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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
OT but: If you're interested in first contact stories, you might check out Peter Cawdron. For a quick writer of pop-sci-fi, he's pretty good. He's taken on first-contact from 20+ different starting points and has a bunch of
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
I agree that it could get fairly complicated but these seem like the two propositions to me: Un-normalized: $6T + interpretation + understanding + doubt that it's really $6T. Normalized: $60k (get the GAO to provide a standardized numb
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Putting aside the good-plane/bad-plane discussion, this program is the poster child for one of my pet wishes: that the costs of government programs would be expressed in $/tax-payer. There are about 100M tax payers in the US; thi
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Debian: Make a Monetary Donation
4 points by CoffeeDregs 6y ago|0 comments
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
I think I agree but with the point "Isn't this a solved problem?" I'm not sure if the first library should be written in C, Rust, C++, etc but it seems as though very similar libraries-but-in-different-languages are b
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Sure but you can't shebang all of the deps... Unless your `normal executable` embeds a Python dependency-manager.
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Just in case someone RTFA and gets worried: this is breathless FUD and could be handled much more usefully in some other fashion that invites discussion of pros/cons (such as is happening on HN but I doubt the gist will be updated...).
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
I'm baffled that any developer uses a Mac. I know, I know... BSD, 3-finger swipe, but-they-wrote-the-ux-guide. But I've been running Debian Testing for 15 years now with nary a problem (on thinkpads, latitudes and desktops) I
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
This is a good, balanced article. I've been of a similar mind for over a year now. The chances of the CCP releasing a self-harming bioweapon in order to harm the US seems silly. But an accident involving a well-intentioned gain-of-fu
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
This looks a bit like the old (2000s) work of Leopard Logic or Tensilica. Exciting stuff. One important note (based on some comments here): generally, these in-CPU FPGAs have very fast reconfiguration. Not sure if it's 1, 10 or 100
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Okay. I just bought Bucatini off of Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YQ7CYWU (only 1 left, blah, blah)). I'm not much of a pasta eater but, damn, that was a fun read...
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
I wouldn't have shorted the market based on that but I've not been sanguine about the US economy since then. Financial engineering, not productivity[1], has really been the driver of our economy... [1] https://voxeu.or
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
"Instead of drawing down our gold reserves, however, we gradually draw down our domestic manufacturing base and it gets replaced piece-by-piece in foreign countries." To me, this is the money shot. I hadn't seen this express
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Finally. I made a very similar suggestion to the ECS product manager about 5 years ago. We were moving from Mesos to ECS and I was losing the ability to manage Docker containers on our on-premises servers so I suggested allowing us to run
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Technical debt is like credit card debt: it's high interest; it's not a huge issue if you use it wisely; and you have to track its usage and level against your total code/assets. Like credit card debt, too many people turn ar
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Commenters are arguing about U-3 versus U-x but the question is really: how should our population think our economy is doing? The rhetoric on the news since 2008 has been: oooh, look at those low unemployment numbers! But reality doesn&#x
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
[OG] Based on discussion over in another thread, I checked out code.gov. Interesting stuff. Lots of challenges, hassles, etc, but why not try to use or contribute to Gov stuff? May as well use and improve it...
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US Code.gov Open Source Projects(code.gov)
1 points by CoffeeDregs 6y ago|1 comments
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
I'm not sure about the hater-ade in this article (old, dead languages?). I've built infrastructure for multiple companies on top of AWS Lambda. Usually bog-standard REST endpoints in Node or Python. There are a few weird bits a
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Putting aside is-this-right-or-wrong?: this is unsurprising: lawyers (many in my family), police, doctors, sales people, etc represent mechanisms to reduce more problematic inefficiencies in our society. No one (including lawyers I know)
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Hadn't noticed that but that's a good point. "Way higher": I would have guessed the same as you but, upon further thought, I guess I'm not surprised: creating a crawler is 100 lines of Python so I would guess that
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Random: just don't use Bookshelf (ORM, based on Knex) unless you evaluate it well: when we used it, it did individual SELECTs for any included, related rows...
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Agreed with sibling. References would be great (I'd love to view them).
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
From TFA: "Democratic regression is particularly visible among the G-20 countries". This is the money-shot. I went back after I speculated that the big deal would be if existing , strongly "democratic" countries wer
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
sql"SOME SQL"; This looks to be a "tagged template": https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/future-javascript/temp... . I'm a TS user but hadn't seen that feature before. AFA
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Somewhat puzzling post? I read it and appreciated it (but holy crap does it need a TL;DR... (basically, "benchmark carefully")) but had little idea what it has to do with `sled`, which turns out to be an embedded database written
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
> React and ReactDOM total about 120 KiB of minified JavaScript, > which definitely contributes to slow startup time. I don't doubt this but I'd like more info on the root cause. Is it loading 120KB of JS (which I doubt) or
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Hopefully, a Scot?
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Ha. I was involved with MIPS in 2004 or so and worked with them on their China strategy. They were very worried about going to China and losing control of IP. My counterpoint was: MIPS was basically an also-ran to x86 & ARM and survi
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by CoffeeDregs 6y ago
Putting aside the arguments about that is/is-not monopolistic behavior and assuming the market setup remains as set-up, how might this market evolve? I'm an Android user and don't really think Apple is doing anything wrong.

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