klingonopera

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by klingonopera 7y ago
...but is it actually so? The more I think about it, the entire topic seems to be, how do you say, a dog biting its own tail? You have a sorted list. Now randomize it. Either you pick random from source, or you place randomly into destinati
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Nicely said. I was thinking of ways to solve the problem by eliminating the overhead of checking whether a random number was already drawn, when Vitter's solution was to make the random number generator produce random numbers in a sort
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by klingonopera 7y ago
A use case may be shuffling the entire list, if I'm not mistaken?
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Oh dear, I find those single-letter variable names are quite counter-productive in making the code easy for someone unfamiliar to the project to understand...
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Well, for one, whoever's running the US gets changed after two terms, sometimes it's a pity, sometimes it couldn't happen fast enough. But in my opinion, it's definitely better than having the same person running things
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I wonder if the name's etymology has anything specific about it that could only be understood if you're versed in Chinese culture or Mandarin language? After giving it some thought, I finally realized why it sounds so scary: Becau
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by klingonopera 7y ago
...and in the US, you can openly say that the media has portrayed China as such. Try doing the reverse in China, I'm sure half of HN's userbase would have received an unwelcome visit from the local cops by now...
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Yes, true, but we have to hope that there are always at least two companies/individuals/media outlets, both with close ties to the government, but opposed to each other.
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Yes, quite true that me as an average individual basically stands no chance against the law in neither the US or EU, but big companies, powerful individuals, NGOs, the media or even a favorable judge can sway. Also, consider how much harder
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by klingonopera 7y ago
It ranked 2013: 55th, 2014: 24th, 2015: 18th, 2016: 11th, 2017: 11th, 2018: 21st and presently, in 2019, is at 10th spot. That's quite a shot to stardom, and yet, judging from the replies, I don't seem to be the only one who'
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I've no problem consuming Chinese consumables, but software is another issue. If some software from the US or EU was up to no good, I can use the law to bring them to court. In China, I'd first need to ask myself, if not maybe the
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Why not just use a stock Linux distro, and maybe just change the wallpaper to something Huawei-specific? Add a desktop shortcut to some special Huawei-specific app store, if they want, but keeping the OS stock pretty much signals that they
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Indeed, I think that in this case, on the whole, more privacy is achieved by decentralization rather than by encryption...
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Regarding three, I believe it's because C ultimately aims to be the most low-level, high-level abstraction of machine code. Stray too far from that, and you're already in C++ territory. Except for multi-core/-threading suppor
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Interesting, I hadn't heard of this yet. I'm guessing nobody used it, because it was for the exclusively for the Model S, which has good range and few owners, and apparently you even needed to make an appointment for it. It's
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I believe easily/quick replaceable/interchangeable batteries is one of the simplest ways to make EVs go mainstream. Yes, I know they weigh a lot, but you could have e.g. 10/20 cells weighing 50 kg each to offset that. In ma
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Holy crap, how have I never heard of microG? Thank you!
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Yes! Typedefs are definitely worth the time spent learning them.
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> Try a strip and see if it is still that big. ...I guarantee that it is nothing short of humongous xD Joking aside, maybe, I don't know, it's been a while since I used some C++ code, but I'll have a look into it the n
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Regarding error handling, I agree with this author[0], and find the C-based approach much better than C++'s try/throw/catch methods. Regarding execution times, I don't know from first-hand experience, I did some research
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by klingonopera 7y ago
...my compile times rarely take more than a minute, so I can't really relate to that, but exceptions will slow down execution and add an overhead to the binary's file-size.
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by klingonopera 7y ago
C++ 14, Haskell and Python. One of the reasons I'm actually going for pure C in this modern day and age, is that I can just write a small program, without having any other dependency. I'm sure the same could be said for C++, too
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Exceptions being one of the notable pieces of baggage...
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I think I know what you're talking about, are they really called "forced subtitles"? ...because otherwise I'd rather suggest the term "necessary subtitles", and yes, I've encountered that phenomena a few t
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by klingonopera 7y ago
I buy the music, because I want to support the artists. I buy the CD-format, because in theory, I can do that anonymously (cash at the store). I don't buy the vinyl, because I explicitly want the digital format (see my reply to ano
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by klingonopera 7y ago
...would only make sense if everything was recorded and processed analog from studio to press, and then immediately converted to digital on that first play (...and then I'd also be hearing a lot of analog audio equipment, some like thi
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by klingonopera 7y ago
A CD, and a FLAC-rip for me, please. I'd pick it over vinyl or any digital stream any day.
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> This means that it cannot be used safely in portable incantations of variadic functions that expect pointer arguments. Why only variadic functions? The answer to that may make my next question obsolete, namely: Wouldn't only C++ c
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by klingonopera 7y ago
> Some compilers will issue a non-fatal warning, which is allowed by the C standard but IMHO is unfortunate. GCC 5.1.0 reports: warning: initialization discards 'const' qualifier from pointer target type [-Wdiscarded-qualif
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by klingonopera 7y ago
Privacy enhancing towards 3rd party apps, maybe, but towards Google itself OTOH... As someone trying to manage using an Android phone without Google's services (Play Store et al), they really castrated Android starting with version 8,

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