vprcic

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by vprcic 5mo ago
A related puzzle - find a solution using a standard set of chess pieces minus the pawns. So a king, a queen and a pair of rooks, bishops and knights. That seems like a fun puzzle given a standard set of chess pieces. And to remove any doubt
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by vprcic 6mo ago
It would seem it takes in account a bit more than "visual similarity", otherwise I can't find a good reason for "@" and "U+1F582 (BACK OF ENVELOPE)" being that close. Also, for years (decades?!) I wanted s
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by vprcic 8mo ago
Each time a discussion about sorting starts, I'm reminded of a "lively debate" I had with my boss/friend about the most optimal sorting approach. He claimed it's O(n) pointing to counting sort as an example. This di
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by vprcic 1y ago
The prospect of being able to use this against viruses like the one causing rabies is pretty exciting!
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by vprcic 1y ago
> There is a simple way to stop watching ads: pay for premium. It's 100% effective and works right now. For now. With the ever increasing number of "premium" services that promised no ads, but slowly start introducing them
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by vprcic 2y ago
Functions in WITH clause really are a blessing. Oracle DB supported these for a decade now and that was a gamechanger for me. https://oracle-base.com/articles/12c/with-clause-enhancement...
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by vprcic 3y ago
Just as an example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepf...
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by vprcic 3y ago
I heard a lot about questioning the "existence" of real numbers and if they are a realistic description of reality, but I kinda feel like a portion of that uncertanty should also be applied to integers as well. How does the notion
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by vprcic 4y ago
My nugdet of experience to add a data point to this claim. I have TMJ and have had it for as long as I can remember (my jaw clicks every time I open or close my mouth). I developed constant tinnitus in one ear (on the side where the clicks
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by vprcic 5y ago
My tinnitus also gets worse with earplugs, and I wear them since I'm a light sleeper, with a bedroom close to a somewhat busy road. What I've managed to convince myself is that if I focus on in, instead of ignoring it, I can &quot
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by vprcic 5y ago
This was my intention as well so I tried familiarizing myself with PlantUML code (made a small contribution as a result), but in the end, I came to the conclusion that the overhead of getting to know its ins and outs would be greater than t
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by vprcic 5y ago
Sequence diagrams seem like the go--to format for displaying data flow in a microservice-type environment, but even though there is a plethora of implementations in various languages and technologies that generate diagrams of this kind, the