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by krylon 4y ago
Afterwards, I started to like Duff's description of his device as being a strong argument in the debate on switch's fallthrough behavior, but that he did not know if it was pro or con.
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by krylon 4y ago
I remember the moment my brain went "So that's what some people need a fast multiply-accumulate for!"
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by krylon 4y ago
Years ago, fresh out of training, I got a job that involved image recognition, and I spent a couple of weeks reading the code dealing with image processing. I was confused, until I realized that all the operations were basically the same, t
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by krylon 4y ago
For a long time, I would at this about once a year and almost understand what it does, but never quite getting it. It felt like looking at a hypercube. Then I read it was about loop unrolling, and suddenly it clicked.
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by krylon 4y ago
I sometimes regret I never learned to "really" write shell scripts. I stumbled across Perl early on, and for anything more complex than canned command invocation(s) or a simple loop, I usually go for Perl. There is something to be
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by krylon 4y ago
MATE is a fork of Gnome 2. I like it very much, and it's available on all major distros and on the BSD systems.
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by krylon 4y ago
Ethics and privacy aside, I just find it plain weird that hardware vendor would deliberate make their own product worse like that. And this is not the first time Lenovo has done something like this, apparently they did face any consequences
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by krylon 4y ago
This is really cool! It's a bit much for my puny laptop, but it's fun!
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by krylon 4y ago
A+ But how would the mosquito detect that before biting?
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by krylon 4y ago
I know it's just anecdata, but as far back as I can remember, mosquitos have tended to avoid me or at least to take it easy on me. I have no idea why, but I didn't exactly have reason to complain.
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by krylon 4y ago
"A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
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by krylon 4y ago
I've been wondering, though - those don't really help you unless you move there full-time. I think that most flights would be cancelled in the aftermath of a nuclear war, and even if you have a private plane, a nuclear explosion w
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by krylon 4y ago
It's not really meant as a competitor to C, and AFAIU, it's meant as a target for a compiler front/middle end, not as a language to write code in manually. Unless you're hacking GHC itself, you're rather unlikely to
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by krylon 4y ago
It's not just you.
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by krylon 4y ago
Huh. I was kidding, but I am amazed. 'tis a brave new world indeed.
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by krylon 4y ago
I never used CDE for real, but during my training at a large-ish IT company, I worked on one project where our dev/testing machine was a small Sun server running Solaris 8 (it's been a while). After a while, out of whimsy more tha
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by krylon 4y ago
I am not so much upset about the decision to remove SMS support, but about the reasons they give. It smells like a really lame excuse. But whatever. I only send and receive SMS very rarely these days, so I installed Silence on my phone. It&
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by krylon 4y ago
FWIW, apparently the OpenBSD devs maintain their own fork of ISC's server, which is available at least on FreeBSD via ports/pkg. So if just want to keep using the good ole DHCP server you have grown used to while also receiving up
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by krylon 4y ago
Not to a hobbyist, unfortunately, especially when Hercules does the job just as well (AFAIK, at least) and is free. Compared to what you pay for the hardware and a support contract and the OS license, it is practically free. But I don&#x2
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by krylon 4y ago
I'm not the target audience (long-time emacs user, occasional vi user just for the heck of it), but this seems like a nice idea. On the few occasions I have used nano, I found the keyboard shortcuts very inconvenient. If I had no prior
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by krylon 4y ago
I thought ISO added them when C went from ANSI C (1989) to ISO C (1990), along with wchar.h and such. I might misremember, though, it's been a long time since I did anything serious with C. Come to think of it, didn't they remove
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by krylon 4y ago
It swallows them whole, one might be tempted to say.
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by krylon 4y ago
I vaguely recall an anecdote being told here on HN where Donald Knuth met Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs said something along the lines of "I admire you very much, I have read all of your books!", to which Donald Knuth replied something t
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by krylon 4y ago
https://pynchonwiki.com/ has page-by-page annotations to all of Pynchon's novels. A similar website exists for Infinite Jest: https://infinitejest.wallacewiki.com/david-foster-wallace/in... I thin
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by krylon 4y ago
I've been using Linux on my private machines for 20+ years, so to me, every year is the year of the Linux desktop. But I also think it's actually a good thing I'm part of a tiny minority. Malware authors target Windows becaus
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by krylon 4y ago
IIRC, it is mandated by POSIX/SUS, so even if it ends up not being used ever, to deliberately not include it is ... doesn't feel right.
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by krylon 4y ago
That's nice. I'd probably user Perl for this, but I happened to stumble upon Perl just in time to make sure I'd never become a shell wizard. Anything more complex than a couple of canned commands and maybe a loop, and I go
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by krylon 4y ago
Oh, I hope that was intented! ;)
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by krylon 4y ago
Music with words doesn't destroy my concentration like that, but instrumental music is a lot better to help me focus. Calm instrumental music, specifically. Techno would drive me nuts, but Ambient and adjacent genres tend to work ver
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by krylon 4y ago
For reference, Roadrunner, which was the first petascale system in 2008, used 2.35 MW (according to Wikipedia). So this one gives us 1,000 times the performance for 10 times the energy. From a performance/Watt perspective, this is an i

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