fferen

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Comment · 4 months ago
Corporate windows laptop; need to restart every 2-3 days at best.
Comment · 10 months ago
Well, they already do in that large files take more time to copy which subconsciously discourages moving them.
Comment · 1 year ago
Very first frame of the video: green digital text is messed up. Stopped watching after that :)
Comment · 1 year ago
I first started coding in high school on the TI-84 calculators. My 1st language was TI-BASIC, 2nd was Z80 assembly - quite a big step - and I quit when I faced some tricky bugs that my teenage self could not figure out :-) Back then, I don't believe they had a C/C++ toolchain. Some time later, I tried using Small Device C compiler (SDCC), but encountered several compiler bugs which I couldn't fix but duly reported. Great to see there is such excellent tooling nowadays.
Comment · 1 year ago
Disagree with first example. If that condition is only used once, adding a variable introduces more state to keep track of, that could just be a comment next to the conditional.
Comment · 2 years ago
Edge on Mac, but IIRC it happens on Windows as well. Just checked in firefox/mac and seems OK.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
Fails to mention the actual reason people are fascinated: their diversity of appearance. Typical AI summary with many words not saying very much.
Comment · 3 years ago
Reminds me of TI-BASIC for the TI-83 graphing calculators... The closing ')' is optional at the end of a line, and omitting it could make your program slightly faster...
Comment · 3 years ago
Idea: deplane by row. Each row leaves when a light in that row turns on. An algorithm decides when to turn them on based on several factors: keeping large groups together, expected speed of deplaning (eg. elderly may be slower), current occupancy of the aisle. Advantage: should be very fast, easy to follow, groups stay together.
Comment · 3 years ago
My tentative advice would be to find the one with the best reviews. Only pay attention to the lowest reviews, even a few 1-stars are informative.

My story: I brush and floss every single day. At my regular checkup, the dentist measured 2-5mm gum depths, and insisted on doing a deep cleaning, which involves anesthesia and multiple visits. I argued that the 5mm depths were borderline, and could very well be 4mm with measurement error. (They did seem to be pushing rather hard.) They also pointed out some tiny supposed "pockets" on the X-ray that looked like just imaging blur or something. Feeling very suspicious, I left, and found another dentist with, surprisingly, zero bad reviews on Yelp. They measured 2-4mm gum depths, and did a much less aggressive cleaning.

Comment · 3 years ago
When I started grad school in semiconductor electronics, I noticed everyone pronounced it "si-li-cun", while normal people usually say "si-li-con". Maybe it's just a west coast thing.
Comment · 3 years ago
At least from the graph, it's leveling out?

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