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by palotasb 1y ago
What does "loop on itself" mean in this context? The article repeats it 5 times but I can't find a thesaurus definition, and it's unclear to me if the author means it as a synonym repeat or *self-amplify or something d
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by palotasb 1y ago
The author is perhaps presenting a good argument for languages/runtimes like JavaScript/Node where dependencies may be isolated and conflicting dependencies may coexist in the dependency tree (e.g., "app -> { libpupa 1.2.3
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by palotasb 1y ago
^ is the XOR operator, 0 XOR 5 is 5. (Exponentiation is *) https://docs.python.org/3/library/operator.html#mapping-oper...
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by palotasb 1y ago
Not compared to the previous state where he worked for an unrelated company and only had his free time to contribute to Headscale.
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by palotasb 2y ago
> Sourcehut Is it there yet? > Notice: sr.ht is currently in alpha, and the quality of the service may reflect that. As such, payment is currently optional for most features, and only encouraged for users who want to support the ongoi
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by palotasb 2y ago
The spiral rule works only if there is no pointer to pointer or array of array in the type. In other words it is an incorrect rule. But take this for example: +----------------------------+ | +-----------------------+ |
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by palotasb 2y ago
But https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_(satellite_navigation) panned out and that's a closer analogue.
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by palotasb 2y ago
https://www.theorieexamen.nl/theory-exam/what-is-a-entrance-... An entrance or exit construction is a place on a road where you aren't just turning onto the road but exiting the road entirely. The most common exam
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by palotasb 2y ago
Correct, only one. This specific turn is onto a street that the article describes as "traffic volume here is low, since only residents will use this street." They probably expect the 1-car buffer to be enough for this intersection
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by palotasb 2y ago
> > using the password recovery flow > use a key/password The previous poster intentionally mentioned password recovery flow. If you can gain access without your password, than law enforcement can too. If you could only gain
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by palotasb 3y ago
Raw integers are also valid JSON according to the spec: https://www.json.org/json-en.html json is defined as one element element is defines as ws (whitespace), value , ws value is defined as one of: object, ar
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by palotasb 3y ago
As someone living in Amsterdam, Netherlands, I don't understand the resistance. I agree with the article and I think it is advocating for the right thing, so it's the right kind of propaganda. Maybe there is more common ground bet
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by palotasb 3y ago
> abs(x) = x*sign(x) True in 1 dimension, but not in higher dimensions, because, as you say: > how would you define sign(x) in a higher dimension? abs(x) is generally defined as distance of x from zero. The fact that sqrt(x^2) or
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by palotasb 3y ago
The author now has a YouTube channel on C++ with over a 100k subscribers: C++ Weekly with Jason Turner https://youtube.com/channel/UCxHAlbZQNFU2LgEtiqd2Maw
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by palotasb 3y ago
(2007)
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by palotasb 3y ago
What do you mean by OCI and KCL?
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by palotasb 3y ago
bool is explicitly documented to be a subclass of int [1][2], so while it might be an obscure feature, or subjectively not someone's preferred style, I don't see any typing related issue. In general I don't think that tre
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by palotasb 3y ago
From the game's rules: > You might know of some rule in your jurisdiction which overrides local rules, and allows certain classes of vehicles. Please disregard these rules; the park isn't necessarily in your jurisdiction. [...]
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by palotasb 3y ago
Think about oil rigs or coal mines where all electronics are potential sources of sparks/arcs and thus explosions.
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by palotasb 3y ago
> she claims that virtually all recipe books are made like this Most recipe books have pictures, how are those created then?
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by palotasb 3y ago
He means he stopped the motors to let the drone free-fall into the net.
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by palotasb 3y ago
As a counterpoint, Derek Sivers says Simplify: move code into database functions < https://sive.rs/pg > I think they are both right, Alex Kondov for keeping his domain logic mostly in the application layer, and Derek
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by palotasb 3y ago
> [...] A would be read as “A per se A”, [...] I, similarly, would be “I per se I” [...] O would be “O per se O” That's incorrect, these would have been respectively "per se A" , "per se I" , and "p
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by palotasb 4y ago
Link should be https://www.hetzner.com/press-release/neue-dedicated-server-... ?
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by palotasb 4y ago
To nitpick and to show a cool lambda calculus thing, you can deconstruct booleans if you define booleans and if statements the following way, using only pure functions. def TRUE(a, b): return a def FALSE(a, b): return b de
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by palotasb 4y ago
One thing I haven't understood yet: After I've bought a house to live in, why does it matter for me whether housing prices go up? Does it matter even if my $X house is worth $3X ten years from now? I assume that I must live somewh
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by palotasb 4y ago
I think a legitimate criticism of this article is using the clickbait "Software 2.0" label for something that's – as very well described by the same article – so very different from "Software 1.0." Considering ALL s
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by palotasb 4y ago
Hi Chris! Thanks for the link, it's an enlightening read, I learned about dynamic variable scopes today. It did make me change my mind partially about "environment variables are bad for the same reasons global variables are bad.&q
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by palotasb 4y ago
"Files are written to disk" is not strictly true. In the use case where the config contains (hopefully short-lived) credentials, one would pass them in a temporary file that usually only lives in RAM (unless /tmp doesn't
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by palotasb 4y ago
I find the Twelve-Factor App's design to use environment variable for configuration ( https://12factor.net/config ) unintuitive and perhaps a bad design choice. I believe environment variables are bad for the same reason

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