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by vletal 5y ago
> Some benchmarks have a slow max/mean value because the time includes JIT-compiling large libraries like Pandas. So why do not they warm the JIT up first? Moreover the graph does not contain any notion of mean/max values at al
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by vletal 5y ago
Smartphones started from scratch supporting displaying the same content on displays with various sizes and DPIs. Computer apps and window managers were long stuck with bitmap / pixel perfect UI frameworks. There was little to no demand
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by vletal 5y ago
Sure, but the article makes it seem that this is a thing done in a wild on a mass scale which is implausible.
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by vletal 5y ago
How does it relate to the paragraph about pinpointing precise location which the original comment refers to?
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by vletal 5y ago
> Now, if this social app is reading accelerometer data on your phone as well as the passenger’s phone, the app can easily figure out that both phones experience the same vibration pattern. ... Don’t be surprised if you receive a recomme
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by vletal 5y ago
Sure it would. Yet not to the full extent. The system is complex, not all people rent, not all home owners would be hit by the tax equally, ...
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by vletal 5y ago
That does not actually contradict the point. We got stuck in a suboptimal local maxima due to the all early design decisions of browsers and JavaScript. The original inventors did not expect anyone wiring web version of Google Drive on the
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by vletal 5y ago
They mean pub key / certificate fingerprints. Gosh... :)
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by vletal 5y ago
One thing which I miss on RPis, especially these tiny ones, is a tty exposed via the charging USB.
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by vletal 5y ago
> Grid view shows people on your FaceTime call in the same‑size tiles, so you can have better conversations with a large group. The speaker is automatically highlighted so you always know who’s talking. Is none at Apple actually using Fa
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by vletal 5y ago
I'd go even further. As long as you want to communicate your ideas via code it does not matter whether you work with juniors or seniors. You want to limit the cognitive strain caused by unnecessarily complicated code.
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by vletal 5y ago
Take Scala collections. These are written using builders and if-else checks of emptiness which are definitely not idiomatic. Authors of the std-lib did them for you so you do not have to. That is not a red flag.
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by vletal 5y ago
Or it even uses patterns which would be considered anti patterns outside of it for the sake of optimizations.
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by vletal 5y ago
There is still a huge market demand for Java. Moreover the recent releases are doing a great job adding features following recent trends. If thought using JDK 16+ a student will be able to move to Kotlin, Swift, Scala, ... much more easily
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by vletal 5y ago
> provided by IBM in June 2011 In Czechia we have a system where all sellers have to log bills to prevent tax evasion. IBM also provided the system. It cost ~ 15m$ to set up and ~15m$/y to run. Given the rate of ~millions of bills s
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by vletal 5y ago
Come on! 140W adapter? I thought that the efficient M1 design will allow us to return to the 80W range for the 16".
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by vletal 5y ago
You mean the Czech Republics dial up prefix?
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by vletal 5y ago
Well you definitely can prune the font to ASCII. Enything outside of that can be exported as vector graphics. That would shave off plenty of space.
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by vletal 5y ago
> Our European visitors are important to us. > This site is currently unavailable to visitors from the European Economic Area while we work to ensure your data is protected in accordance with applicable EU laws. OT: I thought that I w
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by vletal 5y ago
Exactly. We are training a very large neural model using [1]. We would not fix much if we decided to embed the Julia code inside a CPython wrapper or something... [1] https://github.com/CTUAvastLab/JsonGrinder.jl
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by vletal 5y ago
Observing the achievements of this group of young talented devs only increases my imposter syndrome. Awesome job, love the enthusiasm.
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by vletal 5y ago
Are these really the pain points of the language needed to be addressed? What kills me specifically is the fact how sloooow are the initial warm-ups. I am forced to write a webserver in Julia. The startup time is ~5min and each initial requ
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by vletal 5y ago
I would guess that it depends on the final product. This works for coffee because it gets grinded to a fine powder. Cocoa might work as well, tobacco for e-smokig, etc.
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by vletal 5y ago
In the business and corporate world this is so underrated. In the past I attended several meetings with customers where I was actively discouraged asking questions which would help us deliver a good meaningful solution as long as the custom
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by vletal 5y ago
This move could decrease literacy of kids who will get less exposed to SI.
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by vletal 5y ago
Faking interest sounds like a great tactic! Is there a book about these? I suspect marketing graduates should learn these tactics during their studies.
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by vletal 5y ago
I remember being completely immersed by the book in the early 90'. I wrote my first working program before learning how to read properly based on the book. What are the alternatives for contemporary languages nowadays? I have small kid
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The Beginner's Computer Handbook (1983)(spectrumcomputing.co.uk)
2 points by vletal 5y ago|2 comments
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by vletal 5y ago
Because most people can not even use cryptography to sign more important stuff such as email.
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by vletal 5y ago
I'm curious about the power efficiency. From all my experience, all laptops I had usually drained battery much faster on Linux than on Windows. And these were very standard mainstream machines. M1 is a proprietary CPU which requires re

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