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I have very few issues with Firefox. The two that I suspect are: 1) Google-owned sites seem to just chew CPU on Firefox. In particular I'm thinking of GMail and Youtube, both of wh…

If you don't care about performance, we can make that code a lot shorter. float Q_rsqrt(float number) { return 1 / sqrt(number); } The "fast inverse square root" is absolutely 100%…

> a bit dramatic. there has to be an adjustment of teaching/assessing, but nothing that would "ruin" anyone's life. If you don't have the power to just change your mind about what …

If you're already using Firefox, all you have to do is click the Reader Mode button, at the right edge of your URL bar. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu…

Yikes, that's a grim story. Yeah, the injury stats are way higher than death. I just couldn't find a fast way to disambiguate serious injuries from not-so-serious-but-we-still-care…

Yes, I agree with you, and poorly-fed dogs might do things that a privileged pet might never consider. And, a fortiori, packs of poorly-fed dogs. But the comment I was responding t…

> The amount of children killed or injured by poorly restrained dogs is very high. This claim is interesting, if true. Can you back it up? I spent 15 minutes on research, and my pr…

My sense is that dogs prioritize pack/family togetherness ahead of freedom. They don't value all other people (and to a dog, "people" means dogs, humans, and sometimes other specie…

Maybe you know something particular about metabolic treatments. But if this is just a structural argument from more or less first principles, I think it's structurally weak. There'…

This might help? https://youtu.be/WdtK9Sj8ADw?list=PLoTU9_iCGa6go3vsnxlNn1wZS...

I used to have a coworker, a senior dev of decades of experience, who insisted that MacOS was a real Linux, "just like BSD". Sigh. Of course, this belief probably had no downsides …

It'd be more apt to write "fomented divisions", rather than "fermented divisions".

> Generally there needs to be some sort of intent. Often yes, but often not. Criminal negligence is a thing. That's a standard of mens rea that's lower than intent, or foreknowlege…

I vouched your comment, because I think you're precisely making the relevant point in the first two paragraphs. However, I think you're wrong, at least in part, in your third parag…

I'm confused. You're complaining about the use of the word "charity"? Background: You make an argument that at least some people should consider putting contributions to society ah…

> Do not touch unless you understand how the license works and want to do so anyway. Which is the license that you think it's safe to touch when you don't understand how it works ?…

I think it's a common need. I'll add that I think in this case, an important part of the use-case is a credible commitment to anonymizing the answers.

A warrior does not trifle with secret messages! Have you no honour?

I used to do approximately this, from maybe the mid-90s to 2015-ish, but finally that keyboard died (RIP dear friend) and I find that it doesn't work properly on any keyboard I've …

Characterizing the US's current commitments in Ukraine and Israel as 1.5 fronts is baffling. Neither of those constitutes even a tiny fraction of the American capability to wage wa…

"Worse Is Better", as a description of a set of engineering values embodied by C, is from 1989. I'm taking your word for it that UB was invented for C standardization (I have no kn…

Seems to me that CE covers sections 1, 2, 3, 7, and a bit of 5, and CS covers 4, 5, and 6. A traditional CS education should teach 3, even though doing 3 is absolutely not the job …

You're making a category error, I think. This books/course doesn't cover physics. It doesn't even cover signal stuff, like stuff about how fast the voltage levels stabilize, or eve…

There are at least two obvious alternatives to (fully) deepcloning. First, many "everything must be immutable" libraries provide data structures that give operations that feel like…

How is this better than deepcopying? Deserializing requires paying all the same costs as deepcopying, both in terms of compute time and in terms of memory usage, but it also incurs…