orthoxerox

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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
LuaJIT is an involuntary fork of 5.1. It already had various extensions that conflicted with the 5.2 implementation of the same features, and Mike Pall made it clear on the mailing list he wasn't going to change how LuaJIT worked.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> then fail to register a bank account on time Which you can do online in 20 minutes in more progressive countries.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Exactly, would bet 25% of all that your family has on a business venture?
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
No, but writing VBA in Office was even worse than the squiggles, because it would show a modal error message if the line you'd just written contained a syntax error.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
I think it was Larry Constantine that really hated them. As he put it, when you are writing, you should always be thinking about your next words, but the squiggles draw your attention to the words you have already written. They shout at y
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Chumbawamba made me unable to take anything associated with him seriously.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Nothing at all.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Or give them an age-locked phone that tells the websites it belongs to a minor.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
I kinda have to hand it to Microsoft for dogfooding vibecoding with Copilot to such an extent. You can't say they encourage their customers to use a bad solution while doing something different in-house.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
I remember reading a hypothesis that Egyptian fractions were (are?) easier for innumerate people to reason about intuitively. That is, the division of N into M equal parts is easier if everyone gets the same pieces. For example, if I divide
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
ACES AP0 is the only color space I know that is designed to represent all possible visible colors. It's a purely theoretical color space, though. The widest color space designed for actual implementation, Rec. 2020, still can't fa
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Ultramarine pigment is too blue for your screen to replicate properly, for example. I don't know if there's a pigment that reflects only 520nm light, though.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Got tripped up by "candid" as well. Have always thought it meant furtive or surreptitious. Well, it's never too late to learn.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
> Will I get a fast, flat `ArrayList<Point>`? Not yet. Sad. Hope they can do this by the next LTS JDK.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
All kinds of data processing. For example, you download a million rows of metrics and load them in Excel to build pivot tables. It works, but now it's a billion rows. If you know SQL, it's a snap to point DuckDB at the source CSV
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
The idea is that you treat data storage and data processing as two distinct tasks. You have your data in S3 or HDFS or a local directory and you run DuckDB on whatever single-node compute you have: a local machine or a container in a cluste
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
"The WiFi password is fourwordsalluppercase. One word, all lowercase."
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Git submodules are the regular expressions of version control.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Depends on how they licensed various libraries used in the server binaries. Some of them might not allow redistribution of the final product, only provision of digital services.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
I am not North American, but instead of Google Pay I use my bank's app for contactless payments.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Well, it has claims on all of China in reality, being the rump state.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
It's nice that Unsloth has already published the model on HF, but it requires a fork of llama.cpp to run at the moment.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
We had keyboards like this in several labs in the uni! Except they were even worse, and these three keys were shaped like regular keys. When I accidentally powered down my PC the third time in a row, losing all progress on my assignment, I
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Russia already has its own root CA, the issue is that state-owned root CAs are by definition not safe from MITM attacks by the same government.
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
Yeah, but that's basically projecting 3D geometry back onto the sphere (which is also what I ultimately did). There's a faster algorithm that does it "on the sphere", which I thought I used, but turns out I was wrong. I
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by orthoxerox 4mo ago
There's an algorithm that does it. I wrote a hobby implementation ten years ago. Basically, it's a modification of the sweeping line algorithm that sweeps the sphere from pole to pole. edit: Found the code. Looks like I instead en
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
Yeah, I tried my hand at adding amd64_win support to QBE, but going through the very dense code was a slog. I kept refactoring and commenting it just to make heads or tails of it, but ultimately realized I would never be able to minify it b
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
No, I meant the idea that guard clauses are antipatterns and your subroutine should have a single implicit return.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
> ergonomics of not having an early return I wonder who came up with this idea first. I find obvious early returns incredibly ergonomic.
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by orthoxerox 5mo ago
Well, it was only a matter of time, since both AMD and now Intel are now switching to APUs. Nvidia could either cede the desktop GPU market to them, going all-in into AI datacenter chips, or it could challenge them. Maybe the Nth time'

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