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by ventana 5mo ago
I feel that this is somewhat orthogonal. Yes, some questionable things have happened that made the ways how people exchange information be controlled by a handful of corporations.* But for NASA specifically, this is not relevant. They were
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by ventana 5mo ago
I see no difference between X and Instagram in this regard whatsoever. Think NASA, for example; it's also a government agency, and they are doing great job posting photos in Instagram, do you think anything is wrong with it?
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by ventana 5mo ago
I don't believe you need trig for that, it actually makes it harder if you try to iterate the angle. I believe the expected solution is to start at (R, 0) which is known belongs to the circle, and go left/top, choosing the pixel c
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by ventana 5mo ago
So, first of all, of course, a rhetorical question. Modern interns will probably assume at least 4 bytes per pixel (R, G, B, and A). But the original post actually talks about CGA [1] with just four colors. Encoding a color needs two bits t
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by ventana 5mo ago
It's pretty amazing to me that, if your goal is to check that the intern candidate can write plain C, the questions still look pretty reasonable to me even in 2026, maybe except for the question related to colors which will probably co
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by ventana 5mo ago
That's true, the majority of people probably install software without much thinking; but it's also true that it's always better to have at least some high level understanding how the specific piece of software works. What acc
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by ventana 5mo ago
Thanks for following up! Don't get me wrong, I'll be totally excited to replace my card game app backend with a static binary, that's why I immediately went on trying Perry :) Just to give you an idea what I'm trying to
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by ventana 5mo ago
Well, I did indeed spend some time playing with it before writing my comment. I first tried to compile the TypeScript project I'm working on, and it happens to be an Express server. After some minor unrelated fixes required (Perry does
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by ventana 5mo ago
I only grepped "vtable" in the repository so this might be not the relevant piece of code, but from the comment in [1] it seems they fallback to building a vtable if the static resolution is impossible. [1]: https://git
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by ventana 5mo ago
I understand that implementing the TypeScript compiler is not the same thing as implementing all Node.js APIs, but still, advertising "no runtime" and then requiring JS runtime (and a full local Rust setup to compile it) for somet
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by ventana 5mo ago
I would probably suggest switching the link to the GitHub source code and listing the actual page URL in the description; otherwise, I click the link in the article and get a location sharing request and a Send button; after a few seconds
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by ventana 5mo ago
I'm thinking of some similarity between the non-technical middle manager using agents to avoid the biggest obstacle of their developers, and a person installing a wall socket at home. It's not too difficult to install a wall socke
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by ventana 5mo ago
But I'm sure the author then pasted it back to LLM and asked the LLM to argue about it. At least I hope they're following their own advice!
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by ventana 5mo ago
The majority of the software development related communications are trivial enough, emotionless, and do not require calls, but there are cases where one quick call resolves ambiguity much faster than hours of typing. While I do know a feeli
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by ventana 5mo ago
I have no knowledge of this specific "why", but my general experience shows that feature flags, while almost universally better than checks for the specific software version in hope that it has proper support for a feature, appear
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by ventana 5mo ago
Which is probably not really surprising, if we consider who were the original designers of Golang!
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by ventana 5mo ago
C, as a language, cannot bother less about you using or not using the return values, checking them, discarding them, or using them to index an array without any bounds checking. Various linters and compilers may have their opinions, express
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by ventana 5mo ago
While reading the article, I remember feeling that I'm reading an LLM generated sentence a few times, but in general, this specific article look like an example of acceptable LLM usage to me. I wouldn't call it "AI slop"
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by ventana 5mo ago
I originally thought that this new regulation would only apply to, say, B-1/B-2 visitors applying to adjust their status (which is how some immigrants bring their parents, for example), but nowhere in the policy it explicitly excludes
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by ventana 5mo ago
The well-known algorithms book Cormen et al. describes a lot of algorithms using loop invariants. I must say I never really liked this approach but I admit it makes things easier to reason about.
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by ventana 5mo ago
Well, actually, Google+ circa 2014 was the only social network that had enough of the interesting technical content for me, and I did use it in exactly the way how one would use a decent social network: I posted my content, got comments, an
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by ventana 5mo ago
I find all ads — both search ads and website ads — very helpful in training the brain to ignore the noise. Isn't it amazing how we trained ourselves to immediately detect the 1pt hidden "Sponsored" mark and scroll the page do
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by ventana 5mo ago
I made a screenshot of the first few comments of this thread (without yours, so not mentioning the sarcasm) and asked ChatGPT to describe the sentiment; it had no problem detecting sarcasm and called it "overly enthusiastic" and &
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by ventana 5mo ago
I am especially impressed with how they keep supporting Google Reader for all these years despite the declining user base, because they care so much about the existing users.
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by ventana 5mo ago
Nice project, thank you for sharing! Out of curiosity: how much did you need to steer Claude while working on this project, and how long did it have? Asking partly because I see "Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply
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by ventana 5mo ago
As a fun fact, both Cyrillic letters Б б sounding "b" and В в sounding "v" were historically derived from Greek Β β.
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by ventana 5mo ago
As native speakers of a language that uses Cyrillic, it was a little easier for my peers and me to learn Greek letters for the math classes, since most of them come for free to people who know both Latin and Cyrillic. But when the probabili
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by ventana 5mo ago
If I'm reading it correctly, the TL;DR of the article is: given the client and the server, we need to be able to ingest messages to the client-server communication channel, and this channel should survive a disconnection. The article s
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by ventana 5mo ago
> which is the standard for all of Google's public APIs Far from that, unfortunately. A lot of Google public APIs predate AIPs and it's practically impossible to fix them and make them compliant. Possibly the worst offender is
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by ventana 5mo ago
One thing I noticed that with Claude Code and Codex running in the terminal, I tend to use VS Code much less than before, and found myself opening files in vim more often. It just looks like, for me, the agent development brings me back to

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