kingds

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by kingds 1mo ago
https://mattmahoney.net/dc/dce.html
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by kingds 2mo ago
it does seem to be very much bottlenecked by performance, yes. very slow to start up, for example.
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by kingds 2mo ago
I'd argue PayPal was a successful business, not a successful piece of software.
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by kingds 1y ago
sorry but it's funny that you mention "heart and soul" while sharing some of the most soulless videos i've ever seen.
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by kingds 2y ago
> I was resigned to playing under Ibuprofen until I heard of fastDOOM i don't get the ibuprofen reference ?
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by kingds 2y ago
it's comically bad. the UI is a mess, the search functionality is broken, you can't resize the window horizontally. it's feels like a hello world first project in a new language type of app. also - it's such a bummer tha
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by kingds 2y ago
apple’s software is shockingly awful across the board these days.
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by kingds 2y ago
2200 would improperly add an extra significant figure, "about 2000" would be okay.
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by kingds 3y ago
right, seems like sort of a no brainer that if a minor version bump of an OS completely breaks JDK8, that’s on the OS developer.
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macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes(blogs.oracle.com)
235 points by kingds 3y ago|156 comments
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by kingds 3y ago
> My recommendation is that you don’t look at blog writing as just something people do to work on their “personal brand”. It can definitely help with that, but first and foremost it is a tool that people can use to up their game and take
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by kingds 3y ago
the simpler explanation is that speeding just isn’t as dangerous to pedestrians as distracted driving and sketchy intersections are, which certainly tracks with my experience as a pedestrian. cars traveling in a straight line at any speed a
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by kingds 3y ago
it’s insane to argue that the iPhone 15 isn’t radically different from the iPhone 1. since 2007 smartphones have become capable of replacing so many of the separate gadgets people used to have. cameras and mp3 players (and phones!!) are bas
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by kingds 3y ago
doctors are all completely insane and should never be trusted. the process of getting into and through medical school has a selection bias towards type-a sociopaths. and whoever makes it through that wringer and gets board certified has to
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by kingds 3y ago
in what ways have we not already returned to normality?
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by kingds 3y ago
what does “to be very clear” mean in this context? your article doesn’t clarify anything lol
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by kingds 3y ago
yes! try to learn anything related to home maintenance and it feels like youtube is your only option. and you are stuck trying to scrub through a 20 minute video to find the 10 second slice on info you’re looking for.
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by kingds 3y ago
i think you’re misunderstanding what GDP (gross domestic product) means. it’s basically a measure of the total revenue in a country’s economy. it has nothing to do with “productivity” in the sense of efficiency.
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by kingds 3y ago
no cumin mentioned though. that seems to be the highest volume spice in most Indian curry recipes I've seen.
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by kingds 3y ago
seems very odd. the issue was that when Git marked lines in a file as being in conflict then the file was no longer a valid Jupyter file. and their solution was... to change the language so that Git's conflict syntax is valid?
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by kingds 3y ago
i tried to add a lil laughing emoji to indicate that my comment was in jest but apparently those get stripped out of comments? my bad.
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by kingds 3y ago
what's a pull request?
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by kingds 3y ago
coffee stain is incredible lol
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by kingds 4y ago
noob question: is there not a way for the client to verify that it is actually talking to google.com in a situation like this? I would think there would be some way to verify based on certs or something like that.
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by kingds 4y ago
what does first party password management look like?
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by kingds 4y ago
but if you stop renting from the registrar then whoever rents the domain next gets access to your email. seems like a horrible solution to this problem. at least i can be reasonably confident that google will never recycle my email address