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What Every Programmer Should Know About Enumerative Combinatorics -> Nothing. It can be interesting to know something (or even a lot) about enumerative combinatorics, and certainly…

Yeah, that's the theory, and by any mean we definitely need to pursue that as well. I wish we had the luxury of making it work on its own. But since we do not, we need to pull all …

Sure, I am responsible for my own actions, and buying something is an action I (can) make. Therefore I bear responsibility for the side effects of my buying actions. Not the same k…

Giving up something you'd otherwise enjoy or find convenient because it would indirectly bring harm to other people feels a very virtuous action to me. I wish more people (includin…

Would he? There seems to be a tradition of illuminations of the Quran (see e.g. https://www.islamicity.org/77800/illumination-of-the-quran/ , first result of an internet search). T…

AFAIU it is essentially mass-produced (pun intended?). The master is carefully handwritten, all the others are copies taken with an industrial (if high quality) process. EDIT: That…

Suppose I want to do this with my laptop, and dump my drive to the cloud (say accessible via SSH) to reinstall another operating system overwriting it. It's likely that the new ope…

Nice thing! I use it to let my kids play with the educational games I used to play when I was their age (mostly Sammy's Science House).

By my experience, it helps a lot to have a handful of patches in Wine already. Doesn't have to be anything especially great, but showing that you can work with the conformance test…

You mean Full Self Security?

Agreed. Many smaller MRs are likely to get the same amount of changes accepted in far less time. Some of the factors include: * After each change you have to review the whole MR, e…

How does that interact with cache? Does accessing the ring buffer using the second set of mapped pages ends up using the same cache line, or is it a fresh request to main memory? I…

That still requires you to plan how you use the virtual address space, though. You can't just add more memory pages on the back of your vector if you've already started using those…

Whose end goal? The tenant's goal might be, as you say, to convince the landlord that the device is unreliable, and cheat on the rent agreement. If you want to cheat, as I guess so…

The nice thing of intrusive sensors that sense things that are not sensed by your usual senses, like this, is that it's easy to saturate them while faking innocence. I.e., set up y…

In fine print it is written than "unlimited" really means "only until the airline thinks that you're abusing of it, at their sole discretion".

> One of the most curious humans No doubt he is very curious, but there might be some selection bias here.

The point is that there are a lot of other things which easily become a problem if you do them by yourself instead of using known good implementations.

> We never take a software methodology, school of programming or some random internet dude's "manifesto" at face value. Rules must be broken, when necessary. In this specific case …

In some conditions, yes. You need a cluster of points which have good reflectivity and coherence properties to microwaves over some time (months to years). Manmade steel and concre…

I don't think that going into implementation details is what I would expect from an interface specification. The interface exists precisely to isolate the API consumer from the imp…

At least it's documented.

I wish clangd let me configure the inlay hint elision length...

Your quote is also: "Capitalization matters a tremendous amount". But at least in some positions capitalization is mandated by grammar rules. So, when a noun should appear in such …

How do you write a noun that is not meant to be capitalized but happens to be place just after a full stop?