an_ko

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by an_ko 2mo ago
Last I checked, not with StreetComplete. But the OSM wiki has a table of Android apps https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android which column "Record tracks" can be sorted by, to see which apps have that fea
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by an_ko 6mo ago
I always doubt statistics based on self-reporting, when there are such strong incentives not to be caught supporting the opposition. If you say the wrong thing, you may get prison, or very accidentally trip and tragically fall out of a wind
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by an_ko 7mo ago
It lets developers on Windows also build and test your package in parallel mode. If you make your build scripts bash, they're Linux-only.
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by an_ko 8mo ago
There's context. Hank Green talked about it in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0ogvPfCA , but in short, paraphrasing, and adding my own thoughts: Jimmy Wales has been poked at with the question of whether he should c
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by an_ko 9mo ago
I would have expected at least some consideration of public perception, given the extremely negative opinions many people hold about LLMs being trained on stolen data. Whether it's an ethical issue or a brand hazard depends on your opi
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by an_ko 10mo ago
I use unwrap a lot, and my most frequent target is unwrapping the result of Mutex::lock. Most applications have no reasonable way to recover from lock poisoning, so if I were forced to write a match for each such use site to handle the erro
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by an_ko 1y ago
Could you elaborate on what those "maybe more powerful reasons" are?
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by an_ko 1y ago
Such people should perhaps consider a ceramic-bladed knife. They stay sharp basically forever because the blade is extremely hard, with the downside that it's not repairable with ordinary equipment if chipped. But if the owner would ne
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by an_ko 1y ago
Why does this stupid idea have to be killed so many times? Being watched constantly means living in fear, but seeing it almost become legally mandated practice over and over again is itself a form of living in fear. I'm so tired.
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by an_ko 1y ago
Does that mean your code is annotated with 300+ instances of `#[allow(clippy::unwrap_used)]` et al?
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by an_ko 1y ago
Cars break too, but roads for cars are typically constructed such that you won't go off a cliff or under a heavier vehicle like a train even if it happens. I believe GP's point is that cyclists' safety in failure scenarios is
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by an_ko 1y ago
It sounds like you should read the docs. It's just a subject-specific abbreviation, not an advertising trick.
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by an_ko 2y ago
I believe the post you're replying to is making a joke, referencing a classic complaint/meme that "Linux is only free if your time has no value".
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by an_ko 2y ago
For completeness, a critique of Uxn (and other "simpler" computing stacks): https://applied-langua.ge/posts/i-dont-want-to-go-to-chel-c.... This HN discussion about this critique is also quite interesting: h
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by an_ko 2y ago
Would you feel similarly if you went to a casino and won at roulette, only for the casino to claim that there was sand in the bearings or something and refuse to pay out your winnings?
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by an_ko 2y ago
Fully dynamic connectivity on general graphs comes to mind. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_connectivity (Graphs, with operations to connect and disconnect nodes, and to check whether two nodes are connected by
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by an_ko 2y ago
More than 0$, so definitely more than they're willing to lose in a Mexican court case that costs money and reputation, especially given the local courts are unlikely to rule in their favour.
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by an_ko 2y ago
> It was acquired by IBM in March 2015, and the service was discontinued. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blekko Perhaps GP has a more interesting answer though.
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by an_ko 2y ago
My favourite cursed XOR trick that I think wasn't mentioned is XOR doubly-linked lists. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_linked_list Instead of each node storing the next- and previous-pointers separately, stor
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by an_ko 2y ago
Run a memtest. Graphics cards usually crash badly when given invalid data, which can happen sporadically if you have bad RAM. If memtest shows a specific memory region as failing, swap out sticks to check which it is, and buy a new one. (Or
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by an_ko 2y ago
If you kick someone out, you lose them as a customer, and they'll tell all their friends about the free play trick out of spite, so you'll have to patch the machine anyway.
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by an_ko 2y ago
Could you elaborate on why that works, or why it's necessary?
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by an_ko 2y ago
Has that really changed recently? Different people have always enjoyed different things, and some don't like puzzles. That was as true a hundred years ago as now.
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by an_ko 2y ago
To clarify how flagging works on HN: Flagging only hides a comment once "enough" users flag it, and even then remains visible to users with the showdead option set in their profile. Source: https://news.ycombinator.com&
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by an_ko 2y ago
Parody is fair use, and this is part of a submission to SIGBOVIK 2024. http://tom7.org/bovex/ It's also clearly not competing with the original, since its contents are partially nonsense.
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by an_ko 2y ago
...Why is that better for programming than other ratios?
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by an_ko 2y ago
Sounds like you should write a vector graphics library.
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by an_ko 3y ago
Thanks, I'll add base64 as one of the trivial transformations to my ongoing brute-forcing effort of all your passwords, multiplying total search effort by a tiny constant. I'm joking. But what if I weren't? Especially if you&
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by an_ko 3y ago
Quoting the guidelines: > Otherwise please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. Editing clickbait to something more useful is fine.
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by an_ko 3y ago
Major European cities with no such minimum parking requirements do fine. They have public transport and bike infrastructure, so many people in dense urban areas don't need cars.

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