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by interroboink 5y ago
I can't speak for the person you replied to, but my interpretation was "diversity of minds" (or "viewpoints", etc), not gender or race. Perhaps you'd agree that the diversity of opinions and points of view on a
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by interroboink 5y ago
I'm not sure, but I think your comment is meant to be be sardonic. I get that angle, but IMO there are some things that legitimately fall into that category, to a degree. Things that benefit others, or "society in general", b
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Which, at least for me, needs an initial "C-x C-r" before it starts functioning via the normal "C-x C-a". I think there was some old bug about it, but I was never able to get to the bottom of it. But agreed, TUI mode is
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by interroboink 5y ago
I like GDB, and use it a lot, but it always feels like it's teetering on the brink of being a pile of bugs. I manage to crash it semi-regularly, and there are dozens of little quality-of-life peccadilloes that make things annoying befo
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by interroboink 5y ago
Agreed about main loop — that requires special care. But there's often lots of other stuff going on, such as IO in other threads. You wouldn't want that stuff in your main loop for the same reasons, so since it's segregated a
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by interroboink 5y ago
I think this is addressed in the article in the section starting "A less radical change would be to change the global mutex into an rwlock, but unfortunately that is not easily possible either..."
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For AAA / high-performance / console / close-to-the-metal video games, at least. There are tons of games where exceptions are perfectly fine. Though still more often used for "probably going to crash soon" situation
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by interroboink 5y ago
More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Lackner_HZ-1_Aerocycle Originally developed by the US Army for reconnaissance.
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by interroboink 5y ago
Some more good discussion here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63568992/can-compilers-g... I guess it's not commonplace these days, but it is still allowed, it seems. I feel like my initial run-in with t
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EDIT: This is about modifying code in memory; the article is actually more about modifying the executable file on disk — oops (: ---- One example: My understanding is that static initialization in C/C++ is sometimes done with self-mo
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by interroboink 5y ago
I've spent many hours playing this game (: So nice that the original authors were able to maintain the rights to everything except the name (Star Control), so they could open-source the entire thing. Good on them for doing it. I also l
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by interroboink 5y ago
I like a lot of things in Folly, but as others have mentioned: you have to pull in quite a lot, even if you care about only a tiny part. It's not very modular in that way. However, I did have decent success taking the classes I was int
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by interroboink 5y ago
You might like Jonathan Blow's talk "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW-SOdj4Kkk Also, is your name a reference to the Mars trilogy? Reading that now (:
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by interroboink 5y ago
And yet, I find something satisfying about untangling knots. Also darning socks, repairing cheap electronics, and other "not worth my time" activities. Perhaps it is a character flaw (: Optimizing for efficiency and optimizing for
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by interroboink 5y ago
Though I distinctly remember reading in an encyclopedia from the '70s that certain large dark regions on the Martian surface were believed to be thick vegetation (: I'm not kidding! From [1]: "As recently as the early 1960s,
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by interroboink 5y ago
Does your SSC concept include things like profile-guided optimization (ie, consuming runtime statistics for some representative sample)? If your program is doing calculations on data read from a CSV, for example, and you happen to know fact
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by interroboink 5y ago
I think the term "religion" has a lot more societal/organizational connotations associated with it. It touches on concepts of community, rituals, value of specific texts, proscription of certain behaviors and prohibition of o
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by interroboink 5y ago
I definitely got significant value out of studying CS in a structured/academic context after being self-taught; it helped a lot of concepts that I already fuzzily understood gel together. For instance, I had written little config file
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by interroboink 5y ago
While I do think there's something of value in the idea here, boy do I find that quote unconvincing (: The second sentence essentially says "This is due to the fact that that's how it is." I'm sure Jung has a larger
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by interroboink 5y ago
> what you mean by welcoming them, or feeling them through. But if I interpret that as “accepting it” ... I think acceptance is the right idea, yes. There can be some urge to deny one's own emotions, perhaps push them aside as some
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My recommendation: feel your feelings, all the way through. There might be some tendency, when you feel small, to feel bad about feeling small — as though it is further evidence of your worthlessness — and that itself makes you feel worse,
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> It's a succinct representation of knowledge for someone skilled in the field, but not a sensible way to teach others Sounds like manpages (:
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> there exists truths on a population level. I don't think the person you replied to was claiming otherwise. The problem is when one takes those population-level truths and blindly applies them to individuals. You might be right 80%
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Right there with you (: I wrote a PCX reader in QBasic. I can still remember seeing that image of a red rose finally appear in all it its 320x200 pixelated glory.
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I had that happen, too — even after successfully receiving the passcode at my recovery address, and entering it, they still denied login. Presumably it's a bug in their system (being generous), but who knows when they'll fix it,
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by interroboink 5y ago
Check out Tracy[1]. If you run it as root, it provides a lot of "extra" information, such as when your threads get moved between CPUs. Actually, I saw this post and thought "why should I bother when I already have Tracy?&quot