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by petters 6y ago
Is there some reason sscanf can not be implemented without calling strlen?
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by petters 6y ago
> I'll Ctrl-A and Ctrl-V this into a new tab before it gets too messy, and then I can put the window beside my editor to use as a reference. I even observed a professional developer with 20 years experience doing this! This seems...
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by petters 6y ago
The stock market is certainly not zero sum. Bitcoin provides very little value outside speculation, not zero, but very little. That is the difference.
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by petters 6y ago
A good slogan should have an inverse that is also a plausible slogan. E.g. "move fast and break things." Neither Google's new nor its old slogans are good according to this criterion.
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by petters 6y ago
> Jeff's pitch at the time (1997); so on point, so precise: Agreed! He knew exactly what he was doing. Interesting that he talks about attention being a scarce resource. Things did not improve from that point....
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by petters 6y ago
It works beautifully for it's indented audience. I think many people, my parents included, would have trouble navigating HN on a phone. Especially upvote/downvote.
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by petters 6y ago
Not sure about the app store, but: it would be great if GitHub could provide binaries that were guaranteed to be built from a certain commit.
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by petters 6y ago
Seems much more expensive than e.g. OpenTok. Aren't they similar?
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by petters 6y ago
Topology 101 is not about holes. It is about open sets and continuous functions.
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by petters 6y ago
Are you aware how low the deaths per mile is for humans? I don't think we know if Waymo has a lower rate than a human yet. Tesla I don't know, but wouldn't be surprised if it is higher.
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by petters 6y ago
A lidar would have discovered that truck immediately. Is is confirmed that this Tesla was using self-driving?
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by petters 6y ago
There is a slider that allows you to view the same image in many versions. Does that convince you otherwise?
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by petters 6y ago
The excitement about NoSQL at Google seems to have stopped with the introduction of Spanner, at least.
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by petters 6y ago
Yikes! May be triggerable from a web page even. Hopefully fixed very soon.
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by petters 6y ago
Well then they are perhaps already getting a fair wage.
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by petters 6y ago
> The thing is, I just can’t find an argument why I should be able to get very rich doing my job. Sure, but if you are a really good engineer in software, someone is going to get "very rich" from your work. Why not (partly) y
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by petters 6y ago
> (Attempts to avoid this with ORMs usually replace an annoying amount of typing with an annoying amount of magic and loss of efficiency.) Loss of efficiency? Come on, you were using a file before! :-) Article makes me glad I'm usi
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by petters 6y ago
Still used extensively for background-forground segmentation in e.g. Photoshop, I am guessing. Research these days mostly focuses on deep learning though.
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by petters 6y ago
I thought this strange as well. The author even directly links to the source code where REP MOVSB is used.
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by petters 6y ago
It's true that "reproduce" can mean different things in software and science. But having the code available to "reproduce" any plots in a paper should be a requirement for publication, imo. It certainly is the case
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by petters 6y ago
Initial loads should definitely be be <100ms as well. But Jira currently is so slow that 1s would be a great improvement. I am using it at work and regret it, unfortunately.
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by petters 6y ago
I don't, sorry. From what you wrote, you definitely seem more knowledgeable than me in this area.
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by petters 6y ago
3D objects in PDFs are cool. My thesis used those in a few places. The PDF would print normally, but you could rotate it when open in Adobe Reader. Getting this to work with Latex was... interesting. I spent a lot of time typesetting as a g
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by petters 6y ago
Or maybe "consteval," which I was not aware of: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p107...
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by petters 6y ago
Cool! What is the difference to e.g. repl.it? Does it run Python locally in the browser or in the cloud?
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by petters 6y ago
Race conditions in the installer. The parallel installer must be disabled. But generally I like poetry and I am also a contributor (--remove-untracked). Don't want to bash it to much.
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by petters 6y ago
I've been using Python a lot, both professionally and privately. Been contributing to Cpython. Not sure I like the language. The best dependency manager (Poetry) is buggy. The default interpreter is slow. But I love the ecosystem of th
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by petters 6y ago
They do have a product you can buy — Spot (the dog).
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by petters 6y ago
In C++20, e.g. std::vector is constexpr, so this keyword may be similar to your hypothetical "pure" soon.
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by petters 6y ago
That's interesting. My dentist said electric or not didn't matter when I asked.

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