jwhitlark

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by jwhitlark 7mo ago
Nobody ever is. You’re forced into it by external events, and you either kinda make it work, or don’t. It was, after all, changing times and dumb moves by a mad despot that caused the US to revolt and form a country.
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by jwhitlark 8mo ago
Supposedly Roy Cohn was startled by how easily he was discarded when he wasn’t useful anymore. Makes me wonder who will be the next in line with the knife.
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by jwhitlark 11mo ago
Safer threading for performance improvements was part of it, as I understand.
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by jwhitlark 1y ago
https://github.com/clj-commons/rewrite-clj is an absolute superpower for this kind of thing, if you were using Clojure. It always saddened me it doesn't get more exposure. As good as Rust is, I still feel there n
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by jwhitlark 1y ago
Hs stuff is really cool. Building out a whole construction yard, vehicle by vehicle. Very worth a look if you haven’t seen it.
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by jwhitlark 2y ago
That’s really interesting, as a long time clojurist and recent rust user. Can you expand on that, or is it too early days?
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by jwhitlark 2y ago
Nerd sniped on the first entry. The first sentence of the first entry. The first minute of the video in the first sentence. The first comment in the video, etc. If anyone was going to manage recursive, fractal, nerd sniping, it would be fog
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by jwhitlark 2y ago
Rust also runs on picos and Esp32s, if that’s your jam.
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by jwhitlark 2y ago
May I ask if they are direct paper to screen transfers, or if there are specific features/apps that add extra value? I do a lot of work in (paper) engineering notebooks, and I'm curious about what improvements your workflow has.
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
This is a nicely in depth and enjoyable read, especially as a long time software engineer, who's recently become interested in raspberry pi's and microcontrollers.
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
Since devcontainer.json works fine on docker desktop, I usually use that, but I do use codespaces frequently for review and small patches, as well as exploring new libraries. I'm slowly adding devcontainers to the open source projects
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
There are multiple GDSs, and AFAIK neither Expedia nor Booking.com use them. The space is way more confused and competitive then your comment implies. The best writeup I've seen on the space is https://www.altexsoft.com&#x
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
Tamam?
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
Heh, the creator of Lisp probably was "God enough" to redef constants as he saw fit.
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
I always thought it was because AI dominated the shallow parts of the galaxy, but there was something that wouldn't let it expand down to the deep.
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
It doesn't really fit into that setup. When given an article 15, you can demand a trial by court-martial, so it doesn't really have a parallel in the civilian job market. It's usually kinda like house-arrest. So maybe thin
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
If you are interested in physical copies, I highly recommend "The Landmark Thucydides: A Comprehensive Guide to the Peloponnesian War" , and others in the Landmark series. I got a lot more out of it with all the maps and explanati
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by jwhitlark 3y ago
It just proves that people can write Fortran in any language, even containers.
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
Swiss neutrality goes back much farther that that, IIRC. Early 1500's. Different political organizations back then, of course, but the Swiss have been doing the neutrality thing for half a millennium, and through much worse situations,
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
I don't have any experience with howitzers, but I had a couple of years on a M1A1 tank, and you have to remember that heavy combat vehicles are designed to fill a particular role under insane circumstances. These things are min-maxed t
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
I'd argue that those are toys, not tools.
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
hmmm. Does "two, billion-plus exits" or "two billion-plus-exits" work better?
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
Of the two billion-plus exits I've been (peripherally) a part of, the most recent one was Clojure, and the one 10 years ago was Python. I've also seen several Clojure projects and one Scala project fail. With very rare exception
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
I did not say it was trivial, nor did I belittle his very real achievements. What I was attempting to say is this quote is needlessly cavalier with people's lives, and should be taken with a grain of salt. Voices from the past are guid
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
So a man who had never fought in a battle and owned slaves thought other people's lives were cheap. Jefferson made significant contributions to both America and the world, but that doesn't mean he never got it wrong.
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
I would think it would mostly be for practice and rehearsal, to see if you've gone wrong before you reach the end of the trick.
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by jwhitlark 4y ago
They used to burn c4 in Vietnam to heat coffee/food. Just don't step on it, as it suddenly remembers it's an explosive...
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
David Drake wrote a sort of prequel to "Lest Darkness Fall" called "To Bring the Light", with an imperial Roman woman transported back to the founding of Rome. Drake's personal experiences increase the realism of hi
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Because of civilization. While the word "artificial" is certainly overloaded, this is basically what we've designated the word to mean. That's not to say a human couldn't be a "natural" predator, if you as
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by jwhitlark 5y ago
Then they doubled down with pineapple grenades...

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