Since MS is keeping more and more copilot in the UI of this site, this may become outdated after a while.
Anyway, at this point it is probably better to jump ship, but there are still plenty of valid reasons to stick with this site for now.
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/ copilot-blocker.md
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May 28, 2025 07:38
UBlock origin filters for copilot craps
Adapted from this gist, as the original one seems to have some formatting problems. All credits go to the original creator.
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/ locate_asset_path.cpp
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November 11, 2022 09:19
Little C++ utility to searching upward until finding a "assets" subdirectory. Useful during development when I don't want to copy the assets to build directory every time.
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| auto locate_asset_path(const std::filesystem::path& current_path) | |
| -> std::optional<std::filesystem::path> | |
| { | |
| namespace fs = std::filesystem; | |
| std::optional<fs::path> result = std::nullopt; | |
| for (auto path = current_path; path != current_path.root_path(); | |
| path = path.parent_path()) { | |
| const auto assets_path = path / "assets"; | |
| if (exists(assets_path) && is_directory(assets_path)) { |
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| template <typename Callable, typename... Params> | |
| auto curry(Callable f, Params... ps) | |
| { | |
| if constexpr (requires { f(ps...); }) { | |
| return f(ps...); | |
| } else { | |
| return [f, ps...] (auto... qs) | |
| { | |
| return curry(f, ps..., qs...); | |
| }; |
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/ blogs.opml
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June 24, 2024 18:46
This gist contains blogs I follow as of 2024-02-11. You can import the blog.opml file to your RSS software, or you can han pick the blogs you want to follow manually.
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| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> | |
| <opml version="1.0"> | |
| <head> | |
| <title>Feeds of Lesley Lai from Inoreader [https://www.inoreader.com]</title> | |
| </head> | |
| <body> | |
| <outline text="Arts" title="Arts"> | |
| <outline text="Sarah's Scribbles" title="Sarah's Scribbles" type="rss" xmlUrl="https://sarahcandersen.com/rss" htmlUrl="http://sarahcandersen.com/"/> | |
| </outline> | |
| <outline text="Tech Blog" title="Tech Blog"> |
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/ function_deduce_signature.cpp
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March 30, 2020 18:09
Given an invocable object, discover its return type and the function type
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| #include <type_traits> | |
| namespace detail { | |
| template <typename Func> | |
| struct function_trait; | |
| #define BEYOND_NOARG | |
| #define BEYOND_FUNCTION_TRAIT(CV_OPT, NOEXCEPT_OPT) \ |
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/ monte-carlo-pi-estimator.elm
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September 3, 2020 17:53
A live-coded Monte Carlo Pi Estimator in the club meeting of the CU Computer Graphics Group. Copy it to https://elm-lang.org/try if you want to try to run it.
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| module Main exposing (..) | |
| import Browser | |
| import Html exposing (Html) | |
| import Svg exposing (..) | |
| import Svg.Attributes exposing (..) | |
| import Svg.Lazy | |
| import Task | |
| import Time | |
| import Random |
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/ and_then.hpp
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October 26, 2018 18:00
Exceptional Monad in C++ with std::optional
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| #ifndef AND_THEN_HPP | |
| #define AND_THEN_HPP | |
| #include <optional> | |
| #include <functional> | |
| #include <type_traits> | |
| template<typename T1, | |
| typename Func, | |
| typename Input_Type = typename T1::value_type, |
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| #ifndef BENCHMARK_HPP | |
| #define BENCHMARK_HPP | |
| /*! | |
| * \file benchmark.hpp | |
| * | |
| * Benchmark for functions in C++. Use it only in release mode. | |
| */ | |
| #include <iostream> | |
| #include <functional> |
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/ recompile-on-save.el
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September 9, 2022 22:28
Recompile the emacs lisp file on save if the byte-compiled file exist
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| (defun recompile-elc-on-save () | |
| "If you're saving an elisp file, likely the .elc is no longer valid." | |
| (make-local-variable 'after-save-hook) | |
| (add-hook 'after-save-hook | |
| (lambda () | |
| (if (file-exists-p (byte-compile-dest-file buffer-file-name)) | |
| (byte-compile-file buffer-file-name))))) | |
| (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook 'recompile-elc-on-save | |
| ) |