nycticorax

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by nycticorax 2mo ago
Kind of you to engage! Ahh, ok, I misunderstood. Very cool! I think maybe it would have helped me if you had given a one-or-two-sentence description of the "representative change" in the main text, to make it a bit more concret
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by nycticorax 2mo ago
This is interesting, but I think it would be even more interesting to see a comparison of the token cost of adding a new feature, in the original codebase vs the refactored one. You'd think/hope that the cost of adding the new fe
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by nycticorax 3mo ago
Andreas Kling has said that one of his inspirations for SerenityOS was the Windows 2000 UI ( https://corecursive.com/serenity-os-with-andreas-kling/ ). I found his general goal for SerenityOS ("Roughly speaking, th
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by nycticorax 5mo ago
OK, I did not know about [saturation arithmetic]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturation_arithmetic ). Cool! But I can't agree with the claim that "nan is almost always a mistake". Certainly if you&#x2
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by nycticorax 5mo ago
This is only somewhat related, but: Has there ever been a language that adopted IEEE-754-like semantics for integer types? (Yes, I know this would be slow without hardware support.) By this I mean adding valid values for (signed) ints to
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by nycticorax 6mo ago
The whole thing of calling controls "chrome" is basically a metaphor gone horribly awry. The term was coined in the 1990s because (at least on Windows) the "content" usually had a white background, and the controls usua
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by nycticorax 9mo ago
Middle-click paste is faster than Ctrl-C-then-Ctrl-V. And if you are a developer, you often find yourself copying long strings from one place to another. And it has been a standard behavior on Linux since the 1990s. This just seems to me
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by nycticorax 9mo ago
I'm not surprised that GNOME would contemplate this: it seems like a very GNOME-y thing to do. (And maybe this is a good thing for GNOME users. But this kind of thing is also why I use KDE.) But why would Firefox feel the need to to
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by nycticorax 9mo ago
Shouldn't the first sentence on that website describe what GNU Unifont actually is ? I guess it's a single copyleft font designed to have coverage of all (or nearly all?) unicode code points?
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by nycticorax 10mo ago
It would help if you would say what exactly you think is wrong with it.
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by nycticorax 1y ago
So, first off, it seems like Jonathan Riddell not working on KDE anymore is a huge loss for the KDE community. But I'm not sure I really understand what happened. AFAICT, Valve had a contract with Blue Systems, specifically a subunit
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by nycticorax 1y ago
My PhD research was actually studying the leech nervous system. They're still an important 'model' organism in neurobiology. Probably not as important in the field at large as they were in, say, the 1970s, but still. They&
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by nycticorax 1y ago
Strongly endorse. That paper is really wonderful. It seems to me that MVS is the solution to the version selection problem, and now we just have to wait for awareness of this to fully percolate through the developer community.
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by nycticorax 1y ago
The post title implies that all French villages have no more drinking water, which is not the case. Sounds like it's 16 villages, all near each other. Still a big deal, but not nearly as bad as if it was all of France.
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by nycticorax 1y ago
DOI link to original article: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajhg.2025.04.012
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by nycticorax 1y ago
I don't agree with him 100%, but I always find Drew DeVault to be thoughtful on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32936114 https://drewdevault.com/2021/09/27/Let-distros-do
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by nycticorax 1y ago
There are certainly some aspects of it that are inelegant, in the interests of backwards compatibility, but otherwise I don't know what you are talking about. Matlab supports >2d arrays just fine, and has for at least 20 years.
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by nycticorax 1y ago
HN discussion of a related recent story in Wired magazine: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43490290
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by nycticorax 2y ago
I'm excited to see KDE promoted to being an "edition", but does anyone know what is behind this decision? It surprises me that Red Hat would take this step, since they are (seemingly) a big GNOME proponent, and I thought man
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by nycticorax 2y ago
The statement I take issue with is that Sutton "is not to be celebrated or trusted". Which I can only interpret to mean that the speaker does not think that Sutton should be celebrated or trusted. (And they've chosen to s
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by nycticorax 2y ago
But the Turing Award is for his technical work.
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by nycticorax 2y ago
This is so silly. Do you imagine temporal difference learning is some kind of human successionist plot?
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by nycticorax 2y ago
And of course January 6, a literal coup attempt, was perpetrated by the Rs. Nothing remotely like that on the D side.
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by nycticorax 2y ago
Indivisible still exists, and is still active: https://indivisible.org/
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by nycticorax 2y ago
This is not quite correct, at least not in most commonly-used languages. The difference comes when a "superclass" method calls self.whatever(), and the whatever() is implemented in both the "superclass" and the "su
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by nycticorax 2y ago
Maybe it's not, for you. But I don't think the audio quality of Google/Nest speakers is generally as good as for Sonos.
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by nycticorax 2y ago
I have a Sonos system at home, have for years. (I currently have to use the "Sonos S1" app because I have one older device that is not supported by the new app.) It sounds good (to me) when everything is working, but honestly th
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by nycticorax 2y ago
Thoroughly enjoyed this! Minor typo: "an syntax" in the second-to-last paragraph should be "a syntax".
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by nycticorax 2y ago
I feel like it's almost criminal of textbook writers not to mention this when introducing the characteristic function... At least as an aside or a footnote, for readers already familiar with Fourier transforms.
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by nycticorax 2y ago
I am just reading about this whole Automattic vs WP Engine fight today, and I'm a little surprised that most people seem to think Automattic is the unambiguous bad guy. Automattic has still given away a huge amount of open-source soft

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