rvanlaar

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by rvanlaar 2y ago
Never expected this from my hometown to hit hackernews. For some context, here's the lock in streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0974077,5.1152216,3a,75y,277...
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by rvanlaar 3y ago
If it can be performant depends on the tasks it need to full fill. The Switch uses the X1. A chip from 2015. The CPU has a clock rate of 1GZ, the GPU 307-768 MHz. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch#T
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by rvanlaar 3y ago
Ah, Chrome and slow spinners. Python tests were taking ages on VSCode due to an SVG spinner: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=103626... https://github.com/microsoft/v
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by rvanlaar 3y ago
There's a GIL presentation [1] from 2010 which shows Python 3.2 on a 1 CPU machine was faster than on a dual core. In all, there might be reason to expect GILless python to be faster single core in certain scenario's. [1] https:&
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by rvanlaar 3y ago
I'm working on a project to revive old QTVR movies[1]. After writing a couple of python decoders [2] for movie encodings from the 90's it got old quickly. As luck would have it, FFmpeg has support for almost all video encodings un
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by rvanlaar 3y ago
Here's Arjen Lubach, the Dutch Jon Stewart, about phones in classrooms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEuSxFd_M Note: The autogenerated (english) subtitles are a pretty decent.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Recently had 28GB json of IOT data with no guarantees on the data structure inside. Used simdjson [1] together with python bindings [2]. Achieved massive speedups for analyzing the data. Before it was in the order of minutes, then it becam
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
While I agree with the sentiment, in practice I haven't seen it go over well. I find the tooling around SQL to be severely lacking.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote preferred ======================================== Get projects unstuck Roland van Laar is an independent IT consultant who helps businesses use IT. Be it unstucking a project or building software and bringing
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. That was a fun game.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Thanks for the responses, much appreciated.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
A top developer leaving also functions as a signal to others in the company. I once left a company quickly after a senior leader had left. That proved to be a good move since the company was going under and sold a few months after.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
What an interesting story. It made me look up how medal of honor started. Could you clarify a few things? I don't think the story adds up. Wikipedia has the followin information. Medal of Honor was made by DreamWorks interactive. [..]
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Secret History of silicon valley, more a presentation. It gave insight into the collaboration of astrophysics and the military. Shoah: An documentary about the holocaust 11 hours long, but without any archive footage. The maker interviews a
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
I've read the paper. What got my senses tingling, is that: - there has been no investigation on which strains were in the lab - if the data is to be trusted, given it's in China. Till those questions have been answered I remain sk
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
This brings back nice memories.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
It will catch random webmasters. In short, Dutch hoster TransIP had to pause their scanning service. They got hashes that included default images from WordPress. "Waar het misging, is volgens TransIP-woordvoerder Marco Edelman dat per
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Re: Altered Carbon. How come the first season was awesome and got me to read the books. The second season was so bad I stopped watching it after a few episodes. And yes, I just checked and I had the Premium plan. Just downgraded to standard
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
X1 owner checking in. I use it and I'm happy with it. It hit the sweet spot when I bought it a couple of years ago. I don't recommend it for the given price point. I included all extra options such as insurance and the extra disk
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
The link https://frame.work/marketplace/mainboards seems broken. It redirects me to https://frame.work/nl/en
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
It what happens when people see the media and their government lying. They start asking, what else have they been hiding and lying about. After that it's hard to keep it grounded in reality. It's the proverbial "and see how d
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
The case with Mauride de Hond is different. His expertise is statistics. He is well known in the Netherlands for gathering election polling data. He really looked at a few superspread events and drilled down in how it could've spread.
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
Respectfully disagree. A lot of people who looked into COVID were saying this doesn't add up. They were were framed to be in the 'small vocal minorities that say all sorts of crap'. "the system" was all pointing and
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by rvanlaar 4y ago
I'm not OP. To me, it's the tooling around it. Everything is done in R-studio and it's focus is to generate statistical documents. The result is a sub optimum solution. It lacks good tooling around installing and running R
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
I don't think it's really necessary. $ 4000 is relatively cheap. The review in the verge hits this point. The verge previously bought a $16,599 model from apple, which performs worse than the current $4,000 model. https:/&#
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
You're hitting the nail on the head. I'm not against the website owners seeing what I do on their website. What I am against is what other parties are able to do with the data when sold. They're able to correlate website vis
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this view. There are a few nails in reddit's coffin and this is certainly one of them. I used to be able to gauge real world opinions on reddit pretty accurately, i.e. be aware what was happening before the curve.
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
I really enjoyed mine as well. Sometimes it would just drain the battery, and gone was all my data. As a young adult, all my appointments would be gone and I was left wondering if I was forgetting an appointment.
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
I've noticed this in the educational sector. It's technically not that hard to produce good software for it. It has mainly settled at a local maximum. The software is good enough, money is tight, the priorities are different and p
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by rvanlaar 5y ago
What a great question. You've come to the right community. My main concern would be to make sure there are no passwords or secret keys in the data, not how it looks. You'll open yourself up for comments. They may be positive or ne

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