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Lipstick on a Pig(blog.fredrb.com)
3 points by fredrb 4mo ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 4mo ago
This news has to be read alongside the immigration visa emission pause for 75 countries by DOS[1]. Since USCIS is blocking Adjustment of Status, and the Department of State is blocking green card emission for citizens of 75 countries, this
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Interview with Jon Gjengset: Defending Democracies with Rust(filtra.io)
1 points by fredrb 1y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 1y ago
I’m sorry that has been your experience. The culture you’re brought up in is hardly representative for 8 billion people’s experience.
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by fredrb 2y ago
It’s not that bad if you need to deploy at least 3 things and for most cases it beats the alternatives. You can get away with a bootstrapped deployment yaml and a couple of services for most scenarios. What should you use instead? Vendor lo
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by fredrb 2y ago
I picked this up as a first reference as someone who had no knowledge in DSP and it was an absolute gem. Really helped with the mental model for sound processing. This repository has some amazing resources too: https://github.com
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by fredrb 3y ago
Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Indifferent Willing to relocate: not at the moment, but open to discuss depending on the job Technologies: backend/systems engineer generalist. At the moment I work with Go, Kubernetes and Linux. I’m i
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by fredrb 3y ago
Sharing preferences and opinions on code ergonomics certainly has value for me, and I bet it has to other people too. This is, after all, a developer's forum. I'm certain your opinion on petunias and your possible distaste for orc
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Solving the same problem multiple times(blog.fredrb.com)
1 points by fredrb 3y ago|0 comments
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On bash one-liners: unmaintained go.mod dependencies(blog.fredrb.com)
1 points by fredrb 3y ago|0 comments
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On sound programming: playing a single note with SDL2(blog.fredrb.com)
4 points by fredrb 3y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 3y ago
I don't work with it either. But I find that learning the abstraction below where you're working at can be quite beneficial to understanding the constraints of your layer, debug, and solve problems. E.g.: Learn the basics Transpor
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Textbooks on Every Subject (2011)(lesswrong.com)
3 points by fredrb 3y ago|0 comments
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History of printing from the 20th century(prepressure.com)
1 points by fredrb 3y ago|0 comments
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A case for Go code generation: testify(blog.fredrb.com)
1 points by fredrb 4y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 4y ago
It's interesting to see how many people in this thread have had negative experiences with OOP. As much as I don't do OOP that much anymore, I think it had a positive impact in me. But like every popular practice, there is a lot of
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by fredrb 4y ago
That’s usually how human conversations go. It’s not always efficient. You should try it sometime.
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by fredrb 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out! Should have looked it up before. Fixed in the post.
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by fredrb 4y ago
Thank you for these points. I've made some corrections in the post. > consider that something like à can consist of either a precomposed "à" code point or an "a" + "` diacritic" sequence If Unicode prov
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by fredrb 4y ago
Right. Impossible might have been an exaggeration, I will fix that. The point is that if you're reading a file with the text "hello world", you can only make out the characters because you know the encoding. Given two compl
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Character Encoding and UTF-8(blog.fredrb.com)
17 points by fredrb 4y ago|17 comments
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Investigating man-db internals(blog.fredrb.com)
5 points by fredrb 4y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 4y ago
So does most templating languages.
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by fredrb 4y ago
My worst experience was when an interviewer told me to stop doing the exercise because time was up, and proceed to say that they could "solve this exercise in 30 seconds by copy-pasting an answer from StackOverflow". They mentione
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Ask HN: Book recommendations for renewable energy and climate change?
25 points by fredrb 5y ago|29 comments
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Rediscovering Roguelike Games(blog.fredrb.com)
2 points by fredrb 5y ago|0 comments
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by fredrb 5y ago
> Well; code review is not QA. My approval means - I'm OK with how the code layer is knitted. It doesn't mean I've tested the changes. I'm 100% on-board with this. However, I understand were OP's mindset comes fr
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by fredrb 5y ago
There are also other approaches to the problem, like Jump Hash, Multi-Probe and Maglev hashing. Each of them offer a different combination of load balancing, scalability and performance trade-offs. [1] provides a good analysis of the availa
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by fredrb 5y ago
This is very interesting. Unfortunately it seems to be closed source and they're still working on a more technical blog post. I wonder how they encode all the information in the PNG file? Apart from the .zip with the entire ROM I assum
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by fredrb 5y ago
> How to match "interview kind" to candidate? maybe ask them which they prefer, I guess? I don't think it's a matter of candidate preference but rather position need. Some companies need Computer Science / Engine

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