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by lowq 8mo ago
I sure don't miss the footguns and raw boilerplate that is having a copy constructor, move constructor, copy assignment operator, move assignment operator, and destructor, per class. Yes, you should avoid the manual memory management t
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by lowq 10mo ago
The internet is an amazing place.
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by lowq 1y ago
"Whoever creates this stuff has no idea what pain is whatsoever." I think it's clear that he is specifically responding to the the overall soullessness of the technique - to animate without a human understanding of what is
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by lowq 1y ago
"Well, we would like to build a machine that can draw pictures like humans do" "Would you?" "Yes" Awkward silence From this I don't think it's difficult to extrapolate his feelings about moder
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by lowq 1y ago
Guilty as charged. I don't think the leap was far but there was certainly a logical leap. Thanks for pointing that out.
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by lowq 1y ago
"An insult to life itself" [1] [1] https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/hayao-miyazaki-ar...
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by lowq 2y ago
Not to mention, 99^6 = 941,480,149,401 ≠ 99,000,000 (which TFA also quotes). But who's to say notation didn't degrade along with the rest of society? :^)
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by lowq 2y ago
I hear you man. The fact that a `byte` in ROS's bootleg protobuf is actually signed, and `string` is ASCII-only means that if you want to send a file or binary blob you have to use a `uint8[]`, which of course C++ will turn into a `std
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by lowq 2y ago
It's fantastic when embedding Lua in a self contained executable too! I have a routine that goes through and 'cdef's certain headers that were also #included at compile time. Super powerful extending a C program this way.
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by lowq 2y ago
It doesn't run the preprocessor, so you have to expose constants as externs, for example. Things like `int32_t` still work, so it must just have built in support for standard types.
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by lowq 3y ago
I swear that IKEA filter writeup was on HN once upon a time. That or someone else's thorough analysis of the exact same appliance!
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by lowq 3y ago
Utah's BAC limit is (infamously?) 0.05. A single drink will put you over, or so the rumors go.
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by lowq 3y ago
As a fairly avid Rust user I can say I'm excited to hear that! Just playing a little devil's advocate for fun. That said I was moderately upset by this Friday after carefully assembling a development container for a project at wor
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by lowq 3y ago
Hang on just a sec Updating crates.io index Fetch [> ] 0.12%
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by lowq 3y ago
Let 0 correspond to zero, and 1 corresponded to Rayo's number. Crisis averted!
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by lowq 3y ago
For some reason I dkubt it
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by lowq 3y ago
One might say Electron's algorithmic constant is quite large..
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by lowq 3y ago
Agreed. I find that "smart objects" are much more difficult to make cohesive with one another. Punting your "smart" logic to a higher level is easier to understand, test, and change.
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by lowq 3y ago
Sounds amazing! Did you implement congestion control per connection, and if so, which algorithms did you use? I can imagine that CC could really affect throughput at this scale.
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by lowq 3y ago
If the probe was single ended (e.g. not a differential probe or handheld unit), you may have shorted something to ground without realizing it. Was a long time before I figured that one out.
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by lowq 3y ago
That's a good one. I've been trying to find a source for: "If you try to write your own TCP, you'll end up with TCP, but slow." Cannot for the life of me figure out where I read this.
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by lowq 3y ago
I did not expect to find a fellow machine girl enjoyer today! MG is all about the samples and the breakbeats. Definitely not the chords, haha. But I do wonder how that factors in to mixing.
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by lowq 4y ago
Holy cow. I never considered this! I guess it would also explain why the games I would write in 2011 on a netbook ran so smoothly on every other computer I tested them on, despite using the legacy OpenGL 1.1 API, etc. etc.
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by lowq 4y ago
Anyway, I lol'd hard at "written by the devil." Thanks for the article.
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by lowq 4y ago
As far as configure is concerned, I'd like to add that 16394 is close to 2^14, not 2^16.
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by lowq 4y ago
In our process, we've been consistently told that a weight of 8 corresponds to a two week (10d) sprint, and that 80% of our time should be spent on scrum tasks. Then, if any developer closes more than 8 points in a sprint, we are told
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by lowq 4y ago
Your comment reminded me of this handy chart regarding the developed world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta...
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by lowq 5y ago
I will always be nostalgic for 2011 Minecraft. Sandstone was cool, dogs were cool, pistons were cool, villagers not so much, IMHO. Less was more, man.
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by lowq 8y ago
sigh One of these days.
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by lowq 8y ago
Millennial here, deleted my account a few days ago. Unlike most platforms, Instagram cuts strait to the most depressing part: pictures. I've had enough with social media, and I envy those who never created a Facebook.

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