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by steerablesafe 4y ago
The specification does have a hierarchical outline, and you can click on cross references too. Of course navigation can still be cumbersome, linking to chapters can also be awkward (tip: right click on outline element and copy link works in
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by steerablesafe 4y ago
No worries! How did you find the "opensource.adobe.com" link? I can't hit it with google, even with aggressive searches like "site:opensource.adobe.com filetype:pdf". And I can't seem to navigate there from the
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by steerablesafe 4y ago
Ah, thanks for the link. For some reason that link doesn't turn up in google search for me, however hard I try. Of course the ISO one is also authoritative, but not free.
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Tell HN: Adobe took down the PDF 1.7 specification from their site
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by steerablesafe 4y ago
What would be also cool is a syntax aware custom merge driver for git, but that's probably even harder.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
You can have the numpad on the left, but I rarely saw keyboards like that. I saw some odd "left-handed" rubber dome keyboards, but that's it. You can also have a distinct numpad and put it anywhere.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Sometimes the bottleneck is on the server end, and often they throttle throughput per connection. Some download mangers allow you to download the same file through multiple connections and range request. Having said that I think it's a
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
I recommend aria2 for a similar purpose. Just `apt install aria2`. I'm just a happy user.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
From the pricing page, limits seem to be on number of documents, not number of pages. Is the number of pages per document also limited?
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
It feels like an awkward middle ground. Like this method has a limited entropy output for the first 2000 coin flips (first 1000 double-heads/double-tails/mixed entries), and then suddenly it adds back a ton of lost entropy. An oth
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
> My mouse looked like Christmas tree until I installed some electron app on windows. At least solaar exists for Logitech stuff. Too bad it's still not something Logitech provides, but the reverse engineering work of some volunteers
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
My impression is that arithmetic coding is the inverse. You have N symbols with different known probabilities, and you turn it into a stream of 1/2 probability random bits. edit: On second thought this is probably a bijection and you c
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
This method generates approximately log_2(sqrt(1/(2*pi*p*(1-p))) - 1000*log_2(p^p * (1-p)^(1-p)) bits of entropy from 1000 coin flips, where "p" is the probablity of flipping heads. Neumann's method generates 1000
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Arithmetic coding. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
As an outsider to web development, @when would be a weird choice. If CSS wants to enable 3rd party tooling to take some of the syntax space, then it should declare some parts of the syntax never to be taken by core CSS (if it's not alr
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
> is it even legal to memcpy more than a T's worth of data into a T? (IMO you shouldn't be doing that, but I think it's legal in C, and not with my template trick.) How can you know if it's a single `T` or an array o
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
It's well defined in the system V ABI, isn't it? Compilers do follow that. Otherwise no layout is defined by the C and C++ standards, even outside of bitfields. edit: It's under "Bit-Fields" in [1]. I'm not ent
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Bitfields are standard, what are you talking about?
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
I expected C with libcurl on the list, but in a sense that might be the toughest to implement.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
From experience, opening a bank account in the UK takes a while. And for that time you need cash on hand, or a working foreign bank account/bank card.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
I guess I can understand that from an ease of configuration standpoint. Having said that I had no trouble with setting up zerotier VPN, which is also very easy to configure.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Any reason you don't use some kind of VPN solution for that instead?
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
That's easier said then done, when you integrate over a high dimensional (possibly infinite) space.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Keep calm and continue using Debian.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
`puts` has a return value indicating success or failure. edit: https://cigix.me/c17#7.21.7.9.p3
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
You can't have bugs if you don't have a specification. [insert meme here]
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
This is not a technical issue. But if you aim for the software to be packaged in official distro repositories, they possibly don't want you to have other backported dependencies, such as a new version of libstdc++, or you to vendor in
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
Yes, the quote for [meta] only specifies UB (although it should arguably be IFNDR). If yourself implemented `your::is_constructible_v`, then in translation units it instantiated differently for the same template arguments, then it would be
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
NVIDIA could have violated some patents with their design themselves (even unknowingly). There are legitimate reasons why NVIDIA wouldn't want the leak to happen, even if other companies likely wouldn't touch it.
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by steerablesafe 5y ago
I agree that there is little reason to not use a newer compiler to target an older distro, but there is one issue: the standard library. With newer language versions the standard library also grows. Older distros ship with older standard li

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