hermitdev

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by hermitdev 8d ago
I don't mean to be dismissive, but isn't this old news? Hasn't it been the case that _all_ "smart" TVs have been spying on users since they came out? I've personally operated as if they are: my TV is not connec
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by hermitdev 8mo ago
Every time see Mr Beast (I don't watch any of his stuff, just accidentally see promos on Prime sometimes), he reminds me of Homer Simpson's forced smile in the Simpsons' espiode "Re-Nedufication" [0]. [0]: https:&#
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by hermitdev 9mo ago
> to 4 GB packets Heh. Anyone remember the ping of death[0]? A lot (most?) of computers on the early internet didn't properly handle large packets, _especially_ from ICMP pings. Once upon a time, you could send a single ping w/
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by hermitdev 11mo ago
While your example of `sum` is a nice, pure function, it'll unfortunately blow up in python on even moderately sized inputs (we're talking thousands of elements, not millions) due to lack of tail calls in Python (currently) and th
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> This is a terrible idea. No, it isn't. Any decent datacenter will have on-site generation in event of power grid failure, anyway. When I was an intern, the company I worked for would routinely go off grid during the summer at a ca
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> that EU regulation requires their timestamps to be within 100 microseconds of UTC, It's the same in the US. It's covered under CAT NMS (Consolidated Audit Trail, National Market System). Probably too much information at: htt
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by hermitdev 1y ago
I started using C# towards the end of the 1.0 beta or maybe just after RTM...I embarrassingly called it "C pound" for quite a while. Because, even as someone born and raised in the US, pretty much my only exposure to the symbol wa
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by hermitdev 1y ago
This is a vast, _vast_ over-simplification: The primary "feature" of HFT is providing liquidity to market. HFT firms are (almost) always willing to buy or sell at or near the current market price. HFT firms basically race each oth
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> We can use UB to refer to both. :) You can, but in the context of the standard, you'd be wrong to do so. Undefined behavior and unspecified behavior have specific, different, meanings in context of the C and C++ standards. Conflat
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> Would you rather have a HFT trade go correctly and a few nanoseconds slower or a few nanoseconds faster but with some edge case bugs related to variable initialisation ? As someone who works in the HFT space: it depends. How frequently
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> I realize this all probably sounds very silly to someone born before 1980 I was born after 1980 and I think you're beating a dead horse, here. You're conflating accessibility with convenience. Not just with this comment, but
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by hermitdev 1y ago
Editting simcity saves was my introduction to hex editing...
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by hermitdev 1y ago
The problem is: it's infectious into the generated code, as well. Is that 3rd party or not? Yes, it was generated by a 3rd party tool, but from, ostensibly, _your_ protobuf file. edit to add: and yes `-isystem` is absolutely a useful t
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> And I'd rather keep the library warning free instead of telling the users to switch warnings off. Thank you! Separately, but related: fuck you, Google! (every time I have to deal with protobuf in C++, I curse Google and their &quo
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by hermitdev 1y ago
Hey, at least Python is nowhere near Perl in terms of language creep. I don't need a Period Table of Operators [0] to keep Python straight in my head. [0] https://www.ozonehouse.com/mark/periodic/
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> The reason it works is because Python functionally has no bool type. True and False are just integers with names. This has not been true since around 2.4 or 2.5. The oldest Python I have available to me currently is 2.7, and this holds
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> Meanwhile there is another reason why the number of government workers has gone down: Uh...excluding the very recent cuts this year under Trump; the number of civilians in the US Federal work force has gone up fairly steadily. [0] We h
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by hermitdev 1y ago
> because the simulator had a bug I had something similar happen when I was taking microcomputers (a HW/SW codesign class at my school). We had hand-built (as in everything was wire wrapped) 68k computers we were using and could on
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> Which is redundant for most functions as they only have positional parameters. Huh? This is not true. def foo(a, b, c): ... This can be invoked as either `foo(1, 2, 3)` or `foo(c=3, b=2, a=1)`: >>> def foo(a, b,
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by hermitdev 2y ago
A thought: maybe the pulse could be some sort of link status probing? e.g. "is this thing plugged in?"
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Caveat: I have not looked at the neither the API nor the implementation of Kreuzberg, this is purely from personal work. Even with CPU bound code in Python, there are valid reasons to be using async code. Recognizing that the code is CPU bo
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by hermitdev 2y ago
It's not that they don't understand; it's that it causes more work for the lawyers, because someone has to review the license if it's not one of the standard boilerplate acceptable licenses. I once had to go to lawyers t
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Total stab in the dark here, but it could be the local time on the device. Your local clock needs to be relatively close to the actual clock. I've run into this more than a few times with an old Surface Tablet I seldom use. Powered off
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by hermitdev 2y ago
On desktop, the embedded video is also fairly small and annoyingly, they disallow full-screen. why?
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by hermitdev 2y ago
FWIW, you have some control over how this inference is done. Search your settings in vscode for `@ext:ms-python.vscode-pylance strict`.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> That `String` leaks memory, [...] So does the clone...
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by hermitdev 2y ago
> What is there to sell exactly? widevine and all the other DRMy bits. Or, better yet, deprecate and disable all the DRMy bits. (One can wish)
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by hermitdev 2y ago
I was working for Meta in Bellevue, WA in 2022. Got laid off. Applied to several positions at MS (I was living in Redmond at the time), couldn't get a callback. Months and months go by, get a job, move across the country, get an email
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by hermitdev 2y ago
And if the blue bubble matters to one's "friends" in the US...then one needs better friends.
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by hermitdev 2y ago
Nah, bullshit. I grew up in a rural area [0], my parents are still in a rural area (their postal address literally contains 'rural route'). You just don't go to town every day. You didn't go to town every day in the past

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