jlarocco

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by jlarocco 5y ago
I'm surprised anybody needs a random guy on Twitter to tell them this...
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> That's just such an obviously brain-damaged idea. Is it, though? "Every character except '/' because it's the directory delimiter" seems pretty straight forward to me... > There's not a singl
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Thank you! That's more documentation than I knew about before. TBH, the I personally think the UI is fine, but it's annoying to have so many places to look for settings. Chromium/Chrome have chrome://flags, which i
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Sorry to go off topic, but is there documentation for the settings in about:config? And why don't they have a better UI? It's pretty sad that something as security sensitive as browser settings requires trusting random strangers
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by jlarocco 5y ago
IIRC, Microsoft has publicly stated that they only plan to implement the parts of C99 required by the C++ standards. EDIT: Fact checking myself, I found [1], so apparently they've decided to start adding C11 and C17. C99 support isn&
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I don't know, but this more in-depth status page punts with "Library feature, no compiler support required", quite a bit: https://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html I can't find a similar page for glibc, so mayb
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I'm not 100% sure, but that may be a scam. I recently got one of those, and I'm not an AT&T customer.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I really have no idea if this is possible, but is there any possibility that with enough wind turbines, we might discover a down side to them? Each wind turbine essentially transfers power out of the wind and into our electric grid, right?
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by jlarocco 5y ago
AWS actually has fantastic support, especially for a tech company. My previous company was tiny, and super cheap (they wouldn't even pay for Slack), and even at that level we never had a problem talking to real, live support people, a
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I'm not saying we're doing well, but the bar for "greatest blunder in the history of public health policy" is pretty low, unfortunately: https://www.ibtimes.com/scarred-life-canadas-uprooted-indige...
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Okay, and he killed it because it was annoying to users and provided little value.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> We need more SVG animations on the web. Do we, though? We've already had animated GIFs, the marquee tag, Java applets, and Flash animation, and they've all died out because 99.9% of the time the animation is obnoxious and ter
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Sure, but I don't use that one, either. Everybody else can do as they please, but I'm fine without it.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Augmented reality from an advertiser? No thanks. Sounds like something straight out of a dystpoian sci-fi story.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I do my part by bike commuting, conserving energy, reducing consumption, etc. But I don't worry about the big picture because I can't change it, and I think at this point it's too late to "fix" the problem anyway. I
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Meh. It's only cheating if the manufacturer keeps it a secret, and they don't. When a company is spending >$20k on a tape system, the people in charge of buying it will talk to the sales people, tell them the use case, and get
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I don't see anything . Do people just not know how to build websites without pulling in resources from a million arbitrary third parties any more?
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> There are a bunch of things like this in C++ where superficially C++ feature X is like feature Y in another language, and so C++ programmers wrongly assume the problems with feature X must also plague feature Y. I'm sure the rever
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Firefox is better in every way for you . I personally find the Firefox UI very annoying and slow. Every time I try it, I end up back at Chromium within a week. That said, I'll take an annoying UI over broken ad-blocking...
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Maybe it's been update, but when I clicked through just now it says: Xsnow is a software application that creates the appearance of snow falling on the elements of the graphical user interface of a computer system.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I wish. My iPhone is affected by this (or so Sprint tells me) and I'm holding off as long as I can. I'm seriously considering one of these: https://www.sprint.com/en/shop/cell-phones/sonim-xp3-plus-
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by jlarocco 5y ago
The "why" is what I was wondering about, thank you.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Do we, though? http://www.naciente.com/essay94.htm
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Okay. But https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/ has been around for years and gets its data directly from the firefighting teams working the fires.
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by jlarocco 5y ago
> Except that unlike /r/kafka, they could have chosen /r/superb_owl. That's hardly a justification for either side, though. The Kafkas could have went with "/r/franz_kafka" and "/r
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by jlarocco 5y ago
Sure, but there's some kind of survivorship bias there. For every "app" like that, which grows up and needs support, there are dozens of others that serve out their usefulness and go away, or just live on in obscurity in some
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I think it's great to see the commoditization of solved problems. On the other hand, I'm not surprised to see developers hating on the idea because our industry has spent decades telling everybody these are difficult problems and
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I don't really agree with that. It's hardly "too verbose to be useful" when a handful of type declarations can result in a significant runtime speed up. In practice only a relatively small amount of code will need type
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by jlarocco 5y ago
That's a great app idea! A while back I wanted to create something similar that'd help me ride every path and side streeet here in Boulder, CO, but it never went anywhere. I especially like the Pac-man idea for unexplored paths!
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by jlarocco 5y ago
I just watched a talk that covered that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgJUT3C5OFg

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