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bashkiddie
·hace 27 días·discuss
> because everything is a method or an object or a closure

well, except for pattern matching. That is just syntax.
bashkiddie
·el mes pasado·discuss
> Imagine you run a company register for a local government.

Is this data not public for some reason? I think it will not hurt if there are multiple copies spread between public offices and private companies. What really hurts is a private company hammering your webserver for their own profit. They should get their own copy.
bashkiddie
·hace 2 meses·discuss
Thank you for this long context!
bashkiddie
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I second that. Loading the pages takes longer before the video starts playing. I also regularly run into bot detection where no video will play at all until I log in.
bashkiddie
·hace 2 meses·discuss
I switched bank in 2021 and it was hard. No bank advertises "we do compliant chip tan" and no bank advertises "we do not buy an app framework that scans for customs roms".

Switching banks is hard, because all of them suck, are underdocumented and a moving target.
bashkiddie
·hace 2 meses·discuss
> Dopamine has a half life of 2 minutes in the body.

May be true.

But doing "rewarding" work encourages your body to emit more dopamine. Some people call it "the flow", others "hyperfocus", but it is a constant stream of dopamine that keeps you doing what you currently do. And you can interfere with the emittance and absorbtion by using caffeine.
bashkiddie
·hace 2 meses·discuss
An ADHD brain may work better without stimulating caffeine, YMMV.
bashkiddie
·hace 3 meses·discuss
I second this. Clownflare is agressively blocking: Fennec v149.0.2 - Germany
bashkiddie
·hace 4 meses·discuss
I am guessing: There is an evolutionary "shadow". Genes for getting old and healthy are not selected for, because you get old after having children. Evolution optimizes for the survival of your children.

Might be that cancer hits after creating offspring.
bashkiddie
·hace 4 meses·discuss
> wrote the defacto standard regex library in Rust

What is the motivation that Rust invented its own RegEx flavor instead of sticking to PCRE or even RE2?
bashkiddie
·hace 4 meses·discuss
Next years headline will be

> AI accounts for 90% of accidents while only accounting for 1% of traffic
bashkiddie
·hace 4 meses·discuss
When I shop for special hardware (e.g. bicycle shift gear) it is usually underspecified. If the information does not exist in the text block, a chat bot is of no use.
bashkiddie
·hace 4 meses·discuss
> Why can’t you tune your guitar?

You can.

(1) Movable frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZC69A8TsJ8

(2) No frets https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92TxCGBNEVg

(3) force the string sideways to a higher pitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbALdNDhKYE&list=RDkbALdNDhK...

But the long answer is: It will stay out of tune for a given definition of "in tune", because there is no perfect string. A perfect string has a diameter of zero.

> The math of harmonics is really simple

If a string only had harmonics on it, the oscilation would form a stationary wave that never leaves the string and resonates between bridge and head. It is the non-harmonics that create the sound.

A sound is made of a base frequency and overtones. Overtones are never perfect multiples of the base frequency, because they are influenced by

(1) string length

(2) material bending stiffness

Because of bending stiffness, overtones have a lower frequency than their theoretical haromnics.

> The second harmonic is the one you get from the string vibrating in halves.

True in theory, false in practice due to bending stiffness.

> Guitars can’t be perfectly in tune

I don't see why. Overtone series are impossible to solve, but base frequencies can be tuned to your liking.
bashkiddie
·hace 5 meses·discuss
I would like to second this.

In Golang if you iterate over a thousand files and

    defer File.close()
your OS will run out of file descriptors
bashkiddie
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I have heard rumors that at one point in time gentoo lost its forum - basically a catastrophic strike such as deleting Arch Linux wiki
bashkiddie
·hace 6 meses·discuss
I am unhappy with python. It degrades fast. It deprecates libraries every minor release and that tends to break the applications I use. Recent examples are distutils and opsaudio.
bashkiddie
·hace 7 meses·discuss
> I say let X11 die, bury it, and never let it rise again.

totally awesome! And once we are done with X11, lets put pulseaudio to the grave! We can all focus on having an audio stack that does realiably stream to many sinks!

And polkit... su and sudo should have been enough
bashkiddie
·hace 7 meses·discuss
I once had to write an IPv6 stack intending to cache poison internet targets (alias resolution). I just referred to the RFC.

A well behaved reference implementation would not be of help.
bashkiddie
·hace 7 meses·discuss
A hull requires at minimum one shape and returns a convex shape.

A minkowski sum, as far as I understand it, requires a surface and a volume and returns a volume.

Example 1: apply hull() to a star shape

Example 2: You want to fold a picture (SVG) around a cylinder and make its edges FDM printable by 45 degree overhang, apply a cone to the image
bashkiddie
·hace 7 meses·discuss
I did not know about phonics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonics

English is my second language. I found writing and pronunciation disconnected and learned two separate languages.