kutkloon7

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by kutkloon7 9y ago
To get the unicode codepoint. For example, you need this when you want to render a character, or convert it to another representation.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
A huge number of journalists is being arrested in Turkey. Turks who say bad things about Erdogan and/or Turkey on social media often get arrested.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
True, but is also a public secret that people who vote against Erdogan are being threatened.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Only in America
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
"Does micro support Vi keybindings? No, if you want to use Vim then use Vim." Kthnksbye
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
The things that are priorities in the USA have always puzzled me. Students pay an absolutely insane amount of money for an education that is very mediocre. It is clear that the American education is failing. About half of the population vot
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
That is absolutely false. Since I have my computer science/math degree my linkedin inbox has been flooded with messages from recruiters. I can guarantee you that they are not looking for an English major.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Well, this is awfully related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15343559
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
> PulseAudio also didn't do bugfix-only releases, you either backported or waited for the next major release and hoped it didn't break anything else. Haha, that is ridiculous!
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Sometimes you just have to bicycle close to cars. Even if you take the effort to see inside parked cars (it is probably better to just watch the road), it is simply impossible to evade suddenly opening car doors if they are opened at just t
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I am quite surprised that PulseAudio has a bad reputation. I couldn't get ALSA working on Arch Linux, and simply installing PulseAudio resolved all my issues. From the sentiment here I get the feeling that it might stop working any mom
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
And 120, 180, 240, ... ;)
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Ahh, that explains a lot. Thanks.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I'm not sure why the author included 'floating point' in the title (probably to hint that the Babylonians did not use a symbol for zero, and had the point floating in blank space). To technical-minded people, floating point i
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
The Babylonians already used a composite-ish system for numbers < 60: They had a different symbol for 10. However, smaller numbers were represented by repeating the unit symbol (which is not very clever). I guess that the least confusing
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Yes, composite numbers have many advantages. Working in base 60 = 2^2 * 5 * 3, has advantages of working in base 2, base 5, and base 3. In base 10, you can quickly spot multiples of 2, 5, and ten (or alternatively, reduce any number module
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
It is very characteristic for philosophy to have a very clearly defined question, and a very long and pompous essay which does not provide an answer at first sight.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I have skimmed the paper. It seems that they assume that the writes are skewed (e.g. some parts of the memory gets written to more often). This seems to be a reasonable assumption for real-life situations, but I am not sure if 'random
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I think it is also very much a chicken-and-egg problem. Without software for personal computers, there is no need for personal computers. When there are no people with personal computers, it is not interesting to write software for personal
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How FreeType's rasterizer work(git.savannah.gnu.org)
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
While I hate ads, I also think google has way too much power already, and this is not a healthy development.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I am not arguing that it is ill-defined. I am arguing that no-one takes the effort to rigorously define it.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
True. My point is that equality is never defined well.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Or define what = means. In fact, most university courses make this same mistake.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
The slides are not, and there are so many links that are directly behind a paywall on hacker news... Those really bother me.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I was just about to comment that the topics seem really intense. I got the impression that Carnegie Mellon is an excellent university with very high standards (much better than Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, etc., which are prestigious and ha
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Heh, "Look at the laws in the US when thinking about it" would be more appropriate.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Yes, I wrote the example. Then realized it was different and corrected only half of it.
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
I remember a recent example. What I wrote was: int x = somefunction(); int x_dividedby16 = x >> 4; My coworker corrected the second line to something like: int x_dividedby16 = (int)Math.ceil(x / 16.0);
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by kutkloon7 9y ago
Looks nice, but also horrible to type on.

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