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by pragma_x 18d ago
What I find amusing about moving compute to a RAM bank is it _almost_ resembles where we were with ISA-based extended RAM back in the 1980's. Some cards featured a CPU that took over the whole system and/or functioned like an upg
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by pragma_x 21d ago
> Could anyone enlighten me as to why to use Obsidian in one's daily life ? My handwriting has degraded from consistent keyboard use over the last 30 years. Obisidan has replaced my paper notebooks, mostly because of this. However
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by pragma_x 21d ago
This still happens with full shadow-casts and everything. Look around, and look to bigger cities if you're living somewhere out of the way. If there isn't a troupe near you that does this regularly, you may have more luck closer
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by pragma_x 21d ago
Yikes. I've tried accupuncture. It _can_ work wonders for pain. But as a cure-all? Total quackery. Sorry your friend was approached like that in a time of need.
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by pragma_x 1mo ago
What's old is new again. We'll be buying cartridges for AI capabilities on future architectures.
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by pragma_x 1mo ago
> A small drawback is that just isn’t readily available on developer’s machines (unlike bash and make) Looking back, this was usually a substantial stumbling block for adoption of new tooling. Things have changed. All one has to do is
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
Same here. This part got me: > The whale itself has never been sighted: it has only been heard via hydrophones, but its call has been detected since the late 1980s in a pattern that matches the migration of the blue whale and the fin wha
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
I was wondering about this. I wonder if there are insurance products to close this gap? Or maybe some banks offer accounts with different kinds of purchase protection. I'm with you. While I'm no fan of the risk involved with mi
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
Not GP, but for starters, the MSRP for that car in China is $32k. https://www.carsdb.com/en/news/1476 I get that's an apples-to-oranges comparison, considering that labor and material costs (not to mention su
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
There may be another option. Consider Japan's Kei car initiative, for example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car#Description https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kei_car#Taxation_and_insurance O
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
This is huge, thank you.
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
Since you're using HTMX, I have to ask: do you have any tips or idioms for composing complex forms and UI without things getting out of hand? I love the approach, but I'm having a bad time figuring out where the ideal balance is
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
> I used fixed point math which optimized well. I feel like the idea of fixed-point is under-utilized and very under appreciated. There are loads of applications where this is a better choice, let alone more performant.
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by pragma_x 3mo ago
Just a guess: if you want to scale a sprite at anything less than a whole ratio (e.g. 1.5, 0.7, etc), you have to choose pixels to drop out and pixels to repeat , on some pattern that looks good. There are going to be scaling ratios that
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
Water consumption and localized atmospheric heating have been cited elsewhere as drawbacks. There have been some articles citing noise/vibration pollution (subsonic?) but I'm not completely convinced on that front. Personally, I
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
100% agree. Not only was VC++6 a stand-out product overall, but it was easily the better IDE out of the crop of options at the time. Sadly, the product line got worse before VSCode came out. Things are much better now.
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
I completely get the concept and agree - this is great way to build this kind of durability in a workflow system. That said, my gamer-brain wants to call this "Save-scumming at scale." Which is to say, a lot of people already kno
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
I hear you on vendor lock-in. Everyone's freaked out about other companies getting the upper-hand with AI in the loop, so there's this charge to use the hell out of it at all costs. Meanwhile, we're quietly picking winners
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
Interesting article. I appreciate the range of perspectives here, and the overall pitch to keep the most experienced in frame along side new-fangled advancements (AI). The "speed" loop reminds me a lot of RAD. In fact, AI might
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
A vantage point from a very long time ago: The big social media services are pining for the days of CompuServe and Prodigy. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by pragma_x 4mo ago
I've heard people describe this phenomenon in basically two ways: - It's all relative to your teenage years, which splits up generations as a result. - The past is another country. The good news is: taste and disgust are also lear
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by pragma_x 5mo ago
> Imagine being able to list your eBay items locally without having to have people needing to come to your house, or better yet, getting a cut of what you wanted up front since they're basically a pawn shop, and then they list it on
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by pragma_x 5mo ago
It even comes pre-packaged with a theme song.
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by pragma_x 5mo ago
I came in here to comment the same. Our brains are wonderful pattern recognition engines and the reader would absolutely be able to more readily see the correlation between hex and character representations this way. It might even acceler
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by pragma_x 5mo ago
Moreover for the folks in the back row... We may see Canonical or other commercial Linux vendors come forward with a government or enterprise-flavored solution for all this. But the important thing to keep in mind is that they're not
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by pragma_x 6mo ago
May as well link the full report too. IMO, this is a bit easier to read. https://ehss.energy.gov/deprep/archive/documents/0308_caib_r...
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by pragma_x 6mo ago
In my short-lived stint as the same, I also had the same take. > But not one of them ever came to me unprompted and said, “Let’s talk about your career growth.” This quote absolutely floored me. The author had a lot of bad management.
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by pragma_x 6mo ago
> I ask straight questions and look for straight answers. One line at a time, one file at a time. I've also taken to using the Socratic Method when interrogating an LLM. No loaded questions, squeaky clean session/context, no l
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by pragma_x 6mo ago
You are correct. You absolutely must fill the token space with unanbiguous requirements, or Claude will just get "creative". You don't want the AI to do creative things in the same way you don't want an intern to do th
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by pragma_x 7mo ago
I can't say that I've used gitflow in hate. That said, I always saw the full complexity of the approach to address tracking multiple concurrent releases of a product. It's extremely uncommon in our increasingly SaaS world,

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