candeira

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by candeira 5mo ago
I've been consulting a long time, and my home is my office. Besides the uses other people have suggested, here are some uses I would have for a fast symmetrical connection: - Backing up data to my home/office NAS while away. - Rem
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by candeira 6mo ago
Australia here we come.
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by candeira 7mo ago
Yes. However, I already carry a tethered hand-me-down quarantine phone where I install my work apps and undesirable apps like Whatsapp (for those loved friends and family that can't or won't install Signal). Carrying a third phone
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by candeira 10mo ago
Dude shipped flamegraphs (which he also created in 2011) for cloud GPU loads and persuaded internal stakeholders to release the code as open source. The "interviewed by the WSJ" line is for managers. Reading between the lines, I&#
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by candeira 11mo ago
Seems like there's a misunderstanding on my part here. <reads more> Ah, the memory is integrated in the same package (the "chip" that gets soldered onto the motherboard) as the integrated CPU/GPU, and I had underst
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by candeira 11mo ago
I could be wrong about this but, if I had a guess, I'd say the 24GB M5 chips/systems exist due to binning. Apple is designing and manufacturing a chip/chipset/system with 32GB with integrated memory. During QA, parts tha
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by candeira 2y ago
This is a great shader intro tutorial!
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by candeira 2y ago
A friend of mine had an art studio at the Nicholas Building, and I got to speak with a jeweller who told me that he still did a lot of bespoke work in wedding rings, especially for tradies who would otherwise wear down store-bought rings be
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by candeira 2y ago
Cute!
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by candeira 3y ago
The downturn was brutal, but the drop in development was also needed. At the height of the property bubble around 2005-2007, Spain (pop ~44M) was building more units per year than Germany, France and the UK (combined pop. ~195M).[1] During
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by candeira 3y ago
It's definitely coding, if we understand "coding" as "writing code". It's writing text in a text editor to generate an outcome, programmatically. Also, CSS with animations is now Turing-complete. So yeah, writi
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by candeira 3y ago
Yes, yes and yes.
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by candeira 4y ago
The failure mode of educational systems and institutions is to perform selection of students more likely to require less help in learning, rather than bear the burden of having to perform actual instruction. Survivor bias takes care of prom
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by candeira 4y ago
"defector.com" and not "defecator.com"?
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by candeira 4y ago
You're welcome to write it yourself. Something you'll see by reading the overview is the part where the Zig team themselves warn you that Zig is not a fully safe language and link to articles describing the safety boundaries. Scro
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by candeira 5y ago
The carbon cost of extraction and transportation of fuel should also be added to the spreadsheet, both for nuclear and for fossil fuel generation. Finally, if we're accounting for the cost decommissioning old nuclear stations and long-
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by candeira 5y ago
I wish I could go into the site and edit the headline to read "Australian spy agency disrupts foreign interference into election" to prevent ambiguity and reduce backtracking by readers.
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by candeira 5y ago
My explanation of the base rate fallacy is that most car crashes are caused by people who hold a valid driver's permit. The number of crashes caused by unlicensed drivers is negligible. Therefore, we should stop issuing driving license
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by candeira 5y ago
I saw videos of gyroscopic wheelchairs at the time, and they are as awesome today as I remembered them! My skepticism was rather about Segway, the product, being useful as a mobility device, and recognised as such by European regulators.
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by candeira 5y ago
I met some of the people working on regulatory advice so Segways could be used in Europe. This would be about 2003 or 2004, at Campus Party in Valencia, Spain. The story they told me is that Segway was going to be successful in the USA as a
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by candeira 5y ago
The motivation for explicit allocation is explicitness, not adaptability. The adaptability is great, but it's a consequence of the language designer's design principle that all function calls will be explicit via (), and all alloc
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by candeira 5y ago
I was wondering why the episodes on the corecursive feed start at number 5. I'll check your hosted episodes on Software Engineering Daily now!
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by candeira 5y ago
> Can I be the "lazy person" and ask which are the author's points?! Yes, you can, and I can be the hurried person with no time to summarise, and recommend you read the book yourself. It's not like those business book
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by candeira 5y ago
Given what I saw in my grandmother when she became ill with dementia, I don't see a much worst case. Maybe if she had survived for longer in an even slower decline... but heart meds already gave us that.
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by candeira 5y ago
I'm currently reading Marianne Bellotti's Kill It With Fire, which is about upgrading and maintaining legacy projects. It's more about meta-software-architecture (how to think about choosing and replacing architectures) than
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by candeira 5y ago
Yes, and I understood his point because, as a business-minded software engineer, I can map the edit-run-test-debug process to what he calls a tight loop (the Maths Test). I also recognise the fuzzier process of designing features with stak
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by candeira 5y ago
In the spirit of Python's "Exceptions are when the runtime didn't know what to do, and Errors are when the programmer didn't know what to do", I'd say "rely on crashes for exceptions, but validate data aga
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by candeira 5y ago
Dan answered earnestly and generously to some uninformed questions I emailed him at random one day. He was a good man. My condolences to his friends and family.
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by candeira 5y ago
I didn't literally mean the atmosphere had a limited capacity to hold this much CO2 and no more. Please add "without existential-level consequences", which was the implied meaning.
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by candeira 5y ago
We are currently running out of atmosphere to dump the CO2 from burning the oil into.

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