giomasce

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by giomasce 1y ago
What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics -> Nothing. It can be interesting to know something (or even a lot) about enumerative combinatorics, and certainly there are some specific programming contexts in which th
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by giomasce 1y ago
Yeah, that's the theory, and by any mean we definitely need to pursue that as well. I wish we had the luxury of making it work on its own. But since we do not, we need to pull all the levers we have, not just one. > Expecting each i
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by giomasce 1y ago
Sure, I am responsible for my own actions, and buying something is an action I (can) make. Therefore I bear responsibility for the side effects of my buying actions. Not the same kind of direct responsibility of those that directly make bad
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by giomasce 1y ago
Giving up something you'd otherwise enjoy or find convenient because it would indirectly bring harm to other people feels a very virtuous action to me. I wish more people (including me) had the ability to do that more.
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by giomasce 1y ago
Would he? There seems to be a tradition of illuminations of the Quran (see e.g. https://www.islamicity.org/77800/illumination-of-the-quran/ , first result of an internet search). The style is quite different, since
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by giomasce 1y ago
AFAIU it is essentially mass-produced (pun intended?). The master is carefully handwritten, all the others are copies taken with an industrial (if high quality) process. EDIT: That's not meant to be dismissive of it. It looks like a ve
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by giomasce 1y ago
Suppose I want to do this with my laptop, and dump my drive to the cloud (say accessible via SSH) to reinstall another operating system overwriting it. It's likely that the new operating system won't touch most of the blocks in my
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by giomasce 1y ago
Nice thing! I use it to let my kids play with the educational games I used to play when I was their age (mostly Sammy's Science House).
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by giomasce 2y ago
By my experience, it helps a lot to have a handful of patches in Wine already. Doesn't have to be anything especially great, but showing that you can work with the conformance tests (both write them and fix them), create good commits,
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by giomasce 2y ago
You mean Full Self Security?
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by giomasce 2y ago
Agreed. Many smaller MRs are likely to get the same amount of changes accepted in far less time. Some of the factors include: * After each change you have to review the whole MR, either because you have to rebuild the context or because it&
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by giomasce 2y ago
How does that interact with cache? Does accessing the ring buffer using the second set of mapped pages ends up using the same cache line, or is it a fresh request to main memory? If it's the latter, I guess that's has good chances
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by giomasce 2y ago
That still requires you to plan how you use the virtual address space, though. You can't just add more memory pages on the back of your vector if you've already started using those virtual memory locations for other stuff. So you
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by giomasce 2y ago
Whose end goal? The tenant's goal might be, as you say, to convince the landlord that the device is unreliable, and cheat on the rent agreement. If you want to cheat, as I guess some people do (otherwise there wouldn't be need for
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by giomasce 2y ago
The nice thing of intrusive sensors that sense things that are not sensed by your usual senses, like this, is that it's easy to saturate them while faking innocence. I.e., set up your laptop so that it does many scans and/or assoc
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by giomasce 2y ago
In fine print it is written than "unlimited" really means "only until the airline thinks that you're abusing of it, at their sole discretion".
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by giomasce 2y ago
> One of the most curious humans No doubt he is very curious, but there might be some selection bias here.
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by giomasce 2y ago
The point is that there are a lot of other things which easily become a problem if you do them by yourself instead of using known good implementations.
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by giomasce 2y ago
> We never take a software methodology, school of programming or some random internet dude's "manifesto" at face value. Rules must be broken, when necessary. In this specific case it seems particularly necessary. I
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by giomasce 2y ago
In some conditions, yes. You need a cluster of points which have good reflectivity and coherence properties to microwaves over some time (months to years). Manmade steel and concrete structures, like bridges, houses, dams, etc, usually work
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by giomasce 2y ago
I don't think that going into implementation details is what I would expect from an interface specification. The interface exists precisely to isolate the API consumer from the implementation details. And while they're much better
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by giomasce 2y ago
At least it's documented.
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by giomasce 2y ago
I wish clangd let me configure the inlay hint elision length...
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by giomasce 2y ago
Your quote is also: "Capitalization matters a tremendous amount". But at least in some positions capitalization is mandated by grammar rules. So, when a noun should appear in such a position (e.g., just after a full stop), how doe
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by giomasce 2y ago
How do you write a noun that is not meant to be capitalized but happens to be place just after a full stop?
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by giomasce 2y ago
To me it's not even that incredible, after some thinking. The number of descendants (and ascendants) of a single person grows exponentially with time. Assuming that a certain closed population remains constant, it means that most of th
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by giomasce 2y ago
> - "Mitochondrial Eve" was not the only woman alive at the time, just the only one who still has surviving descendants The only one who still have surviving descendants /in a purely maternal line/. I guess most of th
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by giomasce 2y ago
> Digital markets do not need more government regulation; they need more companies willing to innovate and compete Fully agreed. So why are you defending what is essentially a (private, even) regulator in the crucial sector of smartphone
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by giomasce 2y ago
It's not very clear to me why in paragraph "Truncation matters" it is claimed that the strlen variant is necessarily better than the strlcpy variant. the strlcpy variant only scan the source and destination string once in the
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by giomasce 2y ago
Not enough, apparently. She still got robbed of her iPhone and had to buy another one.

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