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by sebtron 1y ago
Even though the post office can scan your mail, they don't keep a copy of all of it. They can't retroactively scan all of your communications years later. This is an enormous differencs in practice. The same goes for interceptin
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by sebtron 1y ago
I agree, Discord is a terrible user experience for me. The UI is confusing and any piece of information older than a few hours disappears forever into the void.
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by sebtron 1y ago
> The graph of this equation looks like a smooth, looping curve, which is where the name "elliptic" comes from. This is completely made up. The name comes from "elliptic integral". From the Wikipedia page on Elliptic
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by sebtron 2y ago
Multiple European countries have issued travel warnings for the US too.
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by sebtron 2y ago
I noticed that for web developers "developers" is a synonym of "web developer". Being a non-web developer, I find this at the same time mildly amusing and offensive.
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Things I learned rewriting a project from scratch(sebastiano.tronto.net)
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by sebtron 2y ago
> Avanti West Coast offers customers: > 15 minutes — 25% off > 30 minutes — 50% off > 1 hour + — 100% off To me they look like very generous refund policies. I checked Italy's Trenitalia and what they offer is[1]: > 3
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by sebtron 2y ago
You could always link to pthread and use that in your Hare code, no?
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by sebtron 2y ago
They actually mention this in the sixth paragraph
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by sebtron 2y ago
In the last 15 years or so 0% beer has improved from "sparkling piss" to something passable, I bet this explains at least part of it. Nowadays 0% Heineken is almost as good as regular Heineken - which means it is not that good, bu
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by sebtron 2y ago
The authors suggest corn or potato starch, not flour.
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by sebtron 2y ago
I have not checked the sources, but according to Wikipedia [1]: Rabies has also occasionally been referred to as hydrophobia ("fear of water") throughout its history. It refers to a set of symptoms in the later stages of an infec
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by sebtron 2y ago
I visited China in 2014 and I have literally wondered out loud this morning whether air pollution has improved since then. I am gald to hear the answer is yes!
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by sebtron 2y ago
That was an example of a train going slower on purpose to let people sleep a full night. A regular high-spees train could do that trip in 2-3 hours, beating a 1:15 flight in convenience by a huge margin.
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by sebtron 2y ago
If you like this, there is a whole book full of visual proofs [1]. See also wikipedia [2]. A few years ago I re-drew a bunch of these in latex with my PhD advisor and another colleague [3]. We planned to print them as posters and hang them
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by sebtron 2y ago
Last time this happened to me it turned out I made a logic error, the algorithm required a lock but I erroneously thought atomics would do.
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by sebtron 2y ago
I too find it hard to apply TDD to the big existing project I am working on. Most of my day-to-day coding is adding small bits here and there in the right place, discovering the architecture of the whole thing as I go. Without knowing what
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by sebtron 2y ago
For reference: https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/usr.sbin/freebsd-update/fr...
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by sebtron 2y ago
It is terrible for me on my desktop too :(
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by sebtron 2y ago
I also don't like it, last year we had a private leaderboard at work and I realized being crazy enough to wake up at 5:50 every and solve at least part 1 would give me an edge. But the "wake up at 5:50" part is what I enjoyed
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by sebtron 2y ago
Your restrictions sound quite challenging, good luck! Last year I solved all the problems in C without external libraries [1] and I enjoyed it a lot. It forced me implement some low-level stuff that I had forgotten how to do (e.g. a heap)
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by sebtron 2y ago
> you wouldn't even die from starvation if you stood outside for that amount of time Right, you would die of hypothermia much earlier
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by sebtron 2y ago
Do regular mosquitos ask for consent before biting you?
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by sebtron 2y ago
A while ago I wrote about my experience using Windows for work after 10 years of being a Linux-only user [1]. One of the positive notes I had was: > As a positive note, the default text editor Notepad is nice and lightweight, a good piec
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by sebtron 2y ago
I guess this depends a lot on the region. The graph you linked shows Germany is in the 20-25% range, which is almost twice as much as the US average. Definitely noticeable.
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by sebtron 2y ago
Oh yeah, no problem at all with supermarkets, I can go at any time I want!
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by sebtron 2y ago
I understand that, I guess you can't make everyone happy at the same time :) For me the issue is that those same shops are usually open 10:00 to 17:30 or so. Which is also the time I work, which means I was forced to go on Saturdays (l
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by sebtron 2y ago
> - Sunday shopping: Totally a thing here in the Netherlands. I guess it varies significantly by city then, because until a year ago or so the main shopping street here in Leiden was 90% shut on Sundays. More recently I have seen more an
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by sebtron 2y ago
As a European I enjoyed reading this, I think it is a nice illustration of some of the differences between Europe and the US without falling into the silly "US bad" or "Europe weird" rethoric. But one thing struck me as
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by sebtron 2y ago
> We call the direct input to the chatbot the user prompt. Another, more complex prompt is the prompt that was written to process the user prompt, which is often called the system prompt. I thought this was called a query , and a pro

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