bigdubs

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by bigdubs 5mo ago
Straight into landlord's pockets.
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by bigdubs 1y ago
Adding to this, a solution might be enabling continuous releases and leaning into release channels could help in terms of getting more out to users. In practice it's a challenge because the OS bundles a lot of separate things into rele
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by bigdubs 2y ago
IMHO SD cards fail much more often than the USB-C connector would, what's the worry? If the camera mounts as a mass storage device it's one fewer thing to go wrong.
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by bigdubs 2y ago
That's not a random limitation, there are very specific reasons[1] you cannot easily add generic methods as struct receiver functions. [1] https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master&#x2
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by bigdubs 2y ago
People assuming this is a competitive posture exclusively are missing the point. The app store isn't just about making more money, it's about enforcing privacy and security guidelines for apps through the review process and throug
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by bigdubs 2y ago
Many ring-buffer implementations grow the backing storage array transparently on enqueue but do so in place, discarding the old arrays; what's the advantage of keeping the previous arrays? Naively I'd say it would reduce GC churn
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by bigdubs 3y ago
Quantity may have a quality all its own in warfare but for comments having the invite tree and accountability is pretty nice! I'd rather have (2) really insightful comments than 300 trying to promote themselves.
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by bigdubs 4y ago
Shockingly fast and nice and having the intermediate files be immutable is super nice.
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by bigdubs 4y ago
We query them directly in most cases with the httpfs plugin, but for hot paths we fetch them and cache them on disk locally.
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by bigdubs 4y ago
We use DuckDB extensively where I work ( https://watershed.com ), the primary way we're using it is to query Parquet formatted files stored in GCS, and we have some machinery to make that doable on demand for reporting and an
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by bigdubs 4y ago
Tailscale has some server components (account management etc.) that are powered with SQLite. Can read more here: https://tailscale.com/blog/database-for-2022/
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by bigdubs 4y ago
What one engineer can operate confidently doesn't necessarily extend to the rest of the team, who will have to support that system if that engineer leaves or has to work on other projects. The lowest common denominator on a team is bor
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by bigdubs 4y ago
Yes Node.js ships with what is effectively a very thin standard library for some low level things like interacting with the file system, the process model, some security features like TLS.
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by bigdubs 4y ago
There is a deeper strategy here with go vs. node; having a standard library maintained by professionals. I would rather build on a common set of libraries secured by people who are paid full-time to maintain them, and maybe have slightly wo
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by bigdubs 5y ago
CockroachDB targets a different workload, namely, lots of reads and writes of individual records, versus returning large chunks of even larger tables. So it might help with inserts but would struggle with larger queries.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
I would maybe consider it the other way; these companies are wildly profitable with huge margins, why don't the employees capture _more_ of the value they create?
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by bigdubs 5y ago
So far in the betas the generics support has been really great, some issues with inferring the types of functions but otherwise going to be a welcome addition to the language.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
4 ... of its 5 dependencies. It's just missing Viper. We should do a better job with the title here. See: - [0] https://github.com/muesli/coral/blob/master/go.mod - [1] https://github.com
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by bigdubs 5y ago
The ars technica extended interview with Andy Gavin is a great watch (mentions lisp from his time at MIT) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSHj5UKSylk
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by bigdubs 5y ago
This is not a good comparison because big mining farms are not equivalent to people playing video games at home.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
Not every project is large, there are plenty of things that don't need the burdens that larger projects place on the code to just get things done and get them done well.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
Rust definitely has advantages for safety and correctness. Those advantages come at a cost, specifically in terseness and readability, which are both _strengths_ of Python. As a result, they're very different tools, and comparing them
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by bigdubs 5y ago
Big point of strength for TSMC in negotiations is they're the only fab that can make 3nm chips in volume, which gives them a ton of leverage to push back against Apple.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
You're obviously allowed to feel what you feel but if you've ever seen a "good" body of work taken on the street, and a "bad" body of work taken on the street, the skill of the photographer matters, and it expr
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by bigdubs 5y ago
Then it's going to be weaponized to launder money and be made illegal eventually.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
This was mentioned in go's net/http by this CL: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/17980/ it's an interesting point that the spec allows this.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
a couple high profile projects (k8s) needed generics, there are limited use cases outlined in the planning docs that detail the holes in the language they're filling, it wasn't just squeaky wheels.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
It follows because you may be taking off from private land but you're operating in federal airspace (all airspace is federal in the US)
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by bigdubs 5y ago
Keyboard wpm is about double; ~37-44wpm is P50. Still not super fast though.
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by bigdubs 5y ago
A lot of that has to do with coatings modern lenses use to correct for chromatic aberration, but also how they minimize loss of contrast from light bouncing around inside the lens. It really is incredible how much a lens affects the final i

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