earenndil

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by earenndil 6y ago
You. You are the single point of failure; if you are compromised, then all your accounts can be accessed by the compromisor. If you're looking for a point outside yourself, then memorising all your passwords would be an option. But be
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by earenndil 6y ago
It's assumed that, if you're signed up for a service with an email address, you control that email address. This is generally a reasonable thing to assume, and can be verified for whatever account providers you support.
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by earenndil 6y ago
Nope, because java is statically typed.
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by earenndil 6y ago
This is not that great of an article, IMO. A prominent developer of one of the roguelikes mentioned says: > you can immediately see that this article was stitched together by throwing some wikipedia articles together if it references th
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by earenndil 6y ago
Notcurses is ok, not great. Tickit[1] is much nicer, and comes with what is possibly the only good way of reading modifier characters from a terminal (seriously). Alternately, if you're ok with not running in a terminal, check out be
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by earenndil 7y ago
You need to use nested functions if you want to have nontrivial behaviour in a cleanup, and nested functions are awful in c.
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by earenndil 7y ago
Raku has something similar.
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by earenndil 7y ago
I wrote on reddit[1] about why I prefer this over c++: > It's not a technical problem, but a social problem. Yes, I would definitely prefer the c++ RAII (and refcounts would be nice too). If you say 'my project is in c++&#x27
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by earenndil 7y ago
Author of the library here; AMA.
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by earenndil 7y ago
My version isn't as dependent on nonstandard extensions.
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by earenndil 7y ago
Hyperrogue[1] takes place in hyperbolic space. Definitely a good way to gain an intuition for it. It offers several different projections, so you can try them out. It's also open source[2]. 1: https://roguetemple.com&#x2F
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by earenndil 7y ago
Did you have a strong (10+ character, alphanumeric) password on the device they were able to get into?
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by earenndil 7y ago
> not once have I seen an explanation of what makes it fast and why those techniques aren't looted for open-source languages The language design is such that the programs you write can make optimal use of cache and SIMD. The interp
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by earenndil 7y ago
BSD was already open-source and superior to linux as the time it came out; it was only hampered by licensing concerns.
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by earenndil 7y ago
The last two paragraphs of the article imply that they will continue using their own fabs for CPUs.
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by earenndil 7y ago
What is TFA? > the use of "nested arrays" (not the same as multidimensional arrays) induces pointer structures that are difficult to do anything with J doesn't allow nested arrays by default; if you want to create such a s
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by earenndil 7y ago
Arthur wrote an OS in k with some c. Not public, but geocar can probably talk more about it if he shows up.
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by earenndil 7y ago
> swipe typing is inaccurate compared to android A couple of years ago, microsoft made a keyboard for ios called wordflow. It had better accuracy than any other keyboard I've tried. Sadly they removed it not long after; I still us
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by earenndil 7y ago
> All copyright licenses (except CC0) require attribution for the work in all copies (verbatim and derivative) Boost licence Unlicense WTFPL
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by earenndil 7y ago
Problem is not server specs, but bandwidth.
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by earenndil 7y ago
The cost is bandwidth, not ram/storage.
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by earenndil 7y ago
> world socialist website Doesn't exactly seem to be impartial either.
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by earenndil 7y ago
I tried magit briefly, but found it unusably slow. Is this different?
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by earenndil 7y ago
The game is distributed as an archive accompanied by an executable unpacker. The unpacker is signed by GOG, and it can verify the hash of the archive, meaning no malware concern.
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by earenndil 7y ago
So basically a bank run but with naturally (not artificially) limited resources. Great...
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by earenndil 7y ago
WASM has less of a perf hit.
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by earenndil 7y ago
Afaik those make for a 2x performance hit. And they don't necessarily protect against buffer overflows; if you overflow out of data addressable from one pointer, but into data that's legally addressable from another pointer, that
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/R/ProgrammingCirclejerk(old.reddit.com)
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by earenndil 7y ago
Something to consider: replacing 'jury' with 'jug' (or some other one-syllabic phoneme) might increase overall efficiency, even if one or two combinations need a slight pause.
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by earenndil 7y ago
Content creators don't deserve revenue. Putting something on the internet is a voluntary action, and a voluntary agreement to pay whatever costs are incurred. Anyone who chooses to put advertisements before people's eyeballs a

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