teo_zero

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by teo_zero 4y ago
I think the argument of locality and linearity and cache hits is valid, but specific for one access pattern: reading items in order and adding to the tail. If that's what your code ends up doing most of the time, then an array wins ove
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by teo_zero 4y ago
EFI must be a separate partition, right. But why should /boot? Mine is just a directory in the root filesystem.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
The article is 10 years old. Hopefully by now he has found out how to disable Vim's smart indenting of HTML files!
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Sorry but "provide more virtual resources than you physically have" isn't another way to say "overcommit"?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
> Windows doesn't overcommit memory So, what's the function of swap for Windows?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
You surely mean grep -F -U -l -r "Paul Eggert" /usr/bin Don't you?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Few people understand that if...then in bash is actually a form of try...catch. The -e terminates the script at every failure not caught by a try...catch. With this in mind, it's easier to predict bash's behavior.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Or ELO score?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Isn't it the other way out? The logistic curve becomes denser close to 0 and 1. Which makes sense: you will want to tell apart 1 defect per million from 0.01 dpm, and 5-sigma process (99.977%) from 6-sigma (99.99966%), much more than t
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I still don't get it. You don't know what users select as UI font, how can it be universal? On the other hand, you do know what font they like for text, but decide to ignore it and serve them text rendered in what they selected fo
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Sorry if I've misunderstood your post. The parent article was about replacing dense code with more lines of simpler syntax. I assumed you were in the shorter-is-better camp and willing to prove it with your example, where shorter undou
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I don't get this: > font-family: system-ui Why render texts with the font that the reader has selected for a different function, ignoring the one that she has selected for texts?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Kernighan wrongly assumed that to do something twice as hard, you need someone twice as clever. Most probably you need someone just as clever and twice the time. It's a brilliant quote, though.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Your example is artificially designed to make your point, but imagine a case like this: # Add the left & right margins width = calculatedWidth + 1 + 1 The "+1+1" might indeed be more readable than "+2".
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by teo_zero 4y ago
One answer would be: So that when you hit the ( you know it's a list of parameters and not an expression, even before you spot the -> I still haven't read enough about syntax 2 to understand if it allows any other use of ( afte
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Why should you track ownership of the single objects if you're not going to free them one by one?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I find it disappointing that the enhancements aren't explained one by one, or even listed. How am I supposed to decide if it's worth a deep dive?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
In English, the colon is used to separate a term to its definition, so it looks perfectly apt to mark declarations. Besides, it makes it trivial for text editors to implement "go to definition", and many other niceties without a r
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by teo_zero 4y ago
There are people who can remember the cards already played during a poker game. I cannot. This is massively asymmetrical, but it doesn't allow me to peek at the next card in the deck before bidding.
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by teo_zero 4y ago
But wait... x+=y is equivalent to x=x+y not to x=y+x. Only if + is commutative, then the three are equivalent. Are we sure the + operation is commutatve for this type of data? And does the compiler know it? It would be interesting to check
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by teo_zero 4y ago
I think linking a PDF is less friendly to users who need Text-to-Speech technology, something the Braille Institute should be sensitive to...
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Sorry but I just can't see the beauty in it. Most files are arbitrarily named, without an abstract or overview. Few functions have comments, variables names are inconsistent or abbreviated to obfuscation level. Most code seems printf h
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by teo_zero 4y ago
When you asked to unlock your account, did they provide any explanation on what had triggered it?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
Survey: At what point did you have your "can't be serious" moment?
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by teo_zero 4y ago
AIUI, they didn't inject code, just mangled the stack to hijack the execution flow towards specific code fragments ("gadgets") already in the executable memory.