mgreenleaf

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by mgreenleaf 4y ago
The Ultima Online protests might qualify, but the protesting was on the streets virtually. They wanted bug fixes, reduction in lag, etc. https://www.wired.com/1997/11/chaos-in-britannia-ultima-face...
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by mgreenleaf 4y ago
Highly recommend fly.io as well; I started an elixir app for a client and decided to use fly.io and very impressed with how easy it is with the feature set so far.
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by mgreenleaf 4y ago
Even after reading the Wikipedia article [1] I'm a bit confused what the relevance is, unless it has to do with Christian pacifism, but even then it would be nice to have context of some sort. And I had no clue this site existed, but A
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by mgreenleaf 4y ago
I did hear this week that Autodesk Construction Cloud is currently banned from military projects (was in use and is not currently permitted) because of something to do with security policies; but I didn't find out what exactly was in v
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by mgreenleaf 4y ago
I use it for servers because of the stability. For me, that's the key differentiating factor. I set a server up and it will keep running indefinitely, with easy sysupgrade, syspatch, and updates. I haven't had that same experience
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Symbolic Mathematics Using Maxima (2007)(arachnoid.com)
1 points by mgreenleaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I work with the KDE virtual desktops grid with a 3x2 arrangement and wrap around on a 32" curved screen. I've found it very useful to put the same windows in the same grid squares and have hotkeys to easily go between. I know exac
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I triple boot; there are things I can only really do on Windows with full support (commercial art programs, Unreal Engine), but for software development and general usage Linux wins hands down; even the ability to switch out a wm and have i
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The Hamler Programming Language(hamler-lang.org)
2 points by mgreenleaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I second this. When I saw that they were moving to subscription I was suspicious, but with the fall-back license and discounts for subsequent years' updates, I'm very happy with it. I have the All Products Pack and love it.
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
Document generation from Word Templates (yakdocs.com) & stripe analytics dashboard w/ SQL queries (yak-mu.com), both use Kotlin on the JVM w/ Java WebToolkit ( https://webtoolkit.eu/jwt ) because of familiarity,
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I hadn't read the Lead Bullets article yet; it really is fantastic. For anyone else who hasn't read it, you can find it here: https://a16z.com/2011/11/13/lead-bullets/
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
Maybe this is a dumb question, but even if equipment isn't producing cutting edge chips, why can't they just produce slightly less performant chips and sell those for other purposes or at a discount? The article seems to imply tha
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Royal Marines test out jet suit(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by mgreenleaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I run a lot of OpenBSD servers using either only base (httpd + pf + relayd) or base + software I write with minimal dependencies. The security in base is excellent for that. I don't have a desktop environment on my servers. It is easy
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I think it depends very much on the data being modelled. Certain situations might call for a timestamp instead of a boolean, especially if it is a value that is only ever turned on once and never turned off, possibly `user_deactivated_at`;
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I dealt with that accidentally by finding "Boots of Blinding Speed" off of Pemenie in the western swamps; then later finding the Cuirass of the Savior's hide in Tel Fyr. It increases run speed a ton, and it works with levitat
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Hunt Library BookBot(lib.ncsu.edu)
1 points by mgreenleaf 5y ago|0 comments
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
The NCSU library has an impressive system for housing and retrieving books that is fully automated, not quite a warehouse, but similar concept. 1. https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary/bookbot
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
> I’ve argued before that this is because the difficulty of building tools depends more on the complexity of programming languages (which are extremely complicated; just see C++) than on the idea, and that, until this changes, no tool ca
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
If you already have a chat infrastructure set up with all the bells and whistles, then you probably don't need this; it is a different kind of workflow. But one workflow for it would be open source projects that prefer not to have to m
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I think the idea is so that core developers have a quick way to chat with one another over design ideas w/o needing to register or setup other infrastructure, then move the best over to the permanent forum record or wiki. Then the core
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by mgreenleaf 5y ago
I use it for most of my projects, with git covering the rest of them. I prefer the cli usage, philosophy, single binary / single file repository, and having all the notes/issues transfer across when I push makes it easier to devel
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
It feels like going back one or two hundred years is, in some ways, even more of a cultural shift than going to another country is today. I come across gems all the time that are products of the times and deeply insightful. Which happens wi
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Unit Record Equipment(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mgreenleaf 6y ago|0 comments
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I think this is really insightful. Misallocation of resources is what eventually brings down economies. There are lots of bright people around, but corruption can drain a lot of talent.
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I love moments like this where two people meet and share information about a shared thread in their lives, when they would otherwise probably never know. Good job hacker news:)
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I think Elixir has the potential of being like the JVM but for functional distributed programming. The JVM is fantastic and I do most of my work on it, but having an entire environment of consistent actors, fault tolerance, hot reloading, e
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I think it would be quite possible to have the control systems completely offline, while installing a reputable alarm system that is connected to the internet. If those two things have no network connection, then you could monitor the premi
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by mgreenleaf 6y ago
I have projects that use ORMs and projects that do not use ORMs. I have specific reasons for both types, and in certain circumstances one or another is more appropriate. ORMs are a dependency that are often constantly updated, prone to corn

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