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Loyc, etc.: May 2014
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The Language Of Your Choice Blog, featuring topics of my choice. 2D Convex hull in C#: 40 lines of code. View my complete profile. Esperanto keyboard for Windowŝ. Wednesday, May 14, 2014. 2D Convex hull in C#: 40 lines of code. If you want a convex hull. And you want it now, you could go get a library like MIConvexHull. Interface that returns coordinates as. And it uses LINQ rather liberally. (Update: Ouellet's Algorithm. Is a good choice.). LoycUtilities has a much simpler convex hull algorithm in the.
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Loyc, etc.: August 2013
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The Language Of Your Choice Blog, featuring topics of my choice. Protobuf-net: the unofficial manual. View my complete profile. Esperanto keyboard for Windowŝ. Saturday, August 24, 2013. Protobuf-net: the unofficial manual. Is a fast and versatile .NET library for serialization based on Google's Protocol Buffers. The majority of the web documentation is in GettingStarted. So here are some things I've learned about this library that may not be obvious. I've mentioned a bunch of things that I don't know.
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Loyc, etc.: September 2012
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The Language Of Your Choice Blog, featuring topics of my choice. Opus, the codec to end all codecs. View my complete profile. Esperanto keyboard for Windowŝ. Wednesday, September 12, 2012. Opus, the codec to end all codecs. Is a new all-purpose low-latency audio codec with better quality than MP3 and better than Vorbis. At low bitrates. Plus it's an open standard, open source, and patent-free! Audio codec in the world! Except the ultra-high-rate lossless codecs like FLAC. Well, I had a look at the RFC.
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Loyc, etc.: June 2012
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The Language Of Your Choice Blog, featuring topics of my choice. Android ListView: Make Selection Stay. The Delightful D Programming Language. View my complete profile. Esperanto keyboard for Windowŝ. Tuesday, June 19, 2012. Links to this post. Friday, June 15, 2012. Android ListView: Make Selection Stay. The behavior of Android's ListView is surprising: when the user clicks an item, it doesn't stay selected! It looks selected for a brief instant and then fades away. One possible solution is to change al...
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Loyc, etc.: July 2014
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The Language Of Your Choice Blog, featuring topics of my choice. View my complete profile. Esperanto keyboard for Windowŝ. Thursday, July 3, 2014. I have moved my blog to GitHub. The main reason for this is that blogspot has always had a lousy and buggy editor, which forces me to type all posts in HTML; on GitHub I can use markdown instead. Plus, on Blogspot I don't get syntax highlighting. Plus, on GitHub I can add pages. Pain though, and its error messages are the worst. Links to this post.
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Qwertisms: August 2015
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one who is striking at the root. View my complete profile. Is AI a threat to humanity? Accept your body. Reject shame! Saturday, August 01, 2015. Is AI a threat to humanity? Three years ago I was telling y'all that there is no "singularity". I remain unphased. I find the singularity- of quickly-self-improving superintelligent AIs- as implausible today as I did three years ago. So it's nice to see this rebuttal from Edward Moore Geist.
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Qwertisms: May 2014
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one who is striking at the root. View my complete profile. Raising the minimum wage. Accept your body. Reject shame! Monday, May 26, 2014. It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain. But this weekend I was reading numerous articles linked to by one master list, " Slightly More Than 100 Fantastic Pieces of Journalism. A site which popped up on Slashdot. Huh So that's g...
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Qwertisms: January 2015
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one who is striking at the root. View my complete profile. Police shoot man talking on cell phone. Its Not as Bad as You Think. Accept your body. Reject shame! Saturday, January 31, 2015. Police shoot man talking on cell phone. Considering that cops in America can shoot people with impunity. Especially black people), I think it's important that we see and review every police killing and not let this issue die. Here's a story I heard today.
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Qwertisms: December 2014
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one who is striking at the root. View my complete profile. Demand that your vote count! Accept your body. Reject shame! Friday, December 05, 2014. Demand that your vote count! FPTP works in a fairly legitimate way in Canada, unlike in the U.S. where practices like gerrymandering. Generally more flexible than old-fashioned proportional representation, MMP (Mixed-member proportional) represents the population far better than first-past-the-post.
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Qwertisms: October 2013
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil for every one who is striking at the root. View my complete profile. U of C pretends buildings=education. Accept your body. Reject shame! Tuesday, October 15, 2013. U of C pretends buildings=education. I got an email from U of C recently that said:. What grand plan could they have to finally, belatedly, improve engineering education at the U of C, you ask? Oct 9 the answer came in my inbox:. Will "transform engineering education". Links to this post.
