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US getting modern sunscreen formulations(theverge.com)
3 points by ctur 3mo ago|1 comments
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Pxhist: Fast, local-first shell history search and sync for bash and zsh(github.com)
1 points by ctur 6mo ago|0 comments
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by ctur 1y ago
It’s fun to build things like this but if you want to nourish a user base you need to fully understand the landscape of similar tools and then explain your differentiating value. This is /particularly/ important for security rela
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by ctur 1y ago
This is an unnecessary optimization, particularly for the article's use case (small files that are read immediately after being written). Just use /tmp. The linux buffer cache is more than performant enough for casual usage and,
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by ctur 2y ago
Woohoo, one of the highlights of this time of year. I had to do mine from an eastbound flight over the pacific. This has become a fun tradition not just for me personally but for many friends, colleagues, and fellow HNers. Big props once
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by ctur 2y ago
Architecture matters because while deep learning can conceivably fit a curve with a single, huge layer (in theory... Universal approximation theorem), the amount of compute and data needed to get there is prohibitive. Having a good archite
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by ctur 2y ago
But not all things you might do with a dotfile (or, more generally, per-user customization) are just replacing files. Things like cronjobs, brew installs, `defaults` in MacOS, etc. Viewing dotfile-based customization as strictly files to
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by ctur 2y ago
Reread the story. The child wasn’t left in the car for an extended period (by a grandparent, not parent). The child had just been buckled into a car seat and the driver closed the door, walked around to the drivers side, and couldn’t get
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The children who remember their past lives(washingtonpost.com)
15 points by ctur 2y ago|9 comments
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by ctur 3y ago
We give away potatoes to trick or treaters on Halloween. They are immensely popular and we’ve become known as the potato house in our city’s Facebook groups. The weird delight on the faces of kids of all ages was hugely unexpected but sur
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by ctur 3y ago
Careful, your homedir has a CloudStorage folder and if you are using, say, Dropbox or Google Drive then that find will be incredibly slow (in addition to security software possibly slowing it down).
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by ctur 3y ago
I find it very useful. I made a tool similar to mcfly (before knowing it existed) and use this workflow (`--here`) constantly. Also hostname context and shell session can be useful at times, too, to reconstruct something in the past. htt
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by ctur 3y ago
While I doubt I'd quit my day job for it, over the past couple of years I've been poking at my own database-backed shell history. The key requirements for me were that it be extremely fast and that it support syncing across multi
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Even nerds can dunk with these [video](youtube.com)
2 points by ctur 3y ago|0 comments
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Gptel: A simple LLM client for Emacs(github.com)
6 points by ctur 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 3y ago
What a great historical summary. Compression has moved on now but having grown up marveling at PKZip and maximizing usable space on very early computers, as well as compression in modems (v42bis ftw!), this field has always seemed magical.
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by ctur 3y ago
For those thinking about lessons to take from this, check out the EOL DR checklist: https://github.com/potatoqualitee/eol-dr
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by ctur 3y ago
Mark is one of the world's top experts on practical MySQL performance at scale, having spent a huge amount of time optimizing MySQL at Google and Facebook. There's a question in this thread about whether this has real world impac
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MLEnv: Standardizing ML at Pinterest(medium.com)
5 points by ctur 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 3y ago
This article seems like it is an AI summary of another document. It doesn’t offer anything new, just restating someone else’s analysis. And that analysis comes down to… storage demand will outpace SSDs price point enough that the demand w
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EOL DR / End-of-Life Disaster Response(github.com)
1 points by ctur 3y ago|0 comments
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Why Is Pyrex Exploding?(youtube.com)
5 points by ctur 3y ago|13 comments
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by ctur 3y ago
Sounds like hypnogogic hallucinations and/or the hypnogogic stare. Thomas Edison and Salvador Dali (an)used this state for creativity supposedly.
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by ctur 3y ago
He was and worked on, among other things, Python while there. He's a trustworthy source.
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by ctur 3y ago
In addition to the great advice in this thread, it’s worth being aware of something called “Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria” (RDD). It isn’t a diagnosable condition according to the DSM-V but is often observed coincident with ADHD. Basica
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by ctur 3y ago
Unless the recipient of whatever you are compressing absolutely requires gzip, you should not use gzip or pigz. Instead you should use zstd as it compresses faster, decompresses faster, and yields smaller files. It also supports parallelis
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by ctur 3y ago
I consider myself very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Yann. He is amazingly humble for someone who has made something so impactful. One thing also that sometimes gets lost is wins as substantial as Zstandard not only s
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From Project Management to Data Compression Innovator(corecursive.com)
3 points by ctur 3y ago|0 comments
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by ctur 3y ago
To be fair, for every one of these sub-30 wunderkinds there are dozens of 50+ year olds hoping to make a fortune by propping them up… who often avoid such public derision.
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by ctur 3y ago
I find the iOS app BeOrg great for mobile access to my org mode inbox. It works well as not only a place to write quick notes but also to, say, "share to" links from Safari and other apps to create inbox entries as well to quickl

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