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by vlmutolo 4y ago
I have the Framework, and I haven't noticed anything off with the display's "in-between" resolution.
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by vlmutolo 4y ago
What happens if your $placeholder variable name is itself politically incorrect after a few months
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
It seems like the important metric would be the kettle's power output, not the voltage. A kettle running at a lower voltage can still have the same power output (wattage). My kettle is 1.5kW. I'd be surprised if consumer kettles r
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
I'm 85% sure we said this exact phrase. Definitely tried out "lattosio", but no luck.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Yep, tried this. Latticini I think is the right word, but people definitely didn't understand the concept of dairy.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Apparently it does. http://herbie.uwplse.org/demo/042341d0fe3004d56ba86a30344299...
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
It was also my experience that lots of places in Italy don't understand the concept of "no dairy". We tried to look up how to say it, but it loosely translates to "no milk". My brother told every restaurant, "N
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
In the article, they show how you can use any language to write a plugin.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
An interesting tool to help preserve floating point precision is Herbie ( https://herbie.uwplse.org/ ), which takes an expression as input and outputs an optimized version of it that will retain precision. The example they gi
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
This looks like an incredibly impressive project. Kudos to the authors! Since it's such a huge undertaking, I think it's worth listing somewhere why we need a new editor instead of "just" improving GIMP and/or Inksc
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Start with the basics and spend a ton of time with them. Try not to move on until you're very solid on the fundamentals of a particular topic. Moving on too early is by far the most common root cause of the problems math and physics st
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
The question isn't whether to give people "exemptions" to a law. The question is whether that law infringes on US citizens' constitutional right to free speech.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
If you don't get the holdout set by shuffling, how do you get it?
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Astronomers came up with a cool way to tessellate a sphere called Healpix. The tiles are quadrilateral, though, so they may not have the same freedom as hexagons in the context of a game where players can move to adjacent tiles. https:&#x2
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Cross-compilation is when you compile code on one machine meant to run on another machine with a different operating system or CPU architecture. Normally this process is awful because it requires a bunch of very specific files to be present
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
It's "perfectly valid, fine" with the exception that it's different from how the vast majority of Rust programmers write code. That in itself is a problem. Rust has two widely-used tools that enforce style: `rustfmt` and
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
This is the first suggestion I've seen in this thread that actually helps to make the code more readable.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
I agree that having comment sections on blogs can be problematic. Nobody wants to make an account on a random blog site just to make a comment, and you need explicit accounts to stop spam. Comment histories are also nice to have. There&#x27
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
> Note that the following targets don't have usable APIs to properly mitigate the attack, and are thus still vulnerable even with a patched toolchain: > - macOS before version 10.10 (Yosemite) > - REDOX It's funny to
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
I'd be interested in hearing about the various factors that conspire to make Rust to difficult to bootstrap for a new architecture.
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
We're currently dealing with problems that arose from people assuming that their systems wouldn't ever be used for more than, say, 50 years. That assumption is frequently proven wrong. 500 years is pretty different. Odds are that
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
> The aspect of rust about which I am most deeply dubious is the heavy use of macros: they are a herald of rust's pedantry ("If you don't use these macros you are going to have to write a shit-ton of boilerplate code.&quot
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Clap (+structopt) is such an amazing tool that it's one of the core reasons I prefer Rust-made CLIs: the help messages and descriptions make sense to me. Basically every Rust CLI project will use clap/structopt, and the consistenc
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
I think he was referring to areas of contiguous memory (arrays) where the size of the area is separated from the pointer to that area. Nearly any operation on the array will require both pieces of information, and tons of C bugs come from m
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
Noria is great research. Though, for anyone wanting to play with it for new projects, be aware that Jon (the author) has said that it's basically research-quality software, and the point was more to be a proof of value rather than to b
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
> it simply requires them This is the part where the (A)GPL constrains the rights of its users. Requiring user A to give user B more liberal licensing is constraining the rights of A for the benefit of B. Even if you think it's the
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
I had thought about using postgres as a job queue before, but I couldn't figure out in my head how to make sure two processes didn't both take the same job. The "FOR UPDATE" and "SKIP LOCKED" were the keys to m
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
AGPL contrains the rights of the user. That's its job. The whole point is to be GPL, which prevents users from distributing modifications to the original program, with the addition of preventing users from offering their modifications
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
There are plenty of instances where it's appropriate to use a y-axis that isn't "linear starting at zero." That's why I specified that I was only talking about ways to represent relative differences (i.e. relative t
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by vlmutolo 5y ago
See my comment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29567067

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