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o11c
2y ago
Whoops I wrote that backwards but whatever.
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2y ago
The accent isn't actually critical there, since it means the same either way. It's just that it's so common in poetry that even in prose for any particular word it sounds funny to swap the pronunciation out. Since the usual
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2y ago
The problem is that even when you do know the words, there can still be ambiguities. Especially given how frequent outright typos are these days (being exposed to typos significantly lowers your reading comprehension for well-written text).
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2y ago
I accidentally enabled debug mode and figured out what's going on. Whenever you click on the L0, he always teleports to an unoccupied square. Only if there is nowhere left to teleport do you get the 10XP. Since the scroll of orb uses s
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2y ago
I've found I have at least 75% success with the following strategy: * if at any point the rat king becomes visible (directly or via using the warlock scroll to identify all other 5s), activate it as soon as possible * don't worry
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2y ago
It's impossible to play optimally, because you have no way of knowing which combination of monsters for the first 5 and 6 HP will reveal a scroll of HP to let you continue. You're dependent largely on luck.
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2y ago
* Scroll of HP (use these only after exhausting other ways to level up) * Treasure chest (beware of mimics) containing the above or XP directly * Walls cost a random amount of HP (despite registering as 0 for adjacent counts) but grant a
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2y ago
Article is distressingly lacking on details; following the (correct subset of) links is mandatory. Paper: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3626780 Actual merge commit: https://git.kernel.org/
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2y ago
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. No country avoided it entirely, but a lot of them managed to get rid of at least half the deaths (keep in mind that that's with still with individuals people being rebellious), sometimes m
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2y ago
"Wayland is a protocol" is exactly the problem. Protocols suck; they just mean multiplying the possibility of bugs. A standard implementation is far more valuable any day. With X11, it was simple: everybody used Xfree86 (or even
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2y ago
You're giving up a lot if you stop using a format that supports multiple mapping, relro, dynamic relocations, ...
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2y ago
Rarely mentioned: all of these occur at the cost of not implementing a very large number of useful features used by real-world programs.
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2y ago
Corps want to be able to release and use tools that take away the freedoms that GPL-family licenses provide. Often this results in duplication of effort. This is not theoretical; it happens quite frequently. For toolchains, in particular I&
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2y ago
For me it only works because I never reuse a single terminal for unrelated things. Additionally, I have my virtual desktops grid set up so that different types of tasks are always in certain places, so if the switcher shows a terminal som
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2y ago
That's what the Eytzinger ordering is for. Using 1-based indexing like the article, a single lookup will only hit the following nodes: 1 2 or 3 (let's assume 2) 4 or 5 (let's assume 5) 10 or 11 Remember these are
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2y ago
For reference, GCC 4.7 (released March 2012) was the last build of GCC that is written in C, and supports almost all of the C++11 language (4.8.1, written in C++, finished the last bits) and a fair amount of the library. If you have to work
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2y ago
TL;DW version: sea of nodes requires a scheduling pass, which was taking 20% of their compilation time. But it sounds like there's a lot of legacy baggage, so ...
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2y ago
"Everything should be as simple as it can be but not simpler!" —Roger Sessions, loosely after Albert Einstein
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2y ago
If you only consider `getenv`/`setenv` there are indeed many solutions, but it's not that simple. You also need to consider `putenv` (not that nasty, you just need to treat it like initial environment, which means you can't
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Same-origin security problems kind of killed ` https://host.tld/~user ` in favor of ` https://user.host.tld `.
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You should not ever expect an LLM to actually do what you want without handholding, and randomness in particular is one of the places it fails badly. This is probably fundamental. That said, this is also not helped by the fact that all of t
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2y ago
"FAANG improved average lives" is by no means a safe assumption. It needs to be very carefully demonstrated for each individual company, with consideration of the worsenings as well. The forgotten sixth, Microsoft, is probably eas
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> Unsatisfying workarounds [...] Use linear memory for bytevectors It never makes sense to use GC for leaf memory if you're in a language that offers both, since mere refcounting (or a GC'ed object containing a unique pointer
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2y ago
For reference, https://github.com/robpike/typo/blob/master/unix/typo.c
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Hmm, I wonder if it's possible to do dedicated intermediate certificates that promise to only sign short-lived certificates for a single site? That way the CT-log could be taught to only keep the intermediate?
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2y ago
Some implementations might round up to encourage reuse: * memory-checking allocators never do. * purely-size-based allocators always do. * extent-based allocators try to, but this easily fails if you're doing two interleaving all
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2y ago
"Adequately" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in Hanlon's Razor. A good corollary to keep in mind is "Never attribute to stupidity what is better explained by malice." I usually apply this to politics, but science pu
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There were only 2 ejection seats, enough for the crew of test flights but not the larger crew of operational flights. The seats were only installed in Enterprise (the prototype, used only for suborbital tests) and Columbia (only enabled for
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There's another bug, related to performance - this involves a quadratic amount of memory copying unless your environment can arrange for zero-copy.
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Ah, a complete link (though including some crimes other than harassment) is: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/40/crossheading/en... I see your 7(3) reference, but 7(b) does not exist, and none o
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