slavik81

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by slavik81 6y ago
> Police were motivated to strike because of difficult working conditions caused by disarming FLQ-planted bombs Montreal in 1969 was on the brink of civil war. The Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) was basically the Canadian version of
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by slavik81 6y ago
That is to say, bradleyjg's phrasing reminded me of one of my favourite bits of Alice in Wonderland on saying what you mean and meaning what you say: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonder
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'I do,' Alice hastily replied... `that's the same thing, you know.'
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by slavik81 6y ago
While your code is very nicely factored, well-documented and quite readable, bash is not an easy language for this sort of utility. Any names containing spaces or starting with dashes require very careful handling. If you do stick with bash
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by slavik81 6y ago
Terrifying. That brings back childhood memories of The Robot Spy. https://friday87central.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/robot-sp...
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by slavik81 6y ago
The "Common Law" section of your link explains why liquidated damages are often not enforceable.
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The iFixit guide for battery replacement on the mid-2015 MBP [1] is a 74 step process involving the use of a nasty chemical solvent to remove the glue that holds the battery. You must have found some enormous shortcuts to have replaced your
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by slavik81 6y ago
I'd be more worried about bots gaming the voting. I'm perfectly happy to share this website with intelligent machines if they make insightful comments. Whether odomojuli's post was written by a human, robot or dog is rather i
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by slavik81 6y ago
Could you clarify? Looking at the rules here, none of them would seem to apply. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2314
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That's a pain. It's the same problem as a class that constructs a particular object that you want to customize. The solution is also the same: dependency injection.
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Is there anything wrong with the submodule architecture itself? My impression is that the data model is fine, but the interface for manipulating them is confusing even by git's standards.
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Renaming Twitch to Amazon Gaming would be like renaming Lamborghini to Volkswagen Sports.
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> Premium mediocre is Starbucks’ [...] original pumpkin spice lattes featuring a staggering absence of pumpkin in the preparation. It is confusing, but "pumpkin spice" is the name of the traditional blend of spices used in pump
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by slavik81 6y ago
To be double-blind, they should talk about both lists of products, but a third-party should make a (hidden) gadget present for one conversation and not for the other conversation.
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by slavik81 6y ago
In practice, I find I usually have to switch to -O0, as nearly all my variables are <optimized out> with -Og.
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by slavik81 6y ago
The US Chemical Safety Board has a video[1] discussing ammonium nitrate, in relation to an explosion in West Texas on April 17th, 2013. That incident involved 40–60 tonnes of ammonium nitrate, killed 15 people and leveled a neighbourhood. [
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by slavik81 6y ago
Robbery is a violent crime. It's distinguished from pure theft by the use of force (or the threat thereof), which is why it is punished more harshly.
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by slavik81 6y ago
The moc is not the issue. The biggest design problem with Qt is that it predates move semantics. That history affects the design of almost every class. It feels like a beautiful old walking path that detours around a wall that's long s
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by slavik81 6y ago
There's nothing that signals 'lower-class' more than buying luxury goods to try to look wealthy. A fancy watch might earn you some respect from the tiny subset of rich folks that are themselves watch affectionados, but the re
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by slavik81 6y ago
sudo apt install qt5-default qtcreator There's additional packages for certain things like multimedia formats, SQL support, and other specialized components, but that gives you everything you need for Qt Gui. I think you could
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by slavik81 6y ago
IIRC, the single biggest component of that 20MB is the ICU Unicode library. It may be double the size of Windows 3.11, but it supports multiple languages.
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by slavik81 6y ago
File embedding seems to have been a low priority for the standard, perhaps because there's always been workarounds, but it has gotten some attention recently with the std::embed proposal: http://www.open-std.org/jtc1&#x
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by slavik81 6y ago
Your efforts were appreciated, and it sounds like they made a difference even if you weren't entirely successful.
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You can shorten that to: virtualenv env
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It's a beautiful bit of folklore, but is probably apocryphal: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2634635
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by slavik81 6y ago
Draco is a mesh compression tool. It quantizes and rearranges vertices and indices for smaller file sizes.
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by slavik81 6y ago
Which CUDA libraries are you referring to? NVIDIA libraries like cuBLAS? There are ROCm libraries for a subset of those, but it's definitely a work-in-progress.
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The GitHub WebGL page is based on a GPU Gems article, which was based on Stable Fluids. The ShaderToy 128³ cube appears to be quite different. I don't entirely follow what it's doing, but the pressure solve seems to be heavily sim
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2 C8H18 + 25 O2 = 16 CO2 + 18 H2O Don't forget the weight of the oxygen that goes into the reaction.
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