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by rewmie 3y ago
It might be of interest to anyone that there's an implicit binary tree data structure dubbed Eytzinger's tree/method that only requires a single vector. https://opendatastructures.org/ods-cpp/10_1_Implici
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by rewmie 3y ago
> What is the difference between these on Windows? A command line interface (CLI), as the name implies, is a user interface pattern consisting of an application that you pass arguments to it through the command line to form a request&#x2
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by rewmie 3y ago
At first glance it looks like they applied a linear multi step method to estimate the value of their equation of movement. There is a huge and ever-growing number of LMM formulas and I don't think Donkey Kong placed a premium on minimi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> In fact it’s a good idea to simply black hole and ban the first couple hours of traffic on a new setup. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll definitely consider that trick with my upcoming setups.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> 98% of assistant professors say they self-censor, and 81% of those say they're self-censoring views critical of Israel. That's 79% of assistant professors who would be voicing opinions against Israel if not for the pressure t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Headline states 'mass exodus', article names three known companies that never actually moved to Austin (...) I'm not sure which article you read, but the one linked to in this discussion mentions: * VMWare laying off 577
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by rewmie 3y ago
> If you're translating vectors 10 times (...) You don't know what was being done. All you know is that the manager took a peek at the PR and told the developer to revert the commit.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Your personal beliefs only apply to your decisions. You have no right to tell others how they should make personal and health-related decisions, specially as history shows that those tend to suddenly do 180s regarding their values once they
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by rewmie 3y ago
> you stand with terrorist nazis It's ok if you just call them Hamas.
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by rewmie 3y ago
> As long as there are options then we can all be happy. I guess. Oppressing others is really not about options. It's one thing to live your life according to your own beliefs and principles, but it's an entirely different thin
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by rewmie 3y ago
Important tidbit that's being left out of most references: the US's rationale: > U.S. deputy ambassador Robert Wood called the resolution “imbalanced” and criticized the council after the vote for its failure to condemn Hamas’
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by rewmie 3y ago
> There's no definites in software development but if a formula is repeated 10 times you probably have a good name for it and at that point it probably should be in a function. I don't think your take makes sense. The example
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The lesson is "goodbye to over-applying a rule without considering context-specific trade-offs", I think the problem is the rule itself. A rule of thumb is fundamentally broken if it does more harm than good. The heuristics t
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Some newer languages don't even deal in classes at all (Rust for example) and with good reason. If one says we need classes for having objects—No we don't. That's specious reasoning at best. A class basically means a way
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by rewmie 3y ago
> But I find it hard to believe that among those 10 lines of maths each, there aren't any functions one can extract that form some natural abstraction (e.g. "translate vector" or whatever), so that every handle function en
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Piracy isn't exactly a zero-sum game, but there is a cost associated with it. There is zero cost associated with piracy. Zero. At best, there's an expectation of profit that's not met. To argue that, you need to show ho
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Either this is a lie (...) It don't think there is any doubt that it was a bald-faced lie. The comment reads like a puerile feign of ignorance.
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by rewmie 3y ago
Taken from the article: > However, Musk has recently addressed his distaste for unions, saying in New York last week: “I disagree with the idea of unions. I just don’t like anything which creates a lords and peasants sort of thing. I thi
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Reusing a function C in functions A and B makes A and B dependent on C. If the definition of C changes, the definitions of A and B also change. To pile onto this example, in some cases the mastermind behind these blind deduplication ch
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Removing duplication is the introduction of a dependency. If this dependency is a good model of the problem then this deduplication is a good abstraction and may also be a simplification. Otherwise it's just compression in the gui
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by rewmie 3y ago
I'm going off on a tangent here, but whenever I read about progress in dentistry I always get the feeling they are just sugarcoating medieval practices. In an era where mankind routinely flies people into space, the primary tools leve
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by rewmie 3y ago
> With good hygiene and dental checkups twice a year, you can reasonably expect to avoid cavities altogether. Your comment is self-contradicting. The only thing that dental checkups do is allow cavities to be flagged before they progres
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I don't have a single mono/dotnet application or service installed on Linux, and I can't think of a popular one. I don't have market share data, but dotnet is used a lot to develop ASP.NET Core services, which also
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Twitter is where the influential people (...) Either you believe these influential people are only so because of Twitter, or that Twitter is just a communication medium which is used by some people you seem influential. I see more infl
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by rewmie 3y ago
> This hasn’t really been true for years. No, that's fundamentally wrong. Every single Wikipedia user is an editor. In Wikipedia ou don't even need to have registered an account or be logged in to be an editor. > Most new ed
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by rewmie 3y ago
> Giving the organization very clear rules and goals from the start and making wide range correcting changes towards them even when they hurt the whole organization. I'm not sure you noticed it, but the people complaining about &quo
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by rewmie 3y ago
> I mean, that's true, but in a not-especially-deep way that doesn't really help or address the issue at hand. I'm not sure you go the point. If someone's complain is that others can also edit wikipedia articles, they
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by rewmie 3y ago
Reverting is editing. Just because you wrote something in Wikipedia that does not mean it is expected to be set in stone. If your expectation is to write stuff that only you can change, write a blog.
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by rewmie 3y ago
That's a great point. Both Chrome and Edge are widely used as WebView drivers by some applications, and whether the user likes it or not they end up using one of the browsers that's dubbed market leader. Does Firefox even provide
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by rewmie 3y ago
> The special rights include reverting edits (...) No, it really doesn't. Anyone can revert any edit, even if you haven't registered an account and/or you aren't logged in. The only thing that the reversion permission

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