sagitariusrex

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by sagitariusrex 6y ago
I think anyone who ever had to set up a cypress-like pipeline in a CI environment by hand really appreciates cypress.
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I Learned Haskell (2017)(kseo.github.io)
3 points by sagitariusrex 6y ago|0 comments
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by sagitariusrex 6y ago
Revolutionary technology right here lads. This is what happens when you ignore the entire history of programming languages and all the lessons learned along the way. You end up with a proposal to add type parameters, 8 or so years after its
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by sagitariusrex 6y ago
As a side note: My biggest disappointment regarding the 5G discussion with respect to potential health implications is the widespread lack of acknowledgement about the fact that we have not yet conducted any meaningful scientific experiment
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New system calls for memory management(lwn.net)
1 points by sagitariusrex 7y ago|0 comments
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Starlink satellite-train visible with the naked eye(twitter.com)
78 points by sagitariusrex 7y ago|44 comments
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by sagitariusrex 7y ago
>Even without superconductivity, ordinary computers and other electronics could get a huge boost in performance versus cost from twistronics, due to the fact that entire complex electronic circuits could in theory be built into a few she
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by sagitariusrex 7y ago
Still relevant: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hiring
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by sagitariusrex 7y ago
I don't remember who first said it but blockchain has exactly one killer feature, Bitcoin. If you try to adapt it anywhere else you're probably abusing the tech.
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CoinLab vs. Mt. Gox: The Imaginarium of Peter Vessenes(blog.wizsec.jp)
2 points by sagitariusrex 7y ago|0 comments
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by sagitariusrex 7y ago
It's disappointing to see that the 1 billion figure is what really grinds people's gears in here. That's the thing you should be the least concerned about. edit: typo
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Flatline: How the Amiga Languished (2018)(youtube.com)
1 points by sagitariusrex 7y ago|0 comments
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by sagitariusrex 7y ago
We asked respondents to evaluate their own competence, for the specific work they do and years of experience they have, and almost 70% of respondents say they are above average while less than 10% think they are below average. This is stat
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by sagitariusrex 8y ago
I don't believe that putting a price tag on a piece of software legitimizes it for a given use case. I get this same feeling from posts that say "Product X written in language Y". While I agree that there exists a right progr
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by sagitariusrex 8y ago
I once "inherited" an Adobe ColdFusion codebase that hadn't been touched in about 15 years. I guess the reason it hadn't been touched in so long was because it simply worked. It was a well structured project and easy to
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Ocean Microphones May Have Recorded Lost Malaysian Jet's Crash(livescience.com)
89 points by sagitariusrex 8y ago|40 comments
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by sagitariusrex 8y ago
Dell XPS 15 9570, best notebook I've ever had. Only major issue is that the default fancurve was probably chosen randomly because they just couldn't be bothered. It can be fixed thou with https://github.com/TomFreu
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by sagitariusrex 8y ago
The thing I've come to realize over the past couple years is that the dream of performant open hardware is still beyond reach for at least a decade or two. But this is probably the next best thing to have. A company that at least tri
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Free Software Foundation Receives $1M BTC from Pineapple Fund(twitter.com)
1 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|0 comments
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New iMessage link that will freeze the whole device discovered(twitter.com)
1 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|0 comments
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Lkml.org is down(twitter.com)
1 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|0 comments
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Dead People Mysteriously Support the FCC's Attack on Net Neutrality(techdirt.com)
244 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|92 comments
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by sagitariusrex 9y ago
I'd pay 20k for an open-hardware Notebook with a formally verified open source OS
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China orders N.K. firms to close down within 120 days(english.yonhapnews.co.kr)
145 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|121 comments
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I miss you, Steve Jobs(medium.com)
4 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|0 comments
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by sagitariusrex 9y ago
For everybody who isn't acquainted with how Social Security Cards work in the US and how they came to be I highly recommend watching "Social Security Cards Explained" by CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?
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by sagitariusrex 9y ago
Whenever I read articles like this I'm reminded of this quote by Richard Buckminster Fuller "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.&
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List of stars with resolved images(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by sagitariusrex 9y ago|0 comments
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by sagitariusrex 9y ago
For a quick video intro I recommend this video from 3Blue1Brown ("youtube mathematician") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBC-nXj3Ng4 IMHO the best intro to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general.
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by sagitariusrex 9y ago
Also a great read: "Why Functional Programming Matters" https://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.p... John Hughes is kind of a functional programming god.

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