ilkkal

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by ilkkal 3y ago
Thanks for the blinding insight.
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by ilkkal 3y ago
Fascinating stuff, I've never really thought about what problem e.g. frameworks are solving. It's kind of too bad that in my day job my head's in the clouds and usually somewhat removed from most of these system level details
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by ilkkal 3y ago
I guess regular religious fervor just isn’t what it used to be.
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by ilkkal 4y ago
Primary cooling could be molten salt or liquid metal but unless you take the power out through the Seebeck effect like RTG’s on space probes, you still need water to make steam for turbines, I guess.
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by ilkkal 4y ago
I wonder if proper door operation is part of orientation: https://youtu.be/Wof0xPUmW38
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by ilkkal 4y ago
At this point, why care about Twitter?
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by ilkkal 4y ago
To me this is the weirdest thing about Pantone the company, their products etc: so much trouble to try to make sure that for a fleeting moment some knick-knack produced half a world away looks like it did on the designer’s expensive monitor
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by ilkkal 4y ago
> the end of that bell-curve A "bell end", if you will.
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by ilkkal 4y ago
I was a consultant working on two Meego projects at the time, fancy mechanics and some pretty interesting ideas about graph data storage and inference. Super talented crew of diverse hackers, kind of a tech head dream project thinking back
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by ilkkal 5y ago
Sure, but it’s incredibly naive to see gh having problems and go “they must not know what they are doing”
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by ilkkal 5y ago
Got a big chuckle out of them describing server-side rendering as this new-fangled unproven technical risk of a technology :) I get the context, but it was still funny. Ah, back to editing index.php I guess.
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by ilkkal 6y ago
The RUN? I thought about that but I don’t see how that would work. Or is the argument that Dockerfiles are just too hard? (An argument I’m not unsympathetic to)
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by ilkkal 6y ago
I’m sure it’s usually just a case of “thinking while typing”, but I find it surprising how often articles about Docker stuff get some basic details a bit wrong. In the very first code example there is a RUN instruction where the author prob
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by ilkkal 6y ago
Sparrows are history these days, but even more modern weapons can be defeated. It’s a lot about knowing what your weapon’s perf envelope is, and what the other side has to throw at you, and defending appropriately.
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by ilkkal 6y ago
"The Fine Comment" and "Article", respectively. Sometimes another adjective is substituted, by angry people.
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by ilkkal 7y ago
I haven't dived all that much, but the initial submersion with empty lungs is super unpleasant every time, the urge to draw air is super strong. After I'm under I'm 100% fine with it and just don't think about the whole
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by ilkkal 8y ago
Also the idea that design is something that's just "out there" totally apart from how things are used is just precious.