klowner

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by klowner 2y ago
Interpreting disruption as a blanket "good" is a whole ass opinion.
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by klowner 2y ago
I'm extremely fond of Mikrotik gear, they're capable of pretty much anything and really reasonably priced. They're out of Latvia. The only thing is they're definitely not designed for regular consumers, you at least need
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by klowner 2y ago
Oh yeah I vaguely recall news reports about how the PS2 was so powerful it could be used for missile guidance or some nonsense?
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by klowner 2y ago
This sounds like a possible explanation for why I keep getting recommended different AWS client libraries from the boss to "solve instability" of a service that works 99.8% except for when the S3 endpoint (backblaze) has brief mys
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by klowner 3y ago
I'm a huge fan of Mikrotik, these are around $600 https://mikrotik.com/product/crs312_4c_8xg_rm
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by klowner 3y ago
I do know that I would love it if amdgpu would stop throwing null pointer dereference errors when I open Blender settings with my 7800XT.
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by klowner 3y ago
Yep, kinda drives home the point of how important "third spaces" are for mental health.
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by klowner 3y ago
May I humbly recommend Godot? It has webgl export as well as plenty of others and is fully open source, lots of language bindings as well if you don't want to learn gdscript (syntactically similar to python and honestly is pretty darne
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by klowner 5y ago
This reminds me of the time I was dealing with a REST API that exposed an image thumbnail.. except the response contained a file path, and the response completed before the file was actually written to disk. They were paying me to work with
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by klowner 5y ago
Yeah, and how well can the fish climb a tree?
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by klowner 5y ago
They could happily exist as strings in json if they're just IDs.
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by klowner 5y ago
I do this for personal projects, that seems like basic obvious stuff, IMHO.
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by klowner 6y ago
That conservative newspaper Epoch Times run by a Falun Gong dude as well, although my family doesn't seem to care because they like the articles..
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by klowner 7y ago
Too many companies taking a "McMansion" approach to software and we wonder why everything is constantly broken.
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by klowner 8y ago
I always considered self directed learning to be less like forcing a child to learn in a vacuum and more like letting the child drive the educatiomobile while you help with the maps.
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by klowner 8y ago
> They all seem to have a kind of “us versus them” mentality against traditional schooling. Well, watching a retired public school teacher get huffy and start chomping at your mother about how she's ruining her child can be a polari
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by klowner 8y ago
My mom was a high school art teacher (masters in art ed.) before she home-schooled me, and one of the reasons she'd often bring up was how she felt much of the time spent in traditional education consists of shuffling kids around from
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by klowner 8y ago
As a senior dev, doing remote work for a team that seems to be mostly junior devs has been some of the most frustrating things I've ever had to deal with in my dozen or so years of software development. The project manager asks for pho
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by klowner 8y ago
With 100 threads running like that, not only do you have the overhead of the OS scheduling 100 threads to run on ~8 or whatever cpu cores, but also I would assume these threads are all running different code, so there would be some overhead
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by klowner 11y ago
IIRC, pre-SP2 IE6 didn't handle gzipped javascript properly, but those days are behind us.