mihaic

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by mihaic 3y ago
Saying something is art is really not an excuse to not put in extra effort. Proof of engineering makes a statement in itself.
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by mihaic 3y ago
What purpose are you browsing projects on github? Genuine question, as I've never done this.
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by mihaic 3y ago
You mean 2022, right? Yes, it did appear, but not as an original work. To me the adaptation felt worsened by modern ideology. John Constantine was change to Johanna Constantine, a worse written character, while at the same time the comic ac
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yes, but isn't this obvious when you internalize the concept of "diminishing returns"? The domain might matter, as developers with some experience will understand for instance that the optimal amount of bugs is non-zero, but
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by mihaic 3y ago
For me and you it's not surprising, for others it seems it is. Maybe people have gotten worse at intuitively understanding that tradeoffs need to be made in anything, and that the questions that define systems are never choices as much
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by mihaic 3y ago
> You are bored of many artists being in a similar region on the political spectrum? Yes, there should be a bit more diversity in the type of stories/heroes/villains we're being presented with. The fact that US culture has
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by mihaic 3y ago
Jetpens is fantastic. I've found the best combo for me: a metal Parker Jotter pen with an Ohto refil, but it's nice seeing some new options from time to time. [1] https://www.jetpens.com/Parker-Jotter-Ballpoint-Pen
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by mihaic 3y ago
I was expecting the story of the letter J, that Indiana Jones and the Holy Grail has taught me had appeared only in the 15th century as a letter separate than "I".
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by mihaic 3y ago
I think you're interpreting it wrong. Edge-cases matter a lot for quality of life, as some other comments illustrated well. The solutions to these edge-cases don't need to be solved by the same thing that solves your average case
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by mihaic 3y ago
That's very cynical. What's the point of "fuck you" money if you still have to be a talking money and sell your reputation?
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by mihaic 3y ago
I have seen that shaming sometimes works, so I wouldn't abandon it. After all, there are so few social deterents we can use that I only say "that won't work" when I have a better suggestion.
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by mihaic 3y ago
If you have a copyrighted photo that I simply put through jpeg compression, am I legally allowed to use that? Software programs are not humans, and need to be treated differently. Anthropomorphization is one of the slipperiest paths to argu
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by mihaic 3y ago
For me, the closest modern successors to the Borland suite are Visual Studio (not VSCode) and the Jetbrains IDEs. The feel like they're the only one with a holistic, batteries included, design that actually focuses on debuggability. I
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by mihaic 3y ago
For absolutely any nation, it's insanely hard to make 5000 citizens of another country do whatever you want them to without leaking anything. Besides China, I can't think of any other nation that could get those numbers.
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by mihaic 3y ago
True, I'm wondering if they might change the implementation for this actually, since the function name is pretty agnostic.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Starting from Python 3.13 there should be a new method os.process_cpu_count() that aims to get the actually available number of cores our process can run on.
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by mihaic 3y ago
I actually have a different version to this: 9X% of everything is crap, where X ranges from 0 to 9.999. That variation though is what differentiates a category and a time, since either 1 in 10, in 100 or 1 in 1000 can be a great find. This
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by mihaic 3y ago
One change I'd make to this structure would be to pack all the children of a node together. That way you could find out the list of all children of a node with a binary search, and they'd have some cache-friendly properties. Inser
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by mihaic 3y ago
I remember doing bluray re-encodes back in that day. x264 was simply better as an encoder when compared to vp8 and you knew that at least in terms of software everyone had a compatible decoder in their preferred codec-pack.
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by mihaic 3y ago
This article didn't go into the biggest problem with webp for me: the inconveninence of the format outside the browser compared to the small space saving. There are better formats (the video-codec inspired ones like heif, avif, and wha
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by mihaic 3y ago
I first user Git about 10 years ago, going from Accurev and Perforce. Those VCSs were a bit heavy to configure, but their UI allowed a lot of complex and easy workflows to happen at the same time. Git won by being free and since a lot of pe
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by mihaic 3y ago
I give some leeway before passing judgement, but this article is not very good. It uses one single photo, a bad one at that, picks some arbitrary percentages that don't mean the same thing for all formats and in the end the only messag
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by mihaic 3y ago
Sitting on it makes sense when something could go up in price long-term. This is probably modern government inaction though.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Yes, because it's getting harder to get enough money to buy anything on which you'd sit for 40 year.
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by mihaic 3y ago
Not to me, when those "business partners" are in charge of some agencies like YC that do influence the society we live in.
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by mihaic 3y ago
I saw a friend being added to a Binance WhatsApp group with tens of actual Binance users, clearly violating GDPR, where bots (you could tell by the phrasing and the account name) and Binance moderators were chatting about how to invest and
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by mihaic 3y ago
I got this picture from other dirt revealed during this whole debacle: the fact that he wanted to raise billions to run a chip company for AI (obvious conflict of interests), how he lies and manipulates people, even sexual abuse allegations
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by mihaic 3y ago
I tried not to have an opinion until now, but so far Altman seems like a greedy asshole, and D'Angelo seems like a greedier asshole. That clash ended up terribly, since neither of them care about anything else than their best interests
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by mihaic 3y ago
Honestly, I really dislike that I can't get Spotify to actually randomize my playlist. I actually want to rediscover some old song that I liked, but it keeps giving me the most recent songs way too much. I understand that you need to m
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by mihaic 3y ago
Validating property rights is a fixed-time operation that seems to be one of the basic services a state should offer. I read the parent poster naturally asking why 2% instead of some lower, fixed amount.

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