phazy

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by phazy 4mo ago
John Ousterhout has also written about this in A Philosophy of Software Design: The most fundamental problem in computer science is problem decomposition: how to take a complex problem and divide it up into pieces that can be solved indepe
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by phazy 1y ago
I‘m wondering why nobody has brought up the term "acquired taste" yet. Such a beautiful expression, sadly I can’t find a good translation in most other languages.
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by phazy 3y ago
At least for me, another element of deliberate practice holds true: Deliberate practice scales nonlinearily with time and effort.
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by phazy 3y ago
The CORDIC algorithm is great! Just a few months ago, I implemented a sine generator with it and also used fixed point arithmetic. It is a real eye opener to see that you can substitute multiplications by bit shifting when you store the num
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by phazy 4y ago
I've been trying out some more things and I think you might have to do some more prompt engineering for ChatGPT. Prompts sometimes result in valid results but sometimes in a SyntaxError "Unexpected token 'A', "An er
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by phazy 4y ago
Awesome idea and great implementation!
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by phazy 4y ago
I‘ve also been using vim for ~3yrs now, editing small programming projects and all kinds of text in it (like config files). Never had a need for emacs until a couple weeks ago I started working at a project involving a lot of meetings and w
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by phazy 4y ago
Great job! I love this idea. In fact, I love it so much that I could not resist trying to implement it with two running mpv instances: https://github.com/phazus/lofiatc.sh
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by phazy 4y ago
This, so much! I solved this problem on mobile with two approaches: 1. Use a content blocker (e.g. 1Blocker on iOS) to block CSS elements 2. Use an Invidious instance which has disabled the recommendations
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by phazy 5y ago
I managed to find an archived audio recording of his talk: https://web.archive.org/web/20120118143443/http://craigagree... Even if the quality is not the best, you should still be able to understand most
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by phazy 6y ago
One truly useful service. I would love a Search Syntax feature for Google or DDG where one could specify the maximum size of the showed sites. This would definitely improve the results as in many the cases the most useful resources are text