auvrw

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by auvrw 1y ago
> We're essentially subject to the whims of someone who is letting us do something for as long as we play nice. Isn't that so the spirit of the times when working with LLMs? If one asks for a Prisma schema or something else
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by auvrw 7y ago
> this isn’t what Kubernetes is really for. i'm guessing that writing dyson in Nim is a tacit acknowledgement of that: if this were something geared toward production ecosystems, it would be in golang like kubernetes? although the
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by auvrw 7y ago
additionally, there's (c) kernel and/or embedded. in particular, and i've read that writing kernels isn't feasible in Go. it appears not to be an issue of performance. something about the runtime prevents writing kerne
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by auvrw 7y ago
i agree that the general-purpose programming language space is fairly crowded ... the lisp dialect/user ratio especially so. DSLs, otoh, are in short supply. while awk or plain sed are great for shell programming, this is the only (op
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by auvrw 7y ago
yes, files in plan 9 can be viewed as a way to "make objects look like files." http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/names note that the filesystem interface isn't totally durable acro
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by auvrw 7y ago
i'm not totally sure what 'fractal geometry' is, although there is something called 'geometric measure theory'.. the canonical text here is Federer, although it's supposedly a tome. Krantz's _the geometry
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by auvrw 7y ago
ssh access at build time via buildkit works on os x https://medium.com/@tonistiigi/build-secrets-and-ssh-forward... the link you've supplied regards ssh access when running docker images, not when building them. .
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by auvrw 8y ago
these changed almost everything i think about: misc. Forrest Mims notebooks, the Python Tutorial, Practical C Programming first chapter of Sound and the Fury, snippets of Naked Lunch, wide swaths of Ulysses The Universe in a Nutshell, Frenc
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by auvrw 8y ago
perhaps the > Obviously, this is a project for an advanced electronic hobbyist and computer enthusiast. is somewhat tongue-in-cheek: this could be the thing to get a kid who's already soldered together a bunch of (less expensive) a
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by auvrw 8y ago
i frequently compare workaday web-dev to general contracting (a favorable description from my perspective). no issues with the article title. here's my issue with the article text : it describes I came to the Graide Network an
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by auvrw 8y ago
first, i like emacs alright, and the article is awesome and full of good recommendations.. .. however , this article appears to be advocating a style of programming that i'd be more apt to call Test Driven Development than Literate Pr
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by auvrw 8y ago
> Thinkpad X140e woop, woop! the design where the display is _least_ fragile part of the laptop is brilliant: wins over removing extra ounces or millimeters. i wish more laptops were built this way and suspect the only reason they aren
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by auvrw 8y ago
yerp, by 2018, UI + SaaS backends is often the easiest way to get something deployed ... provided you want to deploy essentially the same thing other people already have + some customization .. .. what's going to be neat to see is how
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by auvrw 8y ago
enabling communication (e.g. ops for Mastodon communities) for labor unions strikes me as a better means of addressing the basic issue --- i.e. "the man" taking advantage of the little guy, intentional or not. if time-tracking som
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by auvrw 8y ago
didn't realize this is a common method .. the correspondence with neuroanatomy is impressive. i s'p, at that level (and i mean, likely even at the proteomic level for those that're particularly studied in that area), it coul
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by auvrw 8y ago
here's an impl of something like (but actually probably nothing like) 1. in the above tl;dr (disclaimer: i dr) https://github.com/ransomw/botiful-soup/blob/master/mibot/sr... as i recall, ther
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by auvrw 8y ago
part of making a new operating system could be getting to muck with the language features ... ... i suppose this project is locked into G-standard C++ and with lots of good reasons (e.g. toolchain). although i'm an anti-C++ person, i
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by auvrw 8y ago
i suggest (as someone who still knows nothing about electronics) that oscilloscopes are a "must have." cathode-ray-tube style from ebay are more affordable. also, Horowitz and Hill, to echo what i suppose is mentioned elsewhere.
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by auvrw 8y ago
your strategy of working exercises is a good one. it can also apply to results in the text: attempt to prove the result independently before reading the proof supplied in the text. if you find this practice enjoyable, it might be a sign
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by auvrw 9y ago
> after upgrading to the next Debian stable release, my stuff continues to work can be replaced by > with frequent upgrades, errors are sparse blips on the Debian testing release - standard line: if you're considering Debian for
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by auvrw 9y ago
yet another reason to trust dr. bronner... ... on "evidence-based" (cf. CDC) v heuristic reasoning: certain aftershaves and similar make me gag. knowing it's because of petrol is just the evidence i need to become self-righte
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by auvrw 9y ago
for rubyists and pythonistas interested in writing more C while not losing the convenience of scripting, lua is probably worth picking up along the way. the following is the C-interop samples from Programming in Lua https://gith
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by auvrw 9y ago
from the article > I had also heard something years earlier about autistic people having issues with certain types of clothing similar to my own. similar in what way? from https://www.autismspeaks.org/blog/2017/
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by auvrw 9y ago
i did my last search in two milestones: build things, do interviews. i did one "field of dreams" project using a stack that i was mostly familiar with already and several "effort" project to learn and demonstrate skills
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by auvrw 9y ago
i like the direction of this writeup a lot an am trying to go for a more symbolic style in my notes https://github.com/ransomw/samizdat
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by auvrw 9y ago
the farm in my family indirectly exports some crops to China (as in crops go to a port which takes them to China): the import/export relationship is not one-way. it (China) is a large country by population, and while that's got
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by auvrw 9y ago
here's the config to use an emacs-like C-x prefix and xmonad-like joker/klown pane selection https://github.com/ransomw/dotfiles/blob/master/tmux.conf along with a rant about what terminal mult
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by auvrw 9y ago
you mean "neomutt" ^_^ ? i noticed the updated name when running `mutt -h` one day and was pleased to find this page https://www.neomutt.org/ with good documentation along with an active github repository and appa
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by auvrw 9y ago
combination of "meh" and "derp" noises on the silly script as i moved on to the next one-off ffmpeg wrapper https://github.com/ransomw/dotfiles#add_textsh
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by auvrw 9y ago
> The bulk of SIP.js no longer cares about the media and what it’s doing yes. this is important, even if only for testing. my [semi]current test setup for jssip resorts to webdriver testing because the WebRTC is not completely decoupled

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