tomxor

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by tomxor 4y ago
> also things that can't be printed like metal and florescent colors. Actually those things can be printed with foils. You will find foils commonly printed onto a lot of consumer packaging on top of a laser printed base. Pedantic de
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by tomxor 4y ago
This is untrue in my experience. I've used FreeBSD a fair bit in the past and Ubuntu and Debian more continuously. Unless something radically changed recently. My experience is about 6-8 years old now but FreeBSD requires a lot more co
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by tomxor 4y ago
+1, for anyone who doesn't stay signed in it's a "go away" signal - which is ironic because those people are more likely to sign in if they are allowed to read more.
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by tomxor 4y ago
wow what a fucking applefanboy fest it is in here... grow up guys, people have different opinions.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Indeed. The only way to accommodate numbers where the difference in order of magnitude exceeds the type's significand length is to not combine them, keep them separate and operate on them separately, combining them only for a sample.
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by tomxor 4y ago
We have very different definitions of "best".
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Quite a vindication of Tim Cook’s decade at the helm. Agreed, if all you care about is Apple getting richer, he's done an outstanding job.
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by tomxor 4y ago
> The Core 2 Duo/Quad architecture was the last iteration where the ME subsystem could be entirely removed. Yeah, but unfortunately intel also didn't bother providing microcode patches for meltdown on those chipsets "becau
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by tomxor 4y ago
Oh interesting, I had assumed some level of gradual genetic changes in domestication were responsible. So you are suggesting it's mostly phenotypical changes that could even be somewhat reversed in an individual... I wonder how far a n
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by tomxor 4y ago
> pigs fed on the acorns they dropped I walked some extremely undulating oak woodland valleys recently, which seemed oddly absent of squirrels but perhaps that's normal close to a windy coastline - as a result the floor was complete
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by tomxor 4y ago
Totally agree. Unix Motif, Windows 3/95/98, Classic MacOS... they were all highly usable. I crave the relentlessly, unashamed, unambiguousness of these old UIs, compared to modern UI which has devolved into something just as prete
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by tomxor 4y ago
> Am I the only person who thinks of IEEE 754 as a completely well-defined data structure Not at all... but I think there are a large number of people who think they can imagine a better format and yet don't fully understand or appr
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by tomxor 4y ago
I think this is the first time I've seen a simple, approachable article that makes correct use of machine epsilon (specifically treating it as a _ relative _ error)... It's unfortunately very common for people to misguidedly treat
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by tomxor 4y ago
Read the email. None of your scenarios fit Linus's. TL;DR sometimes memory starts off good and goes bad later.
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by tomxor 4y ago
True for so many things, but I don't think that applies here. Many of the npm alternatives are compatible or provide a superset - they have also helped to apply pressure to npm to improve, they are also not competing standards, but mor
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by tomxor 4y ago
Sorry it didn't get traction. Maybe try a repost later. I'm interested in what performance is like for private packages outside of NPM registries, i.e using git+ssh... NPM is almost unusably slow to resolve these, yarn is a factor
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by tomxor 4y ago
I totally get where you're coming from, most employment of CSS animate and transition is excessive and reduces UX. The rule is that you should never have to wait for a UI animation - That said, UI animations done correctly, which are
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yes, and the sky is blue. You keep bringing up straw men and then pivoting. I'm not sure what you are trying to achieve.
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by tomxor 4y ago
For crypto, copy != counterfeit.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Depending on the country this can ring very true when it comes to food in my experience. i.e where popular = worse. The most extreme experience I had was for a brief stay in Thailand, where the main tourist streets are filled with ridiculou
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by tomxor 4y ago
The issue with google fonts is the CDN tracking I believe, not the license or the font itself. If you need a google (or other) fonts, do self hosting. Simplest way is to build them into your site as a dependency... npm @fontsource for indiv
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by tomxor 4y ago
Not untrue, but it's one of the less bad places to come on the web. It can also be to do with your own mental filter... HN has submissions that are both on the pessimistic doomsday side at one end and hyper over optimistic side at the
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yes, it wouldn't be 3D, but what you are alluding to is projection (X onto Y, or more generally instead of X which would be orthogonal only, a 1D plane of any orientation - AKA line segment) ultimately you are still looking at a 1D ima
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yup, and this is just for a single show... another show can have a different combination of hoops. For a while it felt like streaming services were seriously competing with the convenience of torrents, but I just can't be bothered with
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by tomxor 4y ago
> the post was removed sometime between Jan 2011 [2] and Mar 2011 [3]. The rest of the blog was still up at the time [4]. Internet Archive is great for cases of self censorship like this. I assume that as part of the acquisition the auth
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by tomxor 4y ago
I did not compare it to gold. Lack of intrinsic value applies to both cash and crypto. The main difference is that one is backed by a government and is globally recognised whereas the stability of crypto's value is beholden purely to t
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by tomxor 4y ago
Anti-fraud in cash is limited to authenticity, something that any half decent crypto currency can accommodate as a fundamental. There is no conceptual reason why a distributed cryptographic currency could not take the place of cash for in p
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by tomxor 4y ago
I mean it's nice to have those things but you make it sound like it would be impossible without, which is unrealistic... cash worked (and continues to work) for a very veeeery long time and has mostly the same disadvantages. You can st
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by tomxor 4y ago
Yes that's what I'm referring to +y/+p.
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by tomxor 4y ago
Totally agree, ~100ms feels really subpar to me, but unfortunately seems to have become the status quo, most input devices seem to end up on the order of ~10s of ms usually closer to the 100 end by the time they affect pixels... every wired

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