sedatk

15 ms·

1. 391.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   Thanks! I've had several iterations on the code samples while writing the article, swap() was just a remnant. You guessed it correct, it was supposed to be replaced with tuple swaps: "(a,b)=(b,a)". Now, done. :)
2. 392.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   Yes, but it can still beat copying.
3. 393.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   C# has a separate heap storable span equivalent called Memory<T>.
4. 394.▲
   Safe zero-copy operations in C#(ssg.dev)

   221 points by sedatk 1y ago|74 comments
5. 395.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   Oh that's perfect, thanks! Let me give it a shot.
6. 396.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   To mods: This is RPi 500+, not RPi 500. The title is quite editorialized too.
7. 397.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   My 2024 Lenovo Thinkpad inexplicably has that red light. Constantly fading in and out too. It could be my only reason not to buy a Thinkpad again.
8. 398.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   2045: "yt-dlp needs a copy of your digitized prefrontal cortex in order to bypass Youtube's HumanizeWeb brain scanner"
9. 399.▲
   by sedatk 1y ago

   And the question is "what do you get if you multiply six by nine?"
10. 400.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    > This service only applies to parking more than 72-hours, blocked driveway, construction, and temporary no-parking (special event or moving truck) zones. Peak-hour tow-away lanes, hazards, yellow or white zones and other violations are
11. 401.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    > why not just carry a large battery-bank Not being allowed to use those on an airplane could be one reason.
12. 402.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    This one is $47 right now: https://www.osprey.com/astronova
13. 403.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    Nothing to argue about arbitrary disdain for backpacks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, but I don't remember one backpack that I saw and thought "wow that backpack is ostentatious, that guy is a showoff". Not once. They also mentioned theft d
14. 404.▲
    Don't Purchase Your iPhone with AppleCare+(ssg.dev)

    4 points by sedatk 1y ago|2 comments
15. 405.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    - It has a wide base, so the laptop just swings back and forth while carrying. - Gets the rainwater or any other hazardous material in. - Extremely easy to check out what's inside for a thief. - Can slide out easily and fall when toppl
16. 406.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    Windows ARM laptops are quite good in that regard, but I'm not sure how close they're to Macs.
17. 407.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    This was the strongest earthquake I felt since I moved to Bay Area ten years ago. Luckily, it was quite short. Woke me and all my friends in the SF and vicinity up though.
18. 408.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    AppleCare One is about $240/year and covers three devices. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/07/apple-introduces-appl...
19. 409.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    I'm glad that the programmer put some tolerance to it, but it was impossible for me to know whether he did or not at the time, and that was the end of fun for me :)
20. 410.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    I know, it maxes out at 5 queens. Still couldn't make it for an hour. :)
21. 411.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to t
22. 412.▲
    An open letter to the Obsidian team(emilebangma.com)

    7 points by sedatk 1y ago|3 comments
23. 413.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    > - Improved fault isolation between different workloads Yes.
24. 414.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    Likely using a Mac.
25. 415.▲
    Diacritics restoration: can we do better with neural networks and deep learning?(ileriseviye.wordpress.com)

    2 points by sedatk 1y ago|0 comments
26. 416.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    It's all good until the day comes that one dependency breaks compatibility and drops support for the version you have, and now you have days of dependency resolution work ahead of you because you've never bothered for years. Usual
27. 417.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    > "protect" against the "attack" If it's not a real attack, it's not worth protecting against even in the slightest. If it's a real attack, it doesn't matter if it's trivial or not, does it?
28. 418.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    `mc` was a gateway drug for me to switch from DOS to Linux in 1995. Because I hadn't been gotten comfortable with other text editors and file management commands yet, mc and its own text editor (mc -e) had felt very intuitive at the ti
29. 419.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    I'm actually compiling a list of UI text mishaps, and I plan to publish it as a blog post at one point. A simple one would be to avoid using "your" in a "user -> UI" context (command), and "my" in a &qu
30. 420.▲
    by sedatk 1y ago

    That’s also important with localization. In Turkish, the UI -> user formality is different than user -> UI formality. When the app speaks to the user, the language is formal, but when the user commands the app (through a button for ex