wfunction

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by wfunction 9y ago
I just installed Brave. Then I realized it doesn't allow Chrome extensions? I have so many ranging from email notifiers to cookie opt-outs to my own custom extensions for security and usability (like one that colors usernames on HN, fo
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by wfunction 9y ago
eBay is only in the buyer's favor in terms of refunds. It doesn't actually go after fraudsters who refund you immediately to make you shut up after you call out their counterfeits and whatnot.
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by wfunction 9y ago
What?
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I took function pointers as an example of why "supporting dynamic dispatch" is irrelevant for categorizing programming languages as OOP / not OOP. Again, like everywhere else in your comments, you're conflating and
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by wfunction 9y ago
A lot of misunderstanding in what you wrote, but to comment on two parts: > Every languages that have some kind of function pointer allow this. It doesn't seem like you're reading the discussion. The claim the parent made was t
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by wfunction 9y ago
No, it absolutely is not. OOP has lots of well-known unique characteristics such as inheritance, dynamic dispatch, polymorphism, encapsulation, etc... as well other less-frequently-noticed semantic differences like the fact that the message
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by wfunction 9y ago
> Seriously guys, if you think OO has failed you are obnoxious to the amount of successful OO software that everyone uses every day. Not sure what you mean. Do you mean oblivious ?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Is not saying hello when you see someone that you would normally be expected to say hello to not considered "rude"? It is to me, but it's not obnoxious...
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by wfunction 9y ago
> I mean, you could just never leave your house if you were concerned about safety. I'd take a 1/1000000 chance. I wouldn't take a 1/1000 chance. Get the point?
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by wfunction 9y ago
What I would be afraid of is if these folks work in groups and they hear about the one guy who dared to go after them. Then you might get one of them arrested but your life might be under threat from a dozen others. Is it really worth it?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Would they pursue something like counterfeit software licenses or gift cards mailed via USPS, if the scale isn't as large (like <$100)? Asking since it's happened to me on smaller scales before, but the amount is smaller and I&
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by wfunction 9y ago
It sounds like we're agreeing? I was also saying, just like you, that the choice is not based on the statistics. The parent one is the one that used the statistic to justify the choice of biking.
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by wfunction 9y ago
I don't think people think in terms of life expectancy. Do you? Is a 1% chance of dying on your next ride and otherwise living 100 years equivalent to not riding your bike and living 99 years to you? Edit regarding your comment: Oh, I
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by wfunction 9y ago
Safety concerns?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Does it bother them enough to get other police departments involved? I imagine no one they can arrest is within their jurisdiction...
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by wfunction 9y ago
I suspect you might also enjoy this, which was also posted a while back: https://github.com/karolmajta/git-xd-hook
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by wfunction 9y ago
"This required techniques sensitive enough to detect variations in the movement of the star as small as 30 centimeters per second." This kind of precision sounds insane. It sounds like far more of an achievement than having found
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by wfunction 9y ago
Sorry I meant I was looking for more like documentation on the product rather than implementation. Thanks though.
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by wfunction 9y ago
I'm wondering if this is more like "citizens do not have this right" rather than like "citizens do not, and should not, have this right". There is obviously nothing in the Constitution about recording public officia
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by wfunction 9y ago
Any more reading on the Instart Logic tech detecting dev tools and hiding itself? I can't find much online.
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by wfunction 9y ago
> the ones confusing technology with science, and insisting that GMOs must be perfectly safe I don't know if I fall in that group (I don't think I confuse the two and I don't really talk about GMO much) but my prior belief
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by wfunction 9y ago
What about the BCL, CLS, etc.?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Oh but how does that work? That's ~6 MB per game which sounds like just a list of actions rather than precomputed data per frame. Is it compressed somehow?
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by wfunction 9y ago
Oh I see, thanks, I didn't know. But man, 300 GB per game sounds completely nuts!
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by wfunction 9y ago
Is it that much computation to simulate an entire game? You obviously don't need to render the graphics or anything, it should just be a list of events that occur, which doesn't seem all that slow to process.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Links to support this claim?
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by wfunction 9y ago
I don't know about you but the last time I saw a class take on extra teaching load to help students "catch up" and not sacrifice on other teaching goals was... never. You seem unrealistically hopeful that things are going to
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by wfunction 9y ago
Are children into live-action Disney films? That seems to be the vast majority of their catalog, not animations.
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by wfunction 9y ago
First of all, he had far better references than random WordPress blog posts, and second of all, that is completely irrelevant and doesn't excuse you from providing an accurate representation of the original.
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by wfunction 9y ago
Whoever in Gizmodo redacted or allowed the reduction of the 25+ citations should be fired. That was such irresponsible journalism that it honestly looks actively malicious, and it wasn't matter what side you're on. You can't

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