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by klodolph 3y ago
If you know how to use info, it’s faster to find what you’re looking for than to use Google or ChatGPT. The interface is incredibly snappy and lets you do a full text search across the entire manual you are reading, quickly and without leav
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by klodolph 3y ago
I use info extensively for the GNU projects. As a user. The thing is—GNU is right here, that info is better. You can run info from the command-line just like man, except info pages are hierarchical, indexed, and have links. The same sources
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by klodolph 3y ago
You have to understand how profits in the rail sector work. Making the system move faster translates directly to additional capacity. More capacity translates to more revenue. Think about it this way—if you increase the speed that a train m
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah, core 3 and 3.5 was broken. You want to make an overpowered character? Play a straight cleric, but don’t bother healing the rest of the party. I have no desire to replay those editions.
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by klodolph 3y ago
The constant derailment is because the operators are chasing profit above safety. Make the trains as long as possible, run them as fast as possible. At some point derailment is inevitable, if you operate the trains that way.
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by klodolph 3y ago
That information is not in the linked article, and all the valuations in the article are listed in dollars. You have to click through to the linked Reuters article. So I’m not sure how you’d expect others to know that it’s a story about som
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by klodolph 3y ago
What I’ve also seen is integrations with a different OIDC endpoint for company X. It’s still OIDC, but it’s not “sign in with Google”.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah, but you can equally ignore fgetc and friends in C. My only point here is that IO in the standard library is not very good in either language. IMO a parser should be reading the entire file, and then parsing as a block of memory, by de
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yes, 100%. I DMed during the 3 and 3.5 era, and the “bullshit player option supplements” were a major problem. Players want to ask for the most out of pocket stuff they pick up from the splatbooks. It was beyond difficult to build a coheren
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by klodolph 3y ago
> On a side note, I can't help feeling sorry for the people that advocate for C over C++ when I see commits like https://github.com/wasm3/wasm3/commit/121575febe8aa1b544fbcb ... To be fair, I/O is
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by klodolph 3y ago
> If they can’t get the statistics right, how can we expect it from teachers with far less education? Because it’s their job—and if the statistics curriculum is mandatory, then the teachers might spend inservice days developing statistic
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by klodolph 3y ago
I can understand why you felt the need to share that, but if you only used it for about a day, aren’t you just reporting your initial impressions? If I used Rust for about a day, I would probably complain about the borrow checker. And if I
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think you would be hard-pressed to find someone who always uses the word “every person” to mean “each and every person, without exception”. It is, unfortunately, not mathematical.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Would love to hear what you think the complaints come from. They seem fine to me, and I have voiced plenty of criticism about the other parts of Rust. They work more or less how I expect—you have an array of bytes, which can either be a ref
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think the main alternative design is to treat strings like in Rust or Go. The problem with the “array of code points” idea is that you end up with the most general implementation, which is a UTF-32 string, and then you end up with the fas
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by klodolph 3y ago
You can trade for complexity—you can use revocation lists if you want to revoke JWTs. The revocation list of unexpired but revoked JWTs will generally be much shorter than the list of valid JWTs. You can push these lists to your front-ends,
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by klodolph 3y ago
You can revoke tokens before they expire by distributing a token revocation list to front-ends. This involves some extra work, but presumably, the list of unexpired but revoked tokens will normally be short.
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by klodolph 3y ago
Agreed. I hate to word it this way, but the problem is that JWTs are misused. The reason I hate to word it this way because the natural step after “X is misused” is “X is prone to misuse”. Which is usually right. But the reason why JWTs are
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by klodolph 3y ago
> As Hinton says, there is no real limit to how sophisticated they can get. There’s no limit to how sophisticated a model can get, but, 1. That’s a property shared with many architectures, and not really that interesting, 2. There are
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by klodolph 3y ago
Depends on where you are, but you can often get by, ignoring directives from management, if you are an active communicator and you’re completing assigned tasks. It’s still better to state your problem. I like to use the “non-violent communi
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by klodolph 3y ago
The skill under test is for that part is “can solve ambiguous problems”, and what you want to see is that the candidate is able to recognize that a problem is ambiguous. I think the hard part is recognizing that a problem is ambiguous. Tell
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think there's a pretty wide range between 3 and 4 that is worth exploring. Maybe the real problem I have with this article is that once you peg 3 as "good enough" and 5 as unachievable, then there's a whole mess of int
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think beyond “it’s not the camera that makes the difference” we need to have a discussion about lighting. A shitty camera and shitty lens in fantastic lighting will give good results. The best camera with the best lens in awful lighting w
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by klodolph 3y ago
I think “subtly superior” is not a given, here. Git has better performance for a lot of users in a lot of use cases. Git is certainly not always better-performing than Mercurial, but it is often better performing, and the performance differ
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by klodolph 3y ago
Yeah. My workflow in Git centers on the index, and making lots of commits on local branches that will never get pushed. I spend a day working, rewrite history, stash a bunch of unrelated changes on temporary branches, and then send a couple
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by klodolph 3y ago
I was a very early Git adopter, back when everyone used SVN; back when Mercurial and Git were the hot new things (and maybe some people you knew used Darcs, Fossil, or Bazaar). It’s kind of interesting how the conversation shifted. Used to
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by klodolph 3y ago
Cheating is against the rules in mancala, but perhaps, part of the culture of the game. If you’re caught, you retract the move.
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by klodolph 3y ago
We have some insight into the answer to this, because public schooling is (more or less) a replacement for home schooling. Home schooling has an incredible amount of inequality built in to it. Affluent parents can hire instructors. Poor par
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by klodolph 3y ago
> I don't think I need to go into the senseless rules that govern our lives and social interactions, because the 'rules and order' people won't see them Maybe those from our own culture. There are “rules and order” pe
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by klodolph 3y ago
Comments like these are easily my least favorite kind of comments on Hacker News. Rather than trying to understand the meaning of what people say, in the articles or in the comments, we get caught up in having arguments about what the defin

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