kangalioo

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by kangalioo 5y ago
There's an interesting symmetry between the image and sound frequencies "kiki" has lots of high frequencies: the i and the click sound of the k. Sharp corners also have lots of high "frequencies", but in the 2d doma
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by kangalioo 5y ago
While I see how Copilot's data gathering can be considered unethical, in the end I ask myself, does it matter? Would it have been of any concrete advantage to open-source programmers if Copilot hadn't used their source code? I can
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by kangalioo 5y ago
Did you mean to post this to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27872596 ?
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by kangalioo 5y ago
At least in the samples I was presented, the more comprehensible articles were consistently the fake ones.
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by kangalioo 5y ago
1) The last name of Kant can't be retrospectively changed, plus the field of philosophy is not nearly as English-centric as computer science. 2) The language of computer science is English. A technical word being offensive in English h
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by kangalioo 5y ago
I feel like big endian is more _intuitive_ because that's what our number notation has evolved to be. But more _natural_ is little endian because, well, it's just more straightforward to have the digits' magnitude be in ascen
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Arguing that two programming languages must be considered to have the same performance just because they compile down to the same technology, is flawed. Otherwise you couldn't make performance comparisons between C, Rust, Go, Haskell,
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by kangalioo 6y ago
> For what?! I can think of several things: - more breath space in the UI - easier recognizability - less information overload (four character glyphs vs three plain lines) - consistency with other applications And it's not like the
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Exactly. There's tons of little annoyances that arise from 1-based indexing. Working on software projects about data analysis or similar makes this crystal clear. 0-based indexing may not be natural for human society, but it very much
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by kangalioo 6y ago
For anyone wondering about the specifics: "For example, there was a dispute about whether Whatsapp uses a technology that Blackberry holds a patent on when sending a chat history to a third party via email." (translated via Deepl,
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by kangalioo 6y ago
I think it may be the whitespace in the UI. It really gives the thing room to breath
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Maybe you could estimate the reading time of a code snippet by taking the square root of the number of lines of code? I imagine that the larger the code snippet, the more irrelevant boilerplate it contains, so the square root might be a goo
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Yes, but why is a document format turning-complete in the first place
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by kangalioo 6y ago
What's that second one?
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Defer is more explicit than RAII, so a better fit for the very explicit C language
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Defer is more explicit than RAII, so a better fit for the very explicit C languag
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Microsoft Office 97 most probably
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Wow, this is super cool, and also heart warming that they do such a nice thing! :)
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Fun fact I actually got lower than that when I was implementing it in TI-Basic on my school calculator :) It's really amazing how compact code gets on such a simple and pragmatic language
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Their point is that Qira can't be compared to Cutter because they're different products altogether. Qira isn't "better" per se - it is made for a different use case. It's an apples and oranges comparison.
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Off-topic, but damn, that site loads quickly. That is very unexpected for a journalism site
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Yeah, in making the MuseScore review video, Tantacrul got in communication with the developers. He talked with them about the issues he had found, and they proceeded to fix some of them super quickly and shipped it in a new release iirc. I
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Ooof that's a lot. PyInstaller is considerably lower than that (~60 MB for a full desktop application including PyQt, NumPy and a plotting toolkit)
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by kangalioo 6y ago
Rust tries to circumvent the _need_ for manual allocation entirely by providing plenty of high level constructs (Box, Vec, Rc, etc.) that you can do to safely and easily do what you might accomplish with manual memory allocation in C
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by kangalioo 6y ago
This is neat :) I hope my 32 row composition sparks joy in some https://music-grid.surge.sh/#512-1024-0-2376-132-16-8-1188-6...