arch-ninja

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by arch-ninja 6mo ago
Agreed. I LOVE Kagi as a search engine - so long as it answers queries in under 2s with no ads, I'm a very happy customer. I don't mind if they flirt with LLMs, but if the LLM work detracts from the search work they will lose me a
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by arch-ninja 2y ago
The best approach would be to treat "High Performance" as a system-controlled attribute like "Can Read Location Data"; the app can make a request for a performance profile it's designed against, the user gets final
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by arch-ninja 2y ago
I love the idea! It combines social-network capabilities with in-person hangouts. Let me know if you need a C++/Rust/Zig developer for backend work. The required infrastructure sounds simple to build if you outsource payment proce
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by arch-ninja 2y ago
Aww, I was expecting something like /dev/null-AAS - https://devnull-as-a-service.com/
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
Guarantees about those things are impossible to add after a language/community abandons them, and you can Arc::<RWLock<T>> your way to writing Java pretty fast. I hold that keeping the strongest-possible abstractions is the
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
6 months if you're a college-sophmore-level student doing it part-time (my own experience + numbers), I'd estimate 3-4 weeks if you were spending more than 3hrs/day on it and knew 2 other languages.
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
Hasn't the solution to this problem always been easy? Just encrypt before you type it into imessages; this applies to _all_ untrusted communication channels. Don't tell me base64-encoding/decoding is what's stopping you
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
I say 50% of the Internet is Duplicate. (N=2)
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
The leadership that makes up media won't be paid more if they cared more, therefore the organization they create won't ever care more.
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
Brent is the engineer building all the real tech that a company in the Phoenix Project is building, and when the MC (a manager, Bill I believe) realizes this he re-directs resources so Brent can do his job without interruptions, ultimately
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by arch-ninja 4y ago
Agreed, my experience says the same. Good compromises will win every time, and most times the communication about 2 different ways to build the same thing will end up producing a hybrid that's better than both ideas alone.
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Agreed
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Would a "tax on bad decisions made by company & company's tools" be appropriate in the 21st century? I don't think you can sue an algorithm these days, but having the legal step to say that "whatever a company&#
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Hmm hadn't thought of that. Did google have the same quantitative issues when they changes names or did that come a few years after? It could just be they timed their jump well.
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
The quantitative reasons alone would have been responsible for a small slouch, but everyone would think "Oh it's Facebook they'll get back in the game soon, better buy now". The renaming leaks information that leadership
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
The alert fatigue is _very real_; I have a dexcom and consistently see it: - mis-calibrate (first day's readings are garbage after new sensor insert) - UI on the app will sometimes mis-render by 10-15 minutes. On several occasions I ha
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
I cancelled my subscription shortly after they started getting rid of small-time films and started producing their own content; the two reasons were (1) I don't like businesses that can't cooperate with others and (2) their own co
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
This guy sounds like he's fishing for attention, the phrase "I didn't think I would have the courage to share..." is something 10-year-olds think up for attention. It drips vanity and a covered ego the size of the Hinden
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
D is an excellent mix of good design decisions, metaprogramming (your macros can run arbitrary code at compile time, a la zig), and a nice standard library. They also have some of the best API-building libraries available, and the compiler
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Net negative for most, net positive for a few, good learning experience for all.
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
The conviction of Galileo is actually pretty funny; it took a few decades _after landing on the moon_ for the church to apologize: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair#Modern_Catholic... That's some sinful
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Steam has a great status page, companies like that and cloudfare will eat Alphabet's lunch in the next 17-18 years.
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
I left the company I was part-timing at because after college I realized I was the smartest one in the room; my boss thought some of the code I wrote was "brilliant" and for this reason did not let me improve/fix any of it, w
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Same, companies can only be influenced by their financials these days. I even buy subscriptions I don't need with the intention of cancelling them 2-3 quarters later (need to make sure the money shows up on the books first).
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Anecdata: I'm a number that supports that, I couldn't live with myself if I wasn't able to do meaningful work. You sound like a cohort of friends I have who run around with "eat the rich" feel-good campaigns and can
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
I was expelled from a university for reporting security flaws, the solution we all seek is the simplest one and for administrators it's easiest to hurt the people making noise which commonly results in the noise going away. fight-or-fl
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
There's a ton of easy low-hanging fruit along these lines that could be improved. Good example: I have a python script that routinely scans my ~/downloads directory and quarantines anything more than 24 hours old. It then scans th
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
This looks awesome, but is there a source-available release? I'd pay for it, I generally dislike large blobs ("appimages") and would prefer to "./configure && make && make install" myself so I c
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
> In an attempt to add some confusion to his operation, I decided to create a little script. This little script would send him about 5000 different combinations of the above parameters in a completely random fashion. Fun. I've done
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by arch-ninja 5y ago
Obligatory futurama: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f6/40/e2/f640e25abd05e07442c6...

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