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by blux 4mo ago
Hey fellow TU/e'er :) I followed his course as well, somewhere around 2004/5. Executing man in the middle attacks, writing buffer overflow exploits. Good memories!
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Laid Off After 25 Years in Tech: Anxiety, Sacrifice, and Reality [video](youtube.com)
3 points by blux 8mo ago|0 comments
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by blux 10mo ago
Could not agree more. As a child in the 80s I read a programming book (can't remember the name anymore unfortunately) where the reader was encouraged to write software that is always friendly and human when it comes to communicating wi
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Fastmail breaks UI in production(twitter.com)
34 points by blux 1y ago|51 comments
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by blux 1y ago
Seems he is using trade deficit percentages in his chart instead of tariff percentages ... :/
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by blux 2y ago
Could have been if backwards compatibility was not a thing indeed. Move constructors are not needed , they don't solve a 'problem', but improve on previous semantics.
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by blux 2y ago
This is becoming such a tiresome opinion. How are concepts fixing a problem created by previous features to the langue? What about ranges? Auto? Move semantics? Coroutines? Constexpr? Consteval? It is time for this narrative to stop.
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by blux 2y ago
AFAIK, 250W is the net energy of light arriving at the wafer after it has reflected off of many mirrors, with a very inefficient process to generate light from the tin plasma on top of that.
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Hiker discovers first trace of entire prehistoric ecosystem in Italian Alps(theguardian.com)
2 points by blux 2y ago|0 comments
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by blux 2y ago
I wrote this library once; https://github.com/ton/fast_int . Removed `std::atoi` from the benchmarks since it was performing so poorly; not a contender. Should be easy to verify. Rough results (last column is #iteratio
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by blux 2y ago
Did you verify their claims or are you just calling BS and that's it? The new functions are in fact much faster than their C equivalent (and yes, I did verify that).
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by blux 2y ago
I implemented GJK almost a decade ago now based on this excellent explanation from Casey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qupqu1xe7Io
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by blux 3y ago
Ok, I'll bite. What happened at Canonical?
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by blux 3y ago
I did not know about `includeIf`...this allows getting rid of the hacks I used to achieve something similar, great!
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by blux 3y ago
There are so many examples in the insect world of mind control its truly bizarre. The other day I encountered an example in David Goulson's recent book Silent Earth ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5647041
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by blux 3y ago
I'm not sure why you are downvoted; I have the exact same on an up-to-date Firefox.
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by blux 3y ago
I didn't know about `jump`, that is super useful.
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by blux 3y ago
For the text rendering part, is there no off-the-shelf library that provides that functionality?
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by blux 3y ago
This times 100 :) It is only recently that I started to realize this and once you do it makes a lot of sense.
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by blux 3y ago
Does anyone know what happened with Herb's idea for zero-overhead exceptions? I remember liking the idea when he presented it at CppCon ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARYP83yNAWk ).
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by blux 4y ago
I'm wondering, when will programmers be replaced by AI? Or less strong, when is the fun, creative job of programming replaced by entering queries for some AI code bot? I've always argued that that time is still a long way off,
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by blux 4y ago
Same here, computer flagged, nothing happens.
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by blux 4y ago
I fail to see the point of this, in fact, I think this is a fundamentally flawed approach to dealing with your revision history. The problem is that rebasing commits has the potential of screwing up the integrity of your commit history. How
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The vanishing old-growth forests(abc.net.au)
6 points by blux 4y ago|0 comments
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by blux 4y ago
It doesn't really mean anything, it is just a modern thing to say when announcing a software project.
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by blux 5y ago
I implemented GJK years ago based on a nice presentation by Casey Muratori: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qupqu1xe7Io
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by blux 5y ago
To me it's surprising and unsettling to see how small the market share of Firefox has become.
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by blux 5y ago
The logo on the title page works for me too, but none of the examples do.
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by blux 5y ago
Yes, there is, to block this by default, set 'permissions.default.shortcuts' to 2. I just found out that doing that does not prevent shortcuts from the extension to work contrary to what I just posted although I'm sure that
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by blux 5y ago
Hear hear, the shortcut stealing is so annoying. Github for example does this; Ctrl-k is some search within Github instead of focusing the search bar in Firefox. Then we have this option to disable shortcuts in sites which fixes this, but t

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