DesertVarnish

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by DesertVarnish 10mo ago
Largely but not entirely a data problem; specifically poor captioning. High quality captioning makes such a big difference.
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by DesertVarnish 10mo ago
The buffer pool and CoW are honestly really nice patterns for this type of canvas heavy setup with React where it's not a good fit for a custom reconciler.
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by DesertVarnish 1y ago
For hydrocarbon synthesis, hydrogen production from electrolysis dominates the energy usage, along with driving the Sabatier process. DAC might be like 5-10%. Higher CO2 concentration is better but certainly not needed, it doesn't make
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by DesertVarnish 1y ago
Difficult engineering problem but working from first principles suggests that the energy requirememts are not insurmountable. The roundtrip efficiency is worse than batteries but much better than photosynthesis. Terraform Industries (and ot
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by DesertVarnish 1y ago
My wife has been working on a pixel accurate recreation of MacPaint on the web, and one of the things that I've learned from on-and-off helping with it was just how much of the magic in it is actually just handled by QuickDraw. Also, t
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by DesertVarnish 2y ago
The energy densities are generally at least an order of magnitude lower and the cost is at least an order of magnitude higher. They serve different purposes.
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by DesertVarnish 2y ago
My understanding is that fluoridation of municipal water supplies serves a different purpose than fluoride in toothpaste. The fluoride in the water supply is low concentration and is intended to cause teeth to develop with stronger cavity r
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by DesertVarnish 2y ago
Unavailable at the moment (HN hug of death?), Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20240204131916/https://esoteric....
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
I remember looking into a similar problem and learned that on desktop it was just an encrypted SQLite DB. It was readable with the standard SQLite library. Not sure of the situation for the mobile backups though!
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
They really aren't the same. Crypto didn't and still doesn't have the same immediate utility. The value proposition just wasn't there to justify the money and attention it was getting. Bitcoin in particular was a prototy
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
Haskell is purely functional, but if you make ample use of do-notation it's very easy to write in a familiar imperative(ish) style for day-to-day tasks. Most learning materials won't emphasize this but large production Haskell cod
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
It depends on what you eat. A person eating a lot of tomatoes, legumes, potatoes, and squash would hit it pretty easily, which is common for a lot of traditional diets (south asia, some parts of latin america, etc).
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
> For instance, using the features of the language to describe a nested structure of components, each of which has different dependencies that are a subset of its parents dependencies I may be misunderstanding you, but this seems tractab
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
No mention of E4X? https://blog.vjeux.com/2013/javascript/jsx-e4x-the-good-part...
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Free-types: Higher kinded types in TypeScript(github.com)
65 points by DesertVarnish 3y ago|49 comments
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by DesertVarnish 3y ago
I took this course with Hug many years ago. He's a truly gifted educator and I learned so much from the projects.
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by DesertVarnish 4y ago
They are, up to $1M with sweep IIRC.
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Rspack: A fast Rust-based web bundler(github.com)
74 points by DesertVarnish 4y ago|9 comments
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by DesertVarnish 4y ago
Most of the time an application built using web technologies is slow, it's not because the web's UI layer (HTML/CSS) is intrinsically slow. A desktop app written in Tauri that punts most of the heavy data processing to Rust w
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by DesertVarnish 4y ago
Is it actually standard practice to use nitrogen fertilizers with soybeans? Soy is a nitrogen fixer and I've read that nitrogen fertilizers often reduce yields for soybeans because it interferes with nodulation and undermines that plan
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by DesertVarnish 4y ago
This is a long standing debate in evolutionary biology, I wrote about it if anyone's interested in more context: https://www.maltinsky.net/blog/giraffe-evolution .
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by DesertVarnish 4y ago
I don't mean to detract from your more general point, but given the associations that sleep apnea has with obesity (and even just non-obese elevated BMIs) I think that is very plausibly an environmental change.
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by DesertVarnish 5y ago
I'm another Mercury employee. When I joined there wasn't much of a specific onboarding process at all, beyond being given a few simple tickets to work on and pointed to some documentation. I had written a very small amount of Hask
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by DesertVarnish 6y ago
It's interesting to see companies showing up in this space (e.g., https://hash.ai/ ), many of them based out of London. I'd consider applying if I was based in the UK, but I'm curious about what inspired the f
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by DesertVarnish 6y ago
Packaging gtk for systems other than Linux can be a bit of a nightmare, and the experience on platforms other than Linux and desktop BSD leaves a lot to be desired.
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by DesertVarnish 6y ago
println is a macro in Rust because 1) the language currently lacks support for variadic functions and 2) being a macro allows the format string to be parsed at compile time.
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by DesertVarnish 7y ago
At one point, Roam supported importing org-mode files (my team actually asked them to implement it back in spring of 2018). The product vision has changed a lot since then and I'm not sure if they still support it, but if there's
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by DesertVarnish 7y ago
I may be wrong, but insolation probably isn't a substantial factor in keeping cores molten because of how small the energy input is. Venus does have extremely active volcanoes. There's suspicion that it might have a stronger magne
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Pliny the Elder on the 21st Century(maltinsky.net)
3 points by DesertVarnish 8y ago|0 comments
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by DesertVarnish 8y ago
That was fantastic. Attempts to teach programming through gamification tend to have issues, but the instant visual feedback and clear goals helped me understand CSS much better.

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