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by mastax 4y ago
Probably just a more secure way to latch the door when there's lots of wind and snow attempting to push the door in. Also lots of standard doors come with deadbolts pre-installed or at least a deadbolt hole drilled through.
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by mastax 4y ago
Wow those examples are shockingly good. It's funny that the lyrics are garbled analogously to text in stable diffusion images. The audio quality is surprisingly good, but does sound like it's being played through an above-average
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by mastax 4y ago
Two's complement is required in C23.
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by mastax 4y ago
I remember in 2008 or thereabouts there was some controversy because one vendor rendered some things at a higher quality than the other. It was a relatively small thing like the edges of alpha textures or texture filtering or something. The
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by mastax 4y ago
If you read the article, you got the message of GE's ads anyway.
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by mastax 4y ago
Historically, liquid fueled (cryogenic) vehicles have not been suitable for these kinds of missions because they take a long time to fuel and they can't be fueled ahead of time because the fuel boils off.
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by mastax 4y ago
Instead we give the keys to the kingdom to everyone who shows up with a letter of recommendation.
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by mastax 4y ago
Hah! There's one reason not to switch everything to `unsafe get_unchecked()`.
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by mastax 4y ago
I wonder if there could be a flag to tell the compiler that you don't care about getting the exact distinct panic message for each bounds check, please optimize it. I suppose the assert is a flag, in a way, but I mean something more gl
520.
by mastax 4y ago
One technique is to add asserts before a block of code to hoist the checks out. The compiler is usually smart enough to know which conditions have already been checked. Here's a simple example: https://rust.godbolt.org/
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by mastax 4y ago
My impression (not based on anything firm) is that basic reasonable-length CRCs are extremely unlikely to have collisions, unless someone is deliberately trying to create collisions. If I were looking for insurance I'd turn to one of t
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by mastax 4y ago
There are a bunch of demos for the unreal engine that you can download. I wanted to try them out recently after I built my new computer but unreal engine crashes every time I launch it. Oh well. Edit: funny, reducing my DDR5 memory speed se
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by mastax 4y ago
I can't remember the specifics to give you a summary, but this presentation was fascinating: https://youtu.be/eviSykqSUUw
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by mastax 4y ago
`sort | uniq` is really slow for this, as it has to sort the entire input first. I use `huniq` which is way faster for this. I'm sure there are many similar options. https://github.com/koraa/huniq
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by mastax 4y ago
I was recently working on parsing 100K CSV files and inserting them into a database. The files have a non-column-oriented header and other idiosyncrasies so they can't be directly imported easily. They're stored on an HDD so my fi
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by mastax 4y ago
A project as large and well funded as the Linux kernel could have a hardware test farm at least with reasonable coverage of popular hardware. "But Linux isn't that well funded!" Sure, but it's orders of magnitude better
527.
by mastax 4y ago
I don't have problems with RJ45 tabs breaking off. I do have two problems with the connectors: 1. Sometimes the connectors don't latch properly in the port and fall right out. I try to bend the tab out further to help it latch but
528.
by mastax 4y ago
Another theory: SiriusXM bribed carmakers to install satellite radio receivers and to not install HD Radio. The first part is assumed given how Satellite radio receivers are (were?) installed close to universally, even in pretty basic car
529.
by mastax 4y ago
Remember HD radio? I'm amazed how little adoption that still has. They got the radio stations to buy in which should've been the hard part. If it was like any other technology it should be built into the FM tuner chips for basical
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by mastax 4y ago
No. Some 4090s had issues with power connectors. The 4090 does not support NVLink (though there is evidence that they were designed with the capability).
531.
by mastax 4y ago
There are a few different time types in Win32, the one I was talking about is FILETIME: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/sysinfo/abou... FILETIME is a nominally unsigned 64-bt value. 1601-
532.
by mastax 4y ago
Unix timestamps are common in windows software, though the standard timestamp used by the operating system is the number of ticks (100ns) since 1601-01-01 UTC. I vaguely remember a few different timestamp formats in use in different places,
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by mastax 4y ago
The one thing that I can think of is that the natural rate of seed spreading is slow, at least for citrus plants. (Plants like dandelion likely spread much more quickly)
534.
by mastax 4y ago
Why even respond publicly if that's what you're going to say? I guess it probably convinced someone. But it's not very convincing and it keeps the story in the news.
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by mastax 4y ago
A lot of people go hiking and few of them buy sat phones or epirbs. It's nice to have. We're well past the point of diminishing returns for smartphone features, yes.
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by mastax 4y ago
eBay forced me into this when they didn't support verifying with my existing bank, so I opened a new checking account just for these services. I wanted to be mad about it but the eBay customer service rep was really surprisingly helpfu
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by mastax 4y ago
It seems that Mick doesn't like getting lawyers involved, potentially to his detriment.
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by mastax 4y ago
Let me be more clear. The article is very focused on the "evil foreigners" angle, which is understandable. I also do not like Saudi Arabia buying up farms and exporting water. But this problem is a tiny subset of the overall probl
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by mastax 4y ago
Every text editor should support multiple cursors. In fact, every text field should support it. I often copy paste things into vs code just so I can use multiple cursors to edit something. Also block indents. If you're going to require
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by mastax 4y ago
You could try to come up with a scheme that targets people you don't like, but that leaves you with an inconvenient truth: people you do like are just as capable of sucking the wells dry.

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