murderfs

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by murderfs 2y ago
It's not a list of ways to convert strings to numbers, it's a list of string conversion functions (i.e. including the other direction). to_string is also listed there.
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by murderfs 2y ago
> As a complete lay person with little to no physics knowledge: what stops the use of something dumb like a parachute, or even wings and landing gear, to "land" the booster? The main advantage is that you don't need to spe
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by murderfs 2y ago
Perun put out a video three weeks ago that is much less sanguine about the future of the attack helicopter: https://youtu.be/eWE1h0GA5fk?t=1939
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by murderfs 2y ago
> For the purposes of gaming, no amount of predictability at the kernel level will reduce the amount of work you need to perform to draw a frame, and that is the real limiting factor for most games. It all depends on what you're try
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by murderfs 2y ago
> There have been plenty of "monster catching game"/"pokemon with the serial numbers filed off" games that have been somewhat successful, but no smash hits. Notably, the Megami Tensei series, which predates Pokem
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by murderfs 2y ago
By that logic, aren't the vast majority of Israeli adults legitimate military targets due to mandatory conscription and reserve service?
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by murderfs 2y ago
> It's not like phones improve sufficiently to justify buying a new one, but the battery lose charge significantly over time. A five year old car engine is basically indistinguishable from a brand new car engine; a five year old cel
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by murderfs 2y ago
This is absolutely false, to the point where there's literally a wikipedia article about net migration out of California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_exodus
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by murderfs 2y ago
Florida and Texas are among the fastest growing states in the country, whereas California is losing population.
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by murderfs 2y ago
That's not that surprising because the margins on insurance plans aren't all that high. The percentage of each dollar of premium how much insurance companies have to spend on medical care (aka "loss ratio") is mandated t
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by murderfs 2y ago
No, modulo the aligned allocation overloads, but applications are allowed to override the default standard library operator new with their own, even on platforms that don't have an equivalent to ELF symbol interposition.
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by murderfs 2y ago
On the other hand, the about us page lists an apparently real person as the founder, and there are links to a talk by him at a real conference: https://www.youtube.com/live/mRmjKZVkYgw?t=15681s They've owned the d
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by murderfs 2y ago
Yep: https://github.com/EmbarkStudios/rust-ecosystem/commit/61f0e...
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by murderfs 2y ago
If I remember correctly, the local public library was selling books off for ultra cheap for some reason, and I added it to the pile of books my parents bought to fill the empty built-in bookshelves in our new family home (along with a bunch
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by murderfs 2y ago
I read Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl 20 years ago when I was in middle school, front to back, and it's probably been the best investment of reading time I've ever made.
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by murderfs 2y ago
5V tolerant means that it'll accept 5V input (and correctly interpret it as high), but output will still be 3.3V.
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by murderfs 2y ago
Keep in mind that Sputnik only happened in 1957, so the chances of a nuke actually hitting its target were much smaller during the build up than after the rollout of ICBMs. A lot of these were tactical nuclear weapons deployed in Europe to
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by murderfs 2y ago
Sure, I agree that Greg Abbott is an asshole. That doesn't necessarily make him wrong, though? I'm not looking at his actions, it's obviously political theatre. The actions that appear to be revelatory to me are the ones by
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by murderfs 2y ago
The response of cities to Texas bussing immigrants to them is pretty stark evidence: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/20/us/abbott-texas-migrant-b... If they were a net gain, cities presumably wouldn&#x27
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by murderfs 2y ago
The spiteful part of me wants to spin something up to punish this sort of behavior symmetrically by automating cold emails in the other direction to waste his time.
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by murderfs 2y ago
Depends on the assembly and depends on the loop. x86 has multiple instructions that hint at knowing about loops: e.g. the `loop` instruction that does a decrement and jump, and the rep prefixes that let you implement memcpyish functions in
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by murderfs 2y ago
If you're seriously accusing me of being Apple Global Security, it should be fairly obvious from my comment history that that's not the case (and explicitly: I have only ever been employed as an engineer, and only by companies tha
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by murderfs 2y ago
I am interpreting that as her testing the air at a particular moment in time, and in 2021, the results from that specific test were inconclusive, but in 2024, they were very much not inconclusive. Either the article in 2021 was misleading,
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by murderfs 2y ago
The surrounding context makes it clear that isn't the case. From the linked post: "In September 2020, Gjovik hired an industrial hygienist to test the indoor air at her apartment. She purchased an inspection, soil testing, and a t
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by murderfs 2y ago
My "slander" is a quote from the author .
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by murderfs 2y ago
The author of this has been on a crusade against Apple for years, stemming from an incident that was probably hypochondria. They've outright lied about multiple incidents (see https://twitter.com/shantinix/status&#
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by murderfs 2y ago
I was curious and tried to find out what word Volta used when publishing his discovery, and it looks like he just used "batterie" in his letter (written in French) to the Royal Society: https://royalsocietypublishing.or
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by murderfs 2y ago
> USA Policy is that all nukes are nukes. There's a difference between stated policy, actual policy, and what people will actually do when in a given scenario. For example, the PRC has a stated nuclear no first use policy, but I don
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by murderfs 2y ago
The scale of harm seems miniscule to me: it seems unlikely that discarded fishing nets would entangle more animals than when they're actually used to fish, and they're presumably used more than once before being discarded.
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by murderfs 2y ago
Consumer off the shelf quadcopters being used extensively in a land war in Europe

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