Aurora Medved
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Aurora Medved
@amedved1995
smol catgirl living in a tiny seaside town in England 😺💖 she/they ✌️ pets and scritches OK! 🙆♀️
England Katılım Temmuz 2023
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@OP1KER @entomemeology that was how I read it all along! I didn't realize there was any other reading... I thought it was like a more optimistic Gift of the Magi
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@entomemeology I want to believe they were parents of the same kids and didn't know they bet against each other
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@Cyberd3m0nFella @TheGoldenDays Windows is full of a lot of awful stuff (that's why I use Linux!) but a few foundational features are well done
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@amedved1995 @TheGoldenDays I don't feel like anything in modern Windows is implemented well. Not using Windows from 8 years
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Windows Vista was heavily criticized, but looking back, the Aero glass design was beautiful.
Was it actually bad or just ahead of its time?
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@Cyberd3m0nFella @TheGoldenDays UAC in modern Windows is well-implemented! it was just a rough transition
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@amedved1995 @TheGoldenDays UAC was misunderstood security feature. It's good to know when app wants more permissions...
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@ShimazuSystems echo >> ~/.bashrc 'alias unmount=umount' && . ~/.bashrc
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@Catsillyness the META is "okay but I don't want to choose" (awkward laugh)
if they insist then rock-paper-scissors
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@amedved1995 Not something I've ever had to worry about, but I will have to in the future
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Personally I would prefer not to have objects in a partially valid state at any time.
That may seem to be unrelated to the point he is making, but I reckon building up an object accounts for a lot of these cases
Jamon@jamonholmgren
Unpopular opinion: 1- or 2-letter variable names in focused, obvious contexts are totally fine.
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@Waffl3x I agree, in my own GDScript code I do Go-style errors-as-values, but I would personally prefer exceptions so I can still deal with "unhandled" errors and place error boundaries at predictable places
maybe in next version...
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@amedved1995 I plan on making a jitted language in the future so I would probably use that.
To your point about silently letting errors pass, absolutely not, skill issue, please do better
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@Waffl3x non-optimizing compilers are also much less likely to have optimization bugs! especially for very dynamic languages where speculative opt and deopt are things you need to worry about
(sincerely, someone who wrote an optimizing compiler...)
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@amedved1995 It will never cease to amaze me that people use simpler non-optimizing languages because they are easier. You end up with cases where you say "yeah it sucks but non optimizing interpreter"
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@Waffl3x I'd never want to build medical equipment or self-driving cars in GDScript but it's not a horrendous language to write games in... and if you really don't like it then Godot has a ton of language bindings
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@Waffl3x I also think it's mostly "fine" as long as you make a point of initializing all the fields before you do anything with the object...
also GD doesn't really have good error handling primitives to encourage devs to let errors silently pass (which is often desirable in game dev)
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@wormdiggindirt @bloodylikeab0dy @evilclothmother it was originally meant as a joke, but it came across as insensitive! even if they sound silly to my ears as names, they're perfectly legitimate names and deserve to be respected. I'll respect them. I'm sorry
I made further commentary in this other reply
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Aurora Medved@amedved1995
@AtriumCadaverum @bloodylikeab0dy @evilclothmother you're right... this was originally meant as a joke but it came across as insensitive... I think they sound "silly" as an English speaker (there is some research into what "silly" sounding words are) but they're perfectly legitimate names and deserve respect (1/)
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this cafe having a pronoun list but no they/them baristas what’s the point
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@AtriumCadaverum @bloodylikeab0dy @evilclothmother contd.: this is the most commonly cited study on the topic, finding that entropy correlates strongly with humor
doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.…
was covered in this Smithsonian Mag article smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/fin… with an absolutely incredible header image
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@AtriumCadaverum @bloodylikeab0dy @evilclothmother Bleri is an Albanian name, you're right, but I don't think Ergi is a Norse name, it's an Old Norse *insult* (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergi) but it's also an Albanian name (behindthename.com/name/ergi)
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At this point "Zhang et al." feels less like a citation and more like a universal law of physics 😭
No matter what idea you think is revolutionary, somewhere there’s already a 47-page PDF, confusing equations, 12 co-authors and a benchmark dataset proving they explored it in 2019.
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What fascinates me about academic writing is that, no matter your major, Zhang et al. has probably already thought of it and written a paper on it.
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@bienpnn the boundary between parent and child browser process (in Firefox and Chrome anyway, despite being entirely different projects they have similar arch) is a huge blob of JS code that's much easier to poke at logic bugs in than try to find a memory corruption bug in!
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i have never thought that a browser could be exploited purely with logic bugs without memory corruprion, holy shit!
TrendAI Zero Day Initiative@thezdi
Confirmed! Orange Tsai (@orange_8361) of DEVCORE Research Team (@d3vc0r3) chained 4 logic bugs to achieve a sandbox escape on Microsoft Edge, earning $175,000 and 17.5 Master of Pwn points. Full win! #Pwn2Own #P2OBerlin
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