thsealienbstrds

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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Make my password great again
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Microsoft tried this with Touch Develop. The project was shut down last year. The on-screen keyboard layout was context-sensitive. IIRC you could enter complete keywords with a single key, maybe even variable names. It was pretty cool. Perh
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
It doesn't sound to me like the kind of thing that any particular WoW is going to fix. As if it would suddenly naturally dawn on someone to do this given enough time. It's just lack of knowledge and/or discipline.
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
I don't believe that not setting a deadline is the solution. There are definitely software engineers who will happily change their designs an infinite amount of times if you let them. > The testers keep running into situations where
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Let's go even more general: I would be unable to download PlayStore apps without violating the EULA. Did you know my apartment building's washing machines are literally inoperable without an app? For every app, you need access to
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Try to use it for a while also. My experience has also been that, after a short time, you will be required to provide your phone number for security reasons.
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Knuth invented a system that combines writing and coding: literate programming. Maybe you'd like that.
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Yep, I wish it was better as well. The situation has improved a little bit though. For example, you can upgrade to newer builds of the same LineageOS version OTA using a built-in updater app.
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
On one hand, I really welcome technologies like this that empower people in a huge way. On the other hand, I really dread that in this case it comes from the company that wants to know everything about you. The example where Google hid a mi
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
Yeah it makes sense when you think about it, but the first time you see it you're like wtf.
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by thsealienbstrds 6y ago
GT Sport has a DLC-mode where you can do time trials vs. Lewis Hamilton's lap times. On a track where he clocked 1 minute 37 seconds, I was pretty shocked to find that the top 10 GT Sport players _all_ clocked lap times around 2 second
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
It has been for a while. I occasionally need to do !g when I'm searching for obscure errors, but it doesn't happen often.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
This could be considered a flaw in those products as well.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
So, it means cross platform.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Are you aware of any memory-leak issues with fset? I once used it in a game where I updated an fset sequence in real-time. I let it run for a while, after coming back I noticed my computer was completely frozen (out of RAM).
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
And increasingly, everything _with_ a computer too. I literally cannot use the laundry machines in my apartment building without an app I need to get from Google/Apple app store.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
It seems to me that the amount of politics discussed on a platform is related to how popular that platform is. I like how in some technical IRC channels they just ban any political discussions outright. It seems to keep the channel on-topic
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
So, the advantage of this method is that it is practical and the closest one to a method that produces the optimal solution. Where the latter method is at risk of crazy compile times because it relies on solving a problem that is NP-hard?
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Isn't that actually another thing to worry about: what is going to happen to all this data when FB eventually goes bankrupt? Seems hard to believe they're just going to delete it from their servers...
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Let's say you run your own mail server. How much privacy do you really gain if 99% of the mail that comes in and goes out passes through Google servers? It doesn't matter what you do by yourself. You just can't expect everybo
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Individually, you have a choice. But not using e.g. WhatsApp needs to be a collective decision or it won't work because everybody else is still stuck in there.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
I suspect social media companies don't like the message because they don't like the costs required for good moderation. They don't really care about free speech, that's just spin.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Read a few chapters in 'a mind for numbers' to understand how learning works in the brain. It will give you an idea about how much effort it takes for your brain to actually learn something, and so will help you plan anything you&
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
I really hope that's not true.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
When it comes to Haskell, I want to add that especially when you start doing parallel programming, it becomes even harder to reason about. You might expect that doing that extra data type conversion in parallel rather than in sequence is go
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
I agree with your observation, except for the part where he not bashing on QuickCheck (he is, but you have to click the first link in the article in order to find it). > One of the big differences between Hypothesis and Haskell QuickChec
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Quality of the site aside, this concept would be great with JSON-API or something so it can be integrated with <insert favorite editor/IDE here>.
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Fair enough I guess. If the Lisp macro system only sees parsed s-exps, in principle you still need to figure out for yourself what kind of construct you are dealing with on a higher level of abstraction. Nim's macro system seems to be
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
Still, isn't it AST-based in the sense that the input of a Lisp macro is effectively a parsed syntax tree, just as in Nim?
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by thsealienbstrds 7y ago
> In one of my projects I use a macro to parse a set of types for fields and generate constructor macros for them. Funny, I did a similar thing! :)

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