teknopaul

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by teknopaul 3y ago
Tldr; $ does not mean end of string in Python.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
TL;DR fun math no impl
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Another way to describe this is "lame click bait journalism" by a once great (if biased) news outlet. Crying shame that post-truth is the norm for major news outlets. UK is becoming the US.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Over allocating maps and arrays in standard libs is not really a memory "leak" . Other langs do it.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
This is a feature. It's gives you more time to close the tab. The content was a advert anyway
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by teknopaul 3y ago
N.B. External screens that are flat as a pankake with hdmi ports can be got for 100€. I travel with dual screens: an aging Zenbook that is also flat as a pancake. I expect a fair few more years from this one before an upgrade. Top tech: hi
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Many people share your concern. Hence users dislike of snap
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Simple file based solution. That's not abuse that's unix. Well; thats Unix before Pottering and Microsoft.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Me too, Manchester uni was good. I have written non-trivial systems deployed in 20 different sites that have never had a bug ever. My best are usually second systems, focus on simplicity, standardisation and resist scope creep. 100% coverag
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Author needs to change shop Where I work is 50% qa effort at least, 50% by budgets, and devs do much >50% automated testing as part of what we call development. Anything less and projects take longer, because bugs found later cost so muc
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Can't imagine. Occasionally run networks over power cables but I've never seen gadgets to do something useful with old phone cables. People used to have intercoms on them cables, but everyone has a phone in their pocket these days
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Came here to say that. People sometimes mistakenly think that numbers or data in computers exist in some meaningful way. Everything in a computer is a model or record or representation that serves a purpose. All bugs and limits are features
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Starts out so wrong. I live in Spain, traditionally good food still a staple. Most of the world I have visited is like that too. OK USA has screwed it's food chain, but that does not apply outside. People generally value traditions, an
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Office on the desktop is kinda 2014 in itself. Email and wiki replaced word. Spreadsheets are good enough. Presentations are better when simpler. Perhaps not much more de is needed in desktop office tools?
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by teknopaul 3y ago
This is not about electric power it's about electric hand breaks. Low quality mechanics is the norm in 70000 vehicles because of greed. Not technology issues. A decent hand break is known to humanity.
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by teknopaul 3y ago
How can American authors write text that says Microsoft introduced... then a word like "Emoji" that is so obviously Japanese Authors still see the world through a lens, that until its big in US, it does not really exist, and then
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Lies is a feature not a bug, they are open about that. You have to pick a link from search results too. I think use is down due people going from "wow that's amazing it's even possible" to "but significantly worse
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by teknopaul 3y ago
Heavy speakers is a plus when moving low frequencies. Otherwise you have to strap or bolt them down and together. _Might_ be the future of mids, but I doubt it. Advancement in ribbon speakers is more likely IMHO. Also people develop a tas
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by teknopaul 4y ago
Is there any way paywall links could get flagged in HN? Nyt now shows an annoying amount of the article and what is hidden is hidden until you read the first bit.
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by teknopaul 4y ago
Re: "You can declare a function static if you only want it visible in a single source file." Static means different things in different languages, and in C in different places. In what sense is a static C function static/unmo
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by teknopaul 4y ago
You don't have to pay anyone to sign a driver you write to use it yourself. With Windows you can write some software, but not all software. You have to pay Microsoft to sign drivers. The code that enforces that is the wall. No such cod
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by teknopaul 4y ago
Why not a simple well commented shell script? Most code editor will syntax highlight it a lot better.
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by teknopaul 4y ago
I think the point is: Goals of "A subset of high performance applications" is not going to _replace_ TCP unless its works OK for everyone else. Additional M.O. protocol cool, but replace TCP with it?
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by teknopaul 4y ago
N.B. And are quite happy doing so because it makes app develop a breeze. Being able to use tools like tcpdump to debug applications is important to fast problem resolving. Unless everything you do is "Web scale" and development co
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by teknopaul 4y ago
Is it legal? Isn't injecting stuff into other people's websites protected in some way? It's a nasty precedent. One stop of browsers banning you from access to competitors websites.
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by teknopaul 4y ago
+1 on the sweetspot. I never mastered a proper CAD tool. Sweet home 3D was amazing at helping plan the furniture build and layout of an empty 40m2 living space. I have been living in that space and benefiting from the simplicity SH3D for t
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by teknopaul 4y ago
This is soo needed. All big techs use of voice has so far required Internet access and is creepy. Googles is apawling in that it changes so things that did work, stop working. What voice needed was for humans to adjust a little to make the
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by teknopaul 4y ago
This is so true. Torvalds wrote git in shell. You can do great things. Provided... a) agreed, RTFM, (man bash is not long) b) you dont try to do things shells shouldn't do. c) for things you shouldn't do, you write a clean stable
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by teknopaul 4y ago
While it's true markdown isnt a standard. What ever your tool does defines it. For source code docs converted to HTML or man pages you only have one build. Common mark is a standard if you need one.
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by teknopaul 4y ago
"the ability to format and fit content in your editor, loosely independent of how it would be presented to the user" ?? Markdown is the opposite, no? Ability to format text in an editor that looks sufficiently like formatted final

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