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by mschwaig 8y ago
If you are viewing this on mobile you can go to the README.md file to see some text with pictures: https://github.com/huangyz0918/TankLogo/blob/master/README.m...
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by mschwaig 8y ago
> A lot of these complaints are just, well, it’s called Progress. If we designed the C in 2018 and made it so we actually wanted to use it, then it would look very different. Probably a lot like Nim or Swift. I think that’s still a niche
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by mschwaig 8y ago
AFAICT the parent comment is referring to Double Negative (dneg). The visual effects company responsible for the black hole shots in the movie Interstellar.
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I first read this as IMDd for Internet Movie Database and got confused, but probably you mean LMDB for Lightning Memory-Mapped Database, which makes much more sense. :)
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I watched some of the progress updates that you posted on youtube for that project and I was amazed by what you could acheive at home with a powerful GPU and publicly available software. Here's the playlist with all of those videos if
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by mschwaig 8y ago
Rust has lifetimes and ownership as language concepts so that you have to be explicit about who owns a resource, for example memory, but it does not give you a lot of control about what to do when an allocation fails. Zig is designed so tha
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by mschwaig 8y ago
Both is an about euqally difficult problem, but modes that require a nonce fail much more spectacularly than modes that require an IV. Typically with a re-used IV the same plain text will lead to the same cipher text, which can be an issue.
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I think the syntax is not too far off from C. I am not affiliated with the project, only supporing it on Patreon, so I cannot speak about the designer's intentions with Zig specifically. Generally in language design, if something works
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I picked C over C++ in an quasi-embedded environment given we would have a team with highly variable C/C++ skills. I was worried people would get too fancy with C++. Probably it would have been fine if we would have taken away most of
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by mschwaig 8y ago
Maybe you mean Brave. That's a browser that blocks ads, bit pays out bitcoin to site owners. I found this one today while researching.
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I remember reading about some project where as a user you would automatically take part in the bidding process for ad placement on the websites you yourself visited. The idea was to outbid real ad networks and serve yourself bogus no-op ads
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by mschwaig 8y ago
Windows is special here because Microsoft never properly solved the distribution problem for software. If you want the typical user on Windows to run updated software, your software has to at least entice updating if not auto-update straigh
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by mschwaig 8y ago
I would like to add that a Ruby or Node developer might very well want to rewrite some performance-critical service in Rust, which the strict language enables them to do without shooting themselves in the foot too much.
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by mschwaig 8y ago
Rust puts you very close to the metal, which can be great for writing high performance code, while forcing you to be very explicit about how you use memory. This is great if memory managment and high performance are a big concern for you, i
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by mschwaig 9y ago
An autopilot does not have to outperform a human driver in every imaginable situation as long as we make smart tradeoffs regarding what the machine can and cannot deal with and there are still significant advantages over humans in the manag
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by mschwaig 9y ago
Can you elaborate why not?
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by mschwaig 9y ago
Sure, I know, but the parent poster complained about how Steam was a terrible thing about the HD version. I wanted to know if it creates practical problems if you want to mess with a game that has Steam integration. Probably that was too fa
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by mschwaig 9y ago
It's funny how you can write something terrible now and put it into production anyways, skipping the process of slow but steady degradation altogether. BAM! Instant legacy code.
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by mschwaig 9y ago
I had a look at some .NET code integrating steam once and the integration itself looked quite clean and lightweight. I'd be interested if people got banned or something like that for modifying games when they were clearly not hacking&#
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by mschwaig 9y ago
I did the same thing. Totally agree with your comment. The glass back is ridiculously impractical and makes the Tab4 8 Plus slip down from furniture a lot. If anyone wants to get that tablet make sure to get some sort of case for it. Otherw
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by mschwaig 9y ago
But how could they stop when they knew it could probably be half a milimeter thinner! :O
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by mschwaig 9y ago
So when I google how to do something in Python I will have to comb through solutions specific to v2, v3 and now also Excel? ;) Aside from that it sounds like a cool idea.
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by mschwaig 9y ago
I guess this is also ok with GitHubs TOS since you eventually use their built-in features for static site generation to serve your content instead of abusing the Repo itself as a CMS. Is that right?
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by mschwaig 9y ago
Someone built a location API or crypto API or whatever so that apps can use that data. If there is a permission that violates the trust between the system and an app using aforementioned APIs all bets are off. This is similar to why rooted
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by mschwaig 9y ago
Sure you can use shading to move everything you don't want in your public API into some other package, or you can use something like ProGuard to obfuscate everything but your intentional public API. However those things will still be p
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by mschwaig 9y ago
The biggest pain for me was that it felt like there was no good way to create a library with some internal structure in the form of packages without exposing parts of your internal implementation as public. When Jigsaw was delayed I was pla
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by mschwaig 9y ago
I'm reading the whole book right now and the chapter after the one from the article is about time and goes more into spacetime according to relativity. So far it seems to me that they sometimes provide an oversimplified analogy which t
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by mschwaig 9y ago
You can be inept WHILE covering your ass. I'm not saying he's a genius.
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by mschwaig 9y ago
He might be inept, but in this instance the CTO is mainly just covering his own ass.
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by mschwaig 10y ago
On the other hand a hash function that works well in all scenarios that constitute a theoretically sound use of a cryptographic hash function is infinitely harder to misuse.

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