pierrebai

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by pierrebai 4y ago
Funding police is not having a police state. Having police abuse power over visible minorities is bad, but is not a police state. It is not a police state because: - You can learn about these issues. - You can protest against these issues.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Just read the dissenting opinions. That you chose not to, clearly, is a choice you made to avoid confronting differing viewpoints. Also, consistently and repeatedly asking others to research for you is an easy debating tactic used frequentl
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by pierrebai 4y ago
> My second question is, if the underlying model is so f*cking elegant, how did it lead to such a confusing interface? This is the consequence of elegance. Elegance at one level usually is characterized by being very data-agnostic, very
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by pierrebai 4y ago
The problem is that your rebuttal isn't one: you are not addressing any of the points made. And those points are important precisely because branches are not a range of commits which is why they are cumbersome to work with.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
What the blog completely passes over is that now you'd need to write tests for the DockerRegistryClient... which would be 90% of what he complains about in the first version! I mean sure, if you break down a problem into three layers
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Note that the author's algorithm allow lines wider than the target. (He does not hide this fact.) If you allowed the other algorithm this wiggle room (which basically is making the box wider) they'd also probably find better layou
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by pierrebai 4y ago
If the follow-up post does not make it to HN front page, I'll have a hole in my life.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
I'm sure you have a lengthy citation of truckers being sent to the Hague for crimes against humanity...
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by pierrebai 4y ago
The press and government are two distinct powers. All that you listed, FBI, attorney, Congress, are all part of the government, which is the one which controls and directs what the NSA does. Leaking to the press is not a bug. Seeking maximu
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by pierrebai 4y ago
I dunno... I took a look at a single file and found: static constexpr unsigned NUM_SLOTS = Policy::kSlotNum; static constexpr unsigned BUCKET_CNT = Policy::kBucketNum; static constexpr unsigned STASH_BUCKET_NUM = P
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by pierrebai 4y ago
That's not the point. The point was it was true for R[1/g] but not for D(g), so you cannot substitute, so you cannot claim that f and g are equal. As someone totally outside of the maths field, it seems to me that the definition o
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by pierrebai 4y ago
From somewhere else [1]: "If you think that lockdowns, travel bans, and mask mandates were the right approach, then you probably see Sweden as failure. Unlike almost every other wealthy nation, it held off doing those things. And
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Weird analysis. I mean, if you believe the analysis, then what you must conclude is that lock-down, isolation and masks cause more COVID mortality? Since this seems hard to believe, then the conclusion is that Sweden performance must be u
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by pierrebai 4y ago
I had a computer that could only be booted with a hair dryer. I did not disassemble any parts, so I never got to know which exact part was failing, but a good 5-10 minutes of pre-heating with the dryer allowed it to boot.
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Not being perfect does not translate to not being better. Being safe by default and having compiler-enforced safety as a top design choice is great. Rust is better. It's very much human nature to trace the line in the sand juuuuuus
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by pierrebai 4y ago
So, the case is that the formatting string fits into memory, the data being formatted fits in memory but the output formatted text does not? This seems like an extremely rare case, which is itself a subset of the very rare case that you a
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by pierrebai 4y ago
In the late 80s', as a teenager, I received an offer from a doctor about improving a program that I had written. I turned down the offer. I wondered what would have happened if I picked it up instead. In the early 90s', on a whim,
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by pierrebai 4y ago
How does an over-heated pot of glass and plastic catch fire? If coffee-making machine are fire hazard, most homes in the world must be regularly burning. Given that the overwhelming evidence, for example the fact that no house has burned in
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by pierrebai 4y ago
Sometimes new roll-out causes outage, sometimes, roll-out are delayed due to the overall system architecture. Reading the post-mortem, I could not help but be reminded of this issue as described here: https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by pierrebai 4y ago
In the first example of problematic calls to nth_element, there is another bug: if the container contains nothing, it will call nth_element with begin(), begin() - 1, ... Also, typo: "compare functions much comply" -> "com
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by pierrebai 5y ago
The tricky bit is that "simplest" has no formal definition. Here Wolfram claims to simplicity is having the least number of axiom, even if that axiom is very complicated. Unfortunately, that is a perversion of the idea of axiom. A
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by pierrebai 5y ago
I found it weird that the article states things without any single data point, study or proof. They say media got it wrong, they claim the increased death are due to street design without any clue where they got that conclusion from. I&#x
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by pierrebai 5y ago
NaN is a cancer. The choice that NaN == Nan being false is just wrong . Every type, every variable can have multiple reason for being invalid. Yet, no other type has ever chosen to make invalid values not being equal to themselves. Pointer
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by pierrebai 5y ago
Ever heard of Arkanoid[1] ? Your changes maps pretty much to what the bonus pills did in Arkanoid. Some possibility in Arkanoid that you did not mention in your version: - Makeing the paddle wider or narrower - Multi-ball - Captu
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by pierrebai 5y ago
Does the USA: 1) Arrest you without telling you why? 2) Give you no access to a lawyer? 3) Give you no access to translation? 4) Have a debt system in prison, forcing to pay with money you don't have? 5) Retroactively apply laws? 6) Ex
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by pierrebai 5y ago
No software decodes data by reading a stream byte-by-byte. Like I said in a previous comment, decoding 4 bytes using SIMD is possible and probably the best way to go. Furthermore, to actually decode, you need bit twiddling anyway, so you do
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by pierrebai 5y ago
How often are stream truncated at the start ? In my career, I've seen plenty of end truncation, but start truncation never happens. Or, to be more precise, it only happens if previous decoding is already borked. If a previous decoding
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by pierrebai 5y ago
"instantaneously" in the sense of first having to read the first byte to know how many bytes to read. So it's a two-step process. Given the current maximum length and SIMD, detecting the end-byte of my scheme is easily parall
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by pierrebai 5y ago
That's because there are fewer letters. In wordle, ignoring the fact that the word need to exists, you could make 5 guesses with 5 new letters each time and still not quite exhausting the letter space. With the math one, in two guesses
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by pierrebai 5y ago
I get the same feeling as everyone. There is no point in the game because even a single digit wrong is no clue at all. In my 1st and only attempt, I entered 1 + 2+ 8 = 11 and both pluses, the 2 the 1 and the 8 were right, with only the 2 in

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