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by jng 3mo ago
If I'm not mistaken cockpit is web UI and doesn't run native code, important differences.
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by jng 4mo ago
LLM-based coding is enabling so much! The crazy weekend project now can have compilation to native code and web assembly, allow server-side or client-side rendering, manage multiple types of persistence, include adaptive compression, and do
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by jng 6mo ago
I've found Claude Code with Opus 4.5+ to be excellent at generating test cases that exercise the different features, and even push into the edge cases. You sometimes need to nudge it into generating more convoluted cases when necessary
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by jng 9mo ago
They usually end up upgrading most instance types to new graviton generations, it just takes time to do the full rollout.
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by jng 10mo ago
yosefk had the ultimate take on this: https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
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by jng 11mo ago
Oops, sorry about carelessly throwing the "cringe" label at that. Thanks for the transcript which allowed me to enjoy the content, which I did find very interesting. I haven't watched the video so I am not sure how he actuall
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by jng 11mo ago
He is no Jim Keller, and the mostly[1] automated transcript makes it read cringe, but it is not at all devoid of content. Some examples of very interesting, non-obvious content: * Even if store ports are kept fixed (2 in his example), addin
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by jng 1y ago
The white keys form a sequence of notes (frequencies) that is known as the diatonic scale. It's the foundation underlying all popular western music. It is not random or arbitrary, it has some nice dual mathematical and musical properti
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by jng 2y ago
surely not a coincidence
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by jng 2y ago
Such a needlessly negative article. PCIe 5.0 is early, peripherals are scarce-to-non-existant, and existing rigs are not infinitely flexible. Otherwise, it all looks pretty good to me. Even buying one of those may prove worthwhile as new gr
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by jng 2y ago
I'm so grateful to him, his early work was a massive influence for me as a kid. I lent one of Dewdney's books to a neighbor friend's dad, an architect, and he gave me my first paid gig as a programmer. Can't overstate th
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by jng 2y ago
what's the connection?
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by jng 3y ago
Nitro "virtual NVME" device are mostly (only?) for EBS -- remote network storage, transparently managed, using a separate network backbone, and presented to the host as a regular local NVME device. SSD drives in instances such as
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by jng 3y ago
Beautiful, I love it, congratulations! I started my programming journey with Basic on a ZX Spectrum +, then Z80 assembly language, then 8086 and the rest from there... 40 years of programming and my appreciation for my original platform is
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by jng 3y ago
I've often heard about the Linear B mystery and its final decipherment, but never in so much detail. That was fun. Now, when will there be something similar for the Iberian language...
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by jng 3y ago
Probably because changing the software to use a different read pattern is doable in a few weeks/months on your existing systems, and changing anything in the flash controller is a wicked project probably only available to hardware manu
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by jng 3y ago
Oh so it's a GCC-specific thing... that explains it. In any case, congratulations on the lisp! It's beautiful code. I wish my current codebase was that beautiful. I mean, it's a lot of us contributing to it so the beauty is a
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by jng 3y ago
Beautiful. Also, after 30+ years of writing C and C++, I learned one thing by casually browsing the source code: you can use a preprocessor macro in an #include statement. Thanks.
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by jng 3y ago
I have written and been using that same smart pointer type for years, under the pretty horrible name of holder_cloner_t<> (at least it's clear). It is indeed the right solution to a very common and important type of problem. Look
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by jng 4y ago
I used reader view in Safari.
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by jng 4y ago
I've always thought this really-well-written old post by Yosef Kreinin is quite enlightened regarding the reality of Forth (even if a bit snarky, as usual from him): https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-st
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by jng 4y ago
It is variant of the northwestern Iberian alphabet, a derivative of the Phoenician alphabet as you mentioned, and Iberian writing has been decoded for a while now (not the language itself). Iberian used to be written in one of three ways, n
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by jng 4y ago
Because they are two separate skillsets.
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by jng 4y ago
Ray Kurzweil: "The day it starts working, we're doomed". Reality: "We got convincing front-facing deep fakes! Sideways? Don't worry, it will be ready in just 24 months!"
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by jng 4y ago
It's called "arroba" in Spanish, an old measure of weight.
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by jng 4y ago
I'm a bit surprised that Posgres doesn't optimize the COUNT(column) expression to not actually read the value of the column, which is not necessary. Am I missing something?
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by jng 4y ago
I couldn't believe the lack of support for the dot command in vi emulation in Xcode. Emulation is quite complete, mostly missing regex and ex command support (but even a vi mode that way it's still very usable), but without the ke
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by jng 4y ago
I use pinboard as well. Early user of del.icio.us, I exported it all to pinboard and paid a one-time lifetime fee. Too many old links are dead, but that's the nature of the web, and I hope waybackmachine can help with some of them (I n
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by jng 4y ago
We used this in a project many suns ago and we ended up switching to libxml2, less pretty presentation, but more functional. YMMV.
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by jng 4y ago
Wow, thanks. I will give it a try!!

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