nrclark

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by nrclark 25d ago
Yes, that's normal for an Android build. Maybe even on the lightweight side as far as build requirements. I agree that it's an absurd about of space.
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by nrclark 29d ago
Same for me.
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by nrclark 2mo ago
oh, no that wasn't a correction - it was a pun because "cooked" in American slang means "broken / destroyed / over". In parent's context, "boiling" is correct. "Boiling" does have
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by nrclark 2mo ago
Cooked.
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by nrclark 2mo ago
That's around 100k/year if used at the same rate for every workday. So the question becomes: does it make your engineer X% more productive, where X is some multiplier based on their salary? There are some software engineers out fo
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by nrclark 3mo ago
I don't see this happening any time in the near future. The extra hardware cost is nontrivial, and there's a software support burden. Cellular bandwidth also isn't free, and probably wouldn't be covered by the value of a
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by nrclark 3mo ago
OK, but SpaceX is not printing money out of thin air. And neither does the stock market. Somebody will be left holding the bag eventually.
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by nrclark 3mo ago
> Children are expensive, but highly subsidized, and just not expensive enough to explain the whole picture. Highly subsidized? I have to assume you're not talking about America. I pay $3200/mo to send my kids to a very middle-
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by nrclark 3mo ago
PEGs are a great replacement for a complicated regex, and can express a lot of things that are hard to do with a regex. But they're also more verbose, and fewer developers are familiar with their usage. PCRE regex is kind of the lingua
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by nrclark 4mo ago
Something I'd observe here: without expressing an opinion about PEGs vs regexes, I'd note that regexes are much more widely used. They're also completely sufficient for an awful lot of text processing tasks. PCRE regexes woul
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by nrclark 4mo ago
Tcl is pretty good at functional-programming type stuff, and it can absolutely do anything that you could do with a macro. It isn't Algol-like at all imo, maybe beyond some superficial syntax. It feels a lot more like if LISP and Bash
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by nrclark 4mo ago
Not the parent, but yes I would/do write that way for effect.
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by nrclark 4mo ago
We use a Docker Compose setup for our team's devcontainer. It's defined right in the repo alongside the Dockerfile used to build our image. Our build scripts are all set up to start/stop/use the container automatically.
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by nrclark 5mo ago
Tar doesn't need to imply gzip (or bzip2, or zstd, etc). Tar's default operation produces uncompressed archives.
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by nrclark 5mo ago
out of curiosity - any reason not to use it?
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by nrclark 5mo ago
You only have to decompress it first if it's compressed (commonly using gzip, which is shown with the .gz suffix). Otherwise, you can randomly access any file in a .tar as long as: - the file is seekable/range-addressible - you
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by nrclark 5mo ago
This isn't very surprising. Typical US economic policy aims for 2-3% annual inflation. That counter shows an average 2.6% inflation across 26 years, which is kind of right in the range we'd expect. It's debatable whether this
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by nrclark 6mo ago
If Windows wants to commit to quality and user experience, they can do it by moving closer to the experience that made a generation fall in love with it. - Turn Notepad back into a text editor. - Remove ads from your operating system.
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by nrclark 7mo ago
Not the grandparent, but I've used most of the OpenAI models that have been released in the last year. Out of all of them, o3 was the best at the programming tasks I do. I liked it a lot more than I like GPT 5.2 Thinking/Pro. Over
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by nrclark 7mo ago
I get your point about camera vs lidar. Humans do have other senses in play while driving though. We have touch/vibration (feeling the road surface texture), hearing, proprioception / acceleration sense, etc. These are all involve
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by nrclark 8mo ago
Kind of reads 25 people's stories about "How I became a parasite". Why not create new things, instead of making a career out of leeching the wealth created by others?
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by nrclark 8mo ago
I’ve disputed fraud a couple of times on my Chase cards. It was.. fine? Uneventful and simple.
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by nrclark 8mo ago
Interesting, I wonder if this will spike VPN traffic into Vietnam.
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by nrclark 9mo ago
Agree. Even asking it can anchor your thinking.
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by nrclark 9mo ago
This was a really interesting read. I'd highly recommend it for anybody who's setting up (or currently maintains) a pre-commit workflow for their developers. I want to add one other note: in any large organization, some developers
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by nrclark 9mo ago
fwiw I'm the CEO of htmx, and I am a huge fan of these types of hyperbolic articles.
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by nrclark 9mo ago
Game theory is a model that's sometimes accurate. Game theorists often forget that humans are bags of thinking meat, and that our thinking is accomplished by goopy electrochemical processes Brains can and do make straight-up mistakes a
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by nrclark 9mo ago
It's a bummer that the library and utilities are GPLv3 - really limits adoption, because it means that product developers can't build it into the kinds of small embedded Linux systems where it would really shine.
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by nrclark 9mo ago
Maybe Ventana's software engineers can also help Qualcomm fix its BSPs. . . . I can dream, right?
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by nrclark 9mo ago
Fully agree - Ventana's cores are more like Cortex A76 kinds of things, and are on a completely different scale from typical Cortex-M cores. But switching to RISC-V would shut Qualcomm out from QNX and would limit its Android compatibi

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