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by omoikane 3y ago
Moonlight Sonata is a great choice, the arpeggios makes the song quite recognizable. (I don't play the piano but have learned the guitar version of Moonlight Sonata, and it looks very much like this version.)
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by omoikane 3y ago
> enough money to work for 4 years and retire anywhere that’s not the Bay Area Four years is probably optimistic, unless you got lucky with stock growth. I searched for "average cost of living map" and found a site[1] that says
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by omoikane 3y ago
Referer is not quite the same as how it was. In recent years, the default behavior in most cases is for the browser to either send just the origin, or no referer at all. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/We
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by omoikane 3y ago
> why the media downplays them Perhaps you meant the media for some specific country, but news media in Japan do seem to take North Korea quite seriously, and missile launches frequently ends up being the first headline on NHK world news
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by omoikane 3y ago
Previously discussed in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32657709 Summary: Microsoft releases Visual Studio Code with telemetry built in, so other projects (e.g. VSCodium) have spun up to release custom builds wit
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by omoikane 3y ago
Management also have their own metrics, measured by even higher management further up the chain. Even if there is a manager or director that I really liked and would like to keep, they have to answer to the metrics of their VPs and SVPs ab
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by omoikane 3y ago
ISO 8601 supports all sorts of corner cases, apparently. But it costs money to get the full standard, unlike RFCs. Someone bought a copy and was answering questions few years ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/ISO8601&#x2F
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by omoikane 3y ago
The organization of Fediverse is different, and availability of historical discussions is spotty. Also, some quirky usenet groups aren't available elsewhere, such as alt.binaries.*
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by omoikane 3y ago
"Security Improvments Regarding Fizz": https://web.archive.org/web/20220204044213/https://fizzsocia... What I was looking for was if they really had a page that claimed "100% secure",
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by omoikane 3y ago
A new language will eventually acquire its own grungy legacy just like C++ did, unless that new language aggressively breaks backward compatibility. I think the best practice is for people to stick to a subset of safe patterns in mature lan
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by omoikane 3y ago
If you like approximations, there is also https://xkcd.com/1047/
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by omoikane 3y ago
> picture of a cat I couldn't find this elusive picture of a cat on archive.org, but I found this dog instead: https://web.archive.org/web/20030113144310/https://www.amazo... June 2016 appears to
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by omoikane 3y ago
I am rooting for Mastodon to become a major platform. There you can just sign up while hardly giving them anything. The flip side is that spammers too can just sign up quite easily.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Does this mean that code running inside Jacobin might be vulnerable to memory exhaustion issues[1], whereas in JVM they might have gotten an OutOfMemoryError instead because JVM heap size is fixed at startup time? [1] For example https:&#x
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by omoikane 3y ago
My favorite prime number generator is the undocumented __next_prime(): https://github.com/llvm-mirror/libcxx/blob/78d6a7767ed57b501... There is no good reason to use this one except in a code golf environment
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by omoikane 3y ago
Looks like the same story as this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37227902 - "Google engineer earns $150K works 1 hr/day, spends rest of time on his startup"
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by omoikane 3y ago
Maybe it's worth it for people who still has 2600 carts, but compared to other classic console remakes that all came with more than 10 games, $125 doesn't seem like a great deal. $60 = https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by omoikane 3y ago
e-moji should be attributed to NTT DoCoMo, who first had it on their feature phones in 1999. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoji The article above also noted how MSN Messenger and BlackBerry adopted emoji from 2003 onw
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by omoikane 3y ago
Wikipedia has those: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by omoikane 3y ago
I always used `ulimit -v` and `ulimit -H -v` for this purpose. Maybe this is more fine grained?
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by omoikane 3y ago
Go is not quite the same in that it didn't have an existing established brand to ruin. But it managed to roll with that name, after years of building on it. "X" might be an OK name 16 years from now, the problem is that it a
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by omoikane 3y ago
My feeling with Lua is that it's lacking arrays due to minimalism, as in "we don't need arrays because tables will do". Probably the same reason why there is no "continue" in a for-loop. In comparison, Ruby ha
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by omoikane 3y ago
Twitter is still an important resource for many people around the world, most of which are not English speakers and are indifferent to the topics that brought Twitter so much hate. I understand some of the feelings behind these "good
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by omoikane 3y ago
If you are interested in that kind of books, there is also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Complete_Manual_of_Suicide This book used to be banned due to its contents, but in 2012 I was able to easily buy a copy from
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by omoikane 3y ago
This looks like a frontend to https://algora.io/ It's not obvious what's the relationship between these two sites.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Regarding uninitialized variables, there is a proposal to make them default to zero-initialized: http://wg21.link/P2723 Under "5. Performance" section, it claims the performance impact to be negligible, and there
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by omoikane 3y ago
Summary: this person stopped taking photos and uploading them to Wikipedia because public photos of urban areas that contribute to digital archives are now abundant. Given the title, I was expecting something about why they stopped photogra
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by omoikane 3y ago
I hope Chrome team send Firefox team a cake for this milestone.
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by omoikane 3y ago
Some usernames do show up quite often, especially the ones who ended up here: https://news.ycombinator.com/leaders I recognize some recurring usernames, but don't necessarily associate them with anything outside the co
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by omoikane 3y ago
That's what I was thinking as well -- these are equations that generate colors in 2D space, so essentially pixel shaders, but for this particular effect I wonder if it would be simpler with some geometry shaders, and have a 3D engine t

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