rothron

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by rothron 2y ago
This fix means that you won't notice when you accumulate other such resource leaks. When the shit eventually hits the fan, you'll have to deal with problems you didn't even knew you had.
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by rothron 2y ago
These are the same noises that were made on the right prior to the election. As long as people are sufficiently mad about the status quo, the other party has a chance to take over.
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by rothron 2y ago
This topic has been written about in more depth by people who didn't try to work it out by themselves. The classical artists color wheel is based on pigments. Printers use dyes. Screens use light. That's the whole reason why the p
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by rothron 3y ago
I don't think we disagree it's just a different perspective. The forced handling or propagation is what makes them annoying, but I think they're conceptually wrong. It would be another matter if they were designed such that y
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by rothron 3y ago
> But importance of the failure is determined completely by the program, not the library. Exactly. I think this is the real crux about what's wrong with checked exceptions. It puts the responsibility to decide what exceptions are im
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by rothron 4y ago
It's more of an issue the more network-y and multi-cpu your ecosystem is. I find the post rather banal and obvious. The state is literally the how and what.
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by rothron 4y ago
I have made ice cream like this using Gellan as a stabilizer. It's just too much of a pudding to melt. It's not really what you want in an ice cream. You at least want it to melt completely in mouth temperatures.
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by rothron 7y ago
His first mistake was to read back the verification number? Why would they legitimately asked for this theoretically? To verify he has the phone they just called him on? You should never have to read back a verification code.
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by rothron 7y ago
We used to laugh at the tin-foil hat people. Maybe they were just ahead of their times.
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by rothron 7y ago
I remember well the movement that impressed me the most. The elaborate changing of direction when running and then turning. It looked so natural, and it was the first time I'd seen that in a game. Most platformers still violate conserv
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by rothron 7y ago
Some of them were made from 'rotoscoping' video recordings of his younger brother. Videos exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKgLfqOVHco
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by rothron 8y ago
This would've made an awesome SciFi short story. The twist at the end is that she's lying.
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by rothron 8y ago
You also need a CRT or at least some sort of strobing refresh display to eliminate smearing from persistence of vision.
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by rothron 8y ago
This takes me back! But it feels kinda wrong to have that mouse cursor and have it not move perfectly smooth.
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by rothron 8y ago
Wouldn't an ad like that attract the biggest egos, not necessarily the best coders, nor people you would ever want to be on a team with?
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by rothron 8y ago
The extension is somewhat of a misnomer. It's really a jif. JPEG Interchange Format. You can imagine the confusion if the jif extension caught on.
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by rothron 8y ago
I called it that because I've seen fib be the go-to example of so many introductions to functional programming. But I suppose it's more accurate to describe it as the poster boy example for changing an implementation to make it ta
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by rothron 8y ago
Just to underline the futility of this, if you are clever you can let the compiler do it. https://everything2.com/title/C%252B%252B%253A+computing+Fib...
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by rothron 8y ago
Don't see the point really. Languages without tail recursion will perform worse. Memoization is borderline cheating, because it's a different implementation. Fib is the poster boy for tail recursion but the reason for that is that
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by rothron 8y ago
Yes. Especially if it has an ULMB function that can strobe the backlight.
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by rothron 8y ago
It's sure nice to not have your corneas constantly assaulted by charged dust particles.
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by rothron 8y ago
I've got a 10 year old who's been making a lot of stuff in Scratch since he was 6. I've been trying to think of how to phase him over to less limited languages and wasn't aware of blocklike.js, so thank you for that idea
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by rothron 8y ago
The move from CRT to LCD adds a few milliseconds depending on the screen. We're so used do it by now, that typing on old hardware is almost jarring. It feels almost TOO responsive.
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by rothron 9y ago
Theoretically, it should be possible to recompress the video back into the compressed file with no loss, provided the same codec is used, but it would be far more expensive computationally.
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by rothron 9y ago
While interesting, it's comparing 5000+ Tensor Processing Units against 64 CPU threads. I suspect this isn't a fair comparison by watts spent.
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by rothron 9y ago
People have done this of course, but you cannot convince a flat earther with GoPro footage because of the fisheye lens that will allow you to film the horizon curve either way, depending on the angle. What you'd need is a wide angle re
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by rothron 9y ago
It's square as it's 8x8 pixels, but the pixels themselves are not. There's a difference in aspect ratio between PAL and NTSC variants, and because the C64 was usually connected to a CRT, pretty much all bets are off.
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by rothron 9y ago
Not looking forward to the video services that demand that you pay attention to ads before they let you view their content, now that they have the ability to check.
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by rothron 9y ago
Blood banks stopped paying for blood because it attracted the wrong customers, those strapped for cash rather than the idealistic types. As a result quality suffered. Between hospitals blood is bought and sold at the price you mention. Radi
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by rothron 9y ago
Hemispherectomy patients do not decrease in IQ as much as one might assume. Typically less than 15 points. Some have no change and others even a slight improvement. While not directly comparable, as these are brains with massive problems,

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