LeftHandPath

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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I’ve always loved Haskell as well, although the most I did with it was writing a small language interpreter for a CS class. It’s amazing how much better major languages could be. They’re slowly getting better - I started out using PHP 5 at
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I've enjoyed what I've done with Axum thus far. I ultimately opted to use Leptos on top of it, so I don't really use it directly at this point. But it's neat. For a long time, I used PHP and JS/TS for web projects.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
They built their phishing emails using data scraped from public profiles. Fascinating. I have to wonder if, in the near future, we're going to have a much higher perceived cost for online social media usage. Problems we're already
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Wow. The fog example is fantastic. ...Reminds me of how I ruined my old wallet, hiking thirty miles on a foggy day in Algonquin Provincial Park.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I've been spending about ~10 hours a day on a startup idea I had recently, but if that falls through, I'll be in touch
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
It’s worth noting that a lot of rust frameworks have code generators and the like that emit a lot of lines quickly. I’m working on a web app with Axum, Diesel (type-safety on my Postgres stuff), and Leptos (in “islands” mode, allows me to w
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Dear, this is a dangerous bit of information to discover. Incredibly tempted to spend wayyy too much time making an SVG of the ISS and animating it based on this.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
When I started writing code, I was using NotePad++ and tracking versions by... file name suffixes. And occasionally writing stuff on paper by hand, for the hell of it. It was awful. Discovering Git about a month into my programming career w
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I started my life as a dev with PHP, learning it on the job to set up a custom Wordpress theme with plugins for special datatypes (eg STCs). When I was 21, they offered to pay for my tuition so I went back for a CoE degree (later switching
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I think they use sectioned hashes for that sort of thing. They certainly do for eg ISIS videos, see https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2017/12/04/faceboo...
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Earlier this year, I was at ground zero of the Super Bowl parade shooting. I didn’t ever dream about it, but I spent the following 3-4 days constantly replaying it in my head in my waking hours. Later in the year I moved to Florida, just in
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Haskell: Solving Large Perfect Numbers Quickly with Miller-Rabin(gist.github.com)
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Would you / do you still use them? I like their branding more than PorkBun.
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Hahaha not at all, great catch. Sometimes my gray matter just totally craps out... like thinking of "changing order of magnitude" as "adding 1 extra digit". Reminds me of the time my research director pulled me aside for
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Research is product development. Successful companies treat it with respect. > Because in product development, there can be short-sighted industry decisions based on quarterly returns. I've also seen a constant need to justify out
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
That's very useful, I missed that when I read through the article. If the logical qubit can have double the lifetime of any physical qubit, that's massive. Recall IBM's chips, with t-times of ~400microseconds. Doubling that w
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I did quantum computing research in university. We did meaningful work and published meaningful research. Around 50% of our time was spent working in Overleaf making small improvements to old projects so that we could submit to some new jou
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Re: AI, it's a long way off still. The big limitation to anything quantum is always going to be decoherence and t-time [0]. To do anything with ML, you'll need whole circuit (more complex than shor's) just to initialize the d
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Wow. Evidence is the sort of thing I've been dreaming of for a long time. Awesome work!
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
In the latter part of high school, and in my early years in college as a computer engineer, I found physics and the philosophy of it really interesting. I remember the first time, in 9th grade, that our teacher showed us how to predict the
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I recall having to implement A* to search a nxn character grid in my AI course a few years ago. It took me close to a full day to wrap my head around the concepts, get used to python (we usually worked in C++), and actually implement the al
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Yes. See the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Code_of_Military_Justi...
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Agreed. I lean towards thinking I would've wound up further behind if I skipped one or more grades, due to the social aspect. Especially given how often I moved. Keeping the regular pace also allowed me to do a lot more extracurricular
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
That's interesting. My parents were told, in SC and FL, to have me skip a grade or two (not six!), but refused due to the social burden they expected it to put on me. I'm not entirely happy with where I am at 26. I wonder if I&#x2
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Interesting that most of the top comments are talking about wastefulness. I think that's part of why everyone went to flat design - Windows Vista and glass effects looked great, but they were expensive to compute! Flat designs are aest
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
I went to look at array accessor overloading today and saw “Property Hooks” in the sidebar (under “Classes and Objects”). I didn’t know what they were, so I clicked. I was bewildered that I had never run into them before, used them in my ow
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Hah, I’m currently trying that tactic to get us on Bookstack for our SOPs. Never thought about doing it with Laravel. Could work!
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Small aerospace company. We had a really old school CEO at the time the project was started - didn’t even want us using GitHub since it was on the cloud. Everything runs on an on-premise IBM i Series (AS400 / IBM Mainframe). I pushed h
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
Interesting. I’ve rolled my own PHP ORM at work (forbidden from using FOSS libraries like Laravel) and found hooks to be extremely useful. Notably, my programming experience started with PHP for Wordpress which used hooks extensively, so ma
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by LeftHandPath 2y ago
This Forbes article from 2017 seemed to hit the nail on the head, regarding their outsourcing to India being a major problem: https://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2017/10/06/i...

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