xanathar

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by xanathar 4y ago
Yes, but probably not in the way that makes the program any useful. Example: I recently executed `git checkout .` (that incidentally would not be caught by this project) on the wrong repo. Oh the pain. But I would have probably confirmed th
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by xanathar 4y ago
What a missed opportunity to title it "Should I Rust Or Should I Go?".
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by xanathar 5y ago
99.9% of the time swaps are done for a reason, usually when sorting or manipulating linked lists pointers, but - for example - comes into play also when you want to transpose a matrix in place, or other similar algorithms. I guess you can m
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by xanathar 5y ago
Popping in my mind: - System.Diagnostics.Debug.Assert (on debug builds) - Envinroment.FailFast (this is precisely what panic! is usually used for) - void BlowUp() { BlowUp(); } But, in reality, any unexpected Exception: how would you proper
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by xanathar 5y ago
I can feel the author pain, even though I didn't invent a programming language, I just wrote the interpreter for one (specifically a Lua interpreter written in C# - moonsharp). Why I did it: in 2013-2014 I was SUPER bored and burne
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by xanathar 5y ago
Feature suggestion: pressing some hotkey exits and prints the path that could be used in jq to select the node that was selected when the hotkey was pressed. I'm sure it has a lot of corner cases as a feature, but that would be super-u
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by xanathar 5y ago
Linters should be frustatingly non-general. They should alert for the common case and special cases should have a "#[allow(xxx)]" or "#pragma warning disable xxx" (or whatever does that in your language) and, possibly, a
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by xanathar 5y ago
Windows 11 also has shadows again, fwiw.
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by xanathar 5y ago
> Anyway: that was the sole significant improvement in networking in Win98 that I am aware of. The other thing 98 could do was drive multiple monitors, if you had the right — that is, from an extremely limited selection — graphics cards.
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by xanathar 5y ago
The main prerequisite is "having a bloatload of money".
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by xanathar 5y ago
I had a 286 12MHz and then upgraded to a 386sx 40Mhz (both manufactured by AMD, btw). It was a HUGE upgrade. First, 12Mhz to 40Mhz was an amazing upgrade, but that was definitely not the reason why I upgraded. The real reason was *compatibi
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by xanathar 5y ago
I'm also Italian. My dad shared the name and surname with somebody with shady background who incidentally lived close to our house. He was denied an operation at the bank once, but was quickly able to clarify the issue and unblock it (
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by xanathar 5y ago
QUIC has been an IETF draft for years and they were definitely accepting contributions and feedback, and a lot of efforts were not driven by Google at all. As far as orthogonality goes, it seems to be pretty orthogonal to different kind of
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by xanathar 5y ago
> so many client/server implementations don't implement the datagram extension properly I'm genuinely interested in what aspects you think are (or were) not implemented properly. I wrote most of the implementation of quich
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by xanathar 5y ago
I THINK that the reason is: 8086 inherited it from the 8085 which inherited it from the 8080. The next parent in line would be the 8008, but that has a small call stack in the CPU registers rather than RAM, so the ancestor would be the 80
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by xanathar 5y ago
Bonus (?): the stack going down rather than up means that overflowing a stack-allocated buffer will overwrite the contents that are already on the stack (as they have a higher address than the last item in the buffer), likely changing the r
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by xanathar 6y ago
Considering we're talking about Freud, I'm not sure we can say "sexual reproduction" to be remote from "personal issues".
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by xanathar 6y ago
If you want to visualize them in "enumeration of cases". The complete cases for the choices is: Problem-1: 1) You pick goat#1, Monty opens goat#2 2) You pick goat#2, Monty opens goat#1 3) You pick car, Monty chooses
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by xanathar 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24716753 It's a Conditional Probability of non independent events.
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by xanathar 6y ago
Problem-1: "You pick a door. Then Monty opens a door he knows having the goat. Calculate probability of winning if staying." Problem-2: "You pick a door. Monty opens a door at random, which just happens to be a goat. Calculat
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by xanathar 6y ago
Mind. Blown. (seriously, this is a game changer for me, thanks!)
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by xanathar 6y ago
I will never read "ometti" in the same (sane) way again.
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by xanathar 6y ago
I was almost semi-proud of having done my implementation, why did you ruin the party. Jokes aside, and not to boast about what I did, honestly, but Lua is (in hindsight - I wish I realized before) full of gotchas which are definitely not ea
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by xanathar 6y ago
I know, I retried before and it worked. But "it works differently every time I try" wouldn't have made a good CSS joke. Oh, wait.
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by xanathar 6y ago
Ends up to a page saying "The page you requested does not exist". ...which kinda reflects "things I wish about CSS", so 10/10.