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by ccday 1y ago
> So how bright do we want/need our displays to be? How many bits? For me, even a 500 nits TV in a dark room is enough viewing from about 10' away. The advantage of high peak brightness (eg > 1000 nits) is brighter small reg
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by ccday 3y ago
I use IDEA and most typed languages I write (eg Java, Go, Python with annotations) have better support for things like automated refactoring, bug detection via static analysis, etc
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by ccday 3y ago
Very excited to hear about this. Elixir is a fantastic language but tooling lags behind some other options, a type system should help with that.
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by ccday 4y ago
You can rent a supercomputer from AWS: https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/p4/
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by ccday 4y ago
I was referring to PGP as a solution for being potentially MITM’d by an AI when trying to communicate with an entity you already trust.
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by ccday 4y ago
> This technology will kill all digital information exchange. This is a bit hyperbolic. We have strong encryption like PGP for media like email (although I suppose getting people to use it is the issue), and there will be plenty of incen
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by ccday 4y ago
Binary palindromes are real engineering, Google Search is not? Pretension indeed.
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by ccday 4y ago
I don’t think GitLab will do this as they would lose many government customers that self-host on private networks.
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by ccday 4y ago
> We would submit that the simplest explanation for this relationship can be garnered from the known relationship between borderline personality disorder and extreme, though changeable, expressions of identity. A large study found that t
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by ccday 4y ago
Is there anyone alive practicing “Roman Stoicism”? People today take valuable and useful ideas from the philosophy of Stoicism such as those that underpin CBT. Why disregard these because some people did or wrote things you disagree with hu
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by ccday 5y ago
This is purely my opinion: Lincoln’s point was that the threat of civil war or violent dissent (what we today would call domestic terrorism) is a much greater threat to the US than foreign states. I think this remains true today. In fact, w
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by ccday 5y ago
A great quote from Lincoln: > From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink
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by ccday 5y ago
Hadoop/HDFS
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by ccday 5y ago
Not sure if it counts as structured concurrency but Go has the feature you describe: https://gobyexample.com/waitgroups
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by ccday 6y ago
I'm not sure it's fair to characterize a container as a snapshot of an entire OS install - you can have containers that are very lightweight, e.g. just a static Go binary copied into a "scratch" container - but often the
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by ccday 6y ago
GitLab uses Vue, that qualifies as a serious product.
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by ccday 6y ago
Install GitLab Runner on any EC2 instance you’d like, it’s simple. You can even run on Spot!
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by ccday 6y ago
Regardless of whether this decision is correct or not, Uber's financial situation is of their own making and shouldn't factor in to the ruling.
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by ccday 7y ago
Ember.js is very much batteries-included although learning the framework definitely requires a time investment.
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by ccday 7y ago
I think we’re at that point judging by the reaction to Apple’s latest generation of keyboards and their (rumored) upcoming change.
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by ccday 7y ago
One of the professors quoted in the article suggests otherwise: > The system promulgated a definition of sexual misconduct so expansive that it “plausibly covers almost all sex students are having today,” as Gersen wrote in an article in
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by ccday 7y ago
Go isn’t the perfect language because it doesn’t intend to be. Likely, as this article seems to hint at, there’s no such thing and there never will be. Go has a well defined set of design goals (including simple and pragmatic) that it has a
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by ccday 8y ago
Inspecting JSON payloads that are returned during normal use of the app doesn’t seem like an illegal activity.