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by ungzd 7y ago
Not surprising, since recent hype around luxury clothing brands was formed in Instagram. Checked now number of people I know who follows accounts of these brands: gucci - 3, versace - 0, louisvuitton - 4, dior - 2. None of them can afford t
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by ungzd 7y ago
I remember using "edit and continue" in Visual C++ 6, seems that this feature still exists in newer versions[1], but I don't know what limitations it has. [1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio
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by ungzd 7y ago
I'm not sure that level of crunch is generally lower in indie companies. In theory, they might be struggling more, they are in disadvantageous position against big companies, they have to do more experiments and take more risks than AA
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by ungzd 7y ago
The same can be achieved by just running screencapture(1) periodically, although cron is broken in Mac OS and probably you can't access screen from cron jobs. So, while loop in shell with sleep, for example, or StartInterval in launchd
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by ungzd 7y ago
Other companies often just wait for tests to finish, while at the time of running tests proposed changes (branch/PR) might be not based on current version of master. Then they just rebase/merge after tests pass, without running te
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by ungzd 7y ago
Underlying photogrammetry library, https://alicevision.github.io/ , has more informative landing page.
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by ungzd 8y ago
(Note that there’s lots of information in comments section)
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by ungzd 8y ago
When such things become a concern and when not? Should I be concerned about specific layout of traces and their parasitic properties if I'm going to just interface low-speed digital components with microcontroller? I heard about people
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by ungzd 8y ago
You can run period of emulation time at full speed as long as difference in speed is not observable from outside. There's no point to delay regular memory reads and writes by synchronizing every CPU cycle to real time: no one will noti
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by ungzd 8y ago
Looks similar to https://ivorylang.org/
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by ungzd 8y ago
Now Instagram users have to learn how to optimize posting time and how to cheat algofeed by adding unrelated hashtags and even tuning color scheme in photos. I regularly hear about such things from casual users with 50 subscribers, not SMM
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by ungzd 8y ago
Can "backtick" key be configured to act as "esc" by default, with acting as backtick with "fn"? Most "60%" keyboards don't have separate keys for esc and backtick/tilde either, and "F&q
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by ungzd 8y ago
There's two javascripts: one that really works in browsers, and it's still ES5. And other javascript, that works on abstract virtual machine implemented inside Babel. And only the first one is "real" javascript.
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by ungzd 8y ago
I have impression that other way round, changes in js are one of the slowest amongst programming languages. We have lots of js in our project, and it's mostly the same js as when I first learned it in early 2000s. No ES6, because it&#x
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by ungzd 8y ago
On desktop, we have enormously complex software that's available for free. Why clang does not send all my passwords to shady servers and Blender does not lock my computer and demand ransom? Yet flashlight app which cost 1 man-hour to d
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by ungzd 8y ago
For this example, builder pattern is definitely overkill, but builders can be still useful for more complex cases. Even for simple structs, sometimes you don't want to expose constructor, for example to add additional checks ("sma
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by ungzd 8y ago
1) It has link to "Oblate spheroid". 2) On Google Maps and almost all other popular maps on the web, Earth is a sphere, see EPSG:3857
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by ungzd 8y ago
BTW, in Russia labor is cheap so spam phone calls are usually done by people, not robots. I have to keep phone always in silent mode due to lots of such spam, sometimes 2-3 calls per day from different companies.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Wikidata is built mostly on RDF ideas. For example, there's SPARQL query interface for it: https://query.wikidata.org/ Schema.org is heavily used by search engines and metadata in its format is found on many websites.
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by ungzd 8y ago
> Was anyone actually using Tumblr for anything but porn nowadays? What I've encountered there most frequently is blogs with "atmospheric" photos and images. I always thought that most frequent use for tumblr is the same a
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by ungzd 8y ago
There are many ways to specify dependency except from central npm server: https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#dependencies That includes tarballs on http, git repos and even freaking local directories. For compan
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by ungzd 8y ago
We have only 2 languages to support, and most people in company (but not everyone) are native speakers of both languages. So, no professional translators are involved, but someone have to write texts. And those who have good text-writing sk
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by ungzd 8y ago
Free memory is always used by disk cache.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Seeing 403 (I'm in Russia). Maybe some export restrictions, but more probably just a glitch in CDN (Cloudfront). P.S. I'm not in Crimea, never encountered software export restrictions before.
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by ungzd 8y ago
LED bulbs probably have longer lifetime than cheap computing electronics, in both power supply is the weakest part.
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by ungzd 8y ago
With https://wigle.net/ it's probably not that hard.
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by ungzd 8y ago
Update: seems that "fast size" feature was cancelled or is not yet ready: https://eclecticlight.co/2019/02/06/how-big-is-that-folder-w... , https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread&#
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by ungzd 8y ago
Few days ago encountered similar bug: Finder reported size of direcrory as about 300 Mb, but actual size was 9 Gb. There were no hardlinks or something like that, content inside was generated by script. This was on apfs, and size was report
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by ungzd 8y ago
What's interesting is that it worked on my computer before reinstalling MacOS on new hdd, and now it stopped working, showing malformed geometry. JS console output: "Batch 2 does not have TEX0. WTF? / Attributes: 600 index.js
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by ungzd 8y ago
The same way as nuclear fusion will help retired people to spend less on electricity. Both things will likely never happen.

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