nicopappl

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by nicopappl 2y ago
It assumes that "Skill" is a 1d value. But the ability to write quality code and the ability to debug are a bit orthogonal. Being better at debugging doesn't necessarily makes you better at writing less complex, more approach
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by nicopappl 2y ago
I can't say about France. But in Switzerland, there is a "three strikes" system where if you are caught with drug, the first time you have a $100 fine; Then a higher fine, called "Day-fine" which is proportional to
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by nicopappl 2y ago
Diaspora is a book for Math PhDs, involving a lot of physics and math theories. Accelerando is a book that anyone can read. Involving hyperintelligent cats and sentient shrimps (actual shrimps, not aliens). I would recommend it not just for
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Xan, the CSV Magician(github.com)
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Strandbeest(strandbeest.com)
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by nicopappl 2y ago
Yoo, congratulations to the author for going from this blog post dated to October 2023 to shipping an actual rust crate (bevy_light_2d)! I suspect the author might be reading this post back and cringe a bit. That last code listing with hand
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by nicopappl 2y ago
If you are interested in creative voter coercion, and generally very creative ways of changing law so that the election results always end up how you like them, I recommend reading up on the very innovative Hungarian system https:/&#x
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by nicopappl 2y ago
Wow, this is exactly how I felt with regard to my first job as well. This old codebase no one wants to touch but works somehow. The quite nice later-on additions. Even the "build a pipe-separated string using reflection and a 150 class
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by nicopappl 2y ago
Tooling When your text editor is not enough for a task, and it hopefully is extensible, consider writing little plugins to reduce repetitive tasks. Here is an example. I was working with a legacy code base using an infamous Scala actor fram
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From Dimes to Fahrenheit 451(web.archive.org)
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by nicopappl 2y ago
To go in your direction, a few countries in South American did ban advertising for junk food. In addition to education in schools, it dramatically helped reduce overweight-related sickness.
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2010 Flash Crash(en.wikipedia.org)
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Perspective-Correct Interpolation(andrewkchan.dev)
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by nicopappl 3y ago
Relevant: * https://blog.plover.com/Unix/whitespace.html (mentioned at the beginning of the linked post) * https://drewdevault.com/2023/07/31/The-rc-shell-and-whitespa... (mentioned at
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by nicopappl 3y ago
The kagi universal summarizer has been pretty descent on my end. But I've only lightly tested it on two pages.
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“Killer” Trees? Not (2013)(earthobservatory.nasa.gov)
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by nicopappl 3y ago
Yes! I use regularly Inkscape, and it has been a constant source of frustration. The UI is the exact opposite of how I expect things to work. It's improving at breakneck speed though. 1.2 already solved some of my frustrations (the new
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by nicopappl 3y ago
Nice post. Personally I find the way rows are added in this post a bit confusing. It's done for the sake of illustrating a source of data where rows elements of the jagged array are not accessed sequentially. That's reasonable for
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by nicopappl 3y ago
To clarify this. On my RX5700 XT, with ROCm, Stable Diffusion generates images on the default sampler at 512x512 20 passes in about 2 seconds. It's definitively slower than a similar NVIDIA card, but I've no concrete numbers. It&#
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by nicopappl 4y ago
I recommend Stanisław Lem's Cyberiad. The English translation has amazing prose and it is hilarious. I can't recommend anything else :) I like Charles Stross, good sci-fi with a satirical strike, but he's not as good with wor
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by nicopappl 4y ago
I've seen this still be recommended in 2021. I personally read it last year and it was definitively helpful. Just excellent if you want to understand what is going on under the hood. Which is necessary if you are writing anything more
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by nicopappl 4y ago
I know I shouldn't recommend it because it is extremely addictive, but try Oxygen Not Included. To me it is like Rimworld, but without the feeling of arbitrary nonsense sometimes literally falling on your colonists' head. There is
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by nicopappl 4y ago
Like Stratechery, my immediate concern is education. But not just homeworks (which actually were already criticized, I think the gears are already moving with regard to relying less on this kind of assignments) The real problem is entry-lev
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by nicopappl 4y ago
I found that understanding compilers was precious at several occasions, especially for cross compilation and embedded programming. Even for Java, for uni assignments, I was completely flabbergasted and at a lost when my IDE stopped working
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by nicopappl 4y ago
This is the exact premise of one of the stories in the Cyberiad. The main character Trurl builds a machine and it is convinced that two and two is five, so much so that when Trurl refutes it, it starts getting angry and hunting its creator.
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by nicopappl 4y ago
Consider reading Existence by David Brin. The book premise is the first alien contact being a pyramid scheme.
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by nicopappl 4y ago
It is true that power laws are seen everywhere, and that there are reason for those. I like the article, because it exposes very quickly a very powerful idea, but I disagree with the conclusion. Information networks are built by humans, the
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by nicopappl 4y ago
The essay you linked doesn't at all convey that Wikipedia is cancer, in fact it does somewhat the opposite. A shame the title is so inflammatory and doesn't at all reflect the content. It's in fact a seriously amazing essay,
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by nicopappl 4y ago
You may be interested in Fraidycat. Per the description: > Fraidycat is a desktop app or browser extension for Firefox or Chrome. I use it to follow people (hundreds) on whatever platform they choose - Twitter, a blog, YouTube, even on a
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by nicopappl 4y ago
After a certain level of wealth, most assets are financial and liquid cash becomes a vanishingly small part of total wealth. I've absolutely 0 info on cash distribution across the richest people, but this figure shows average asset acr

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