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joppy
·8 maanden geleden·discuss
The commenter says pre-rendered/server-side-rendered mathematics (via katex) is great - I’ve found the opposite. It’s probably great if you have an article with one or two equations. On the other hand, if you have an article which uses mathematics pervasively, like many pure mathematics articles, it quickly becomes far more space efficient to render the mathematics on the client side. You can quickly get 200kB+ pages by pre-rendering.
joppy
·3 jaar geleden·discuss
The Mazda software works ok with the wheel, but using something like CarPlay with it is almost impossible without taking your eyes off the road for a long time. It’s worse than touch-screens in that respect: what will the spinning knob select next on a screen which has three separate panes?
joppy
·5 jaar geleden·discuss
If my intent is that a certain integer should never be negative, labelling it unsigned does a poor job at conveying this intent because any arithmetic just silently does the wrong thing. 3-4 is some huge number rather than “error”.
joppy
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
"Below is an example of such a tree"... and there is a picture of a binary tree, with no indication as to how the tree is used.

I appreciate trying to explain the interesting technology behind authenticating modules, but this diagram appears to explain nothing at all.
joppy
·7 jaar geleden·discuss
Base 10 is intuitive because we are taught to work in base 10. If we worked in base 7, then multiplication by seven would be just another 0. (And if we worked in base 7, we would probably have defined “an order of magnitude” to be a multiplication by 7, rather than 10).