SassyBird

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by SassyBird 2y ago
Thanks for taking the most uncharitable interpretation of what I wrote possible. It’s so productive.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Is it standard for people in the Andes to take offence at people taking pictures of them? I don’t know, maybe it is, haven’t been there. It is not in Europe.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
If you avoid the slightest possibility of unpleasant and pointless confrontations, then you’re going to lead a very dull life. I sometimes photograph random people. Never has anyone had an issue with that. Sometimes they approach me and we
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Hopefully k is natural. ;)
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by SassyBird 2y ago
It doesn’t matter which definition you pick. I e.g. had it defined axiomatically when I studied, i.e. we were given a list of properties which identify exp unambiguously and then we were given a proof of its existence. The fact that those p
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Transcendental numbers like e are a lot more "unnatural" than imaginary numbers.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Following fashion has nothing to do with hacking.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
It’s great to hear. Thanks.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
It’s Qt: https://github.com/rstudio/rstudio/blob/main/src/cpp/desktop... It seems with some JavaScript generated from Java via Gwt. Regardless, I prefer it over VSCode UI.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Are they going to drop RStudio? I very much prefer its Qt interface over whatever VSCode invented. It’s fast, has nice keyboard shortcuts, none of that pointless padding and it just feels great to use.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
The base graphics packages make the plots as ugly as the ones generated by gnuplot though. ggplot2 on the other hand has very pretty output. And the concept of grammar of plots just makes so much sense to me.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
> So, what, exactly, am I looking for? This can’t be answered in general. Flamegraphs are measurements of what happened. But just like a ruler doesn’t tell you whether a given human is atypically short or tall for its species, a flameg
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by SassyBird 2y ago
This has nothing to do with GCC being a first-class citizen in Linux . It’s a kernel feature. The kernel doesn’t care which compiler or debugger you’re using. You can dump core of any process regardless of the language it’s written in. Eve
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by SassyBird 2y ago
You must not have seen Bloomberg Terminal then. Most devs on this forum wouldn’t be even able to build anything this performant and ergonomic.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
> 100% branch coverage means that you've fundamentally covered all potential states your software can enter. No, it doesn’t. bool is_even(int n) { return true; } bool test_is_even() { return is_even(2); }
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by SassyBird 2y ago
And even if you do know what it does, it’s very impractical given that it’s a global option. Turning it on for selected portions of code would be a completely different game.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
> It's still not a feature you can expect all implementations to have, so OCaml is not in a bad position there I think. The number of SML implementations supporting this feature is greater than the number of OCaml implementations.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
> In the first year of the University you write cpngruence with three horizontal lines. In the second, you just use two lines, aka an equal sign. Obviously in the next step you achieve enlightenment when you then write them as just one
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by SassyBird 2y ago
When would you use it? Emacs dired works fine on other platforms, which don’t have GNU ls on them, so I’m guessing by default it doesn’t run ls on its own.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
You can see part of its black beak on the right hand side.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
Without HiDPI (sic!) scaling that means that a correctly-sized display for that resolution would have a 30" diagonal on Windows (standard PPI: 96) and 40" on Mac (standard PPI: 72). If you don’t have HiDPI (sic!) scaling enabled i
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by SassyBird 2y ago
9pt == 12px on the web. You can check that in Web Inspector in computed styles. Alternatively: 1px = (1/96)in 1pt = (1/72)in = (1/72)*(96/72)*(72/96)in = (96/72)*(1/96)in = (4/3)*1px = (4/3
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by SassyBird 2y ago
It’s the opposite for me. I keep finding dumb bugs in Chromium, when it comes to correct website rendering and event handling (always regressions). Safari and Firefox on the other hand never have those issues. The only problem is: Safari ha
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by SassyBird 2y ago
I’m not a fan of concatenating strings either. I was thinking about the MSVC/Pascal-style inline assembly here, which isn’t based on strings. Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think that you can guarantee a routine is constant-time
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by SassyBird 2y ago
It seems that MSVC supports inline assembly only on 32-bit x86. For amd64 and ARM they moved entirely to intrinsics.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
1. Justified text without hyphenation is a quick recipe for very odd-looking uneven spacing, like in your example. 2. The inset used by the headings is jarringly big. 3. The text is too wide for comfortable reading. 4. The fonts used in the
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by SassyBird 2y ago
> Finally, there's never going to be a readable error message from LaTeX. FTFY. If you learn TeX from Knuth’s TeX book, along with the typographical concepts it works with, the error messages generated by documents written in raw
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by SassyBird 2y ago
You just need a toggle to comply with the rules, so that the user decides what they’ll see. One example is Flickr. Another is Tumblr. They both have toggles for explicit content.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
App Store allows and contains plenty apps with NSFW content.
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by SassyBird 2y ago
What a world we live in that allowing NSFW content is seen as desperation, while monetisation through ads isn’t.

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