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by joosters 4mo ago
I was hoping that this would talk more about the logic behind generating a diff, rather than the optimisations involved in rendering the text. IMO (as someone who doesn't have to deal with the actual rendering) it would go a bit deeper
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by joosters 5mo ago
I think the more relevant point is: But almost all social networks and search engines won’t let you advertise without a license from the required jurisdiction. Which is a good thing! This is an area full of scammers, if you can't set
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by joosters 5mo ago
It's really annoying. I have a sudoku game on my phone, works great but give it internet access and it's suddenly full of sketchy adverts. If I'm playing it on my commute, it's usable with mobile data disabled for the ap
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by joosters 6mo ago
Lionel Hutz Works on contingency No money down Always the best example for missing punctuation!
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by joosters 6mo ago
Awesome to see a perl JIT. I love perl, and it's exciting to see something that tries to offer good-enough compatibility to run most perl code.
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by joosters 6mo ago
https://archive.org/details/1066allthat00walt/page/n5/mode/2... for anyone who'd like to read it. Embarassingly for me, while the book advertises that it contains '2 genuine dates', 1
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by joosters 7mo ago
Re: OpenClaw in particular, I had never realised that simply getting lots of stars on Github meant that your project was actually a success...
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by joosters 8mo ago
From the parent comment: because of OS-level overcommit, which is nearly always a good thing It doesn't matter about the language you are writing in, because your OS can tell you that the allocation succeeded, but when you come to us
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by joosters 1y ago
Oxbridge have never had to 'let in dumber people'. They are always heavily over-subscribed, and give offers to a small fraction of the people who come for an interview, let alone apply. The whole point of the interview process is
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by joosters 1y ago
You can tell the difference between the two by checking if the Evil bit is set in the corresponding IP packet - RFC 3514 already standardised this.
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by joosters 1y ago
Improvement suggestion: Keep the search text in the search field when you show the results. The 'what are you looking for' box gets cleared when you show the results, it would be nicer if the search text was kept so that you could
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by joosters 1y ago
"Floor to ceiling libraries with a ladder" Does that mean it excludes most of the results from "Floor to ceiling libraries without a ladder"? You know, if I'm buying a house, I think I can supply my own ladder s
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by joosters 2y ago
I think I misread your tone, sorry. It's a good article though, the explanation of how multiplies work is nicely written.
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by joosters 2y ago
But it is (or was originally) used in lots of places, not just jump tables, generally to do relative addressing, for example when you want to refer to data nearby, e.g. ADD r0, r15, #200 LDR r1, [r15, #-100] etc
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by joosters 2y ago
Yeah, it was that way for all previous ARM processors too, for exactly that reason. Adding special cases would have increased the transistor count, for no great benefit. The only downside was that it exposed internal details of the pipelini
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by joosters 2y ago
Is this really C++ specific though? It seems like the optimisations are happening on a lower level, and so would 'infect' other languages too. Whatever the language, at some point in performance tweaking you will end up having to
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by joosters 2y ago
Your comment boils down to 'all code should be perfect'. Which is a lovely request, but doesn't really help. In particular, I'd challenge you to find one large program that handles OOM situations 100% correctly, especial
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by joosters 2y ago
Can we at least upgrade the fonts, colors, and negative space to make it look more 2020s? Of course YOU can, it's open source, feel free to hack away at it.
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by joosters 2y ago
I've not seen a very convincing use-case for ETags vs Last-Modified date caching. In the example request, the server still has to do all of the work generating the page, in order to calculate the ETag and then determine whether or not
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by joosters 2y ago
Thousands of words written about how, specifically, gcc produces poor slow code ('the application users' time is more valuable than their time') and yet the article never tries to measure how slow or fast any of their examp
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by joosters 3y ago
But Dracula was defeated by being decapitated and stabbed in the heart. I do hope religion isn't claiming those as their own! FWIW, I like the concept in the book 'I Am Legend' where the vampires are repelled by religious s
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by joosters 3y ago
The meaning of ^ and $ in perl regexes can be altered by modifiers at the end of the regex. A 'multi-line' regex, with a /m at the end, makes them match the start and end of any line.
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by joosters 3y ago
One angle that isn't mentioned in the article is that there are companies that now stream live GNSS/GPS data from horse races, so the drone users are competing against 'official' feeds of in-running data, e.g. https:&#x
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by joosters 3y ago
They can't stop you doing that, and I've been to races years ago where people were on their mobile bellowing out a horse number to their mate on the other end, who is sitting ready to place a bet on the supposed winner. But that&#
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by joosters 3y ago
1. You won't get as good and clear view from the stands, and the betting is going on throughout the race, not just at the end where you might have a clear-ish view. You could sit in the stands and point your phone at the big screen TVs
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by joosters 3y ago
I would guess that they have looked at lots of apps, it’s kind of what a security researcher does.
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by joosters 3y ago
True enough, but that never stops people from reimplementing technologies badly, then working on speeding up their new solution...
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by joosters 3y ago
FastCGI was feature complete decades ago, there's little development needed for shiny new features.
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by joosters 3y ago
Ah, such rose-tinted glasses! My first PC - much like the one pictured in the story, had a fan that was spinning 100% of the time, because most PCs then were too primitive to have a temperature sensor that controlled fan speed. And you coul
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by joosters 3y ago
Is this just an advert for Tesla? Why does the car feature in almost every photo?

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