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by xigency 4y ago
This is an inspiring read. Without looking at the code, there are so many revolutionary ideas in here for more usable programming languages. The ideas regarding stateful execution seem both useful for highly parallel tasks and even hardware
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by xigency 4y ago
I don’t really support this view. While doing anything creative with threading is in fact challenging, in Java it’s easy to safely boost performance with threading using parallel streams and concurrent data structures. Even in other languag
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Ask HN: How do Robocallers know where I’ve been?
13 points by xigency 4y ago|6 comments
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by xigency 4y ago
I would use this tool if it had these options: - x264 settings as well as copy video codec - aac re-encoding settings - mixing 5.1 to 2.1 audio - adding multiple subtitles - rendering hard subtitles I was just using ffmpeg to convert videos
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by xigency 4y ago
The students aren’t at issue, it’s the teachers. Your parents might as well be tech wizards compared to the the most tech illiterate instructor. Not to mention that the sample size is much larger when looking at a school or district compare
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by xigency 4y ago
This is really cool but I have some feedback: being able to drag the pieces removed all of the challenge, so it wasn’t really fun; only the bottom row will clear - this kind of breaks the game when not “cheating” with manually dragging piec
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by xigency 5y ago
In SC2, unranked and ranked players are actually mixed in matchmaking. So if you are playing unranked you still have an MMR, just not one you can see. As an unranked player, you can tell what division you are in based on the portrait frame
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by xigency 5y ago
Leaderboard may be the wrong term. In StarCraft 2 for instance, there are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum, Diamond, Masters, and Grandmasters leagues. Diamond 1 to GM might include around 5% of the ranked players.
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by xigency 5y ago
Admittedly, I only skimmed this. But within the space of video games, I’m not sure Overwatch is a stunning example since it’s generally a casual game. I’ve been playing various iterations of Counter-Strike and StarCraft for decades. Sometim
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by xigency 5y ago
Why not buy more Legos rather than remove them?
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by xigency 5y ago
More evidence that user provided data shouldn’t be logged at all.
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by xigency 5y ago
And what if the payment is outside of the app through Safari? And then takes the user back to the app?
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by xigency 5y ago
Being a teacher is a labor of love. There’s nothing wrong with a student coming in with any attitude. This attitude justifying gatekeeping reminds me of Stack Overflow - mods tired of seeing the same wrong questions asked. But it’s a Q&
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by xigency 5y ago
> I don't know if the risk of hitting a building outside the flight corridor is high enough to be important. It is. From the New Yorker post: “The Federal Aviation Administration regulates the private space industry and sets aside a
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by xigency 6y ago
Interesting. I have a couple of FPGA boards on their way to me in the mail which I intend to use for some homebrew video game projects. Besides getting the development environment working, it can be tricky outputting video from an FPGA beca
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by xigency 6y ago
There are some interesting methods of doing type checking without type annotations by doing type inference. It might be worth writing about - it’s basically a recursive process of identifying types by their context, either in assignment or
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by xigency 6y ago
How about an “Are we wireless yet?” for Web Bluetooth.
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by xigency 6y ago
> The only workaround is to login with a browser and copy the cookies from it to youtube-dl. That's really easy to do with postman.
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by xigency 6y ago
Which is contradicted by Kosher dietary restrictions being struck down in the New Testament. Part of the power of the Bible is its contradictions. Like in math, you can use one contradiction to prove any statement true.
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by xigency 6y ago
I hear you, but tipping is a widely accepted practice. As a software developer I use tons of open source software and I'm aware of how much open source software is used in commercial products I use as well. And still I can't recal
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by xigency 6y ago
> Note that the article is specifically talking about testing accelerated code. This is usually using machine-specific features, meaning it won't run on a graphic card. I think there are a lot of computing algorithms you might run o
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by xigency 6y ago
Cloudflare recently announced that they would be building out some data centers with EPYC CPUs. Do you believe that the situation has changed since February? They did a pretty exhaustive analysis [0] of price, performance, and power where t
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by xigency 6y ago
> According to CCC (AIUI), all of the infinitely many future universes have already started, but each universe will end before even an instant of time has elapsed for the next universe: that is, "time" as measured in one univer
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by xigency 6y ago
Exactly. What use is a well-preserved grainy, flickery video that no one watches? Even more, how do we understand history if we only see it through a blurry, scratchy lens? It might change our perception of the people who lived 100 years ag
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by xigency 6y ago
Your comment reminds me of the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? Most automakers were capable of making electric vehicles decades ago.
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by xigency 6y ago
Compare that to the days when scientists like Marie Curie cared around vials of radioactive material, shoe stores had flouroscopes to test fit shoes, and xrays were used as an acne treatment.
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by xigency 6y ago
In fact, the failures at Fukushima were definitely human caused although it was indeed an extreme natural disaster as well. Being anxious based on the past failures is not totally justified as the environmental cost and dangers from polluti
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by xigency 6y ago
I think it’s more the point that it isn’t the profession that sucks but the job. There are a lot of writers out there but few New York Times best selling fiction authors. We can’t saying earning a living as a writer sucks because most peopl
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by xigency 6y ago
So we would literally install a national firewall to enforce this policy? Regardless of the particulars, the big picture view of this is not pretty. Is there a legal group looking to challenge this yet, like the EFF?
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by xigency 6y ago
It appears that there is an antenna on the PCB so I believe WiFi is supported here. Outside of that, the ESP8266 is a pretty nifty CPU itself. Depending on what you want to do, a Teensy might be what you want. The ESP chips do not have an F

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