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by aji 3mo ago
the star battle interface diverges from penpa, puzpre, and puzzleteam in a number of basic ways that actively make the solving experience worse imo: - having to switch between "star" and "exclude" modes is annoying on de
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by aji 4mo ago
i never really liked CDATA but i'm not buying the argument here since you can do the escaping with replaceAll("]]>", "]]]]><![CDATA[>") instead of four replaceAlls. (assuming you are writing your own xml
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by aji 2y ago
trying to figure out if this is a joke about stack allocations
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by aji 3y ago
fun idea but "perfect pitch" is a little off the mark imo, as other people have mentioned. i think this sort of exercise would be good for training transcription skills and relative pitch if you weren't able to hear your gues
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by aji 7y ago
the author invented a definition of "flow" which is different from another common definition which roughly means "getting in the zone" and the result is dangerously clickbaity imo i do my best work when i'm in the z
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by aji 9y ago
New performances might show up, maybe
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by aji 9y ago
I've heard good things about the new DOOM remake, which seems to be in that direction.
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by aji 9y ago
the importance of console verification is to make sure a TAS isn't relying on any emulator bugs (such as timing, uninitialized memory, etc) and would theoretically be possible on the actual hardware. it also speaks to the accuracy of t
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by aji 9y ago
I like using cumulative distributions because they make small changes in the data a little more obvious. e.g. if all the buckets are 10 but there's a section where they're 11, that difference will show up in a cumulative distribut
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by aji 9y ago
I lucked into this pattern when I used ratpoison. Window 0 was always my terminal emulator (running tmux), window 1 was always Firefox. Additionally, tmux window 0 was always my IRC client. Getting between those apps quickly became muscle m
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by aji 9y ago
or instead of relying on the domain name existing, look at the contents of the web page
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by aji 10y ago
I'm certainly no expert in motivation, and can't give you advice on your specific goals, but I personally find that reframing long term goals into short term goals can be a big source of motivation. for example, don't focus o
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by aji 10y ago
I would add QuickSight to that list https://quicksight.aws/
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by aji 10y ago
to clarify: it's not the dam itself that's at risk of failure, but the emergency spillway. while this scenario would be catastrophic, it's far less catastrophic than the entire dam failing
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by aji 10y ago
the way JS does closures, and the mandatory async nature of everything, leads to a world where you're working with functions a lot more than you would be in languages in the same family (garbage collected, lenient, a la python and ruby
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by aji 10y ago
and ^I for tab, etc
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by aji 10y ago
Kafka, Samza, Databus, etc. LinkedIn is pretty capable when it comes to engineering. From what I've seen, most people's beef with LI tends to be product-related
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by aji 10y ago
Agreed. He has the following to say: >The easiest strategy in a case like this is usually to back in time: If the problem was caused by the unorthodox checkout-add-commit, then reset master to the point before that happened and try doing
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by aji 10y ago
Does it matter? If your email client doesn't understand enough of the markdown variant being used, then you should still be able to read the unrendered text. That's one of the great things about markdown.
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by aji 10y ago
it's obviously just a fun thought experiment. and we'd probably dust off the old PDP7s and stuff that are more suited to this kind of bootstrapping, instead of jumping straight to ELF and x86
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by aji 10y ago
Apache Samza, also from LinkedIn, is built on Kafka and I think could be used to do something like this
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by aji 10y ago
this one was linked by ars elsewhere in the comments here. references the paper as well. very cool! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnn21smGVrQ
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by aji 10y ago
there are certain experimental results in quantum mechanics that only make sense if you accept things like superposition and entanglement. for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v657Ylwh-_k
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by aji 10y ago
funny Seattle only has "Silicon Canal" for the bit around Fremont where Google, Adobe, Tableau, GeekWire, Facebook, etc. have offices. you'd think between Amazon, Microsoft, Expedia, Zillow, Redfin, and the countless other te
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by aji 10y ago
I enjoyed the conciseness of the article, but I don't have a big stake in this field so I can't comment on the content itself. I wanted to make a small formatting note: having key parts of the article only as images (not reproduce
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by aji 10y ago
no, the compiler does this when generating code for functions and function calls crt0.o is the glue between how the kernel loads a program into memory and how main() expects things to work. it does basic setup tasks that can vary between pl
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by aji 10y ago
it's definitely a joke. everything in the store is overpriced, FAQ item "how can I uninstall linux" links to a video of a guy smashing a computer, etc. look at this FAQ item: What's with the stupid (logo|website|tw
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by aji 10y ago
Seconding this suggestion. These are the sorts of things managers are expected to deal with, and it's important to engage them when you're unhappy with your team's situation. Knowing what's expected of you will make it e
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by aji 10y ago
I don't know about the cross-domain case but on the same "domain" (file: protocol) I used the following two HTML files link.html: <a id="link" href="opener.html" target="_blank">Click
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by aji 10y ago
Yeah, having never heard of this before, I'm a little shocked. Can you access things like window.opener.document? Fortunately, tabs created by opening the link using the middle mouse button don't seem to have a useful window.opene

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