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by jasode 2y ago
>> It's impossible to do graphics in pure C, so what are the alternatives > I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question. [...] , but you can do it all in C If you tr
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>What do you think they do? One round of interviews was enough for my Google recruiter to congratulate me on getting a job there. Your Google interview process might be different because you've previously said you were ex-FAANG fr
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>Intel probably still has their own implementation Back in 2021, Intel moved the back end of their compiler toolchain to LLVM . Intel still has their own proprietary front end (icpx). https://www.google.com/search?q=in
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Just in case this repo isn't a joke and some job seekers are seriously thinking of this tactic... Companies already know about cheat methods like this and candidates still have to demonstrate skills in-person on a whiteboard in a 2nd
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>So why do printer companies charge so much for ink? Because they can. Because they have merged with or bought most of their competitors. Because they have weaponized laws to make it illegal for you to modify your printer, or for rivals
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>To Crop Or Not To Crop? Point: Never crop. Cropping is cheating. Get it right in camera. Zoom with your feet. If you have to crop later, that only means you blew the composition. Counterpoint: It’s almost impossible to “get it right
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>The price feels outrageous, I haven't used ChatGPT enough to judge what a "fair price" is but $200/month seems to be in the ballpark of other "software-tools-for-highly-paid-knowledge-workers" with pre
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>With regard to the United States, you’re not even close. 80% of the US population live in cities. [0] For purposes of this discussion thread, we're just using "living in the cities" as shorthand for "high-densit
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> much of the US GDP is tied to their suburb-living car-dependent lifestyle. [...] , but it doesn't create value. The "value" is for the citizens that prefer suburbs style living. People who prefer dense city living with
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>It's also sad that we've given up the ability to contact people directly although everyone is online. It's easier to understand this if we re-state it from the perspective of the receivers instead of the senders: We
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Similar misdirection situation with "sqlite_" files and the attempt to obfuscate with "etilqs_" to redirect users to the offending software : https://github.com/sqlite/sqlite/blob/33c12
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>What really kickstarted their development... was the introduction of the Blender Development Fund [...] >More money = More developers. There was actually another "kickstart" before that kickstart. Blender's open-s
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> however, youtube prefers pushing VP9 over H.264. Maybe your computer cannot use hardware decode for VP9 and can for H.264? No, even if I download the 4k 60fps file using yt-dlp with forced h264 codec settings locally to my harddrive
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>What exactly are these exotic sites you are visiting that break in Firefox? In my case, an example of a non-exotic site is Youtube streaming 4k 60fps videos. I tried with latest Firefox a few months ago and it was still stuttering an
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>Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. This is a prime example of all the various news outlets (even "respected" newspapers) making us col
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Trends in the corpus of books don't always match trends in the corpus of web blogs but the graph of "learnings" popularity seems to match my perception of its increasing usage: https://books.google.com/ngra
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>The article you linked doesn't say anything about 100 petabytes Excerpt from the article: >[...] Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of tho
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>competing with Google was borderline impossible a decade ago. But in 2024, we have cheap compute, great OSS distributed DBs, powerful new vector search tech. [...] CommonCrawl text-only is ~100TB, Those example 3 bullet points of toda
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>to claim "the language doesn't allow simple things such as checking for a file's existence" (which is false, That's not what I wrote. I said there's no _built-in_ way to check existence of the file. A
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>Just add filesystem dll or whatnot from the .net framework as a reference to your project To clarify, "Visual Basic 6" in this thread's title that everybody in this discussion has abbreviated to "VB6" is t
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>CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject") That's not included by default in Windows 95. (A lot of classic VB6 apps of that era ran on Win95.) In contrast, "kernel32.dll" is always included. Even for the late
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>Today, I feel .NET is overly complex and much harder for beginners compared to the old days. I often see similar statements like that but that's not what I experienced. I did IBM DOS BASIC, MS GWBASIC and worked on VB3 to VB6 at
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>crowdsourced title is "Solving 2D Geometry Puzzles Using 3D Reasoning". That attempted revision of the title is worse than the original clickbait title because it totally omits the "4D" topic. The 4D section sta
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>I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc. But that's backwards from how new techniques and progress is made. What actually happens is somebo
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>The IDE isn't the root cause though, hiding code complexity is a patch. Write cleaner code To clarify, the context of this article is using tools to understand someone else's code . (The author's setting: " >
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>Retry for a while until the destination becomes reachable again. That's how email was originally designed. Sure, the SMTP email protocol states guidelines for "retries" but senders don't waste resources retrying fo
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>, I no longer recommend Bitwarden for normal people because the built-in password manager in Firefox is too good. But a lot of "normal people" actually need a secrets manager which is larger in scope than just a "webs
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>MIT did not renew their contract with Elsevier in 2020, a major reason being their inequitable profit model, and refusal to honor open access agreements. They have a postmortem saying the loss had little impact to their researchers. T
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>While AWS and Azure are industry leaders, their advantages often only materialize at massive scales. [...] Your comparisons are similar to many others out there that focus on measuring basic cpu and memory. This type of easy compari
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>What’s the appeal of Windows now, Apps that only run on Windows. (Some Windows apps don't even have macOS versions.) >I think if someone is setting up Windows for grandma to use Facebook on, then surely Ubuntu can serve the

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