friendly, and tends to keep the line lengths at bay too.
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by ilammy 7y ago
Another point where you have to ignore SIGPIPE is concurrent code that handles multiple fds (say, like a web server). In this case you have to ignore the signal and process EPIPE correctly, because the signal is not associated with a part
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by ilammy 7y ago
Hey, you’re in America. So stop sneezing or I’ll shoot you! /s
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by ilammy 7y ago
Accidentary math symbols. Sometimes there is semantic difference between 𝒎, 𝐦, 𝕞, m which will be lost in plaintext rendition of a formula. Yeah, you'd better be off with TeX for this specific purpose, but that's a valid point for
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by ilammy 7y ago
> debate with strangers on internet forums Why do you think this is not a meaningful contribution to society? In order for sitting-in-the-room people to debate on the forums, someone else – a part of society! – has to spend their time
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by ilammy 7y ago
> It's better to increase capital than redistribute it. Consider the notion of leverage where both A and B can increase their capital more in absolute value if some part of A's significant capital is redistributed to poorer B
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by ilammy 7y ago
I keep separate «diary» for personal stuff and «devlog» for work-related notes. Different files in different languages, so it’s never mixed. I almost never reread any of those. At times the devlog is a handy reference though. It’s also amus
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by ilammy 7y ago
One reason I read about once was that with Soviet rockets it was much more easy and economically feasible to get to Venus than to Mars, due to less delta-V required for inner Solar system travel. Being able to successfully land is irrelevan
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by ilammy 7y ago
> Handbooks are devoid of anything human. Heh, that's probably by design. Pause for a while and think: this handbook would have been code executed by a soulless machine. And the business is that machine, detached from any humans tha
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by ilammy 7y ago
They did, even issued them uniforms.

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