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by julian37 6y ago
Yep, Zstd is the spiritual successor to LZ4 and written by the same person (Yann Collet) after they got hired by Facebook.
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by julian37 6y ago
That's very interesting. I found this simulator, try setting "field" to a value just a little bit off zero: https://mattbierbaum.github.io/ising.js/
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by julian37 6y ago
You'll get better results using a perceptually uniform color space [1] CIE76 is not ideal but would let you continue to use CUBE. You could consider doing a first pass with CIE76 and then sort by something more accurate in a second pas
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by julian37 7y ago
Ha! Ok... sorry. I wasn't entirely sure, "pregnant words of poets" are themselves pregnant words of a poet, after all. Anyway, I wasn't trying to be condescending by pointing you at a dictionary -- I'm not a native
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by julian37 7y ago
Something like 5419351 / 1725033 requires fewer digits (or bits) and gives a much better approximation, off by e-14 instead of e-8. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiContinuedFraction.html
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by julian37 7y ago
The best strategy isn't mentioned: learning how to read EXPLAIN output and acting on it. > Using wildcards at the start and end of a LIKE will slow queries down That's only true if you don't have the right indexes in place
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Open Letter from the OpenID Foundation to Apple Regarding Sign in with Apple(openid.net)
514 points by julian37 7y ago|137 comments
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by julian37 8y ago
It's worth keeping in mind that WebAssembly can't access the DOM directly; it has to call into JS in order to do that. I haven't investigated it myself but I'd wager that because of this, any performance benefits would b
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by julian37 8y ago
> Even video taken at 300K fps by the Slow Mo Guys was slowed down even further and looks even smoother than the original. This suggests that the video accompanying that quote shows 300k fps footage, but that can't be right. If you
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by julian37 8y ago
IANAD (not a doctor) but just as a note of caution, I remember reading that eating one large meal a day rather than several smaller ones can have adverse consequences due to stress on the oesophageal sphincter. This study appears to come to
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by julian37 8y ago
It could also buffer the ciphertext, doubling CPU time but meaning that message size is constrained by disk space rather than available RAM.
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by julian37 8y ago
Just in case anybody thinks this thing is overblown: - On my 2016 MBP the left alt key only registers about 30% of the time now. It seriously hampers my workflow. - On my SO's MBP (slightly newer make but same keyboard type) the "
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by julian37 9y ago
As "michael" points out in the comments on the article, this has already been invented, it's called a macro and has been available for decades in various LISPs. Wikipedia lists a number of other languages [1] that support mac
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by julian37 9y ago
An interesting collection of research papers on Tinnitus: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/4725/towards-an-...
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by julian37 9y ago
It's 10MB uncompressed so at that point I'd hope Emacs would have finally become a "reliably available option" first (13MB on my system). EDIT: why the downvote? Not trolling, just genuinely sad that with today's ha
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by julian37 10y ago
It used to be, briefly, unfortunately it had to be removed again because create-react-app has a zero-configuration policy and SRI can break pages served without TLS unless Cache-Control: no-transform is set on the server [1]. [1] https:&#x
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by julian37 10y ago
I know you're asking for collaborators and not recommendations for tools, but since you were mentioning Chrome Devtools I wanted to make you aware of kite.el [1] which I believe TV Raman had working with Emacspeak [2] at one point. kit
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by julian37 10y ago
Try this: http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2170718...
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by julian37 10y ago
> It's like saying "Well the plural of mouse is mice but the plural of house isn't hice!" Yes, that's exactly what he is saying: > Math is a language that is about as consistent as English, and that's o
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by julian37 10y ago
I'm not aware of any tools out of the box, but you could trivially build your example regex from a Trie which is also easy to construct. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trie#Algorithms I'm not so sure it would
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by julian37 10y ago
> not why popen is being used on the result of the interpretation. I haven't read the source but I'm guessing that if HAVE_POPEN is undefined, this special argument interpretation is disabled, in which case it would just be two
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by julian37 11y ago
Worth noting that Google Closure Compiler specifically optimizes for post-gzip size: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#closure-...
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by julian37 11y ago
Great resource, bookmarked! However, as the author hints at in the last paragraph, if you can get away with it (i.e., if you don't need to support Minix or something) I believe it's better to just save yourself the pain and go wit
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by julian37 11y ago
pitest has a few tricks up its sleeve to keep overhead reasonable. For example (from http://pitest.org/faq/ ): > Per test case line coverage information is first gathered and all tests that do not exercise the mutat
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Meet the White Team, Makers of the Linux.Wifatch Viligante Malware(securityintelligence.com)
1 points by julian37 11y ago|0 comments
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by julian37 11y ago
Both "in" and "==" are comparison operators that can be chained and so it's interpreted as False == False and False in [False] https://twitter.com/marcusaureliusf/status/5579488730
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Capturing users' ssh keys(blog.goeswhere.com)
6 points by julian37 11y ago|0 comments
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The Quantum Leap – to where?(rk.nvg.ntnu.no)
1 points by julian37 11y ago|0 comments
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Your API versioning is wrong(troyhunt.com)
2 points by julian37 12y ago|0 comments
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by julian37 12y ago
The benchmark code is linked to from the article: http://svn.clifford.at/handicraft/2014/hashlib/

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