I wonder whether Python itself will improve faster when the development team no longer needs to maintain 2 versions or whether the burden on them will just reduce somewhat.
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https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?user=<user name from url>
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?playlist_id=<id from url>
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=<id from url>
> It's definitely nothing out of the ordinary and is common practice among many tools and apps you already use.
Also as usual it's opt-out and NOT opt-in. People get riled because (usually)
a) built in telemetry is almost always an unexpected and unannounced change - only to be discovered later.
b) opt-in is the only approach that leaves your trust in tact - everyone uses opt-out because they know the majority of users people will not choose to opt in given a choice.
> this site doesn't let you copy text
Being generous here, presumably people still pull this kind of ridiculous crap to prevent uninformed users from "stealing" their IP. I guess they must be smart enough to know that if it's rendering as text, anyone can access and copy it.
It's such a deceptively simple problem that's so easy to get wrong. I introduced it to my boss and he just wouldn't believe me when I told him the answer. He spent about 10 minutes formulating a simulation in Excel in order to convince himself.
Does it allow you to manage your downloads though - like supporting multi-source downloads, pausing and re-starting, exporting/ importing lists, prioritise, re-order, limit speed, integrating with the save dialog and menus ...
DownThemAll is the one extension that might force me to abandon firefox or to stick with an ESR release and not upgrade.
But later it was elevated to an unassailable classic due to the ridiculous over-dubbing when it was shown on TV, replacing all the use of mother-fucker with melon-farmer.
Applying an operation to a total workload is identical to:
1) Split the total workload into smaller workloads.
2) Apply the operation to each smaller workload.
3) Apply the operation to the results from step 2.
Each smaller workload in step 2 can be run in parallel.
While that may seem obvious for adding numbers or money it may be less obvious when you have different operations for example a method in an OO class hierarchy.
Each point is 10 ^ 1.5 (about 31)
Every 2 points is 100
The Richter scale is almost never used now but that'd where the factor of 10 per point comes from.
Luckily we have better tools these days to combat them. The fact that firefox has a built in reader mode is indicative of how user hostile web readability is these days.
It's really refreshing to hear about this type of real world estimation error that reflects so well the problem in software of making estimates with so many unknowns.
Why valve will never release Half Life 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50lSIaSR3zc
I think they've gone out of fashion now, but when I learned about compilers we were introduced to T-diagrams, sometimes called tombstone or bratman diagrams and shown how to bootstrap a compiler for a high level language from scratch [1].
Torben Mogensen's Basics of Compiler Design [2] - Chapter 13 is devoted to bootstrapping a compiler, which introduces them.
[1] scratch meaning a computer (with relevant hardware) with a CPU with it's machine code instructions and some way to make files containing those instructions. You can do this even without assembler, that's the first step. Of course no-one would do this now, but it's a necessary step developing the first high level languages and compilers.
> Emacs's nasty regex syntax
It's also case-sensitive too. Writing regex by hand when there is a mixture of case sensitivity to recognise is not at all pleasant.
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We haven't been writing long (in evolutionary terms) so I wonder why that is?
I used to enjoy using KDE but I feel they lost their way and are overly attracted by "shiny new things" like workspaces, activities, or semantic desktop - virtually everything being dependent on strigi then akonadi then nepomuk then baloo or ... The real bugbear is that every time they ditch everything for a new metaphor - so much of the previously working and reliable software is also ditched or obsolete.
It doesn't suit my needs to have to keep re-configuring my computer and software and workflow so I stopped using it.
I do think it's great and valuable that it's there as an option though.
Another similar read is Vidar Hokstad's blog series - Writing a compiler in Ruby [1] which was first submitted here 9 years ago! [2]
The icon sometimes doesn't appear in the address bar though (apparently because Firefox is unable to identify where the text content is in the page.)
I've also found the extension - Open in Reader View [1] to be useful for those situations.
[1] http://firefox.add0n.com/reader-view.html - Firefox, Chrome and Opera
I wrote a small greasemonkey script to add hl=en to all except a select few google locations. They are the most egregious. Unfortunately for us the industry has chosen to go with IP address determines language and it's getting more and more common.
I DO have accept language configured in my browser and I also DO understand that statistically many people's browsers are mis-configured. NO. I'm not leaving my browsers logged in to every site in the internet.
We'll forever be tilting at windmills.
Internet lore and popular media then assume that immediately for example all encryption will be trivially broken. Mathematically it may be true because then all NP problems would be known to be polynomial, but there's still the issue of the practical steps involved factorising a huge number which may have enormous constants or very large exponents. Or if it turns out we can reduce it to some other known polynomial problem, there's still the actual transformation which itself may be polynomial with large constants or exponents.
"It is also possible that a proof would not lead directly to efficient methods, perhaps if the proof is non-constructive, or the size of the bounding polynomial is too big to be efficient in practice."
Given the long standing nature of the problem, my guess is that some new techniques or insights will be required to solve it one way or the other. Those may well give clues to solving NP/NP-Complete problems efficiently.
Until someone actually does it though it's still just speculation.
documents = filter(pdf, folder)
summaries = map(summarise_document, documents)
Is pretty clear despite summarising a document being a complex task.
Richter 10 (to the power 1)
Moment magnitude about 32 (to the power 1.5)
For an increase of 2:
Richter exactly 100
Moment magnitude exactly 1000