mikevin

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by mikevin 5y ago
GNU Emacs has a module called eshell-smart that borrows from Plan 9's 9term. When you run a command it moves the cursor (point in Emacs) to the beginning of the line and shows output below it. If you start typing it jumps to a new prom
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by mikevin 5y ago
It's very obvious Google is no longer the equivalent of grepping the web. There's some ML/NLP interpretation that's rewarded for returning the substring/interpretation that returns the most/highest ranking resu
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by mikevin 5y ago
Interesting, I have your site on my mental blocklist as one of those scrape and rehost sites. I'll be honest, I don't remember how I came to that conclusion but I suspect I encountered an unsatisfactory answer to a question I was
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by mikevin 5y ago
I doubt Apple ever had real access to something like Intel ME though.
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by mikevin 5y ago
I think I saw your tweet about getting nerd-sniped into figuring this out. Or was that another component? What would be the reason for the pseudorandom ROM order? Just a side effect of the PC choice or deliberate? sidenote: interesting that
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by mikevin 5y ago
Even if they stored the actual model they could simply change the game and ignore what the ledger says. I still haven't heard a good use for NFT's apart from investment/scams because the simple fact you still rely on some par
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by mikevin 5y ago
Its one of my favorite things about HN, changing titles that are confusing or misleading is a small but significant way to keep it clean.
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by mikevin 5y ago
Slightly related question: Does anyone know what to do when finding a Wikipedia page that's just an ad in disguise? I've found a few and Wikipedia has a lot of pages about vandalism/verifiability which often recommends just c
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by mikevin 5y ago
Maybe a stupid question but I've never learned much about parity and this sounds like a good opportunity. Can you give some definitions? Are you talking about error checking parity or 'evenness' parity? I'm guessing the
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by mikevin 5y ago
> parity = reduce(xor, map(ord, str))%2 Except Python3 took reduce away in favor of more boilerplate. And yes, there are multiple alternative implementations of the above. You can import functools.reduce to get it back but maybe thats wh
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by mikevin 5y ago
> That's all I'll say. I respect that but I'd wish you'd say more. I have no way to verify who's more knowledgeable about this, you or the person writing the article but as someone who knows a friend of a friend
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by mikevin 5y ago
Quick note: aliases and abbreviations are seperate things in Fish, using the 'alias' function will create a wrapper function that does not expand after typing.
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by mikevin 5y ago
I'm starting to avoid Google search alltogether but my best trick is including a really specific term that SEO would avoid because it might not be familiar to the reader. 90% of the time it will ignore the term but somewhere on the pag
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by mikevin 5y ago
I think that's a pretty healthy reaction, pretty much all of human history took place in an environment where investing time an energy in thinking/caring about "the big picture"/"distant future" would dras
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by mikevin 5y ago
As someone who's not too familiar with IP law/GPL versions: is GPL3 not "GPLv2 or later"?
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by mikevin 5y ago
I still do this but I'm 99% sure Google and DDG max out at around 3 keywords these days. I just get results for the top 3 SEO keywords, no matter how much I try to refine my search. Maybe it's just because I'm searching for t
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by mikevin 5y ago
> Everything I see from Peter Norvig is just always so incredibly well written and coded. .... I feel his skill of dividing a problem into small pieces and expressing them in code in a natural way is unparalleled. Most books/blogs&#
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by mikevin 5y ago
I think ctrl r is used frequent enough to warrant a single keychord instead of having to chain though.
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by mikevin 5y ago
I really dislike that kind of search because I'm forced to scan the results to see if they really contain what I'm looking for. Try searching "arm" with anything programming related term and count the articles about armc
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by mikevin 6y ago
Thanks for explaining the steps you took. I'm always looking out for ways to approach unknown unknowns and this is a great help.
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by mikevin 6y ago
>... honestly I'm not even entirely sure what it is, a game? a game engine? a 3d editor? a visual programming language? Anyway... It's refreshing to see this kind of exploratory project. Every now and then, I need to be remind
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by mikevin 6y ago
You could argue this doesn't really count as preventing though. It's preventing a symptom instead of the underlying problem.
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by mikevin 6y ago
While there's plenty of room to improve a language like Verilog I fail to see how these paradigms would help me in RTL. What would polymorphism even look like in an environment without a concept of runtime? Can you elaborate and enligh
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by mikevin 6y ago
I miss the days where Google would give me a relevant result with a minimal query, these days it's not helping me find what I'm looking for, it's 90% businesses trying to tell me something and low on content, high on SEO resu
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by mikevin 7y ago
Networking hardware often has this option and I miss it often when deploying configuration changes to software. Its something a lot more systems could use.
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by mikevin 7y ago
Nice project. I've finished most of the course (up until the compiler because that's where it became too familiar) and I'm now redoing it on an actual fpga. It's a great learning experience and I can fully recommend keep
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by mikevin 8y ago
This is why I dislike it when technical documentation itself becomes a goal. Detailed documentation never seems to be up to date in the real world. I've had far better experience with concise documention about high level concepts and s
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by mikevin 8y ago
Could it be designed to limit variance and the impact of clever hardware and its unpredictable nature? I can imagine benchmarking on a new high-end desktop machine would require a lot of work to make sure your benchmark isn't impacted
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by mikevin 8y ago
> > Within two days, we closed the vulnerability "Within two days, we closed the vulnerability, stopped the attack, and secured people’s accounts by resetting the access tokens for people who were potentially exposed. As a precau
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by mikevin 8y ago
Do you have any recommendations? I've been looking to get one to play with the same concept as this article but I've never pulled the trigger on buying one as I'm not sure if there any quality aspects I need to be aware of. T

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