sfoley

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by sfoley 6mo ago
That's not what fraud is.
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by sfoley 10mo ago
Near the end of the article, under Motivation: > The BASIC language eliminated much of the complexity of FORTRAN by having a single number type. This simplified the programming model and avoided a class of errors caused by selection of t
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by sfoley 11mo ago
> But there's no way to tone down the new animations Does Reduce Motion (under Accessibility) not work? I haven't updated to 26 yet, and probably won't for a while.
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by sfoley 11mo ago
> In iOS 26, controls insist on animating themselves, whether or not the user benefits. Carousel dots quietly morph into the word Search after a few seconds. This has been the case for several years now (started in iOS 16 IIRC); it is no
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by sfoley 1y ago
No it isn't. This line of comments is explicitly in response to your claim: > Isn't a larger issue the number of immigrants who are NOT contributing to the economy, living at taxpayers' expense No one has yet mentioned ill
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by sfoley 1y ago
SIGINT, not SIGTERM.
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by sfoley 1y ago
Yeah I consider that one to be a trick question. I knew same-quote-style nested f-strings were coming, I just didn't know which version, and I still use the `f'{f"{}"}'` trick because I want my code to support &quot
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by sfoley 1y ago
leftpad was 2016
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by sfoley 1y ago
I cannot reproduce this.
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by sfoley 1y ago
It's a clickbait title that needs to be changed to stop spreading misinformation.
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by sfoley 2y ago
> > If after the above I created an array like so `char str[n]` and then assigned such that it pointed to the same region of memory that malloc() returned, then would the provenance of both pointer be equal? > Yes. Uh, no. This is
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The Eval Game(oskaerik.github.io)
37 points by sfoley 3y ago|32 comments
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by sfoley 3y ago
> With Safari providing this, it can be used by some providers, but nobody can block or behave differently with unattested clients. What mechanism prevents websites from blocking or behaving differently for unattested clients? The articl
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by sfoley 4y ago
That's not what the word "need" means.
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by sfoley 4y ago
Brilliant feature, but this is the sort of thing that reinforces the idea that CLIs have awful discoverability compared to GUIs.
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by sfoley 4y ago
> This failed, b/c bash can't represent an empty array! It absolutely can, I have no idea where you’re getting this idea.
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by sfoley 5y ago
Wtf is a “blockchain-based VPN”?
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by sfoley 5y ago
Base64 costs 1.3x space, not 4x.
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by sfoley 5y ago
Who says this? I have literally never once seen this.
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by sfoley 5y ago
You can’t think of healthcare costs?
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by sfoley 5y ago
After it therefore because of it.
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by sfoley 5y ago
There is a 0% chance this story is true.
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by sfoley 6y ago
> as old as the pilgrims at Plymouth Rock. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by sfoley 6y ago
“ If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.” Flagged
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by sfoley 6y ago
“Can be used for infringement” is not the same thing as “encourages infringement” why does everyone make these bad faith comparisons.
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by sfoley 6y ago
Of all the things you can say about an HTML file, the one thing you can absolutely not say is that it is a collection of instructions. It is literally a declarative description of components to be rendered. I also did not say HTML is not a
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by sfoley 6y ago
An HTML file is not a program.
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by sfoley 6y ago
There is absolutely nothing special about `latest`, it’s just a tag like any other. It simply happens to be the default tag when omitted, just like how `origin` is the default remote name when performing a `git clone`.
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by sfoley 6y ago
Pip is a pure python library, you don’t compile it.
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by sfoley 6y ago
Not all programs are meant to be used in pipelines. It’s not even entirely accurate to say that that’s EXACTLY how pipelined programs should work; maybe they want to do some cleanup before they die. SIGPIPE was essentially created as a hack

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