lazulicurio

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All 13,000 employees of NOAA are receiving spam emails(old.reddit.com)
6 points by lazulicurio 2y ago|4 comments
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by lazulicurio 2y ago
This is a huge shame. Ondsel brought much-needed focus to the freecad development process. I hope that with them gone the project doesn't revert to the mindset of "everyone gets their own fiefdom (workbench) to manage" that&#
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by lazulicurio 2y ago
Just to start, I want to acknowledge that the problem space is tremendously complex; the FreeCAD developers have put in a lot of effort and it's amazing that a project like FreeCAD exists at all. Not trying to disrespect the other Free
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by lazulicurio 3y ago
Seconding the plug for sh3d. And the source is relatively accessible if you want to make modifications---I patch my personal copy to allow zero-height walls and floors which can make doing more complicated geometry easier.
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by lazulicurio 3y ago
Does the mozilla ppa provide the www-browser metapackage? If not, you might run into [this bug]( https://old.reddit.com/r/linux4noobs/comments/uj58i5/psa_fix... ) FWIW my solution was using equivs to creat
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by lazulicurio 3y ago
Are you on linux? For a while I've been running into issues with FF where it will randomly halt repainting after switching tabs. The process is clearly still responding to keystrokes and mouse events, but the ui is mostly frozen. I&#x2
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by lazulicurio 3y ago
Yeah, having equals and hashCode on the root Object class is Java's biggest mistake, IMO. Although for a slightly different reason: equality is usually context-dependent, but having equals as an instance method ties you to one implemen
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
It's a tad more verbose, but I assume the simplest way would just be to use a standard closure. void log(Supplier<? extends String> messageSupplier); log(() -> log.info"User is \{someExpensiveFunction(user)}&qu
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
To be somewhat glib, let me coin "lazulicurio's law": The only way to have the option to have your preferences met in a large and mature enough market is to be completely price insensitive.
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
Irrational investor expectations in a self-reinforcing feedback loop with economic policy decisions driven by core underlying beliefs that speculation can't destroy productive growth (i.e. if you create a bubble that pops, you'll
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
> but the Senate may propose or concur with amendments as on other Bills Of course, this is a loophole big enough to sail a cruise ship through. And the Senate takes full advantage of that loophole in practice.
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
imo it seemed like there was this phase of "if we pretend null doesn't exist maybe it will go away" that resulted in a bunch of design issues. Beyond Optional, the other big one to me is Map.compute/Map.merge, which subt
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
If you're entering into a webpage, your best bet may be a different scanner. Virtual COM generally ties it to native applications (website COM interfaces are possible, but I'm assuming the website isn't yours to modify). Anot
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
Do you have the scanner set up as a keyboard wedge (USB-HID)? From your description, it sounds like it. Usually when dealing with control characters it's easier to put scanners in virtual COM mode. Although using them as a COM device d
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
A big part of this is investors demanding financializaton. Unless you're in a sector that investors have decided is a "growth" sector, it's all about capital efficiency and headcount and how much "fat" you can
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
The default actually depends on project language IIRC. C# has overflow checking disabled by default, VB.net has it enabled by default. Not sure about F#.
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
To be slightly pedantic, C# gives you the option to throw an exception in that case (with either checked blocks or setting the CheckForOverflowUnderflow compiler flag to true), but the default behavior is to allow overflow.
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by lazulicurio 4y ago
Is there a way to change the output format? I find that "||||||| merged common ancestor" to be very noisy, visually.
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
> Try programming for Xamarin, UWP, or anything involving multitargeting. The complaints in the original article fell rather flat to me, but this is one area where it's absolutely fair to criticize VS. More generally, the reason tha
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
> Ultimately Microsoft is powerless to stop this except by using their antivirus to block installation of Firefox in the first place They've already started down that road with s mode, which is default for new installs and not a sep
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
Also worth noting that Java may be able to fix it in the future after Valhalla drops (and this may mean better implementation for JVM-based languages too).
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
IMO it's more fundamental than the parallelism v concurrency split. Microsoft in general has a tendency to bolt on functionality in a kinda slapdash manner when another team wants it, so you get a lot of cruft that really doesn't
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
The way I put it: .NET async makes the easy things easier and the hard things harder. The problem is that Task/Task<T> was the foundation for async, and it's a bad foundation. Even with the ability to write your own duck-typ
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
IMO the main issue with modules is that strong encapsulation is actually a bad goal. If the focus was solely on reliable configuration, I think that the transition would have gone better. WRT why I think strong encapsulation is a bad goal:
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
A "fun" thing to do if you really want to get a hang of IEEE floats is manually write the algorithms for a bunch of rounding operations (ceil, floor, truncate, half to even, etc).
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
Probably so if you bitcast a floating point value into a signed int it maintains the proper sign for comparisons.
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
I think more importantly, neither are contagious.
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
I think the extradition ruling[1] from the UK judge assigned to the case provides a pretty good overview. (In general, I'd suggest trying to find primary sources as much as you can, because there's a lot of misinformation flying a
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
If I had to spitball, I'd guess that the issue was caused by the interplay between HTML's whitespace collapse algorithm and whatever method WP uses for source editing. That something is converting whitespace characters to U+0020 f
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by lazulicurio 5y ago
Deflation would make debt more expensive and affect the relative incomes for labor/capital, but it's a dirty word among economists.

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