jesterpm

7 ms·

1.
AI Software Development – What Does the Data Say?(codemanship.wordpress.com)
7 points by jesterpm 1mo ago|1 comments
2.
The Jet Powered Beer Cooler(asciimation.co.nz)
3 points by jesterpm 5mo ago|0 comments
3.
by jesterpm 2y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if it's not already in the Municipal Code for the city, since they need a way to maintain consistency. For example, here's the divisions in Renton, which are oddly complicated relative to the size of t
4.
by jesterpm 3y ago
Oh this is fun. I'm in the process of building something similar, but I'm splitting it into two parts: the first part is a static site generator and the second is a CGI that implements the micropub spec, which can run the static s
5.
by jesterpm 3y ago
It's even weirder with people: blood sugar level change with how you perceive time to be passing, not the actual amount of time: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1603444113
6.
by jesterpm 3y ago
That comparison would depend heavily on what you're storing. Ion has the option of using symbol tables to replace strings (e.g. in struct/map keys or in values). So, if you benchmark had a large number of records with similar stru
7.
by jesterpm 3y ago
Ion is heavily used on the retail side of Amazon, but it's only recently started to appear in AWS products. AWS is starting support PartiQL ( https://partiql.org/ ) queries in some places and PartiQL uses Ion's type
8.
A gigantic landslide shows the limit to how high mountains can grow(economist.com)
118 points by jesterpm 3y ago|79 comments
9.
by jesterpm 3y ago
> and the OS installed takes up well under 500MB Fast-forward to 2023 and many individual Android apps are 100-500 MB each.
10.
by jesterpm 3y ago
I don't use my google account for much anymore, but I love the idea. I tried very hard to use it and... it didn't work. I went to my google account and clicked "Create a passkey", but apparent my "device doesn'
11.
by jesterpm 3y ago
Sometimes. Sometimes the fast thing is just heavily parallelized.
12.
by jesterpm 4y ago
RA (Router Advertisement) handles announcing the prefix for SLAAC addresses and DNS.
13.
by jesterpm 4y ago
I suspect the lock is more about keeping other people's trash out than keeping theirs in.
14.
Bouvet Island DXpedition(3y0j.no)
1 points by jesterpm 4y ago|0 comments
15.
by jesterpm 4y ago
I expect that's a corollary to Parkinson's law
16.
by jesterpm 4y ago
On our last road trip, I gave our 4 year old a printed map with the route highlighted and lettered milestones every hour or so. I was hoping to give a sense of scale (how far away are we, how far we do we travel in a certain time, etc.) tha
17.
Morsle – the daily Morse code challenge(morsle.fun)
1 points by jesterpm 4y ago|0 comments
18.
A web app for simulating a waving flag(krikienoid.github.io)
3 points by jesterpm 4y ago|0 comments
19.
The transistor – or 25 miles on a hunk of Germanium (1953)(robkalmeijer.nl)
48 points by jesterpm 4y ago|6 comments
20.
by jesterpm 4y ago
The book I learned from suggested five types of knots for different problems and suggested learning one of type, which I found to be a great starting point. The five were: a stopper knot, to keep a line from pulling through something, a fix
21.
by jesterpm 4y ago
I generally only need `ln -s <src> <dst>`. I know the -s means symbolic link, but in my head I read it as "source", since that's how I remembered the order long ago.
22.
by jesterpm 4y ago
These, and the spoofed number phone calls where the other side just hangs up when you answer. For the phone calls, I just assumed that someone was trying to build a database of phone numbers that do or do not answer for some other/futu
23.
by jesterpm 4y ago
I assumed that the gap between the cost to do the bare minimum and the cost to do some elaborate was smaller at the time. If you're already laying each brick by hand, it seems like the incremental cost to work a pattern into the bricks
24.
by jesterpm 4y ago
Coincidentally, just before this was posted I read a similar analysis of Windows executables from 2008: https://www.strchr.com/x86_machine_code_statistics MOV is still the top, but it was followed by PUSH and CALL.
25.
x86 Machine Code Statistics (2008)(strchr.com)
2 points by jesterpm 4y ago|1 comments
26.
by jesterpm 4y ago
Ha, that is quite satisfying when it comes together. Maybe it's just from practice, but I think the sheet bend [1] is easier and faster to tie though. [1]: https://www.animatedknots.com/sheet-bend-knot
27.
by jesterpm 4y ago
The book I learned knots from said that there are ~5 categories of knots and knowing one of each will cover you for most things. The categories were fixed loop, running loop, stopper knot, hitch (rope to object), and bend (joining two ropes
28.
by jesterpm 4y ago
Ebook: https://archive.org/details/TheAshleyBookOfKnots The ABoK was something I always wanted to see, but never bothered to buy... until I found that PDF. Scrolling through it finally convinced me to buy a hardcopy. I
29.
by jesterpm 4y ago
I would actually expect worst outcomes if you turned it into a three day weekend. Why stay in town and vote when you could use the three day weekend for something more fun? With typical work weeks in mind, midweek makes more sense to avoid
30.
by jesterpm 4y ago
My bigger concern with credentials in environment variables is that environment variables are broadly accessed through may different frameworks, libraries, etc. If you can convince a library to give you an arbitrary (or all) environment var

More ›