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by bshanks 2mo ago
If someone had said, "I am generally not opposed to regulation, but this is a place where I don't support it.", you could have replied to it in a similar fashion, but reversed.
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Using the Gini Coefficient to Plan Edge Capacity(fastly.com)
10 points by bshanks 3mo ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 4mo ago
What's the conservative best practice for a solo founder (a one person company; assume the person spends ~20 hours per week on software development/maintenance and the rest of the time on other stuff)?
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by bshanks 5mo ago
The main issue here is not UX, but rather that you did something which degraded quality without transparency. You should have documented this and also highlighted the change in an announcement. There should never be an undocumented change t
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by bshanks 8mo ago
Note that inventory already in Amazon fulfillment centers as of March 31, 2026 is still commingled "Also what happens after March 31st with the leftover commingled inventory that’s already there? No action is required for stickerless i
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by bshanks 8mo ago
See also PerlNomic: http://odbook.stanford.edu/static/filedocument/2009/11/15/Ch...
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by bshanks 2y ago
I also found https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/libreplanet2022/tree/master/item/... to understand the context
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by bshanks 2y ago
One of the authors talks about using C with SDL or libdraw here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31715080 Since they were on a boat with a Raspberry Pi and not much battery power or internet, in addition to execution s
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by bshanks 2y ago
Yes, I think it's very possible that human brains unconsciously generate-and-test surprisingly large numbers of small candidate programs when solving a problem. This approach is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarr
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by bshanks 2y ago
The first thing to do is to put LLMs to work to generate large knowledge bases of commonsense knowledge in symbolic machine-readable formats that Cyc-like projects can consume.
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by bshanks 2y ago
I don't understand why an Income Sharing Agreement would be classified as loans. They seem more like equity than debt; the amount that students would pay depends on their future income, and can be arbitrarily small or large (right? or
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by bshanks 2y ago
Even if other users (or possibly, sock puppets of the attacker) had not been complaining, the original maintainer probably would have began to trust the attacker after enough real contributions.
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Why Python's integer division floors (2010)(python-history.blogspot.com)
103 points by bshanks 3y ago|98 comments
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Herbgrind analyzes binaries to find inaccurate floating point expressions(herbgrind.ucsd.edu)
70 points by bshanks 3y ago|13 comments
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Common Lisp's block / return-from and unwind-protect(axisofeval.blogspot.com)
126 points by bshanks 3y ago|61 comments
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Organizing multiple Git identities(garrit.xyz)
263 points by bshanks 3y ago|89 comments
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What’s the Smallest Variety of CHERI? (2022)(msrc.microsoft.com)
46 points by bshanks 3y ago|11 comments
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My Mental Model of Transducers(blog.danieljanus.pl)
26 points by bshanks 3y ago|2 comments
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GitHub has too many hidden features(buttondown.email)
3 points by bshanks 3y ago|0 comments
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Compiler Development: Rust or OCaml?(hirrolot.github.io)
154 points by bshanks 3y ago|101 comments
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Redpanda’s official Jepsen What we fixed, and what we shouldn’t(redpanda.com)
2 points by bshanks 3y ago|0 comments
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by bshanks 3y ago
This thesis provides empirical support that a specific measure of software architectural complexity is costly. Specifically, they look thru source code in an automated manner, construct the graph whose nodes are source code files and whose
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Repeat yourself, do more than one thing, and rewrite everything (2018)(programmingisterrible.com)
255 points by bshanks 4y ago|116 comments
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Homeworld 1 in Browser(gardensofkadesh.github.io)
10 points by bshanks 4y ago|1 comments
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by bshanks 4y ago
The university system is a mechanism to fund public goods. The problem is the professors are judged according to their production of novel knowledge, and maintaining useful software does not produce novel knowledge. We should endow chairs o
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SRFI 226: Control Features(srfi.schemers.org)
25 points by bshanks 4y ago|6 comments
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ChatGPT passes the 2022 AP Computer Science A free response section(gist.github.com)
420 points by bshanks 4y ago|454 comments
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(Mastodon) Surviving and thriving through the 2022-11-05 meltdown(blog.freeradical.zone)
46 points by bshanks 4y ago|20 comments
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Burrows–Wheeler Transform(en.wikipedia.org)
162 points by bshanks 4y ago|56 comments
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What’s the Smallest Variety of CHERI? (2022)(msrc-blog.microsoft.com)
2 points by bshanks 4y ago|0 comments

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