nickitolas

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by nickitolas 2mo ago
A reddit user ( https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1v6ehm6/comment/ozrmz... ) shared this link to the sentencing decision https://canlii.ca/t/k2frf Some interesting bits I
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by nickitolas 2mo ago
Have you looked at jpdb.io ? Iirc it has randomized example sentences
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by nickitolas 5mo ago
How does that square with this comment from greg from today? https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/01/3 (About heads up to distros) > Nope, sorry, we are NOT allowed to notify anyon
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by nickitolas 5mo ago
I don't think itd be ok, personally. My impression is regulations and regulatory institutions can be very slow to evolve after technological advances, unless the government is financially liable. A scheme I would be more comfortable wi
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by nickitolas 6mo ago
Harfbuzz does shaping, my understanding is slug does rendering. So they do different things
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by nickitolas 6mo ago
I have no experience with minors using Linux. Do they not typically have sudo access?
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by nickitolas 8mo ago
Clang can target windows just fine afaik, although I'm sure the whole process could be improved. That said, as long as windows is the bigger more profitable market I wouldnt expect a switch, unless the dev tooling situation becomes dra
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by nickitolas 8mo ago
> In addition, success is generally pretty well-defined. Everyone wants correct, performant, bug-free, secure code. I feel like these are often not well defined? "Its not a bug it's a feature", "premature optimization
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by nickitolas 9mo ago
"life of the program" might imply it needs to begin life at program start. But it can be allocated at runtime, like an example in the list shows. So its rather "lives until the end of the program", but it doesnt need to
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by nickitolas 11mo ago
Not who you were asking but for me about 1800 hours of study+srs+reading+listening for simple shows (not "tons of idioms". Or at least not ones Im not already familiar with). This was for japanese, european languages should be eas
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by nickitolas 1y ago
Speaking as an argentinian, every time I hear about someone using crypto in that way its to avoid taxes, which seems legally murky/gray (if not directly illegal, but not currently prosecuted) to me.
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by nickitolas 1y ago
Is games not a part of tech?
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by nickitolas 1y ago
Since you already quoted wikipedia, here's what it says about ECS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity_component_system > Entity–component–system (ECS) is a software architectural pattern mostly used in video
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by nickitolas 1y ago
> I think his definition of OO is different to what we've got used to. Perhaps his definition needs a different name. I've seen "OOP" used to mean different things. For example, sometimes it's said about a langua
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by nickitolas 1y ago
If my memory isn't failing me, that was part of the reason rust went with a postfix notation for their async keyword ("thing().await") instead of the more common syntax ("await thing()")
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by nickitolas 1y ago
I'm a bit confused. What does any of this have to do with the central thesis of the talk? ("Compile time hierarchies of encapsulation that match the domain model were a mistake") I understand that OOP is a somewhat diluted te
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by nickitolas 1y ago
I would assume some orgs made it public facing for covid and it remained like that
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by nickitolas 1y ago
I don't know if it matters to you, but the "video" is just a recording of a conference talk. It wasn't made with the sole intention of making a "video". I agree a text format version of the same information wou
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by nickitolas 1y ago
> but also wrong in a few places Would you be so kind as to elaborate how/where? (Other than the "arpanet in the 90s")
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by nickitolas 1y ago
I think they were thinking of Carlos Menem's "si hubiera dicho lo que iba a hacer, no me votaba nadie” , but AFAIK thats a misquote [1] A more recent Argentinian president (Mauricio Macri) said a similar thing though: " If I
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by nickitolas 2y ago
> What do people find upsetting about Discord? These are the most common complaints I see from people - They don't allow third party clients and some people have various complaints about theirs (e.g resource usage) - Some people thi
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by nickitolas 2y ago
You're correct that as far as I understand it the analysis propsoed by the C++ Lifetime Safety Profile is similar in many ways, however I think there's a few important distinctions with these C# features that are not directly rela
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by nickitolas 2y ago
Are you also a proponent of nonlocal type inference? Do you think annotating types is too costly for programmers?
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by nickitolas 2y ago
Not to mention the error messages when you get something slightly wrong
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by nickitolas 2y ago
If you need to separately convert files yourself, then it is by definition not drop in
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by nickitolas 2y ago
there's an example in the first reference link associated with the CVE: https://cosmosofcyberspace.github.io/npm_ip_cve/npm_ip_cve.h... Granted, it's basically if(function_from_lib(user_input)) make_http_requ
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by nickitolas 2y ago
> Why not? Because it's extra work.
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by nickitolas 2y ago
I think most of it is that he shows and explains every invisible wall in the game (Or tries to). The basic explanations are about an hour and a half. It uses graphics for explaining almost everything and does it in quite a bit of detail.
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by nickitolas 3y ago
I mean ... https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to b
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by nickitolas 3y ago
So the problem is being able to drill down? Most decent IDEs allow you to collapse code blocks (i.e brackets) if that's what you want to do, and the comments accomplish the same thing a function name would. Some editors support region

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