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by omoikane 2y ago
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42962020 - It is time to standardize principles and practices for software memory safety (2025-02-06, 100 comments)
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by omoikane 2y ago
Looks like computer moves randomly: /************************************************************* * Computer Move (random) *************************************************************/ function computerMove()
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by omoikane 2y ago
Maybe they meant symbolic operators feel alright but named functions feel like cheating, so 2+2+2+⌊√2⌋ is fine but 2+2+2+floor(sqrt(2)) is not.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I like these games, and I would say more fun when using a larger number that has more factors, for example 120. 120 is among the superior highly composite numbers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_highly_composit
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by omoikane 2y ago
Revenue. From earnings release for 2024 Q3[1]: "YouTube's total ads and subscription revenues surpassed $50 billion over the past four quarters". 2024 Q4 says: "Together, Cloud and YouTube exited 2024 at an annual reve
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by omoikane 2y ago
This looks like a personal blog post, in a blog where the author have avoided capitalization fairly consistently. The blog post was likely not meant to be a research paper, and reading it as a research paper is probably setting the wrong e
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by omoikane 2y ago
Before StackOverflow, we copied stuff from physically printed material. My personal favorite is the Perl Cookbook, which is still on my bookshelf. The thing with printed books is that you have to type in those snippets yourself, and the ac
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by omoikane 2y ago
I live in California and have had at least one power outage every year, usually lasting a few hours. Somehow we just got used to it, I think it's an example of normalization of deviance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by omoikane 2y ago
The source code version of that is CVE-2021-42574, and they have a website: https://trojansource.codes/ Basically it's possible to hide some code that looks like comments but compiles like code. I seem to recall the C
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by omoikane 2y ago
I like that Nintendo DS Game & Watch Collection is included, so we are basically playing an emulation of an emulation :) Also, I never knew Game & Watch were cloned by Elektronika. It's funny to see what are almost the exact s
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by omoikane 2y ago
> How do we know the AI output is accurate? From the blog post where they announced 2023 grand prize: they did a couple of things to verify the results, including scanning the same area multiple times and making sure that multiple models
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37998923 - Voronoi Diagram and Delaunay Triangulation in O(n log n) with Fortune's Algorithm (2020) The previous article and discussion contain short summaries of other al
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by omoikane 2y ago
> You might be able to use Mingw-w64, but you might run into trouble running the final product on anything newer than XP I rarely see a maximum system requirement.
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: "A history of Tetris randomizers": https://simon.lc/the-history-of-tetris-randomizers via: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20872110
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by omoikane 2y ago
These are all good ideas, particularly the last 5 which are mostly technical. The first 2 are often influenced by things beyond developers' control. For example, developers might be pushed on a schedule that encourages accumulation o
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by omoikane 2y ago
For my personal backup use, I actually use RAR with recovery records, optionally with encryption if it's sensitive. I was only using xz in places where I couldn't use RAR (e.g. for work), and those places tend to also have lzip a
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by omoikane 2y ago
> https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html I have replaced all my previous uses of xz with lzip ever since I read that page (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32210438 ), but for some re
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by omoikane 2y ago
The 978 prefix was added to convert from ISBN-10 to ISBN-13: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN#ISBN-10_to_ISBN-13_conver...
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by omoikane 2y ago
Previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42652577 - Visualizing All ISBNs (2025-01-10, 139 comments)
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by omoikane 2y ago
The author also made a post here: https://hachyderm.io/@joschi/113914355705581670 Second post in that thread has some demo output.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I still use a solid black background. I rarely see my background anyways. I do have a picture for my login screen though.
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by omoikane 2y ago
> Integrating Zopfli into the npm CLI would be difficult. Is it possible to modify "gzip -9" or zlib to invoke zopfli? This way everyone who wants to compress better will get the extra compression automatically, in addition to
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42809268 - A QR code that sends you to a different destination – lenticular and adversarial (2025-01-23, 76 comments)
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by omoikane 2y ago
I wonder why Travelling Salesman Problem is included but not other NP-hard problems. https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/computer_science/the_ravell... (The URL really says "ravelling" and not "travell
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by omoikane 2y ago
What I do is a greater waste of time -- I have a separate browser profile for each individual site that I might log into, and javascript is only whitelisted for that one site in that profile. It's a real pain because whenever my brows
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by omoikane 2y ago
VIM seemed to have fared well under the new leadership, despite not being able to control the timing of this power transfer. Maybe other BDFL projects would be inspired by VIM's experience and setup successors early. https:/&#x2
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by omoikane 2y ago
Not sure about mobile apps, but in Discord desktop there is an option under "settings -> notifications". Your browser may also have notification settings that would help. This changes the attack from a 0-click attack to a 1-cl
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by omoikane 2y ago
See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41464994 - C2y Proposal: Essential Effects for C (2024-09-06, 30 comments) Is there a corresponding proposal for C++? The earlier thread mentioned that "C++ doesn't
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by omoikane 2y ago
I am a fan of these Famicom/NES synthesized sounds, they have a flavor that is rarely found in modern game music. There are a few musicians who does rearrangements of songs for playback on the Famicom, example: https://www.
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by omoikane 2y ago
I remember QBasic was notably different from Applesoft Basic in that QBasic did not require line numbers, and one of the demo programs (remline.bas) removed line numbers for you. Of the variants used by this author, the Commodore Basic var

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