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john_reel··on XPS9350-macOS – macOS patches for Dell XPS 13 9350
I’ve had the opposite experience on my Surface Pro 4 and desktop. Everything is much more stable than on Windows 7, where I would often find myself needing to do manual maintenance after something like a power outage. On Windows 10, I haven’t had any huge problems. My Surface Pro 4 (and many others) were disasters on the first versions of Windows 10, but now it is stable.
john_reel··on New DirectX Shader Compiler Based on Clang/LLVM Open-Sourced
I’ve heard a bit about the last point but I’d like to know more. Can you elaborate?
john_reel··on Facebook’s Virtual Reality Foray Derided as ‘Fanciful Story’
> Next, they hired Carmack, who is accused of copying thousands of documents from his computer at ZeniMax.

This claim sounds pretty dubious. Has John Carmack said anything about it?

john_reel··on Parents: let your kids fail. You’ll be doing them a favor (2015)
Helicopter parenting can even hurt you when it’s second hand.

My mom did the same with my brother but but not with me. I was much younger than my brother and still in elementary school but by fifth grade I began to feel afraid of my mom doing the same thing to me. I almost got straight As in Chinese, but a B on the final quiz could’ve ruined that. I ended up having an anxiety attack within the last 5-10 minutes of class, right before I would have to walk home. I had two attacks back to back after that and I was taken out of the class, but after a few years I had another attack in a similar situation and I recently had another, albeit at home because I didn’t that I could get a project done on time. I think something about my mother yelling at my brother and my brother yelling at her had traumatised me, because I know that when I was in fifth trade, my brother was really struggling in school. When my mom found out I was having attacks age got really scared and calmed down with my brother and things definitely got better for all of us. But for a while, even though I wasn’t a direct victim, it really, really hurt me. I understand that she was trying to look out for my brother who had lied to her on multiple occasions. I understand that she tried to do the right thing, and that it’s harder than it sounds. I have no idea what I would’ve done in her place either. I am not mad at her for what she did at all, don’t get me wrong, but the irony of the situation has always frustrated me.

In an attempt to make my brother more responsible while allowing me to still feel comfortable learning, helicopter parenting just made my brother want to spite my mom more and led to me having to be taken out of a class because of anxiety.

There’s something to learn from these experiences, but I’ve struggled to figure it out. Because in spite of how it has affected me, I have never been able to think of something that my mom should’ve done instead.

john_reel··on DeepMind’s work in 2016: a round-up
What makes Ms. Pac Man so hard for AI?
john_reel··on Ask HN: Why are flash memory prices going down so much faster than RAM?
Yep they use TSVs.
john_reel··on Be Careful with Python's New-Style String Format
If string is unescaped user input, then yes, you are.
john_reel··on In Canada 50Mbps internet now considered a basic service
$90 for 28 Mbps. However, I only get 10 Mb/s, the speed we had paid for previously. Every time I try to get back to 10 Mb/s prices AT&T attempts to repair it, sends a person for diagnostics, acknowledges there is a problem, sends someone who replaces the modem, and then claims the problem is fixed. This has happened three times.
john_reel··on World Energy Hits a Turning Point: Solar That's Cheaper Than Wind
What do those terms mean?
john_reel··on Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE
If you’re concerned about memory usage, VS Code should not be your first choice...
john_reel··on Gogland – Capable and Ergonomic Go IDE
For what it’s worth, I’m using IDEAVim and it’s amazing. It supports custom editor actions too, like refactorings, in your .ideavimrc
john_reel··on Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
Have you tried CLion?
john_reel··on Godbolt: Enter C, get Assembly
Well if A=1 (I know it’s not), D is 5-1. I’ve noticed that whatever you change five to fits this pattern. Ex: +=3 in the code gives you AAAAAAAB, and B would be (3-1) if A=1. I
john_reel··on Can jet engines clean up Delhi's air?
That seems kind of absurd. Where does all of that cost come from?
john_reel··on New NIST password guidelines: don't require character types or rotation
Why that over KeePass?
john_reel··on An exploit kit hiding in the pixels of malicious ads
I’ve used Windows with the name “currentuser” to appear to be Norman Sandbox for a few years now.
john_reel··on Open-sourcing DeepMind Lab
So if I want to make an AI for a game, I should use OpenAI?
john_reel··on DynASM
None of Cawley’s work is to be missed. Anyone interested in JITs ought to look into his work.
john_reel··on Microsoft planning to enable x86 on ARM64 emulation in Windows 10 by Fall 2017
How does it handle polymorphic code?
john_reel··on Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
Cryptographers were not fond of DUAL_EC. They also recommended against DES and MD5 long before attacks really appeared.
john_reel··on Crypto 101 – Introductory course on cryptography
Those articles (and their sources) sound interesting. Think you can share any of them?
john_reel··on Intel Unveils Strategy for State-Of-the-Art Artificial Intelligence
Do you mind explaining those architectures?
john_reel··on Supercapacitors Batteries charges in seconds without degrading
Can you explain the difference?
john_reel··on The Lua VM, on the Web
Yes please! Any ETAs on webassembly landing?
john_reel··on The Lua VM, on the Web
Lua is perfectly multiparadigm. Anyone who hasn’t tried it should.
john_reel··on Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
That makes a lot more sense, thanks.
john_reel··on Keyframes: Delivering scalable, high-quality animations to mobile clients
See: precomp, lrzip, srep
john_reel··on Lua: A Guide for Redis Users
Honestly, it’s a great article. That said, there’s nothing wrong with nils in tables in Lua if you know what you’re doing. Yes, they can introduce weird behaviors, (particularly with the # operator) but if you understand how next, pairs, ipairs, and # work, which are required if you want predictable table iteration behavior in Lua, then this shouldn’t be an issue.

I think it’s dangerous to say that nils terminate tables if you’re not going to explain table iteration in Lua.

Edit: Here's a picture example showing how easily nils can cause confusion if you're using a #table based loop. https://i.imgur.com/qW0XoSs.png

for i,v in pairs(table) will go through an entire table.

for i,v in ipairs(table) will stop at a nil. It's meant for consistent behavior in tables with numerical indices.

john_reel··on Lua: A Guide for Redis Users
Yeah that’s generally how Lua should be used.
john_reel··on Two Syntax Styles of xmake.lua
Why not follow the more official conventions? Underscores are rarely used in Lua.
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