nickelbox

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by nickelbox 9y ago
I've been happier once I tried using one of the myriad of tools out there for writing slides in markdown. If you don't need to deal with images or anything to fancy, it's worth considering, imo. Since I had it version control
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by nickelbox 9y ago
IIUC, you're not misreading. KPTI solves the problem of leaking data from the kernel address space (besides a bare minimum). But this was an issue because Intel was speculatively accessing kernel addresses in the first place.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
It does seem to be rather poorly written, e.g. the next paragraph > they actually don't follow Newton's Law, they follow Schrodinger's Law so that theory is what we call quantum mechanics. The quantum mechanical interpreta
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by nickelbox 9y ago
It sounds like it creates a mapping from lines to "bugginess." How much value do you think there would be in some sort of semantic analysis, e.g. "new function foo is suspect bc it calls bar, which has shown up in a lot of st
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Weirdest? This is just a lolcode derivative, isn't it? What I found more amusing is https://arxiv.org/abs/1703.10242 They even implemented a 2d N-body solver.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
That's very much true; I should have been clear my objection was primarily to something Snapchat-like.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Ah, that makes much more sense now. You want to enable a community of plugins/widgets/apps built on top of the index. That's fascinating. I feel it would probably require some centralized base set of widgets similar to what G
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Haven't really looked at the source, but is the neovim dependence just for starting ranger async? In that case vim 8 support might come soon? I have a neovim build, but I tried out SpaceVim on it and just went back to a very lightly pa
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I understand why people are upset, but not why they are quite so upset. Apple always felt like the company that you went to when you wanted good UX. Unlike Android, they twist all the knobs for you, making tradeoffs like this so you don&#x2
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I don't know if the majority of consumers would care in the slightest about Microsoft making their index public. Maybe among certain crowds like this, but what would it gain us? I couldn't just send a PR to help improve it; the
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I don't know if an open collaborative approach to search is really possible given that there's a whole SEO industry out there. If we could have the equivalent of white hat SEO folks help point out flaws and exploitable bits, then
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I think the problem is that such statements (and worse) do come from professional adults. So I find assuming such views come from people with just enough wherewithal to type out a comment to be a) pointlessly hostile and b) a distraction
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by nickelbox 9y ago
OT: 25 is now old enough to be jaded?
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I agree it would be nice to be able to cast without Chrome on a laptop (looks like VLC had experimental cast support but removed it), but it's literally in the name... As for Android, I was fairly certain iOS at least can cast as my Ap
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Oh, that looks interesting, thanks for the link!
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I had forgotten Cyclone's name, thanks for the reminder. I've always felt kinda sad some of the small features like int@ didn't make their way back into C. I'm glad at least C++ has non-null pointers via references (but
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by nickelbox 9y ago
This is why I almost stopped reading when the article suggested a "normal statistician" would just use the mean score (it does later address this, for those who haven't read it yet). IMO, NPS doesn't provide a good enoug
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by nickelbox 9y ago
It would definitely seem like ML could improve performance here, if they fed it all the right features. I feel like outstanding debts (amount, time since last payment) could be really helpful in this regard so people can't rack up huge
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I feel like both of those get more attention than Red does. I've written a bit in both, but completely forgot Red existed (sample of 1, yada yada).
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by nickelbox 9y ago
It looks like something that just gets complied to VHDL and friends? Is there some way to make the description available to user code/GHC? Now that would be interesting.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
The macro would only be used to generate k for convenience. It could be all implemented in straight, macro-less C++98 in O(minutes). My point was just that you can implement almost whatever you want (even without macros, they'll just
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by nickelbox 9y ago
You could implement the following with a decent bit of work (declaring k and reversed to be variables of special, hand-written/macro-generated types with overloaded operator, and operator=). sorted( (k.weight, k.name).for_(k).in(someli
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Vimium is available on Chrome, in case anyone gets confused. I got a nightly build a while back but didn't feel impressed enough to change my $BROWSER. Maybe now I'll give it another shot, since TST w/o a top tab bar sounds f
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by nickelbox 9y ago
+1. But at least it's better than Zimbu where there's a closing brace but no opening one. That's my personal bar for bad language design decisions.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
How strong is this bias? There are plenty of bad programmers who use vim (usually not well, though).
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Wait, really? The plugin page even uses 5t as an example of command repetition. Might not make the switch if that's the case.
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by nickelbox 9y ago
Does your dentist have free WiFi?
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by nickelbox 9y ago
So would a valid tl;dr be, "modify the compiled program to catch any invocations not evaluated at compile time and make them return the correct value?"
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by nickelbox 9y ago
I could imagine there being external Jeff Dean fans, but yeah, that jargon