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Bullets are a bad example because they have multiple properties which makes them much harder to localise than many other sounds. I'm pretty sure most people can localise a vehicle …

> They have to be loud enough to be heard through hearing protection. It's kind of a nit-pick, but this is not really true. Very approximately, you will perceive a sound if it is a…

looking around a bit, it's used as an example in the documentation: https://github.com/haiku/haiku/blob/7d07c4bc739dbf90159a5c02... This is actually a great reason to keep it aroun…

Yeah, it's certainly doable, just a bit tricky because the spoil-board is not attached to the base, and is replaced nearly every time. It also needs at least one extra tool set-up.…

You're comparing a hub dynamo with cheap low-capacity rechargeable lights. Rechargeable lights from the usual suspects are generally not good, they are expensive for what they are,…

The simple contextlib.contextmanager example doesn't really sell the benefits. The main one is that it makes error handling and clean-up simpler, because you can just wrap the yiel…

A spare battery in your saddle-pack solves most of those problems. If you're worried about being without light, a (typical) dynamo system is more complicated and exposed than a bat…

I get why people like them, but they make way less sense when you work out the capacity of an equivalent weight (not to mention cost) of lithium cells. It's easy to get to about 90…

I don't see why it should be so binary. I said it "mostly" just works because there are no packaging systems which do exactly what you want 100% of the time. I've had plenty of pro…

Yeah, I thought about that too, but if you want to process more than 255 values this might not be valid, depending on the implementation of count_if.

Just to correct my own comment: > with an uint8_t local variable and size_t return value, an earlier optimisation removes the cast to uint8_t, because it only has an effect when un…

I've had a look at what's going on in LLVM, and we're both a bit wrong :) This optimisation is applied by AggressiveInstCombinePass, after the function has been completely inlined.…

I'm not sure how "it can go the other way around too" -- in that case (assigning to a uint8_t local variable), it seems like that particular optimisation is just not being applied.…

Oh right, I didn't see it in a couple of passes (and searching for cast); for anyone else looking it's in the 3rd footnote. Thanks.

another solution is to just cast the result to an uint8_t; with this, clang 19.1.0 gives the same assembly: https://gcc.godbolt.org/z/E5oTW5eKe

This is incoherent to me. Your complaints are about packaging, but the elixir wrapper doesn't deal with that in any way -- it just wraps UV, which you could use without elixir. Wha…

Real justice would be changing the laws and sentencing guidance (through a democratically legitimate process), and re-evaluating the sentences of everyone affected. Whatever you th…

despite that, the employment rights bill is at least moving in the right direction

> I am pretty sure that, unless you use --impure, all files that are read are required to be in the store. Since the store is read-only, it does not break purity. Right, but even t…

> the help online is always in the form of code fragments whose purpose kinda sorta looks alright maybe, but doesn't ever seem to fit into the setup I've built. So then I'm faced w…

> You can absolutely have a better language generate derivations, surely? Yes, hence guix. The issue is that it doesn't fit well into a pure functional language like haskell if you…

> Evaluation is completely pure (at least with flakes, which disallows querying environment variables, etc.). Evaluation of derivations will result in .drv files in the store, but …

> I'm no language expert, but I genuinely don't understand why it wouldn't have been better to build some equivalent DSL in Haskell to do this given the similar lazy nature of the …

they do, but google play is the main distribution channel for android apps, and without that many people will not use it (and many will complain). from the actual announcement: > w…

OpenWrt's dnsmasq will serve PTR records corresponding to DHCP leases, so you can use reverse DNS lookups. Use something like: dig -x ip_address_here For me it would be ideal if th…