jayjader

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by jayjader 6y ago
I wonder if you have had the chance to use a Jetbrains IDE with a professional license. Doing so gives you access to more or less the content of all the other "flavors" as plugins (it's basically all IntelliJ underneath). For
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by jayjader 6y ago
I found Souls in the Great Machine by Sean McMullen to be an interesting take on this.
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by jayjader 6y ago
With regards to the battery issues, I'd suggest seeing if the TLP utility is available in your distro's packages. It's more than doubled battery "life" (== time to discharge) for me.
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by jayjader 6y ago
For the sake of discussion: > It's just moving bits around in a computer. Once it's dressed up as making Nazi Germany win the 2nd World War with as little tact as the author makes it out to have, it's no longer "just&
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by jayjader 6y ago
Tensors have meaningful operations already rigorously defined in mathematical texts; consider multiplication between a vector and a scalar, dot product of two vectors, matrix multiplication, etc. A multidimensional array is just data ordere
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by jayjader 6y ago
> Surely it's my American perspective speaking, but accented letters are, to me, devoid of information and I can't help but interpret them as noise rather than signal. As a francophone the difference between "e" and &
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by jayjader 6y ago
They used Alegro until a couple years ago, when they did a complete graphical rework of their interfaces & at the same time wrote their own GUI code to replace what Alegro was being used for.
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by jayjader 6y ago
I disagree that it must be seen as a punishment; once you've attained your degree you no longer need to go to school, but going to school probably wasn't a punishment in the first place. I guess it depends on your personal outlook
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by jayjader 6y ago
Not surprising that you made those connections: one of the main devs and creators of Factorio have mentioned that the game arose in part from their frustrations with the poor scalability of tech/industrial Minecraft mods. Specifically,
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by jayjader 6y ago
I find it interesting that you mention easily grokking backpressure in Factorio yet have more difficulty with blueprints. In my experience, people "get" blueprints much earlier on than even the idea of backpressure. Given you say
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by jayjader 6y ago
Dude, a "beverage" can just mean a glass of water. We're talking about parts of human psycology like not having the same posture as the rest of the group. Of course it's prejudice, but it's also real and difficult t
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by jayjader 6y ago
As a former maths student, I loved the "compressibility" of using symbols for things like "forAll" and "thereExists". They're quicker to write and allow fitting in more information in less space, two quali
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by jayjader 6y ago
Often, and notably in the case of school lockers, there is a huge difference in bypassing a lock using a method that leaves traces of your passage and using a method that renders your infraction undetectable - or at least undetected.
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by jayjader 6y ago
I find it interesting that your comment (to me) seems to caution against "too much" syntactic highlighting, while the comparison screenshots in the README for the project you mention seem to indicate an extensive use of colors (co
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by jayjader 6y ago
Not OP, but I think they're not talking about inventing a _new_ burger, but inventing _the_ burger, as in the first one ever. As in, the neural net in this example is able to improvise a new burger recipe solely because it was given ex
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by jayjader 6y ago
One could argue the comparison still holds for developers of video games - as long as the game's code is not touched upon release. Used to be the norm, nowadays admittedly seems to be disappearing.
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by jayjader 6y ago
Ok. Not the person you're quoting, but I _do_ have ~20yrs experience playing piano, and got to a _decent_ level when I was still pursuing tutoring/classes. There definitely is a creative aspect to interpretation, and I agree it is
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by jayjader 6y ago
Unfortunately, in Python, whenever you try to render a datetime "aware" by using the provided conversion method (`astimezone()`) it will assume the naive datetime is in local time zone, not UTC. The datetime module provides `timez
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by jayjader 6y ago
FYI that sounds like exactly the same feature set of 'python-decouple'.
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by jayjader 7y ago
For things like altering split-pane layouts, mouse remains king for both quickly & precisely adjusting width and height - at the same time, no less. Quickly moving focus to 1 random pane out of 6+ is also a single input, whereas with ke
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by jayjader 7y ago
I've seen things like this ( https://www.crowdsupply.com/tinyfpga/tinyfpga-bx ) crop up on CrowdSupply. Not sure how close it is to what you have in mind.
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by jayjader 7y ago
yeah, looks like they omitted the third "i" in "invidio".
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by jayjader 7y ago
Marriage trades the advantage of sowing wild oats for the advantage of a pair of committed adults sticking around to raise the children to adulthood. Survival of the fittest is useless if none make it to reproductive age (or the opportunity
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by jayjader 7y ago
If I recall correctly, VS Code bundles its own Electron that Microsoft's team has spent considerable time & effort optimizing for it.
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by jayjader 7y ago
> 1. You can't play a torrented file until the download is 100% complete. (Well, maybe 95% complete, depending on how tolerant you and your software are when it comes to malformed files) Theoretically, yes. But in practice, especial
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by jayjader 7y ago
> Western music notation already has one: the grand staff has a gap in the middle. Simply put a gap with a single ledger line between each octave and you get a system that looks an awful lot like the current system. Except that's no
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by jayjader 8y ago
> How often can a junior approach you before you grow tired of them constantly asking you for help/guidance? Personally, it would depend on if they're learning from my guidance or not: if they keep coming back with the same pro
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by jayjader 8y ago
> I don't know if I'm an outlier, but I hate having to resign back into sites I use even semi-regularly unless its for administrative access or purchase confirmation. Having set up a master password in Firefox, resigning usuall
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by jayjader 8y ago
I'm pretty confident in claiming macOS and many Linux desktop environments natively support virtual desktops. It's really only Windows that doesn't.
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by jayjader 8y ago
In Firefox there is a setting to _always_ prompt the user for the location to save the file.

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