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by jzwinck 28d ago
Right, and if you want to buy a mechanical front derailleur for your road bike one of the most loved models for decades has been the Ultegra FD: https://fish.shimano.com/en-US/product/reels/spinning/fron
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by jzwinck 2mo ago
Did Windows Phone solve the problem that Windows Mobile had where libraries like the .net runtime were incomplete? I remember trying to build an app for Windows Mobile 6.0 and not being able to use third party libraries because some of the
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by jzwinck 6mo ago
I recommend Japan as a country with many niche museums, here are two I enjoyed: https://www.tdk.com/museum/en/ https://www.khi.co.jp/kawasakiworld/english/ They are museums run by compan
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by jzwinck 7mo ago
In case someone doesn't know, the standard function for that is called fnmatch: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fnmatch.3.html
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by jzwinck 8mo ago
For talks which will obviously be popular, go to the talk before it even if it's not as interesting. It's not common to have two super-popular talks in a row in the same room.
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by jzwinck 10mo ago
In Europe if an airline does that they have to pay you a penalty of a few hundred euro. But KLM (Dutch flag carrier) found a way around that: if a flight is overloaded by weight they will keep all the passengers on board but leave their lug
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by jzwinck 11mo ago
Sound cards too. The Hercules website still proudly shows all their boxes from back when sound cards were popular for gaming and more: https://support.hercules.com/en/cat-soundcards-en/ Several models don't e
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by jzwinck 1y ago
If that were true it would also apply to C and C++. I have used Valgrind with Python + Boost C++ hybrid programs and it worked fine after spending an hour making a suppressions file.
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by jzwinck 1y ago
https://m.dpreview.com/reviews/buying-guide-best-cameras-und... Any of those is great. There is also a sub-$1000 category but the cameras in it are more compromised. If you want to spend less, buy used Nikon Z or Canon
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by jzwinck 1y ago
If you care about network bandwidth you can compress before sending, as virtually all web applications do. Then you don't need to worry much about the space efficiency of the application format.
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by jzwinck 1y ago
I find it somewhat unlikely, as this particular W hotel was not in a country known for personal injury lawsuits. More likely it was sold to them by some interior design firm as a luxury feature. Unfortunately it's only helpful if you&
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by jzwinck 1y ago
Not about smoking but I recently stayed at a W hotel and was woken in the middle of the night by the room lights turning on. They used electronic push buttons and I turned them off. Seconds later they turned on again. This repeated several
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by jzwinck 1y ago
I haven't seen the makers of Aeron (or anyone else) claim it's "orders of magnitude faster than plain UDP." Do you have a link to something about this? It doesn't pass the smell test for me unless you're talk
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by jzwinck 1y ago
I came here to write something very similar. Visa and their competitors all have the ability to transport data about the payment. Most receipts are a fairly small raster image which could be sent as an extension. Visa could also offer a str
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by jzwinck 1y ago
Maybe this is close? https://www.anker.com/products/a2683-anker-prime-charger-200...
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by jzwinck 1y ago
Are you forgetting the $8.50 charge for Airtrain? That more than doubles the price you quoted, and it's not optional.
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by jzwinck 1y ago
You say deque uses large-ish blocks but you provide documentation that it uses 512 byte blocks on GCC and MSVC is even worse. So if you're on Windows the blocks are so small the container degenerates into something like a std::list, an
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by jzwinck 2y ago
That's what isatty() is for. If stdin is not a TTY, prompting should not be the default. Many programs change their defaults or their entire behavior based on isatty().
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by jzwinck 2y ago
Ability to play smaller discs was normal in most CD-ROM and DVD players for many years before the Wii. A few people (probably half of whom have HN accounts) used to give out mini-CD business cards...sometimes even with truncated edges so th
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by jzwinck 2y ago
This is one reason why code generation should run as part of the build process, every time. Even if you decide to check-in the generated code for visibility.
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by jzwinck 2y ago
There is another standard library related scenario: hash tables. The std unordered containers will store the hash of each key unless your hash function is noexcept. Analogous to how vector needs noexcept move for fast reserve and resize, un
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by jzwinck 2y ago
You don't need a full scan or a giant CSV file. You can do it with a single small file in a single directory. The file contains the state of a pseudo random number generator. On each request, generate a number, save the new PRNG state
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by jzwinck 2y ago
You quoted the part about sequenced messages. Look at the part about unsequenced messages right after that. It has both.
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by jzwinck 2y ago
Here is a good message framing protocol built on TCP: https://www.nasdaq.com/docs/SoupBinTCP%204.0.pdf If you want large messages just redefine the length from 16 to 32 bits. It's been used for millions of message
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by jzwinck 2y ago
I'm not who you replied to, but I have such a story. I was in southern China for a couple weeks, using Google Translate to try to talk to locals sometimes. The voice-to-voice feature seemed useful and more approachable than asking some
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by jzwinck 2y ago
Really fast lines are used to drop spinnakers on big boats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiAo3KQ89no - this uses gears more than pulleys but same idea, light loads and high speed.
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by jzwinck 2y ago
1/2:1 is not useless. Sometimes you want to pull a rope quickly and power is not a problem. One real world use of a 1/2:1 pulley system is in high performance sailing dinghies on the spinnaker halyard. You want to be able to hoist
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by jzwinck 2y ago
If you use both upper and lower case, you are likely to eventually be surprised by some third party system or protocol that is case insensitive. I even found a commercial system which allowed users to choose IDs with case sensitivity (iD an
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by jzwinck 3y ago
This is super cool, thank you. One thing I couldn't figure out is how to press "Y" to accept Nightmare difficulty.

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