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by plq 9y ago
$DAYJOB is about deploying satellite equipment. > Are these satellites in geosynchronous orbit? Yes. Satellites in other orbits require tracking antennas. A typical one has a four-figure cost at the very least. And if you need uninterrup
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Python 3.6.0 released(mail.python.org)
260 points by plq 10y ago|185 comments
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by plq 10y ago
> Other documents began to accumulate in their directory. By the time we became aware of it, the hoard came to include minutes of AT&T board meetings. It didn't seem like a very good idea for us to be keeping records from the in
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“I accidentally created a container standard which must never see the light”(engineering.fundingcircle.com)
3 points by plq 10y ago|0 comments
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by plq 10y ago
Will I be able to keep my tree style tabs? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... The moment this plugin stops working is the moment I stop upgrading. Seriously!
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by plq 10y ago
And how is this not a mutex?
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by plq 10y ago
My point was that green threads sort of emulate OS threads so should not be treated any differently. As Python already has nice library-level support dealing with such thread-based concurrency, there's just nothing to do for the core l
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by plq 10y ago
The general sentiment in this thread seems to be that Guido et al "blessed" the Twisted way, it's a pity and now using asyncio and friends is the only way to suspend a Python stack in a concurrent program besides using OS-lev
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by plq 10y ago
IIRC people DID give fossil a chance but it turned out it could eat your data. So adoption stopped abruptly. Losing data is very difficult for someone who knows how to use git reflog.
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by plq 10y ago
I'd love to see some evidence to back your claims regarding mobile platforms. To satisfy LGPL, your users need to be able to swap Qt versions. For desktop platforms, that's trivial to do: Use dynamic linking and your users will be
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by plq 10y ago
Could that be rather because Qt 5.7 and later requires C++11? The automotive industry is notorious for hating to change what already works, after all.
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by plq 10y ago
I can't help but wonder: What is roguelike?
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by plq 10y ago
Doesn't this mean the OSM repository will be used as a cache of the output of someone's version of some ml algorithm? Why not distribute the data as well as the tagger and let the users tag the data themselves? This will give more
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by plq 10y ago
Might be a better organized coup attempt from the remain supporters :)
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by plq 10y ago
When one converts to Islam, it's customary to change his name but generally people hold on to their surnames. So I always thought of him as "Muhammet Ali Clay". This apparently wasn't the case with him. Too late to edit
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by plq 10y ago
This news item currently has 260 upvotes on hacker news . Think about this a little. Think and try to name anybody else from boxing (or heck, any other sports) who could be up here. I know can't think of more than a few people. He was
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by plq 10y ago
Please explain to me: What happened to the philosophy behind http://csszengarden.com ? Back when CSS needed evangelizing, the main selling point was "never touch the DOM for styling". What went wrong?
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by plq 10y ago
Of course a healthy dose of exercise is not harmful and the article reiterates this point many times. However, it also says that exercising may make your body more efficient, which lowers the overall energy that's used to keep us alive
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by plq 11y ago
There was a time when the only language with decent platform support had to have turing-complete meta-programming support, inheritance, polymorphism, lambdas, preprocessor, custom allocators, placement new, std::erase_if, etc, etc. becaus
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by plq 11y ago
I always found SVG (plus the Inkscape CLI) to be the best interface for generating PDF documents. I'm sure there are arguments in favour of libraries like this such as performance or better control but when all you need is to generate
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by plq 11y ago
UPX is not magic -- it compresses machine code and makes sure unpacking code is run every time the executable is loaded. So if you only care about the size of the binaries in transit, don't use UPX, just use eg NSIS with lzma compressi
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by plq 11y ago
Yes, I was actually suprised that all graphs were going up :) Number of users increased -- great but ping times and packet loss should be at an all-time low now and these are the graphs that we want to see!
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by plq 11y ago
How is this "fixing the internet"? This is just good old network optimization. And a local one, not "internet-wide" by any means! Colossal undertaking, sure, kudos to Riot team for pulling it off. But... I don't see
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by plq 11y ago
I remember the Jill Price case. Turned out she was obsessively going over all her memories, non-stop, all the time. So hers was a normal brain, just trained very well to retain memories by unending repetition. I just skimmed the article, bu
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by plq 11y ago
> What happens when some of this old hardware breaks and it becomes not only impossible to find replacement parts but also impossible to fabricate new ones in house. You get a modern Fortran compiler, you compile the old code for the new
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by plq 11y ago
I don't know you. I'm not remotely a VMWare customer, haven't even used VMWare Player. It just warmed my heart that you and your team put your heart and soul to that product and loved every second of it. Thanks for doing all
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by plq 11y ago
In the first year of grad school when I was trying to choose a field to delve in, real time rendering was one of the options. So I took the relevant CS-fivesomething class to see how things worked. The first time I got my feet wet with code
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by plq 11y ago
std::vector spec leaves quite a bit of performance-critical details unspecified. I imagine the allocator behaviour differs enough between implementations that they implemented their own to keep performance in different platforms more predic
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by plq 11y ago
I agree, the ll alias would be the first thing to change for me.
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by plq 11y ago
> I then remembered that when you put the window in the notification area or in the start-menu bar, Windows immediately reclaims unused/freed memory. Wow. Is this a horrible hack or a wonder of the tight integration between the GUI

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