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by ldite 4mo ago
Loses some credibility with this footnote; https://resobscura.substack.com/p/what-is-happening-to-publi... > I suspect the hum obsession has something to do with LLMs “awareness” that their “physical selves” exist i
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Temporal is becoming Crystal Palace Football Club's front-of-shirt partner(temporal.io)
3 points by ldite 4mo ago|0 comments
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by ldite 9mo ago
Wait no longer; https://www.polyplay.xyz/CPC_1
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Ninety Seven Things Every Programmer Should Know(github.com)
2 points by ldite 1y ago|1 comments
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by ldite 1y ago
same for alpine ( https://alpineapp.email/ )
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by ldite 1y ago
A better article (featuring the same Getty stock photo!) at Scientific American, that clarifies that this research was looking at better materials for bandages and dressings: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/t
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by ldite 2y ago
> But that's not what a Clojure dev would do. Apparently I and my fellow Clojure devs aren't real Clojure devs. Or perhaps you mean "true" clojure developers, or "good" clojure developers. (cf. https:/
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by ldite 2y ago
The dynamic typing and "everything is a map" can be a PITA. At the moment I'm working on a codebase that has I/O to JSON APIs, Avro schemas and postgres databases. That means that a field called "date" can be e
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Qalculate Hacks(anarc.at)
2 points by ldite 2y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 2y ago
I didn't mean FAANG companies - these days I work for a boring 500 person SaaS company (outside London) and we have at least 50-100 engineers at £100k+, excluding equity. I get a lot of recruiter spam on Linkedin for roles at retail ba
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by ldite 2y ago
> 100k jobs aren't that common in software in the UK They really are, if you're prepared to work for $BIGCO
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by ldite 2y ago
I am a (UK) cyclist, and I pay both road taxes and fuel taxes. (For the car that I also own, to be clear)
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by ldite 2y ago
SBT is awful. I've never used Gradle, but if SBT is saner then I'm worried. This blogpost is a bit old, but still on-target: https://www.lihaoyi.com/post/SowhatswrongwithSBT.html
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by ldite 2y ago
Funnily enough my memory of trying to implement the DSM-CC specs is that they are broadly equivalent to a denial-of-service attack on your brain
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by ldite 3y ago
Anecdotally I've heard of people getting discounts from the dealer by buying on finance, then asserting the right to cancel within 14 days* and paying cash instead. AIUI the dealer doesn't have to accept the cash, and could take t
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Build the Most Accurate DIY Quartz Clock Yet(spectrum.ieee.org)
1 points by ldite 3y ago|0 comments
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AI-generated news anchors are freaking me out(arstechnica.com)
1 points by ldite 3y ago|0 comments
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Was bootloading from punch cards possible on System/370 machines?(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)
11 points by ldite 3y ago|2 comments
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An In-Depth Analysis of the Slingshot HPC Interconnect(arxiv.org)
2 points by ldite 3y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 4y ago
And here was me expecting an article about https://firebrick.co.uk/
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by ldite 4y ago
I should have added that I've had similar experiences with (old school, untyped) python codebases - absent the esoteric programmers, which is not a small difference - although with python you tend to hit performance issues if your call
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by ldite 4y ago
Ah clojure. It's all fun and games until five years down the line, you've had 100% dev churn, and you have a 100kloc codebase that nobody understands, full of functions that don't give the slightest hint of the shape of the d
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by ldite 4y ago
Oh wow, I'd forgotten all about that! It felt like science fiction when I got that working.
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by ldite 4y ago
> what could amount to a basic human error That's the point - if the C-level could go to prison then you'd find that mysteriously there were multiple overlapping systems of control implemented such that no one person could make
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by ldite 4y ago
Put a bag over the camera before beginning your transaction!
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by ldite 4y ago
And you know why the contour integral of Western Europe is zero? Because all the poles are in Central Europe. (sorry)
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Astra Space: Headed for Dis-Astra [pdf](kerrisdalecap.com)
5 points by ldite 5y ago|0 comments
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by ldite 5y ago
it's a joke
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by ldite 5y ago
https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/#MzJODmOgd6TMNh6DKtk6nH...
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The State of Python Packaging in 2021(venthur.de)
3 points by ldite 5y ago|1 comments

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