camblomquist

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by camblomquist 9d ago
It didn't receive much attention on HN but someone recently wrote a blogpost that elaborates on the idea. https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such-thing-as-just-a-tool
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by camblomquist 1y ago
They aren't breaking up NOAA just for the sake of privatization, reliable weather reporting also makes it harder to ignore Climate Change. From Project 2025 "[NOAA offices] form a colossal operation that has become one of the main
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by camblomquist 1y ago
I did a `"0" == false` which returned true. I may need another cup of coffee before making claims.
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by camblomquist 1y ago
edit: I'm mostly wrong here. Because "0" is false. In a logical world, a non-empty string being truthy is fine even if the value is "false". Javascript isn't logical.
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by camblomquist 1y ago
I somehow missed the comments on this post. I think I need to respond not just to this but to the other (completely valid) criticisms in the comments here. And because you bring up what I think is a more interesting problem, you're the
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by camblomquist 1y ago
Someone else mentioned the acrylic, I'm going to mention Scarlett Sparks' Open Source Knitting Machine if part of the fear is actually investing in the machine https://github.com/ScarlettSparks/KnittingMachine
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by camblomquist 2y ago
Anecdote/Tangent: Roku TV wins an award for worst input switching UX. From Home, you have to go into Settings (the quick settings accessible from the remote aren't enough,) then scroll down the Inputs menu and then select your inp
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by camblomquist 2y ago
Honestly might just be a Discord in-joke on a C++ server as I can't find much specific either. Sorry for misleading!
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by camblomquist 2y ago
C++ has an absurd amount of UB to the point where there's an entire thought exercise devoted to how malicious a compliant compiler can be (Hell++.) There are things that are allowed and even common in C but UB in C++ (union type punnin
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by camblomquist 2y ago
Needed this post and this comment. And hopefully I'm not misreading either. Halfway through my greenfield redesign that I claim is catharsis because I was too scared of breaking things before they got better. I hope that I can put that
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by camblomquist 2y ago
Does reading a dozen papers on different algorithms to accomplish a specific goal count as scavenging. Asking for me because I've gone down a rabbit hole with recent work. Not trying to be antagonistic or humble brag either. Actually n
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by camblomquist 2y ago
I don't think you're misunderstanding, it's a strange choice to make even if the example here loses context to make it easier to make the point. It wasn't code that anyone currently here wrote and because it worked with
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by camblomquist 2y ago
I mentioned it in a side note that I trimmed because there were so many that it spilled into the footer (faster to trim the article than to fix the CSS,) but Microsoft is the only implementation of the big three that doesn't mark the m
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Mysterious Moving Pointers(blomqu.ist)
55 points by camblomquist 2y ago|66 comments
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by camblomquist 3y ago
Don't get your hopes up, the behavior when lo > hi is explicitly undefined.
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by camblomquist 3y ago
I did a double take on this because I wrote a blog post about this topic a few months ago and came to a very different conclusion, that the results are effectively identical on clang and gcc is just weird. Then I realized that I was writing