jmercan

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by jmercan 2y ago
No matter the situation, no good can come from hatred. The RfL situation has already come from anger and bad, derailed arguments. Instead of having beef with a stranger online and comparing him to an alt-right figure (which is very much not
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by jmercan 3y ago
Sounds like this is how my life will be like for a couple years if I get accepted :p
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by jmercan 3y ago
It is because without price localization, most of USD based subscriptions or purchases would be lunacy. For example if the US price of Factorio was directly converted into Turkish Lira, it would cost ~10% of monthly minimum wage. But pleas
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by jmercan 3y ago
There is an upper bound in the number of private keys available even if it isn't an issue in practice. You can target anyone's wallet in O(1) time, no proofs needed :^)
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by jmercan 4y ago
side note: I was 3 when the original GNOME file picker thumbnail issue was created. I'm (hopefully) graduating this term.
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by jmercan 4y ago
I gave GNOME a chance after 40 and personally I don't regret it the slightest, things just work in an intuitive way. Though I will admit the only GNOME app I use is the image viewer and sometimes folders. My workflow consists of a coup
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by jmercan 4y ago
I would say "Effective C" is a good book (and Robert is awesome) but personally I feel like I learned the most by writing and disassembling small quines under different compilers and flags more than anything else. Also, reading
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by jmercan 4y ago
I use overleaf these days mostly because overleaf makes it effortless to work across multiple machines. I still have my neovim + texlab [1] setup just in case though. [1]: https://github.com/latex-lsp/texlab
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by jmercan 4y ago
Frankly, if you have to ask, just use a (system) CSPRNG. People massively overblow the impact of the speed difference for most scenarios. Yes, A simulation running on a large scale etc. will probably need a statistically good RNG w/o a
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by jmercan 4y ago
On top of your point, I think people should also understand that smartphones aren't exactly a small purchase for a non-trivial population. Even tech-literate are stuck with the stock ROM if they need to use banking apps, snapchat etc.
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by jmercan 4y ago
Personally I feel like shrinking images by guessing unused parts is an a good way to have an image explode in your face randomly in the future. (Probes and heuristics missing critical but rarely used parts and more) Also wouldn't it hu
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by jmercan 4y ago
From what I see, most Wayland aware applications have converged on using PipeWire (through XDG Portal) for screen sharing. Personally I use PipeWire anyway but I'll admit telling people to replace more of their setup as a solution isn&
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by jmercan 4y ago
I had to do my first two internships in office (started before the vaccine rollout reached my age group, eek) and my experience was pretty similar to what you said. I was given some time in the beginning to get familiar with the codebase bu