simias

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by simias 4y ago
Lack of generics will do that, unless you consider that blindly casting `void ` all over the place counts as "well-encapsulated". Even with macro-soup designing a good agnostic dictionary implementation for C is rather challengin
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by simias 4y ago
Given the scales we're talking about I presume that everything you want to look at is effectively "at infinity", as such I expect that you consider where two parallel rays would meet due to solar lensing and that's your
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by simias 4y ago
I think that's what they wanted? Although it's still a strange way to communicate that given that it'll change wildly based on screen resolution. A screenshot would probably be a better idea.
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by simias 4y ago
What's the trick to implement a zoom like this in software? I remember many years ago implementing a trivial program to display the mandelbrot fractal, but as you zoomed in you quickly ran out of precision even if you used 64bit double
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by simias 4y ago
Oh yeah I just latched onto a portion of your comment that was suitable for my soapboxing, I didn't mean to sound adversarial. But more generally I don't think there's a good technical solution to this problem. You'll ne
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by simias 4y ago
NFTs are just a few bytes in a distributed database, they absolutely do not solve these issues. The PlayStation store would still do content delivery and could simply refuse to do so, NFT or no NFT. You could do content delivery in a decent
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by simias 4y ago
I suspect that the amount of people and especially companies willing to spend time and money optimizing Python are fairly low. Think about it: if you have some Python application that's having performance issues you can either dig into
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by simias 4y ago
Anything can become "fine" with enough practice and muscle memory. I'm a fairly advanced git user and manage to use it mostly painlessly even for relatively advanced tasks but I still think it's pretty crap overall. Not
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by simias 4y ago
I can't answer for Atari but I know that games from that time would usually derive randomness from user input timings. There simply wouldn't be a readily available source of (good) entropy available otherwise and using a complicat
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by simias 4y ago
I'm not sure I understand what it is exactly, the page mentions QEMU so I assume it's emulating a PC and booting Windows on it? So does it mean that they've compiled QEMU for a Javascript target and packaged it in Electron? I
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by simias 4y ago
Yeah that makes sense to me too, you also tend to be a lot more insecure and want to prove yourself when you're a junior, so you may be a lot more self-conscious asking for help thinking that it may be perceived as incompetence. I&#x27
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by simias 4y ago
I wouldn't expect my employer to provide anything but a decent quality membrane keyboard and a middle of the range logitech mouse by default. Then people who prefer higher end hardware can ask for an upgrade. I'm typing on a 300 e
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by simias 4y ago
I don't think that makes a lot of sense but beyond that I don't get why the high-carb vs. low-carb discussion turns into a meat vs. plant-based debate in many places here. Most people these days de-facto have a high-carb, high-mea
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by simias 4y ago
I'm currently doing a keto diet (mainly to support my girlfriend who wanted to do it, and it's easier if we do it together) and I did lose about 7kg in less than three months so far. That being said I remain a bit skeptical, for i
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by simias 4y ago
Unfortunately zsh uses the underscore prefix heavily, _<TAB> results in hundreds of possible completions.
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by simias 4y ago
By the time Git was first released the first attacks on SHA-1 had already been published, but I agree with your general point about allowing for backward compatible updates.
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by simias 4y ago
It's frankly amateurish for the git dev to delay this. The longer this lasts, the more painful it'll be whenever the switch will finally take place. Linus shouldn't have used SHA-1 in the first place, it was already being dep
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by simias 4y ago
>infinite money glitch counterfeit naked short selling payment for order flow ponzi scheming financial terrorists Oh god I can't even escape from meme stock cultists on a hacker news story about 7zip? You guys are even more annoying
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by simias 4y ago
Opinions about Wirecutter notwithstanding, I thoroughly enjoyed this article. I basically believed every singe "myth" exposed here, and especially that a better grade of filter was really important when in fact if you recirculate
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by simias 4y ago
I did not know that! Thanks a lot. I'll definitely give it another try.
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by simias 4y ago
I also like that they let you download the raw wireguard config files so that you can connect without having to use their client. You can just plop them onto your filesystem and use wg-quick to get going. Since I'm also a ProtonMail us
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by simias 4y ago
Not an expert either but number of cycles is not everything, transistors that transition use up more energy than those who remain in the same state. As such it's possible that 0x00000000 + 1 uses up significantly less energy than 0xfff
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by simias 4y ago
L2 is pushing the problem a bit further away, but it's not a long term solution. All L2 solutions in existence are fundamentally centralizing (it doesn't have to be, but it's a lot harder and since most cryptocurrency specula
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by simias 4y ago
No opinion on the quality of Scorpion Capital's research but of course they would short before they publish their negative research. Why wouldn't they?
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by simias 4y ago
Sure(1) 1/ Definition of "real", "quantum" and "computer" may vary. More seriously I don't think there's a real bar to what constitutes a "real" quantum computer, so it's in the ey
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by simias 4y ago
It's true, unfortunately the lack of lambdas in C makes this pattern cumbersome. You could achieve it with a macro instead, I suppose.
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by simias 4y ago
I share your opinion, although apparently over the past week Tether's market cap dropped from $83B to $74B which, if true, means that at least $9B have been redeemed in a few days. In other words, they had at least $9B in liquid, USD-c
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by simias 4y ago
Most people (including myself) are much more likely to read a dumbed-down summary written by a journalist than technical documents that will fly over their head. On the other hand I'm more likely to trust a journalist who cites credibl
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by simias 4y ago
I use a projector as well instead of a TV but they're definitely not standard replacement for a normal TV in all situations. You need a dark room (so if you like to have the TV on while do you chores or other tasks, it won't work
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by simias 4y ago
For sure, but I think it's more helpful to this about "classes" of sequences. Sequences which have a uniform distribution of digits (within some margin of error), sequences which do not have repeating patterns, sequences that

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