lambda_obrien

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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm using AWS Athena with S3 at work right now to replace a huge service with a few SQL statements that run about 500x faster with about 1% of the CPU and memory assigned to the pod. Not the exact same thing, but it's amazing what
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I think if you want this type of thing, some sort of optics would be best, like a lens or a prism. Those are kind of designed for this use case.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Having a kid. Every day is filled with joy, and sometimes sadness, but it's so great to watch him grow and learn.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Or, he could have a healthy relationship with boundaries and mutual respect, where his wife understands the need for his own time to do what he enjoys.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
This was absolutely awesome! Seeing how you took the font from the first ROM images to something that is reasonably close to the original display is pretty cool!
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I used Google Music until they discontinued it in favor of Youtube Music, and I ditched that crap immediately, the UI was horrible, the recommendations were BAD (Google Music was somewhat good), and I lost about half my playlist items as &q
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'll add my 2 cents here and say I also love Fastmail. Everytime I contact support with a question or suggestions they respond in a day or two and with a real, live person. I've never had an outage that I've personnally notic
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Now you see why social media is so powerful. People just bitch and do nothing about this stuff, it's the perfect tool for pacification. Right now I'm bitching but next I'm going to go play video games, so you can see how it w
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
They have a huge hospital and medical program.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I don't even think we should call for it then. Everyone makes mistakes, and maybe even the best managers couldn't have done better in 2020, as it was. I think almost everyone should be given a break this year.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I learned something new today, thanks.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
No one needs to lose a job over a game, let's chock it up to a mistake, learn a lesson, and move on. Losing a job shouldn't be a threat to be perfect.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I have about 20 papers that I printed to read still sitting on my desk. I'll read them someday...
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
He became the dumbest sentient being in the universe, basically.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Apple is in a good position to create a software-hardware symbiosis to ensure their compilers work flawlessly on their hardware and are more efficient than any other combination of hardware and software. If they ensured that combo worked pe
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I like Haskell because of the reasons here already said: it's more like math, so it's easy to reason about, and it's got a lot of cool features that make programming in higher levels of abstraction easy. The downsides are tha
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm fine, just colouring the conversation a bit, people think it's impossible to choose to do something like this, but it's quite possible for a human brain to logically conclude it shouldn't exist.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It all makes perfect sense. When you decide to kill yourself, that is: the thoughts make perfect, logical sense. There's no fear when you truly want to die, you just get up off the couch, walk into the bathroom, down several bottles
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
If you don't mind, can you send me your repos if it's public work? I'm interested in 0-copy stuff, too, the database I'm doing can benefit from 0-copy (again, a small part of the codebase but a big part of the technical
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> Rust's type machinery is about exposing things That makes sense, thanks for explaining that, I am used to Haskell but never used Rust.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm very interested in that. I was using zig for a while, and I wish I could build my own (simple) memory allocators for certain things in Haskell like that. I have a project where I want to be able to directly control the memory layou
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'm 38, and very lonely lately (not just COVID) and seeing that "time spent alone" increases starting at age 38 really makes me depressed.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
With linear types you could get rid of the GC, probably.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Seconded, even if you don't later use Haskell, it's a great language to learn if you want to see some interesting programming concepts that are tried and true but not well known. You could also try something like Purescript if you
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
They probably should, to be honest. The first should be medical jobs and people who work at hospitals, then old folks and those who are sick, then public-facing jobs like Uber drivers or grocery clerks, then the people like us lucky folks w
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I thought the same thing until i started playing rdr2 on a 4k screen after using 1080 for months. Immediately i was able to detect ambushes, see much more detail in everything, and generally it was just easier to play.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
When I saw the flaps bent at the seam, not twisting, I knew immediately that I've played too much KSP. It reminded me of a parachutist using their arms and legs to manage their decent.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> an inessential service Several people will say, "try not having a Facebook account and participating in X," where X is some mandatory part of your life, such as your children's schooling, keeping up with relatives, job-r
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I have an honest question: do you feel like you're taking advantage of the situation in an unethical way? You seem know the service will suck and would normally not use it, but you do it anyways because you get free food, which is in t
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
The "technically" in that sentence is the evil part of their argument, IMO.

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