roelschroeven

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by roelschroeven 1y ago
How would the reader know the writer intended Ge instead of Ga? More importantly: why should the burden of figuring that out fall on the reader instead of the writer? Especially when considering that every publication normally has a lot mor
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I value old photographs of my and my family not because they look good or whatever but because they show where we've been and what we've been doing etc. They're documented history. Once you start heavily editing, making them
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Those translations are not only unwanted but also ridiculously bad (which is part of the reason why they're unwanted, I guess). I have to translate back to the original English, as far as that's even possible, to get an idea of wh
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
If you think the rise in global temperature that's going on now is going to lead to the golden ages of civilization, you're deeply confused about how the world works. Go to the Wikipedia page on the Little Ice Age, have a look at
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
What EGreg is saying is that most development environments and UX used to be based on Atom, while they are now based on VS Code. EGreg didn't mean to say that VS Code used to be Atom, or is based on Atom, though I agree his wording was
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
How do you know the email comes from that website? There are known cases of phishing mails being sent when people expect a legitimate mail.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
> “Click a link in the email” is a tiny bit better because it takes the user straight to the GOOD website, and passing that link to BAD is more tedious and therefore more suspicious. "Click a link in the email" is really bad be
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Or "On Food And Cooking: The Science And Lore Of The Kitchen" by Harold McGee.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The manual recommends putting the car in neutral and then braking every once in a while to keep the brakes in good working order. Putting the car in neutral disables the recuperation and makes sure you really use the friction brakes. (When
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The post you commented on was talking about Toyota hybrids though, who don't use a CVT in the sense you're talking about. They use a series-parallel hybrid transmission which is sometimes called eCVT, but works completely differen
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
It seems to me that if you have a heat pump, you don't need the Peltier anymore.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
It depends on the use case. For archival purposes, where you care about not losing details is more important than image size, PNG is better (though often TIFF is used for that use case). For images with large blocks of solid colors and shar
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
And for rewinding cassette tapes.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I could be wrong but I think that only works for AM, not for FM.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
For right shifts, yes, instruction sets commonly have the distinction between arithmetic and logic. Findecanor was talking about left shifts though.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The Bernoulli principle is not bullshit -- it is very valid physics. You might be thinking the way it's often used to wrongly explain how airplane wings generate lift. Yeah, that's bullshit. I mean, the principle still applies, if
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The bug is in the spec, but as the other pointer also points out: > However, current implementations are not safe from that bug, so it is not recommended to use them. Instead, programs should use functions such as strtol(3) to parse nume
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
> If you use dB to describe the power of a signal that is slightly different (you use 10 instead of 20 as multiplier/divisor) This is the part I don't get. This is the part where "dB is just a multiplier" falls short.
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
No, that's very much not what undefined behavior means. Undefined Behavior (the man page on my system actually capitalizes both words) means that there are no guarantees at all about the behavior of the whole program. It can very much
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
> conventional, consistent[1], and documented--semantics of only setting errno on error. From that man page: > The implementation may also set errno to EINVAL in case no conversion was performed (no digits seen, and 0 returned). There
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Glad to hear how the other side of the country experiences things -- that happens not nearly enough, we (and our media) tend to focus too much on our part of the country (in my opinion). Not glad to hear you have the same problems (only dif
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
This drives me nuts. Once upon a time French was used even in the Dutch speaking parts, in government, economy, high society. That was long before the internet got popular though. We've had a long fight to get rid of French in Flanders
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I guess there's a place for functions that extract or parse partially, but IMO there is a real need for an actual conversion function like Rust's parse() or Python's int() or float(). I think it's a real shame C++ (and C
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
The numeric conversion functions in the STL are terrible. They will happily accept strings with non-numeric characters in them: they will convert "123abc" to 123 without giving an error. The std::sto* functions will also ignore le
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." (George Bernard Shaw) But are those really different
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
That solves part of the problem, but doesn't help when you're in a supermarket or any other event where you're moving around. My previous cars had keys that I could manually switch off and on, which is also not a full solutio
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Wouldn't it be easier to use WSL? Microsoft has done al the hard work in getting native Linux code to run on Windows. I don't know how bare-bones you want it to be, but if you install Debian in WSL without extra packages, that see
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Fixed now!
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
Issue created: https://github.com/invisal/sqlite-internal/issues/3
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by roelschroeven 1y ago
I tried with a simple database, and it just shows me a blank screen. The console in developer tools shows an exception (both in Firefox and Chromium): index-CGfYebmt.js:85 Uncaught RangeError: Offset is outside the bounds of the DataV

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