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by munch117 4y ago
CL has huge mounds of syntax. Every macro or special form adds to it.
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My advice was specifically for mouzogu. I wouldn't necessarily give the same advice to your advisor. Your advisor has the power to help you, yet chooses not to. That's a different issue.
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There's no need to stop caring. And clearly you do care. What you need to do is stop feeling responsible for things you have no power over. Because that's what's stressing you out. Change your perspective. Instead of focu
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If you're accessing any kind of I/O register or special memory, obviously you need to know the rules of engagement for the particular kind. If you don't, then you're just going to be making the same mistake in a less ob
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But if you're using volatile correctly, then there's nothing wrong with ++*v. I was wondering about that slide that says the meaning is unclear, I don't see what's unclear about it. What particular assembly instructions
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That is OK, at least in the sense that there's no undefined behaviour. I'm not sure it's also OK, because the memcmp suggestion you are replying to seems a bit suspect. There's still the problem that comparing the uint
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The tracking pixel was made my scaling the company logo down to a 1x1 image.
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Owning a car and using it daily is not the same thing.
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I doubt very much that anyone else had the power to impose lockdown conditions on Vladimir Putin. This kind of health paranoia is exactly what I'd expect to see in a society where there's an epidemic that is out of control: some
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The motivation behind the two events is the same. Putin sees in the very existence of Ukraine the loss of some glorious USSR past. The timing may have changed due to circumstances, but I think it's likely that escalation would have h
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The Russian military action against Ukraine started in 2014, long before that.
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> The problem with that “it would’ve been worse” is that the timeline didn’t happen that way Ah, but we did see it. In Italy in the first week of March 2020, we saw what an unchecked epidemic looked like. The health care system was ove
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The global situation w.r.t war and the ensuing energy and food shortages were caused by Vladimir Putin starting a war. How exactly is it that you think lockdowns influenced Vladimir Putin to do that?
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> In that case, you aren't doing cryptography in Python. You're using cryptography in Python. One of the great things about the Python community is that we don't have these kinds of artificial hangups. You just solve the
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Sure it is. It's a concern that's addressed by using efficient libraries written in Rust or C. Mostly. One time I implemented RSA in Python. I needed it to read some legacy data with the wrong padding, something which the librar
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No, it's not going to be slow no matter what. Didn't you see my example? The hexadecimal non-machine-native textual representation was 4000 times faster than the decimal ditto. On a number that was much larger, I might add. Hex nu
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If you don't believe in altruism, then why are you here discussing how best to do it? The kind of charity that is most likely to be fraudulent or completely ineffectual, is a small, local one. The bigger the organisation, the more cos
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by munch117 4y ago
It does seem very low. However, you shouldn't be passing million-digit numbers around as (decimal) text. Even if you're not at risk of DOS attacks, there's still the issue that it's very, very slow: $ python3 -m ti
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I suggest reading the summary of https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Learning-Pyramid%3... which I was pointed towards by https://theeconomyofmeaning.com/2016/07/08/an-update-to-the
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by munch117 4y ago
> Who said anything about attackers? I did. I answered the "why in person" question.
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Because for an attacker to show up in person comes with a risk of getting caught. Also, it becomes much harder to attack multiple accounts.
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Fitts's Law and Its Applications in UX(nngroup.com)
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I always thought "stack" referred to just the web development stack, meaning someone who can write both frontend and backend code. The impression I get from someone using this expression is that the speaker is oblivious to other k
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I would be happy to see 'UX' go and good old 'usability' make a comeback. Sometimes UX seems to be code for switching focus away from usability and over to styling. 'UX' is just too broad to be a useful term.
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When the term 'continuous integration' was originally conceived, the point was to avoid branching altogether. It was not features branches that was the problem (there was no such thing at the time), the problem was synchronising
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In the Gaia book, Lovelock talks at length about all these challenges that life on earth has met. All these chances the earth had to become lifeless and barren, or at least barren of intelligent life. When I read it, I came to a conclusion
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I didn't say that this project in particular was a vanity project. Just that when someone comes to you with a project and says "I'm going to solve our problems by using this new programming language that I'm in the proc
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You shouldn't read too much into the PowerShell story. Creating your own programming language is in most cases a frivolous vanity project. Spending company resources on your own frivolous vanity projects is the sort of thing that can
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Whenever I open a C file in Emacs, the indentation level is autodetected. I'll admit that may not have been trivial to implement, but it certainly has been done.
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Then your editor renders the 8 space code as 4 spaces without missing a beat. Why wouldn't it? Detecting the indentation level used is trivial. (Provided, of course, that the author had the foresight to use spaces, not tabs.)

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