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by lindig 9y ago
TeX implements a very good spelling engine that that is driven by patterns [1]. I would expect it very difficult to improve on this and as far as I can see, the article doesn't include a comparison. [1]: https://tex.stackexc
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by lindig 9y ago
"Check this shit out:" in Section 1.1, page 9 of https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/noBSguide2LA_previ...
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by lindig 10y ago
Here is a way to bind autocomplete to TAB such that you still get TAB unless you are at the end of a word to complete. It's super convenient. function! InsertTabWrapper() let col = col('.') - 1 if !col || ge
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by lindig 10y ago
The article doesn't mention the problem that we often try to predict the outcome of a singular event when statistics can only tell us something about it when repeating it. The prediction could still be correct even when the actual even
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by lindig 10y ago
Have you tried it on Safari? I see mostly empty pages.
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by lindig 10y ago
Surely you mean factoring numbers into primes as primes cannot be factored.
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by lindig 10y ago
The article makes it sounds like investment gains by a factor of 15 or more are magical and limited to venture capitalists. There are plenty of stocks that anybody could have bought at a stock exchange that gained by this factor. Apple is a
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by lindig 10y ago
> Big podcasters also apparently want Apple to insert itself as a financial intermediary to allow payment for podcasts within Apple’s app. We’ve seen how that goes. Trust me, podcasters, you don’t want that. Is Marco referring to In-App
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by lindig 11y ago
There is another tool written in OCaml that parses and, in addition, manipulates PDF files: https://github.com/johnwhitington/cpdf-source .
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by lindig 11y ago
The paradox ignores that more people than ever use computing devices, especially mobile devices. If we limited the view to users of software equivalent to those that used computers in the (say) nineties, the paradox might be less severe. Bu
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by lindig 11y ago
Interesting but I believe this is a different scenario. The problem here is to avoid the phone rotating around the axis of the lens. The air flow from the circular motion could be used to stabilise it when there is fin at the back of the ca
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by lindig 11y ago
The case could have some kind of fin or tail that keeps it from spinning.
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by lindig 11y ago
Short of a formal proof (or a sound type system), you can't be sure that you never hit a type error in production that now wouldn't be caught.
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by lindig 11y ago
Interesting comment by a reader of the WSJ article: a former director of Theranos works for a company that manages investments for Capital BlueCross. He could have been instrumental when the initial cooperation formed. Of course, this is ju
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by lindig 11y ago
Nobody is denying that Twitter is a great tool for a lot of people, the author included. But this pool of people is too small for Twitter's investors. And the way Twitter works currently, the pool looks difficult to grow. Hence all the
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by lindig 11y ago
Admittedly, this is a sideshow: The typesetting quality of this document considerably lowered my confidence in its technical quality. It is appalling. More than 40 years after troff and more than 30 years after TeX were invented, computer s
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by lindig 11y ago
The server code in the example allocates a new buffer inside the server loop at every iteration. Is this intended?
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by lindig 11y ago
This. A messaging app like WhatsApp could become a platform. I'm not sure how the "apps" in this world would look like but I would find it great if text interactions (like on IRC, in the shell, or a text adventure) would have
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by lindig 11y ago
I'd be curious about the following aspects: since we have enough good C compilers we rather need code generators for languages that do things differently than C. In particular, how difficult is it to generate code for the following thi
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by lindig 11y ago
The compiler is described on its home page as "accompanying GCC-compatible C frontend." So what does this mean with respect to GCC features? In any case, I don't think the compiler should crash but report a syntax error.
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by lindig 11y ago
The following code crashes the compiler but is accepted by GCC. static float b5[0][0] = {}; int main(void) { return 0; } I have filed a bug report.
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by lindig 11y ago
Exactly. "VR is the next big thing" is the new Linux for the desktop. I like to use the adoption among women as a litmus test: no technology will gain ubuquity unless it gets women excited. I fail to see that for VR headsets like
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by lindig 11y ago
Do browsers actually stop downloading a progressing JPG based once the required resolution is reached? The demo doesn't seem to work that way.
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by lindig 11y ago
It took long enough for the home page to load that I wondered whether it is broken. That's not a good message for a company that makes software tools. From a perspective of graphic design and branding it is pretty busy. As an immediate
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by lindig 11y ago
I am using a mobile app to track the milage of my car and thus pull it up only at the gas station. While a little more specific than general expense tracking, it seems to be similar enough for a comparison. According to the article these ap
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by lindig 11y ago
What about the opposite direction: create builds from the same source that use different memory layouts to make the life of attackers harder? I think diversity could create resilience, too. Obviously it makes verification harder.
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by lindig 11y ago
Fair point - knowing more bears the risk of mixing things up. What overall harm are you thinking of?
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by lindig 11y ago
Meh. Maybe speaking two languages fluently doesn't have the advantage that psychologists are trying to measure. But it seems to me almost absurd to assume that there are no advantages. They might not justify the effort of learning a se
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by lindig 11y ago
I think I need a translation for what the concepts are. We focus on what unifies people- human motivations, relationships, and abilities. This drives us to consider the broader social impact of our work. The result is an experience that ha
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Microsoft Design Language(minimallyminimal.com)
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