balefrost

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by balefrost 3y ago
MacOS also employs memory compression, so it's not necessarily swapping to disk.
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by balefrost 4y ago
My experience is, for businesses who pay attention to open-source licenses, they will avoid GPL libraries like the plague (GPL applications are usually fine, though there's sometimes some skepticism). But not all businesses pay close a
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by balefrost 4y ago
Nor any other non-FAANG company I've ever worked for. In my experience, 401k matches are immediate.
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by balefrost 4y ago
If you just need "switch using keyboard", not necessarily "switch using shell", some KVM switches allow input switching using keypresses. For mine, it's <SROLLLOCK> <SCROLLOCK> <1-4> <ENTER>,
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by balefrost 4y ago
I dunno, even in C codebases, it's not uncommon to have data structures containing function pointers. Polymorphism isn't inherently bad and trying to achieve it using, say, enums and big switch statements isn't particularly m
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by balefrost 4y ago
It depends on who is buying the Steam Deck. If it's people who don't already have a PC, then sure, Valve is broadening their market. But if it's people who already have a gaming PC, then it probably won't lead to a lot o
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by balefrost 4y ago
The Atari 2600 had a digital joystick. The Atari 5200 was completely analog. If you tear the controller down, there's a complex mechanism that links the stick to two rotational potentiometers. It's similar in outcome to modern ana
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by balefrost 4y ago
Yes, I should have been clearer. I meant that their Linux investment started out as a hedge, but over time they were able to pivot it to something else. I'm not sure what the impetus was for the Steam Deck. I could see it as a hedge ag
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by balefrost 4y ago
I might have overstated that. Looking at eBay "sold" prices, they seem to go for anywhere from 30 USD (controller only, no accessories) to over 100 USD (used, but in box with accessories) or 200 USD (sealed in box). But even then,
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by balefrost 4y ago
And Atari released theirs back in 1982.
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by balefrost 4y ago
It's unclear whether Valve is playing the long game or simply hedging their bets. My recollection is that their investment in Linux was expressly stated to be a hedge against a future where Microsoft put Windows in a walled garden, lik
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by balefrost 4y ago
I can't speak about Haskell, but Clojure's lazy sequences also generate a lot of intermediate allocs. For example, here's Clojure's implementation of `map`[1]. It internally uses `cons` to build a cell[2] and `map` to re
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by balefrost 4y ago
> God forbid you try to change the audio device from speakers to headphones in the middle of a call. I've been using it for a couple of years, and I have never had this issue. I can switch between my built-in soundcard and my USB he
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by balefrost 4y ago
The EULA is giving you permission to e.g. copy and modify the font with certain restrictions (e.g. include the license text if you distribute it). In that regard, it's not terribly dissimilar in spirit from an open source software lice
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by balefrost 4y ago
It's probably not as impressive as Miniaturwunderland, but if you're in the US, and specifically near northern New Jersey, there's a neat place called Northlandz [1]. It's much older than Miniaturwunderland and I'm
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by balefrost 4y ago
Are you not doing the same thing that the author is doing? The author has a bias against blockchain, sees blockchain proponents making a poor argument, and that reinforces their bias against blockchains. You have a bias seemingly in favor o
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by balefrost 4y ago
The Raspberry Pi foundation recently (about a 18 months ago) released their own dual-core ARM chip - the RP2040 - and a corresponding dev board - the Pi Pico. The Pico dev board runs about $4 plus shipping from authorized resellers. Within
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by balefrost 4y ago
In the worst case, you would get 2 leap seconds per year. So in the worst case, 1800 years. However, in the past 50 years, we've only had 27. So at the current rate, probably more like 6667 years to be off by an hour. Of course, if the
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by balefrost 4y ago
The RP2040 has a programmable IO subsystem. This lets you define a simple state machine that manages the IO pins and can transfer data to/from memory. Here's what the project's README says: So, how the heck the pico is able
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by balefrost 4y ago
North America got both variants. This iteration is the model 2, but the model 1 was also sold here.
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by balefrost 4y ago
Münecat made a pretty good video on this topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGfW5U7d8sc
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by balefrost 4y ago
One strategy is to go to community college for your gen ed requirements, transfer those credits to a more prestigious university, then finish your degree there. The piece of paper will have the university's name on it, but you will hav
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by balefrost 4y ago
They did disclose it; it was in the press release: In the case of Tether, the company represented that each of its stablecoins were backed one-to-one by U.S. dollars in reserve. However, an investigation by the Office of the Attorney Gener
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by balefrost 4y ago
The NY Attorney General successfully prosecuted the parent company of Tether and Bitfinex. They found that the two were sharing funds, transferring them back and forth to make it appear that Tether was fully backed while using the same fund
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by balefrost 4y ago
I think it's fair to assume, in the discussion of an article, that all the discussion is related to said article.
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by balefrost 4y ago
FWIW, your definition of "real money" doesn't comport with the generally accepted notion of "money", at least as I understand it. Gold probably couldn't be used as money in modern society because most vendors p
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by balefrost 4y ago
If you read the article, it specifically points to remote learning as the thing that put students behind. I think the commenter believes that the negative effect of remote learning is overstated relative to other factors.
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by balefrost 4y ago
Thanks for the recommendation!
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by balefrost 4y ago
I think a lot of people's introduction to OKRs is John Doerr's book "Measure What Matters". That's where I learned about them. The book explains how Andy Grove introduced the practice at Intel and it was very effect
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by balefrost 4y ago
Topre has the same fundamental issue. The rubber dome buckles at some point, but the switch is activated by the spring deforming enough to change the capacitance above the pads. Then again, in my experience, it's not an issue. The resi

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