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by yeputons 4y ago
> Simply compare-and-swap the head (and on failure, try again). It doesn't help with ABA at all, does it? Unless you assume that nodes are immutable and the same pointer is never reused, of course.
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by yeputons 4y ago
The problem is it's impossible to build a complete implementation which captures all the complexities of the real world. Well, short of a big text input field which is validated by a human manually/interactively.
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by yeputons 4y ago
> You can read the menu as long as you'd like before you get on the line to order. The waiter can always come back. I mean really... No I can't, because lots of restaurants don't bother to put all possible options and thei
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by yeputons 4y ago
Holidays, basically. The branch is closed and nobody really cares if your card cannot be processed for whatever obscure reason. No chat or phone support, obviously, you have to go to your own personal banker, who is on holiday. Happened at
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by yeputons 4y ago
No doubt. For starters, UBsan does not check for any invalid memory access. In my C++ course, I require that the code runs correctly under 5 different compilers (GCC, LLVM Clang, Apple Clang, MSVC, Intel C++ Compiler Classic) on 3 OS (Ubunt
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by yeputons 4y ago
"sold out" != "ordered to stop selling tickets" by far.
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by yeputons 4y ago
Yes, people have successfully sent FCC complaints to restore their Google Voice accounts (and Google Accounts as a consequence): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31070914 As it looks from LinkedIn comments, they still d
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by yeputons 4y ago
I guess it's only available if you have purchased the laptop in the US or some specific parts of the EU originally, isn't it? At least, I cannot see any way to purchase it or even extend the warranty for my laptop. I highly doubt
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Imaging Performance of Telecentric Lenses [video](youtube.com)
1 points by yeputons 4y ago|1 comments
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by yeputons 4y ago
Apparently there is a way to achieve an orthogonal projection in a real world camera by choosing an appropriate lens. Used for computer vision.
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by yeputons 4y ago
Eertree. As one can guess from the name, it stores all sub-palindromes of a given string and does stuff to them. Somewhat similar to a suffix tree in spirit, but was only invented in 2015. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by yeputons 4y ago
> It is _your_ responsibility to configure your mail filters It may very well be, but if you _have to_ reach someone who did not, following up sounds like a good advice to me.
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by yeputons 4y ago
Moreover, I believe not all kinds of work are permitted on F-1 visa, so "built an app" with(out) "charge for the application" may actually be a violation of the visa rules and lead to an explusion/deportation/w
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by yeputons 4y ago
> For example, I know things like (a^b)^c = a^bc, and that I can solve for x in x/a = b/c by cross multiplying so that xc = ab, but I can’t prove either of those things. That's actually kind of hard. Not because the proof
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by yeputons 4y ago
Depending on what parts you want to self-host. You can already build and run all base components on your local machine, see instructions here: https://github.com/neondatabase/neon/tree/d11c9f9fcb950ac263... .
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by yeputons 4y ago
That is true. And that is why we do not have the UI for loading extension binaries and do not give root access to the compute node. Yet. Of course, some containerization is in place, but it is not as tight as we would like for arbitrary cod
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by yeputons 4y ago
> points of interest in Google Maps are often missing basic info like opening hours or even telephone numbers. To be fair, sometimes neither of these exist. A place in some parts of the EU may be open whenever the owner feels like it. Yo
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2030: Privacy's Dead. What happens next? (2014) [video](youtube.com)
2 points by yeputons 4y ago|0 comments
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by yeputons 4y ago
https://www.mcmaster.com/ is fast . I've never been to Georgia, I don't live in the US, I don't even need hardware. But I still enjoy just clicking on random links and seeing a swift response.
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by yeputons 4y ago
> I care about speed and correctness but Rust makes me also care about ownership and lifetimes even when I don't really want to care about that stuff. I don't think one can care about speed and correctness without caring about
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Language Design in the Real World(blog.sigplan.org)
77 points by yeputons 4y ago|17 comments
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by yeputons 4y ago
Wow. Is such system popular where you live? What country is it, if I may ask? Looks like a flatmate-like agreement for me, but on a house level for whatever reason.
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by yeputons 4y ago
> the visitors have access to my mail deliveries How does that happen? Don't you have a lock on the mailbox at the very least?
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by yeputons 4y ago
> There are countless other ways to find lodging Would you mind sharing some? I only know of Booking.com, the rest are country-specific billboards at best. E.g. Craigslist in the US, Bazaraki on Cyprus or Avito in Russia. In all of them
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by yeputons 4y ago
On the other hand, it's still the only website I know of where one can find and pay for a short/mid-term apartment online in lots of countries. Booking.com is mostly pricy hotels. Local bulletins are even cheaper, but typically ha
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by yeputons 4y ago
And for lots of hosts "a table" is either a kitchen countertop or a coffee table, while "a chair" is a small sofa next to it. Et voila, "a dedicated workspace".
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by yeputons 4y ago
True, but I'm not buying it. Visa interview and SAO problems are universal for all applicants, I believe. SAO is even more relevant for "semiconductors, space technology, cybersecurity, advanced manufacturing and computing, nuclea
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by yeputons 4y ago
I suspect the US is way down in the list of possible emigration routes. It's just a very annoying process if you consider the default route. Getting an offer from a US-based company is the easy part. The hard part is winning the H1-B l
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by yeputons 5y ago
The memory required to test. Moreover, we do not have random access to the string, we may only read one byte at a time and cannot go back. You may call it "streaming access". More formally, we're talking about finite automata
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by yeputons 5y ago
That's not O(1), that's O(log n) memory, where `n` is the size of your string. You need `log n` bits to store the pointer. Granted, it's very limited for practical purposes, but you have to account for it in theoretical appli

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