signaru

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by signaru 4y ago
Looks similar to Rust's underscore.
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by signaru 4y ago
Also a simplified font spec while we're at it? While there are libraries for it, it is apparently discouraging if you wanted to code your own parser for the existing font formats.
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by signaru 4y ago
> I do not understand why anyone would ever choose to be an acedemic,... When you're young and don't know enough it's easy to look up to the "smartest" people you know at the time, which are often your teachers a
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by signaru 4y ago
Points discussed: publishers are parasites, labs are pyramid schemes, short unstable contracts, unpaid labor.
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Academia's unspoken dark side [video](youtube.com)
2 points by signaru 4y ago|1 comments
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by signaru 4y ago
The one thing I miss from Matlab's IDE is the ability to properly rename variables. Octave lacks this (not sure about this new release) and I so far haven't found a Matlab/Octave LSP that can be used for other code editors.
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by signaru 4y ago
In case I missed it, I just wish it had a volume control. I'm listening on a laptop and would rather not adjust the system volume and affect all other apps with sound. Otherwise, the convenience of audio format makes it among the inter
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by signaru 4y ago
Martin Fowler's "Refactoring" also has "Replace Conditional with Polymorphism". I like the intent of the book but I don't follow it 100%. Another part of that book that tripped me is where he calls the same fun
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by signaru 4y ago
I have written several GUI apps and a virtual machine interpreter using FPC/Lazarus. It is great for cross platform GUIs and it compiles to standalone native code unlike C# (for a long time, before native AOT, which is still in develop
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Machine Measures Milliseconds Mechanically [video](youtube.com)
3 points by signaru 4y ago|0 comments
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by signaru 4y ago
The optics chapter(s) within a general physics textbook would usually be a good place to begin without diving too much. My univ used Tipler, but other Univ Physics books would likely just be equally good. Then after that, as already answere
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by signaru 4y ago
Perhaps the kind of communication needs to be clarified. There is communication with your teammates that gets the actual work done. Then there's communication with "higher ups" or management or the general public where there
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by signaru 4y ago
and Notepad++ itself sometimes gets bundled with other software.
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by signaru 4y ago
It would have been nice if the artist drew a human alongside the penguins being compared.
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by signaru 4y ago
I know some very bright Filipino scientists around EU, US. If they choose to go home, what awaits them there are rat races. There's no local industry that would respect their skill and advanced knowledge. Existing tech companies (mostl
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by signaru 4y ago
I searched that FreeDos can now somehow run Windows 3.1 [0], but the article only shows it on QEMU. FreeDos might be able to boot on a USB stick [1]. As for downloads, there's WinWorldPC where you could also find 16 bit Delphi 1.x. [0]
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by signaru 4y ago
Unrelated, but I noticed the podcast's volume control applies the volume change on mouse release of the volume slider. It prevents adjusting the volume with audio feedback and you have to guess where the slider knob should be.
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by signaru 4y ago
Yes. I wanted to add how much have changed today, but wanted to keep it short. So just ended up putting "these days".
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by signaru 4y ago
> People don't learn Python because it will get them a job; they learn it because they genuinely like to program and aren't satisfied with the languages they already know. At least in my area, these days there are many programm
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by signaru 4y ago
I didn't take CS, but I don't know if there's a better way to build a parser or compiler without recursion. Prior to knowing that all my code just loop over linear arrays of data, so I thought the typical Fibonacci or factori
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by signaru 4y ago
Wasn't NotepadQQ a supposed Linux alternative? (I'm normally fine with whatever default GUI text editor there is, so I'm not sure how it compares to Notepad++).
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by signaru 4y ago
If you're not using the latest distro (e.g. LTS) and don't want to compile programs from scratch, there are cases where it is easier to run the latest version of a program using the Windows version instead of the latest pre-compil
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by signaru 4y ago
Another suggestion is to use the "tech"/skills or programming languages as a filter. Really helpful, and also understandable that majority of jobs would require the popular programming languages/tools.
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by signaru 4y ago
I heard from a talk by Cleve Moler that hardware/engineering companies are the big customers (the likes of Honda).
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by signaru 4y ago
In my past engineering university Matlab is popular. Students and staff get access to a network license and courses (non CS) are built around it. It is what older professors are used to and I don't see them shifting to a new language g
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by signaru 4y ago
Or perhaps as an underlying OS for a game console with games that can also run on Windows PCs for a wider reach.
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by signaru 4y ago
I agree, it is pretty niche and I belong to that niche. As a music nerd myself, it was dedicated storage and just being used to having music offline without the streaming services. The iPod nano was so tiny, that it felt like nothing is in
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by signaru 4y ago
The rule of thumb I often hear and that makes sense to me is to learn or familiarize "one level lower" than what you currently know. For example, advanced C/C++ programmers would occasionally explain stuff based on assembly.
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by signaru 4y ago
While on the topic of FFT, the "butterfly diagram" sure is profound, although it takes me effort to wrap my head around it to make it a personal favorite in the same way that other illustrations make things click to me.
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by signaru 4y ago
I had worked in academe long enough to see many papers submitted simply out of pressure to finish the degree.

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