liamdiprose

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by liamdiprose 5y ago
How to Design Programs https://htdp.org/2021-11-15/Book/part_prologue.html Take a quick scroll through, it features programming with pictures which is much more useful and motivating for a beginner than lines of t
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by liamdiprose 5y ago
This is true, which is why I expect mDNS and DNS to become standard even for local addresses. I'm looking forward to using `router.local` over `192.168.1.254`.
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by liamdiprose 5y ago
This is an example of how the internet was originally intended: Every user of the internet has a public address that any other user can send and receive messages from. The design works just like postal addressing. Your postal address contai
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by liamdiprose 6y ago
Who uses the indicator lights? - people looking behind a computer or at switchgear. They aren't regular users, they understand how networks operate and what the green/yellow lights mean. They're typically debugging a problem,
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by liamdiprose 6y ago
From xkcd's "Interplanetary Cessna": > X-Plane is the most advanced flight simulator in the world. The product of 20 years of obsessive labor by a hardcore aeronautics enthusiast who uses capslock a lot when talking about
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by liamdiprose 6y ago
I just use my index finger for both j and h. Are you used to the arrow keys? I noticed with jkl;, my fingers line up with the arrow-key directions.
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by liamdiprose 6y ago
Mapping the sequence 'jk' to Esc supercharged vim for me. Faster, but also helps me stay in the flow longer. Run `:inoremap jk <Esc>` to try it out.
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by liamdiprose 6y ago
The compute modules come with onboard eMMC
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Google tracks how many people connect with IPv6, which is a metric for how many people are staying at home: https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html IPv6 connections peak in the weekend and over th
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Protobufs/nanopb would be my go-to for minimal message size. If you want small code size, CBOR seems like a good bet: > The Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR) is a data format whose design goals include the possibility of e
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
The link explains that CouchDB can have replicas on mobile phones and websites, meaning clients don't always have to be connected to the internet. > The Couch Replication Protocol lets your data flow seamlessly between server cluste
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
> Speaking at the BlueHat security conference in Israel last week, Microsoft security engineer Matt Miller said that over the last 12 years, around 70 percent of all Microsoft patches were fixes for memory safety bugs. https:/&#x2F
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
In New Zealand, the government funds tertiary education with a zero-interest loan. If you move/work overseas, it becomes a regular loan with 4% interest. It gives some pressure to stay in NZ, but in reality, talented engineers can get
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Two of my flatmates never have a shower over 5 minutes long, because they "get bored".
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
From Google's Site Reliability Engineering book[1]: > SRE’s goal is no longer "zero outages"; rather, SREs and product developers aim to spend the error budget getting maximum feature velocity. This change makes all the di
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Yeah, the site owner said he's been slashdotted in an IRC channel.
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
If its hosting costs the ACM is worried about, they could offer torrents as a free download option to lighten the load.
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Some friends of mine are entry-level developers that work alone on an Arduino/C++ codebase. Baremetal development and C++'s bad library support encourages them to write huge amounts of their own, very bad, code. They've taken
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
I love the typed API svd2rust generates as well. Generally you can just let autocomplete do the driving, the only things needing a brain are the abbreviated register names manufacturers use and the order of operations needed. I wonder if Ru
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
It's the sanity check to see if a language really is the worst someone has seen.
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
I've had similar success with the gradual typing in Python. NamedTuples are far superior to ad hoc dictionaries, for both documenting data structures, but also as a prompt to consider the software structure. I wasn't aware that ty
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
If you enable readability mode in Firefox first, the entire article shows up in the PDF.
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
Yeah. I can't find anyway to save the text either. Looks like the app is targeted towards deaf/mute people when looking at accessibility features it includes (e.g. phonecall texting). It would be cool if they added a way to save t
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by liamdiprose 7y ago
I just had a look on the Play store for a voice recording app and came across "Live Transcribe" by "Research at Google". It's ridiculously good at picking up and transcribing my voice. https://play.google