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by tpoacher 10mo ago
Friends and people you know are fine. People you don't know but who take the time to leave a considerate message explaining why they would like to connect, is also probably fine. But some "Jeffrey Epstein" rando wanting to co
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
using an instance of a sealed class in a switch expression also has the nice property that the compiler will produce an error if the cases are incomplete (and as such there's also no need for a default case). So a good case for the &qu
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
There's nothing stopping you from writing code that is completely functional and devoid of nulls these days. It's just that java obviously still allows nulls if someone needs to use them (partly for interoperability with legacy co
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
it's even worse than this. your paid email address would now always end up in people's spam folder by default, because the big 2 don't trust any email not originating from the big 2
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
janet or fennel? discuss
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
sorry, yes, that one. Great contest. And a great entry, I had a big chuckle running it and unredacting my documents, even photos!
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
reminds me of that leaky redaction program that won the obfuscated c contest some years back
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
Trump or no Trump, the US shouldn't be trusted as a global gatekeeper, centralised authority, and single point of failure regardless . Trump having made this obvious without having locked all resources down and gone full Stalin yet in
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
not really. the spirit of the (dumb) rule is that AI was not involved anywhere in the creative process. placeholder textures don't even come close it's like having doping rules in sports and then disqualifying someone for using ca
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
> the problem is that it can make almost any prediction you want it to make In logic this is either the principle of "contradiction elimination" or a "vacuous truth". Depending on how you look at it. i.e. given suffic
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
Year of the linux desktop
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
in fairness, these do not sound like "dumb" questions. Some questions really are dumb and bring no value to the table. The key is knowing which is which, and that is the part that comes with experience.
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
My cousin, when he got his first job, he managed to wipe the database clean on his first day at work. (classic, I know) The seniors were very understanding, and more importantly it raised important questions about backups, dev vs prod pipel
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
that you are expected to edit in vim
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
In theory (according to Wikipedia at least) the acronym stands for "Temporal Logic for Actions" ... but the pun in the standard meaning of the acronym TLA (i.e. "Three Letter Acronym") is far too enticing for me to belie
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
Why do you focus exclusively on matlab as your competitor posterchild? I feel like you should be saying Matlab / Octave wherever possible; especially since your target audience is far more likely to be the one that wants a "faster
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
War on terror?
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
It really depends what you mean by gamification. It could mean anything from "immersiveness" to "the devil incarnate"
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
One small piece of feedback for the dev, since I see you've been replying to comments here. I had to jump like 3 links and 4 pages down to figure out what runmat actually "is" / "does". As someone who's do
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
As my case has demonstrated, the answer is a resounding "no" :)
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
Yes, like I said, I didn't think denigrating Anki was specifically Fernando's purpose here. However the reason I find it off-putting is because, as someone who generally lives in the terminal, and Anki is one of the few remaining
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
"Press [ENTER]" is one of my favourite books. I picked it up one day with the intent to just read the first paragraph to see what it was about. 3-4 hours letter I had finished the book without realising. This happened again, twice
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
I don't mind people comparing such projects against Anki, this is natural since Anki is quite dominant in this space, but I feel like every criticism of Anki on that list was either highly subjective, exaggerated, unfair, or outright w
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
why should they? there's clearly no other significant countering literature otherwise you would have offered it ... right?
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by tpoacher 10mo ago
As a non-vegetarian, I have eaten very bland tofu, and I have eaten really excellent tofu. I think the big thing about tofu is that it takes a lot of effort to make it of the excellent kind, so very often you end up with the bland one.
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by tpoacher 11mo ago
2026 will be the year of the Libreoffice desktop!
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by tpoacher 11mo ago
Sure but the focus here is on the reviewer not the author. The point is what is expected as reasonable review before one can "sign their name on it". "Lazy" (or possibly malicious) authors will always have incentives to
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by tpoacher 11mo ago
Fair enough. I actually like the user experience. (despite having no experience with nix systems, may I add :D )
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by tpoacher 11mo ago
Fair enough. I haven't followed closely; but the few times I did, it seemed that he had reasonably nuanced opinions translating into upholdable values, rather than overzealous cancel-fever, whether I agreed with his opinions or not. To
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by tpoacher 11mo ago
not OP, but that wouldn't really be necessary. One could submit their bibtex files and expect bibtex citations to be verifiable using a low level checker. Worst case scenario if your bibtex citation was a variant of one in the checker

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