flywheel

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by flywheel 6y ago
Removing APIs is not a great practice though. Look at AWS, they version their APIs, they don't just remove them, and removing them should be unnecessary if your underlying tech isn't brittle and badly written. "Depreciated&qu
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by flywheel 6y ago
Yeah, nope yourself. It seems like a lot of people aren't really thinking this through very much. And that is absolutely the wrong way to approach API development. An API that is being sun-setted should never be removed, because older
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by flywheel 6y ago
Whoever the first developer was that used "deprecated" got it kind of wrong, the word should have been "depreciated". Deprecate: "express disapproval of." Depreciate: "diminish in value over a period of ti
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by flywheel 6y ago
Prediction: Using the methods of "dorking", this is the only page on the internet among 10 million+ results that is calling this "dorking".
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by flywheel 6y ago
That's web scraping 101
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by flywheel 6y ago
Thanks for posting this - I've been down that road. I regularly have to parse about 20GB of JSON split up into 8MB JSON files - tried this library but was sad that it didn't help. I'm currently using threading in nodejs and t
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by flywheel 6y ago
I guess this isn't really "hacker news" then, because I would expect just about any "hacker" would know the difference.
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by flywheel 6y ago
Amazing how nerds can be so focused on if it was 1 kiloton, 2 kilotons, or 3 kilotons - and they are arguing about it like it really matters.
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by flywheel 6y ago
Your comment seems a bit disingenuous - how much time passed between when you got the i7 and when you got the i5? Today's i5's can be faster than long-ago's i7's but todays i7's are still far faster than today'
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by flywheel 6y ago
Maybe you missed the part where the program tells the user it's running in "CPU Mode" and may be slower, "Try running on a GPU" is another message that would make it clear. So many comments here make it seem like we
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by flywheel 6y ago
>Prediction: someone deploys this and doesn't notice it's incredibly slow for mysterious reasons, and then spends several hours to figure out that the right version of CUDA wasn't installed. Why not just print out a messag
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by flywheel 6y ago
>This is a bad thing, not a happy thing to be advertised. Software fallback was of the most frustrating parts of working with OpenGL circa 2010. >If you're making a hardware accelerated library, stop trying to make it "grace
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by flywheel 6y ago
Her "data" is mostly liking cute dog videos. China can have that data for all I care. Meta data about my network, devices? If China really wants to know that I'm on Spectrum internet, and have a few other devices connected, s
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by flywheel 6y ago
AREXX was around in 1987. It was amazing. Pretty much every application had an "AREXX port" to allow scripting. And I used it extensively. The closest I've seen to anything like it is OLE on Windows, but it's not very ac
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by flywheel 6y ago
What inputs? You mean the fact that she follows cute dog videos? I'm sure China is going to use that against her somehow /s
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by flywheel 6y ago
My wife is on TikTok for at least an hour a night if not more - I've never once seen or heard anything pro-china or anything that would otherwise influence her opinion about China. Not once. It's all content from US social media w
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by flywheel 6y ago
That isn't really "high tech", it's organic chemistry. We can split hairs about the meaning of "high tech" but that would be pointless.
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by flywheel 6y ago
If you enjoy this kind of thing, check out the wizardry/madness over at https://www.dwitter.net/ - javascript animations in 140 bytes (the size of a tweet, hence the name, "dwitter").
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by flywheel 6y ago
Computers have come so far.
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by flywheel 6y ago
>I’m pretty sure nothing from Samsung, Motorola or HTC that's 4 or 5 years-old can run this year's Android release. Or even last year's. At least android phones can still download apps from the google app store, older iOS
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by flywheel 6y ago
>They often last for many more years than competitors' products Apple products are often obsolete in a few years, especially iPads and iPhones. Their entire line of laptops and desktops is now practically obsolete with the move to A
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by flywheel 6y ago
A solution in search of a problem.
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by flywheel 6y ago
The expandability of the original Amiga platform is what kept the ecosystem so vibrant that there almost wasn't a need to update the platform for so long - so many expansions that the Mac people could only dream about. Video Toaster, t
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by flywheel 6y ago
Say Grandma bought that house in 1960 for $100,000 (it's a really nice house). With inflation, that $100,000 is $870,935 today. Maybe that's still a return on investment, but not really that much. If Grandma had put even 1/10
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by flywheel 6y ago
I used to work at a porn company in early/mid 2000s, when IE was the dominant browser - the office breathed a sigh of relief when I coded a pixelation filter for IE using directshow effects or something, I forget it's been so long
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by flywheel 6y ago
The Republicans have always been the problem. They are rat-fucking the country and laughing about it - McConnell laughed when asked about unemployment assistance - he has no intention of helping Americans. He is a ghoul. We are doomed as lo
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by flywheel 6y ago
Surprised Array.sort wasn't mentioned. [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0].sort(()=>Math.random()*2-1)
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by flywheel 6y ago
>Apple was having Intel attempt to build modem chips for iPhones so that Apple could have an option other than Qualcomm. That didn't pan out. It didn't pan out? Well Apple buying Intel's modem chip business seems like the
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by flywheel 6y ago
LSD is not something Mexican cartels would be interested in. It is far, far more difficult to manufacture than growing plants (marijuana, cocaine, heroin). And the demand is nowhere near as much as the drugs they typically sell. LSD is also
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by flywheel 6y ago
>Many prove to be true. Which ones? Most conspiracy theories are over-thought, under-researched, pure horseshit. Out of the most well-known, "the moon landing was faked" - false, based on no real evidence and a whole lot of d

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