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by tpoacher 2y ago
Yes, but this is different: int (* foo) [3] This is a pointer to an array of 3 ints. And you could pass this to an appropriate function as an argument, to pass the whole array, not just a decayed pointer. And more generally, I'd
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I don't think it's meant to be offensive. It's "smell" in the same sense as "something smells fishy here", or "I smell trouble", with smell serving the analogy of being the least specific of your
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I am aware that there are some games that you can download and happen to be able to play offline if the steam launcher executable simply happens to be a dumb link to the 'true' executable which checks for a steam connection first,
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I get the point about packages, but creating a separate package to host the tests for another package sounds a bit silly to me.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
kudos to you for writing to the developers to complain then!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
The big difference is being able to download games / installers locally and expect them to work without having to first sign in to an account. you can only do that with gog, not with steam ps: however, there have been a few games where
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Note: effectively != appropriately != respectfully
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by tpoacher 2y ago
It's proof that there's a legal framework that allows this abuse, let alone promotes it, and that it's leading to real-world harm. How high should N be before we care to plug such legal holes? That Assanges are rare doesn&#x2
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by tpoacher 2y ago
You're making the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. Posh coffee didn't become a "thing" because of starbucks. Starbucks became a "thing" because of emerging posh coffee trends, which created a market for starb
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by tpoacher 2y ago
people saying \034 / \035 are not readable / printable so they don't make good human readable delimiters: make it ,\034 and \n\035. looks like csv, but is actually ascii delimited. just remove last character from all entries.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I agree with the implication, but don't think this applies here. The scenario here is a safety net, i.e. something that visibly "catches" errors, at a cost. If you have zero incidents "caught" during the evaluation
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by tpoacher 2y ago
only in the same sense that most coffee shops are now starbucks where the coffee is made by temp baristas, not shop owners who care about the legacy of their coffee
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Good, but I would have preferred a comment about 'process gates' somewhere in there [0]. I.e. rather than say "it's probably nothing let's not do anything" only to avoid the extreme "let's double chec
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by tpoacher 2y ago
This just in: if you like hollywood movies, free speech is no alternative to movie-producing hollywood studios. More news at 11.
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Not a Japanese person, but the way this has been explained to me feels slightly broader than the concept of vocation. The explanation was more along the lines of, "what gives your life meaning, joy, and purpose, and makes you motivated
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Imagine the earth isn't round!
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Replying slightly late as I didn't see this on time ... But I don't get the argument. Perhaps we're talking about different things (or have different mental anchors in mind)? Giving python unittest syntax as an example, how d
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Also, Meetings Bloody Meetings with John Cleese. https://archive.org/details/meetingsbloodymeetings Last 5 minutes are pure gold for how to manage meetings. There's a 'remake' of this, again by John Clee
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Provably solving the vanishing gradient problem through evolutionary algorithms [video](youtube.com)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
A nice presentation given by Prof. Riccardo Poli (of Genetic Programming fame) given at a recent conference. Highlights: - GP used to find a new, backpropagation-like 'recipe' that outperforms the standard back-propagation approac
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by tpoacher 2y ago
there is a nice "staticscope" package in python, which acts as a context manager, and does pretty much what you refer to. pretty neat. https://pypi.org/project/scoping/
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Unit tests are programmatic specification. I'm assuming it is in this manner that the article is referring to them as documentation, rather than as "explanations" per se. Obviously unit tests cannot enumerate all inputs, but
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Obviously this is slightly implementation dependent but if your tests are accompanied by programmatic documentation (that is output together with the test), doesn't that eliminate the need for a descriptive test name in the first place
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Just because it's the most "accurate" doesn'mean it's the most "useful", "correct", or "reliable" in this context. It just means reproducible, if I read it correctly. In the same way th
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by tpoacher 2y ago
Did you then share this insight back onto a public channel?
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by tpoacher 2y ago
"All models are wrong, but some are useful." ~ George Box
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I know this was meant as a joke, but I can't resist the temptation to point out that this is a subtle misinterpretation of the Shirky principle (which I'm sure you're probably already aware since this was probably meant as a
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I didn't know about latexonline.cc. TIL. Thank you :)
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by tpoacher 2y ago
OH GOD, MY EYES!!! [starry eyed emoji] While I'm sure this was a nightmare to make, it's fun to use! \o/
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by tpoacher 2y ago
I found the vision behind gestures very intuitive. The main idea you had to understand was that you have 'edge' gestures, and 'inner' gestures. 'Edge' gestures relate to functionality that has to do with the ph

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