ivankelly

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by ivankelly 4mo ago
If everyone using Gmail permanently lost access to their gmail there’d be massive problems
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by ivankelly 4mo ago
Quake had it’s own vm also
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by ivankelly 4mo ago
Yes, I saw. By giving up I meant I skimmed to the end. The images improve the article
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by ivankelly 4mo ago
I came in indifferent but it doesn’t take much to make me give up on an article linked on hacker news. I use it as bubblegum while waiting for a compile/prompt, intent ally for stuff that can be dropped easily. I saw her disclaimer at
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by ivankelly 4mo ago
I was a couple of images in before I sussed it. Bullshit images, but pleasing enough to look at. Without the images, it would have either been a big wall of text, which would have put me off reading, though I did give up about 25% of the wa
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by ivankelly 4mo ago
Arrow keys are giving swastika vibes, which I guess fits given IBM’s history
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by ivankelly 5mo ago
There’s a big difference between using AI well and using it badly. Judgement is what needs to be learnt
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by ivankelly 5mo ago
Not at all. It’s a tool. It can be used well and it can be used badly, the difference often being others things thought in a CS curriculum. But a well trained engineer using the tool will be more productive than that engineer doing everythi
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by ivankelly 5mo ago
Given the way things are going, not knowing how to use AI will be like coming out not knowing about revision control
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by ivankelly 7mo ago
There’s queries and there’s queries. Many queries are effectively undefined bookmarks. You know this exists but haven’t saved it but your know a few key words to get to it. “Rustdoc moka api”. And then there’s the “I’m researching a subjec
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by ivankelly 7mo ago
He's right man ^X^S WTF, why isn't my terminal responding
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by ivankelly 11mo ago
I recall CodeWarrior being the official ide for SymbianOS when I started there. And it sucked, but likely more due to the integration. I think sucky custom rarely working IDEs is what pushed me to full time emacs
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by ivankelly 1y ago
They’re blue because pmarca was a democrat back then
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by ivankelly 1y ago
> At the time of Jurassic Park’s release, the meteor as the cause for the dino-extinction was still a nascent theory and more than a decade out from being cemented as fact. This assumed me. Like many people who were interested in dinosau
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by ivankelly 1y ago
From the wording, it sounds like it applies to contracting non-US resident software development as well.
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by ivankelly 2y ago
For a headline “what x looks like today”, I expected more pictures
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by ivankelly 2y ago
The bees in a swarm have filled themselves with food before swarming, so they’re stuffed, so it’s hard to flex the abdomen to make a sting
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by ivankelly 2y ago
Keep him away from cigarettes, vapes.
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by ivankelly 2y ago
A interesting difference is the ability to have exclusive access to writes on the log (the fencing token). This allows you to use the logs as write ahead logs.
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by ivankelly 2y ago
The gripe water that parents in Ireland and the UK used to give to babies used to be a mixture of sugar and alcohol. 3.6%. They took that formulation off the market in the 90s though.
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by ivankelly 2y ago
100% agree. I haven't read the raft paper in years, but I remember thinking there's just too much stuff in there. That stuff in important, but if you want people to understand what's happening they internalize the fundamental
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by ivankelly 2y ago
The farmer is from Westmeath. The find was in banagher in co Offaly
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by ivankelly 2y ago
The oats in clonakilty puddings are all flahavans too
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by ivankelly 2y ago
> nobody is making anyone do anything. Not now. Now there’s plenty of ways to collaborate on a document. But 20 years ago, you couldn’t edit a word file on Linux and send it back in a form that hadn’t mangled the formatting. And everyone
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by ivankelly 4y ago
> Note that in Portugal garbage is usually collected from nearby (unsaturated green colored) lidded trash cans and dumpsters owned by the city government or entities contracted to it Is this uniform across all of portugal? In spain, it d
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by ivankelly 4y ago
Since they're already doing offload to S3 for older log messages, it seems like they could do this from the get-go and save a bunch of storage and interzone transfer costs in RDS. Depends on the log message sizes though of course.
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by ivankelly 4y ago
100% this. Children make mistakes all the time, but they're not afraid to, especially at the stage they're first acquiring the language. But by the time you're an adult, you're much more cautious about appearing dumb, so
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by ivankelly 4y ago
One issue I've had with fasting in general, is that it puts my head into a "wired" state. This is fine during the day, keeps me focused at work, but if I'm in that state at night time, sleep becomes a problem.
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by ivankelly 4y ago
The missing dimension here is the percentage of time the program is running on the core. Even if the benchmark is using 3 seconds to run 11billion instructions, that doesn't tell you if the core is still idle 90% of the time because it
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by ivankelly 4y ago
name the celebrities at least.

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