nwallin

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by nwallin 7y ago
Driven stick my whole life. Maybe it's just that I have large hands, but I don't need to put stuff down while shifting. The hard part of texting while driving stick is taking your eyes off the road, not having three things to mani
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by nwallin 7y ago
As others have noted, the logic is designed as such that it's always possible. It's a graph theory problem, although I don't know if it's coded that way or just a giant pile of if/else. One interesting thing to note
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by nwallin 7y ago
I like it when it's Foone doing the tweeting. Not so much when it's anyone else.
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by nwallin 7y ago
23% of the women who apply to Harvey Mudd are admitted. 10% of the men who apply to Harvey Mudd are admitted. It sounds like they have one admissions process for women, and a different one for me. That's one way to get 50/50 I sup
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by nwallin 7y ago
The fact that good is worse than perfect does not mean good is no better than bad. Having every machine in the company three months out of date on critical security patches is just negligence. I'm surprised the insurance companies didn
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by nwallin 7y ago
Use an ad blocker. Boom, problem solved.
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by nwallin 7y ago
A cheap phone with shit hardware is a feature of Android, not a bug. The solution to slow web pages isn't AMP, it's Firefox with an ad blocker. Google doesn't like this solution, obviously, but that's not my problem.
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by nwallin 7y ago
The language itself is Turing complete, but the kernel will refuse to run a program that it cannot prove will halt. There are three categories of programs; programs you can trivially prove will halt, programs you can trivially prove won&#x2
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by nwallin 7y ago
We have physical interlocks all the time and they make intuitive sense to us. If you park you car, and crank the steering wheel all the way to one side, it won't start unless you put it back. If you have an automatic transmission vehic
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by nwallin 7y ago
Hackernews is not a good place for forum drama. Hackernews is a great place to discuss infinity money glitches in the MMORPG we call NASDAQ.
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by nwallin 7y ago
rm -rf / can accidentally go into prod after proof reading. "Sorry you're bankrupt boss it was just a typo"
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by nwallin 7y ago
I recently integrated clang format into my editor for my personal projects. It is physically impossible for me to write code that isn't formatted to a consistent style. I don't even like what the default style is, but that doesn&#
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by nwallin 7y ago
Not ideal isn't necessarily worse. It is objectively worse for there to be two such languages, one of which is poorly funded and the other funded by Microsoft than have one such language that is cross platform. Also the Java oxygen is
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by nwallin 7y ago
> Peluse answered that question in a counterintuitive way — by thinking about exactly what it would take for a set of numbers not to contain the pattern you’re looking for. Proof by contradiction isn't that counter intuitive. And it
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm really only commenting on the idea that wpf doesn't have one way binding. People saying dumb stuff on the internet makes me mad. Personal failing. Like that was added in 2006. That feature was coreleased with Windows Vista and
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by nwallin 7y ago
.NET Framework 3.0 was initially released November 21st, 2006. React.js was initially released May 29th, 2013. There were 2381 days between differentiating between various binding types in WPF (which include one way, both OneWay and OneWayT
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by nwallin 7y ago
COBOL was created to serve the interests of the financial industry, therefore COBOL has fixed point as a first class data type. Every programming language that has come since has been designed to be a general purpose programming language, t
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by nwallin 7y ago
In finance, US dollars are generally stored to four decimal places, because you need to deal with stuff like compounding interest or stock splits. COBOL has a built in fixed point integer type, which makes defining a 4 digit decimal and doi
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by nwallin 7y ago
Three facts: 1: clang was significantly worse when Apple removed GCC support, 2: clang is still significantly worse than GCC, and 3: it's because of Google's investment, not Apple's, that we can think of clang as a "in t
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by nwallin 7y ago
I'm thirty eight years old. I've been using standard units my entire life. They just make sense. Eight cups? Oh that's half a gallon, or two quarts. Eight ounces of melted butter? Oh that's one cup. Probably two sticks u
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by nwallin 7y ago
Do you have a source? My understanding is that the skin is the pressure vessel. The reason for going with stainless steel at all is because it maintains integrity at high temperature. Carbon fiber does not. So a stainless steel combined hea
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by nwallin 7y ago
The problem isn't implementing the features, the problem is making the UX/UI intuitive to people who call Microsoft's tech support when Firefox displays a "cannot connect to internet" message because they unplugged
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by nwallin 7y ago
The crazy thing to me is that if they rolled out a native desktop app that was maybe a little bit lacking in features and used ~20MB RAM and had this particular misfeature in it and called it beta, people would applaud them for it, especial
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by nwallin 7y ago
Classical equations of friction gives a constant relationship between weight and maximum acceleration from friction. And that applies fairly well to most pairs of materials. But it applies less well to rubber. Rubber has significant natural
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by nwallin 7y ago
Also, the Andromeda Galaxy is about six times as wide (and about as tall) as the moon. So Australia is about five times as wide and about as tall as the Andromeda Galaxy, which means it's about 20,000 light years wide and 4,000 light y
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by nwallin 7y ago
The title of your article is about CO2, not emissions. California enacted tailpipe emissions tests specifically to address smog in LA. California can, has, and will continue to have steep gas taxes as the primary mechanism to address clim
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by nwallin 7y ago
It's hilarious to me they're claiming copyright over it. The original copyright holder, Nefertiti, died over three millennia ago, and she sure as shit wouldn't have transferred the copyright to the German government. I wonder
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by nwallin 7y ago
The author has updated his post with benchmarks. The Lisp version is ~30% slower than the coreutils C version. Which I don't see what the point of the article is then. It's just some guy ranting about his preferences I guess. Whic
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by nwallin 7y ago
One of the movies the South Park guys made used this technique to get an R rating out of some gratuitously NC 17 movie. They included some over the top 20 minute graphic sex scene and they cut and cut and cut until there was nothing left bu
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by nwallin 7y ago
Does it have Windows drivers? If it does, you can set up a VM, set the device as passthrough, and sniff the traffic to it. Then it's not really any different than reverse engineering a network protocol or file format. What are they, ou

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