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by scoutt 6y ago
> undefined behavior in C compilers My unpopular opinion is that UB fear is greatly exaggerated these days, especially by folks who want to capture developers for their languages. Somehow, they bring it up every time they can. Is like ev
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by scoutt 6y ago
All addictions are kind of a bad thing... A moderate use of social media is fine. The problem comes with the abuse (product of the addiction). The same abuse can come from "healthy" things which might derive in other problems like
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by scoutt 6y ago
They don't necessarily need to look evil. "Evil" doesn't sell and probably won't make you work for them. They have to look like a sane environment in which you can't pinpoint anything (philosophically, morally
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by scoutt 6y ago
If it doesn't end with .unwrap() then it isn't Rust.
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by scoutt 6y ago
1) Pinterest. 2) "Missing: word. Must include: word". So Tools->All Results->Verbatim for every single search. 3) It sucks for technical queries. 4) That no matter if I use a new account, lifetime account or no account at al
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by scoutt 6y ago
Thanks. > polling is only explained as a logical thing But there is the poll() function that returns either the result of the operation, or "pending". So it's more than logical. Correct? I mean, if I (or the executor) don&
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by scoutt 6y ago
It could be also that the sales person did this on his own initiative for a couple of extra points. It might not be standard practice, but we'll never know.
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by scoutt 6y ago
I'm confused. If many async tasks are ran on a single thread, what the thread does when is blocked waiting for things to happen? Does it sleep? If so, a context switch takes place anyway. If not, what is the impact on GUI applications?
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by scoutt 6y ago
I can deal with a "Why would you want to do that?". What I cannot deal with is "It's not standard practice" kind-of answers.
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> It really shows how conditioned the mankind is that they call the "0th" ordinal number by the name "first". Well, every component of mankind was born. At birth your "first" year of life is the "0th&qu
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by scoutt 6y ago
Oh. Ok. You are right. I guess with impartial I wanted to mean "someone not siding with the company". I expressed it badly.
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by scoutt 6y ago
At least in Italy, your work contract always falls within the general rules established with the unions. At the end of the day, you are somehow unionized. If there is a dispute you can always call an union representative for arbitration. I
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by scoutt 6y ago
A 3rd party HR department is still being paid by the company... If you want something 3rd party that can be impartial ("sometimes", in quotes) and sit on a table with both company and employee, that's unions.
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by scoutt 6y ago
> Why respond to the weakest possible version of what I say? If there was a rule somewhere, I tried to point out an exception. A feline has better sight at night than a human. Any north-pole-searching human that (hungrily) goes out in th
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by scoutt 6y ago
I don't know... A human has no chance alone in the open, under low light conditions, against a big feline...
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by scoutt 6y ago
I can get why testing for "Jimmy Clitheroe" and "Horniman Museum" , but can't make a reason for "Linda Callahan" .
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by scoutt 6y ago
> this argument as it's obviously weak (it doesn't make any sense) It's the only mature and sane thing to do. Otherwise, what's the alternative? > Do these people have social problems I have a theory split in two p
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by scoutt 6y ago
Sorry. With nationality I meant where the modder is located. The modder talks about an "european 3ds"[1]. I assumed the person was located in Europe (there is a related document in that thread called "belgian waffle"). T
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by scoutt 6y ago
DMCA only applies to the United States. It practically has no meaning elsewhere (I don't know the modder nationality, but the modder claims he/she has a PAL Nintendo console (european version)).
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If you offer a very convenient frictionless entry, you have to offer a frictionless exit. Otherwise it's way too difficult to interpret it as anything else but a cheap and very sad way to keep a customer. A really sad business practice
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by scoutt 6y ago
It's The Schwartz , with a T. I don't know if it has a meaning or if it means the same thing as Schwarz. https://spaceballs.fandom.com/wiki/The_Schwartz
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by scoutt 6y ago
> within 10ms of the drum being hit, write 100ms of the drum sample into the playback buffer You can do that if you can predict the future and fill the buffer with data you don't know (samples from the future). Otherwise, you still
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by scoutt 6y ago
I think they are doing so ( "The Netflix application is complex, but at its simplest it streams data from a Netflix server, buffers several seconds worth of video and audio data on the device" ). The system was built to fill the (
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by scoutt 6y ago
It DOES mean there is 100ms of latency. Anything above 10ms (some say max. 20ms) for real-time audio processing (especially musical instruments) is prohibitive. Imagine an electronic drum set: if you hit the snare and the audio is output
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by scoutt 6y ago
I agree this is bad engineering: don't use Android threads for real-time stuff. This should be running at module level. A better approach, if the micro you are using allows it, is to have an interrupt when (for example) the I2S buffer
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by scoutt 6y ago
I don't know if there are examples of regular people going after those monsters (I don't think Visa/Mastercard are even afraid of this) for this or other reasons. The thing is that any legal action can be used as political le
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by scoutt 6y ago
They do it to avoid both legal and PR consequences.
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It can be quality code written by good engineers, but there are issues you won't see until you deal with big numbers. The problem here is that Swift seemed to be a cool language that it might work for a "Hello world" app. You
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1 to tell the user to file a super extensive bugzilla ticket backtracking all the history of the light bulb like on/off frequency, usage, etc. 1 who says they should rewire the entire house electrical wiring in Rust. 1 who says that mo
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by scoutt 6y ago
OTOH, asking question is at the base of the Socratic Method.

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