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by josefx 3y ago
> Maybe you shouldn't be doing O(n^2) It was mostly meant as a example of millions of operations even at a small scale. Sadly I have seen way too much accidental O(n^3) code and not all of it could be "fixed" trivially. &g
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by josefx 3y ago
> are we talking about my application (say, some web app) becoming noticeably slower? Or we would need to be running several million operations per second before anything a user could notice the difference? If you have an algorithm with
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by josefx 3y ago
Finally an answer to the question why /r/anime_titties exists as one of those weird topic seems completely unrelated to the name subs.
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by josefx 3y ago
> changing digits, but it was left in the standard and in many implementations. The format has a lossless mode that would have saved Xerox a lot of trouble, of course it was just that mode that was used to hack the iPhones. Also for many
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by josefx 3y ago
> white guy of European descent. You can joke about genociding me and I'll laugh because it's a ridiculous thought. Do you by any chance have any Italian ancestors? It took a large amount of lynchings, a significant public upro
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by josefx 3y ago
> While you have learned a lot about LLMs and generative AI for instance, it is extremely unlikely you have learned from the most well informed sources. You are talking about tools that can be abused to make infinite porn. I am not sure
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by josefx 3y ago
I feel the same way about digital signatures, companies want people to trust their signatures, but are they going to share the signing keys and let others in on the fun? No. Everyone just goes around saying its their keys, their identities,
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by josefx 3y ago
> IIRC there was a lot of FUD simply because it came from Microsoft. It was annoying because we already had odt as open format and OOXML was reported to be more of a text dump of what Microsoft did in binary than a standard meant for int
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by josefx 3y ago
> 70% is python 2 I hope they are paying for security updates since python 2 has hit EOL 3 years ago and libraries had been actively shamed if they didn't drop support for it long before that.
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by josefx 3y ago
> But in the startup world it’s make profit, sell, or shut down In the startup world 90% of companies are shut down because their ideas are not viable. If reddit still isn't viable after 18 years it might be time to pull the plug an
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by josefx 3y ago
> Rigjtfully looking for ROI. Really? "Rightfully"?? I guess someone owes me money, because I did a few investments where the ROI was $0, some of them intentionally bad (family > money).
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by josefx 3y ago
Got praised on one sub for reporting a bot and banned from another for it (throwing around baseless accusations!!). Some mods have a hair trigger on that ban hammer.
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by josefx 3y ago
Going mostly by a quick check of the wikipedia descriptions JPEGXL seems to live up to the XL part: Larger image sizes, more bits per channel, more channels ... . WebP and AV1F seem to inherit size limitations from their corresponding codec
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by josefx 3y ago
> It's a C++ library that Google needs to secure and maintain security patches forever. Compile it to wasm and run it in a sandbox? Or throw some rust groupies at it? > Once released, it's pretty much impossible to rollback
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by josefx 3y ago
Relying on argc instead of null termination is a bit more robust since the check will still work even if you skip entries for any reason.
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by josefx 3y ago
> What leads you to believe that people who do not want to work are desirable to have in the workplace? Many of them are still better than having nobody and if they have to work to get money they are also somewhat incentivized to at leas
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by josefx 3y ago
Honestly I wasn't sure how much that point applied. However with people that suffer chronic illnesses or disabilities that require special consideration I would be surprised if it was always possible to adequately communicate those nee
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by josefx 3y ago
> I don't think we should kill more trees and require that kids continue lugging around backpacks full of heavy textbooks when we have a better alternatives. (To be fair, an e-reader without constant internet access would fit the bi
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by josefx 3y ago
> Even if the company has a rule that you're not allowed to use it for personal things, the law supersedes that and you still can't do it willy nilly. Companies are not homogeneous blocks of matter and there is always informati
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by josefx 3y ago
Most important road signs have rather distinct shapes, standardized sizes and are angled towards oncoming traffic. Having an object with known shape aligned almost perfectly towards the camera is basically the best case for many primitive o
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by josefx 3y ago
And includes none of the dependencies used.
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by josefx 3y ago
Removing distractions like poor user interfaces would probably overlap with the improvements from emergency braking. So if you want to be throughout you would have to check if they still make sense with the other changes in place.
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by josefx 3y ago
Not in any modern encoding and certainly not in ASCII either. Having the highest order bit set makes that kind of problematic.
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by josefx 3y ago
For the US? Shitty public transportation and terrible city planning.
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by josefx 3y ago
> If HTTP offers features that are offensive or unwanted, simply don't use those features. Make an HTTP server and client that only implement a subset of HTTP. Just make sure it never ends up in a security critical context. Various
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by josefx 3y ago
Windows had some security issues in the past. It has a font rendering engine in the kernel.
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by josefx 3y ago
Somehow I get OpenSSL vibes from that description. Everyone would use it, nobody would pay for maintenance and the result would be billions of tons of steel controlled by a buggy vulnerable mess filled to the brim with a nightmarish labyrin
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by josefx 3y ago
> The fact that you have to step outside the language with @Data rather proves the point. You can trivially write a class with public fields without using lombok, you wont get some cookie cutter logic for hashCode and equals, but often y
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by josefx 3y ago
Could it still work with wine? I once helped a coworker setting up a rather old version of Photoshop because we still had a physical copy with license lying around and saw no reason to waste that. Once we found an external CD Drive everythi
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by josefx 3y ago
> Did PC manufacturers embrace FireWire even though it was better? For a time they seemed to, I had FireWire ports even on computers at the lower end of the price range. What I didn't have where FireWire based gadgets and going by W

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