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by stackghost 2mo ago
>all you get is the possibility to [...] execute code Anyone who's ever done even a beginner CTF knows that achieving code execution is a big deal.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
MathCAD or GNU units work well enough for me
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by stackghost 2mo ago
The longest I've spent in a dentist's chair is perhaps an hour, when I had braces as a teen. Being cooped up in a metal tube for 13 hours, knowing you had to do the same thing tomorrow, and then the same thing two more fucking ti
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by stackghost 2mo ago
These calculators are, without question, excellent little devices and the HP ones in particular had great engineering behind them. I had an HP48 in undergrad, which was considered pretty much mandatory for engineering. There was a thrivin
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>2x13 hours plus a few hours airport time. That sounds like pure torture
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by stackghost 2mo ago
I thought the original purpose was to rEwRiTe iT iN rUsT and replace gecko in Firefox?
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by stackghost 2mo ago
I guess? That's pretty confusing wording, and a bizarre rant if so.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>How do you make an std::array of a given type? Wrap the existing type in an extra layer of std::array, we all know this huh? where is the extra layer? std::array<int, 5> array_of_ints = { 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 }; >How do you
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>"Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." When I was in basic the instructors repeated this incessantly. About two thirds of the way through what Americans would call OCS they made us walk into "the gas hut" which is a c
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Yes it will hurt the game. Americans already have the NFL if they want to watch commercials. Leave soccer alone.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
I would imagine lots of occurrences of "demo scene" are due to autocorrect on phones. Imagine being so pedantic that you're gatekeeping because of a whitespace character. Couldn't be me.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Sounds like a dream job, tbh
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>FWIW, at a FAANG! Do you work on ITA? Only FAANG I'm aware of using Lisp is Google.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Yeah I'm not sure why it's not in the manual, as it's had arena allocation support since at least 2.4.x, but basically: - use SB-VM:NEW-ARENA to make a new arena - use SB-VM:WITH-ARENA to redirect ordinary allocation into an
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by stackghost 2mo ago
For an object with the mass of a cow, the gravitational effects are minute, and thus if we study small gravitational interactions we would surely want to model the distribution of mass of the cow. Either way, no layperson (to whom this blac
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Edited my comment for clarity. I meant "friendly local" as a euphemism, like "neighborhood pub". Anyways. Ask Claude.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>I don't see "simplified" as being opposite to "accurate". Is it accurate to model a cow as a sphere?
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Pretty sure 37signals' email/calendar offering ("Hey") works this way.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
I'd ask your friendly neighborhood LLM for design advice, but off the top of my head, so long as `static_assert(std::atomic<whatever>::is_lock_free)` passes, you could build a lock-free SPSC queue with just plain ol' std::at
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>realistically you'll need 16x for context / throughput optimisation Sounds like I'm buying a lottery ticket this week so I can drop $800k on hardware.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
It's genuinely hard to tell if this comment is satire or not. HN is widely known for being the home of the technocrat corporate bootlicker. Very little of the hacker ethos ever gets espoused here.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Passing the security verification succeeded for me (firefox on a mac, with ublock origin).
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>An alternate framing for these types of "the old web was better" articles is: "I really liked the web better when only privileged, highly educated people could put up content". The reality is that there was a lot of
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>The point is that if Emacs ships with an image viewer, it makes sense for that to be the default. If, and only if, the user has emacs set in xdg as the preferred image viewer, then I agree.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Eh, I used to be in that camp. I did it the right way. I set up SPF, DMARC and DKIM. I shopped around for a dedicated box with a v4 address that had a clean reputation. I ensured the provider's ASN was also clean. I used a well kno
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by stackghost 2mo ago
>I believe opening within Emacs should be the default - as many Emacs users aim to do everything within Emacs. I believe it's actually only a very vocal, very misguided minority that tries to do everything in emacs. Emacs is object
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Malleability is orthogonal to defaults. It's just grognards being change-averse.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
I use emacs almost every day, and it's a continual source of frustration that the community seems allergic to sane defaults. If the editor ships a built in file manager, that file manager should not require explicit configuration to op
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by stackghost 2mo ago
"Common Lisp Emacs" has been attempted a few times. Lem seems like the best effort yet, and I was really excited about it until they decided to adopt a webview renderer. I've got vscode for that.
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by stackghost 2mo ago
Not sure why they wouldn't use log2 internally, but the mathematical reason is that e^x is the function whose derivative is itself, so it and the natural logarithm are fundamental to lots of other theories/operations like Euler&#

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