metrognome

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by metrognome 3mo ago
To play devil's advocate here, imagine a world where the exact opposite has occurred: physical media (CDs specifically) is the norm, and there's no DRM, so the raw data can be copied right off of it. In this world, scalpers scoop
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by metrognome 3mo ago
I'm with you but I see a bigger problem. I'm not sure if you noticed but there are threads of low desire within our society. Young people, in particular young men, increasingly seem to be checking out of dating and higher educatio
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by metrognome 4mo ago
The rhetoric of this comment seems to imply that this is a bad thing, but is it really? If it becomes more difficult to make money through creative endeavors, then that leaves us with fewer reasons to be creative other than for the sake of
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by metrognome 1y ago
Zen of Python in 2025: There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Python String Formatting in 2025: - t-strings - f-strings - %-operator - +-operator - str.format()
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by metrognome 1y ago
I'm surprised that there's been no mention of Operation Paperclip, neither in the article nor in the comments here. Seems like a huge part of the story to leave out. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_P
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by metrognome 2y ago
I'm going to leave this here for anyone who wants some good focus-time music: https://youtu.be/Do5_wU9X1pc
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by metrognome 2y ago
It's about writing code that your peers can read. "DO NOT SUBMIT" is clear as day. "ASDFASD" probably does not mean "this is a debugging string" to most people.
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by metrognome 2y ago
I live in California.
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by metrognome 2y ago
I live in an apartment complex that uses RealPage. My roommates and I re-signed the lease earlier this year, with a projected 15% rent price increase. We then walked to our leasing office to ask about it, they simply cancelled the increase.
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by metrognome 2y ago
According to the article, he disappeared in 1976 (48 years ago). Apologies for the pedantry.
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by metrognome 2y ago
There are plenty of projects smaller than the Linux kernel that have developed and employed DSLs (to varying degrees of success, I'll grant). I wonder, are there any languages out there designed specifically for kernel programming? Giv
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by metrognome 2y ago
I gained a a few years of experience in SQL-based OLAP systems at my current job. In this time I developed a strong appreciation for SQL, especially for its composability. Recently, I started a project in Google Colab, gluing together queri
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by metrognome 2y ago
Remember everyone, your bubbles are green because you have an iPhone, not because the person you are texting has an Android.
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by metrognome 4y ago
For the mixing and mastering aspect of music production, look no further than Dan Worrall: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6e8wfdmIuLEDpO3rd5jO... https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNNHQbT3rbzXw
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by metrognome 4y ago
Oh, I'm not arguing that using checksums, SHA for example, for integrity verification is a bad idea. That's what they're designed for, after all. However, I do think it's a bad idea to enforce the content of compressed a
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by metrognome 4y ago
I wonder if this incident will encourage our industry to build more robust forms of artifact integrity verification, or if we will instead codify the status quo of "we guarantee repos to be archived deterministically." To me, the
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by metrognome 4y ago
Per the post, this was a change to git itself: https://github.com/git/git/commit/4f4be00d302bc52d0d9d5a3d47...
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by metrognome 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220726030213/https://worldsens...
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by metrognome 4y ago
There's more nuance to it than that, so let me try to clarify again. Like you said, the accelerometer shows the difference between the casing's reference frame and the internal's reference frame. The internals ideally maintai
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by metrognome 4y ago
There's a difference between accelerating compared to a coordinate system, and accelerating compared to an inertial rest frame. If you set a fixed coordinate system relative to the ground, then yes, the cat is accelerating towards the
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by metrognome 4y ago
While falling, the cat is in an inertial reference frame, so it is not accelerating. The ground is actually accelerating upward at 9.8 m/s2, counteracting the flow of spacetime. This Veritasium video gives an intuitive explanation: ht
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by metrognome 6y ago
The pattern of holes technique in that link (MURA) is also used in UV lithography for IC fabrication (example: https://youtu.be/8eT1jaHmlx8?t=1543 ).
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by metrognome 6y ago
Just to note, for this specific example, Go supports this with type definitions: // UserID and PostID are distinct types type UserID int type PostID int
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by metrognome 8y ago
It's not too surprising that there are fewer unique products for a geometric progression, because subsequent terms in a geometric progression are found by multiplying by the common ratio. There will be fewer unique products when all of
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by metrognome 9y ago
Quite often, I accidentally press the space bar eagerly when typing git commands: $ gi tstatus To fix this, I've added the following to my .bashrc: gi() { args=("$@") args[0]=${args[0]/t&#x
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by metrognome 9y ago
Vyacheslav Egorov wrote an article[0] on monomorphic function calls and how they impact JavaScript performance. While it's very in-depth, it is over 2 years old at this point, so I'm not sure how well it applies to the current ver
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by metrognome 9y ago
The Magic Keyboard does have the new switches, or at least the first generation butterfly switches that the first generation MacBook had. Also, there is more key travel on the Magic Keyboard than on the MacBook or the MacBook Pro.
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Re-Writing BSD 4.4 Shell Commands: cat [video](youtube.com)
3 points by metrognome 9y ago|1 comments
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by metrognome 9y ago
Orange Marmalade.
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by metrognome 10y ago
I think Gary's commit counts are off: $ git log | wc -l This should count the number of lines in the entire git log, including metadata (not just commits). I think he means this: $ git log --oneline | wc -l The number of

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