zowanet

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by zowanet 5y ago
Presumably this is meant to be a (very approximate) userland-implementation of the declined Pipe Operator RFC[0]. [0]: https://wiki.php.net/rfc/pipe-operator-v2
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by zowanet 5y ago
Passing the first argument as part of the variadic array isn't necessary. Here's my version in only 66 bytes, what do I win? ;) <?php function pipe($v,...$p){foreach($p as$f)$v=$f($v);return$v;}
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by zowanet 5y ago
A very enlightening read -- I certainly didn't expect the tangential connection to the separatist crisis in eastern Ukraine. More on topic; is anyone aware of any attempt to employ Ithkuil's grammar as an intermediary for lossless
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by zowanet 5y ago
What's your revenue like?
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by zowanet 5y ago
> The title is very misleading [...] Seems like puff piece for now This has become typical for the BBC: Phrase a headline as a question to which the implied answer may be "Yes", but in all likelihood is actually "No"
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by zowanet 5y ago
Provided your request and response payload is guaranteed to be <6MiB (for synchronous invocation) or <256KiB (for asynchronous invocation). These are AWS Lambda's hard limits, and are too low for many webhook applications.
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by zowanet 5y ago
Note: current/later versions of Grbl are hosted under a different GitHub organization: https://github.com/gnea/grbl instead of https://github.com/grbl/grbl
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by zowanet 6y ago
> Note carefully that the context here is size optimisation only. Indeed, and even if other benefits were once possible in the early x86 era, modern CPUs use register renaming[0] which presumably would make such benefits redundant. [0]:
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by zowanet 6y ago
<waving> Hi W. </waving> Interesting, it seems that even after several years away from the company, I have fallen foul of the Foundry's culture of secrecy. > I had the privilege of using 4 red rockets, all of which
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by zowanet 6y ago
As much as I dislike many of RED's practices, I must state that this version of events is highly inaccurate. Source: I am a former Foundry employee.
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by zowanet 6y ago
I wouldn't say it's a meme, it's just a convenient shorthand for "I'm not overly familiar with the domain, please help me understand". No need to overthink it.
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by zowanet 6y ago
Here's a direct link to this month's messages: https://mailman.nanog.org/pipermail/nanog/2020-August/thread...
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by zowanet 6y ago
Coerced-typed (weak) comparisons and easy accidental fallthrough are the problems commonly associated with switch statements. The new match construct fixes both of these and is also an expression instead of a statement, allowing for more ex
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by zowanet 6y ago
JavaScript's async features are made possible because of its event loop (Node.js is essentially V8 + libuv). You can use one of many event loop implementations with PHP, including libuv, if you so wish.
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by zowanet 6y ago
This[1] works fine in every version of PHP since at least v4.3.0 (released in 2002). Do you have a concrete example of this supposed breakage? [1]: https://3v4l.org/DWDLn
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by zowanet 6y ago
Already under discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23617229 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23616422
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by zowanet 6y ago
I don't like change. I don't like the circular avatars - I don't need the place I store my code to feel like a social network. But the worst change for me is that the 'Languages' section is now below the fold. Now I
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by zowanet 6y ago
Also GitHub supports https://github.com/<username>.keys
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by zowanet 6y ago
LibreOffice supported Adobe Flash...?
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by zowanet 6y ago
Beautiful.
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by zowanet 7y ago
I don't suppose there's a torrent/magnet link? My http download is glacially slow right now...
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by zowanet 7y ago
And BMP, TIFF, DPX, EXR etc all work really fine if you are not worried about the size. But being worried about the size is the whole point of image compression.