noswi

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by noswi 3y ago
And the teams are rightsized!
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by noswi 4y ago
Innovation, oh my, sometimes it feels like the fat ones (and, by proxy, everyone else) are living in some alternate fantasy world where the mantra "you're not gonna need it" is taken to the extreme, so they're not even t
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by noswi 4y ago
What does one do if they wish to see the actual contents of this crate? The web interface I'm looking at contains no hints at peeking inside, not even direct archive download links, nothing. I can't believe that a good way to see
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by noswi 5y ago
From programming perspective, there's nothing sufficiently preposterous in the idea of dividing by zero that would require bringing the whole world to a low-level halt just for attempting that by default. You tried to calculate the ave
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by noswi 11y ago
For me, it was a book on stoicism ("A Guide to the Good Life — The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy" by William B Irvine) that showed me that, while it's not possible to avoid the inevitable pains and losses — just semi-regular thoug
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by noswi 11y ago
It was very hard to read a text this bright on a white background.
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by noswi 11y ago
Their culture sure is a bit alien. The authors are boasting about the dosbox they've broken, yet (it looks to me that) not a single bug/crash has been reported. Edit: happily I'm wrong. Quoting ajenner below, "there are
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by noswi 12y ago
For [0, 1), would the naive approach of generating a string of, say, 16 digits, sticking a "0." in front of it and calling strod / atof yield similarly uniform results?
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by noswi 12y ago
For a good screenshot utility with a gui, there's xfce4-screenshooter from the xfce desktop suite. It's the bees knees, has the possibility to capture the system cursor (a feature the maim readme was complaining about) and a fine
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by noswi 12y ago
Well, you can still jump in on the very fun and competetive Al Zimmerman's challenge (which ends in about a week, though), the current task is exactly about solving the given Scrabble sets in the best possible way: http://ww
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by noswi 12y ago
Not meta enough. When was the last time you designed the chart for a book or other static media? I'd like to think that in this age there's no need to force a static, unexplorable view of the data to the user at all.
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by noswi 12y ago
Also, they didn't survive at all, they're all dead.
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by noswi 13y ago
How to deal with the discontent: 1. Make things worse for everybody, much worse, 2. After public outrage, return things to how they were before #1, 3. Profit, while the public rejoices and celebrates a victory.
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Detecting program-tampering in the cloud: advances in zero-knowledge proofs(web.mit.edu)
2 points by noswi 13y ago|0 comments
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by noswi 14y ago
One of the killer features to me for using Opera was a feature to browse with images turned off (cached images only) and a "show image" option on the right-click menu: coupled with extreme caching, it allowed to have a very tolerable browsi