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by owl57 5y ago
I felt like I forgot to add a link. Why don't we see images in wrong color space nearly as often as text with wrong character encoding, remains a mystery to me since the moment I was writing a toy JPEG decoder and found this article:
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by owl57 5y ago
Also, if these answers contained any code, it might end up the most used code you've ever written.
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by owl57 5y ago
Also, even if we model the color space in some overly clever way, we are talking about a JPEG loader here. Its input is inevitably a bag of numbers, and a horribly underspecified one.
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by owl57 5y ago
Probably the former. Python seems fine with infix **. But Python doesn't have pointers: C++ designers would have to invent something less conventional (not that they aren't famous for unconventional horrors, though).
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by owl57 5y ago
Strange in fact that we don't recall seeing this in real code. An empty callback smells a bit sloppy but not really weird.
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by owl57 5y ago
See? Lispers sneaked in, distracted everyone with all these lambdas and closures and put their brackets all over the place.
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by owl57 5y ago
Is the second one less of a program than (frobnicate "foo")? Looks about the same to me: a program that crashes unless we (define frobnicate …) first.
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by owl57 5y ago
I don't get that. Normal downtime is about the hardest way to fuck up email. I believe the last time my small office mail server didn't deliver legitimate mail was when I was 18 and haven't quite figured out yet what the hell
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by owl57 5y ago
Why do you need to proxy anything? If you're just collecting training data, seems easy to record the interaction with a browser extension?
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by owl57 5y ago
Lukashenko and Putin would love that. No one would longer doubt it when they say that opposition is backed by NATO. As for the spiral, well, Ukraine would probably lose some of its military bases, just because it's apparently no big
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by owl57 5y ago
Not really. The machines they want to avoid the most are behind proxies that don't have these sites whitelisted.
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by owl57 5y ago
Exactly. Stealing money from big corporations is arguably less evil use of talent than enabling most of said corporations.
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by owl57 5y ago
Why, looking for partners of the same cultural background and specifically excluding another cultural background (presumably correlated with being a CIA agent or whatever?) sound like things criminals would do. The only strange part: why wo
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by owl57 5y ago
DAG of life sounds pretty sexy if you ask me, but yes, I wouldn't try selling that anywhere outside CS or bioinformatics department.
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by owl57 5y ago
TIL that I do the same and each of the five letters sounds subtly differently in English and Russian.
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by owl57 5y ago
WTF. There's probably a lot of things in the world for which most users have talked to someone who has read the manual. But did the authors expect PNG to belong in this league?
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by owl57 5y ago
It gets TeX just as wrong. Interestingly enough, GNU and SCSI get reasonable "featured snippets" instead.
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by owl57 5y ago
In sexually reproducing organisms, genes of two parents mix up randomly(ish) to create offspring, which would suggest a tree structure. No? Tree structure is a simplified model of asexual reproduction, where each organism has one parent,
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by owl57 5y ago
I assume you wrote this comment in UTF-8 over HTTP (ASCII-based) and TLS (lots of uint8 fields).
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by owl57 6y ago
Ad is a broad term, this confuses people. This shit is definitely worse than ads on the box, but it also definitely isn't the entire monstrosity we have come to assume when hearing about ads on web pages.
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by owl57 6y ago
No. I actually don't know a real thing about gender dysphoria. I just presumed that if you look square and feel round, you are more likely to recognize and embrace your roundness if your other traits make society less consistent in squ
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by owl57 6y ago
Would seem logical. I was alien enough to boys to land at the "girls table" in school canteen when I was 11. Pieces of experience like this could probably help to start considering the possibility.
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by owl57 6y ago
It's more complicated. Microsoft waits until everybody adopts LSP for, say, Python, and then slowly moves to a proprietary language server, explicitly forbidding its use outside VSCode: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by owl57 6y ago
Why would the government want to nationalize the dystopia? It's better run by private business, just like most other things where profit seems to be a useful proxy for desired quality. It could also be useful to seem to be optimizing
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by owl57 6y ago
Note that this isn't just some user-supplied bad hashers. Hash for std::string in GNU library is not much harder to hack for collisions than your example. And also it uses the whole string, so is slow on long strings. I didn't inv
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by owl57 6y ago
The data structures in C require thorough documentation to have any chance to keep your foots. And keeping the preprocessor wizards in check. But I agree that Linux authors have done a consistently good job. In fact, a kernel is even easier
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by owl57 6y ago
Maybe. Thanks, I could probably use some self-reflection. (The anti-stress effect of covid vaccination seems to be much more immediate than I expected. This is the second time today I find myself saying things highly unusual for people on t
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by owl57 6y ago
At first it showed me a 500 error. This time I'm unsure if it is the usual HN effect or a variation of the joke.
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by owl57 6y ago
Why wouldn't they be? I went to university with people from all over Russia. They don't tend to return to their home towns after getting educated. Does this work differently in America?
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by owl57 6y ago
Is it really that diverse? If you just assume Linux=Ubuntu+bash, sure, you lose some users, but is it really a large part of them? (OTOH you definitely can't assume people run a supported version of Ubuntu and not something ridiculousl

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