skwheel

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by skwheel 3y ago
sorry to be snarky there. Your post read to me like, "I haven't seen a banana in the US in 10 years. We don't eat them anymore."
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by skwheel 3y ago
what are you talking about? Drive _anywhere_ in the UK and you'll see an aerial TV antenna on almost every roof.
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by skwheel 4y ago
Yes, exactly. I really thought the author was trying to argue that no one writes in assembly. But then when I reached the butterfly line, I realized it was just sloppy writing missing commas.
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by skwheel 4y ago
Oh my god, yes. I had to re-read that paragraph three times, and then open the xkcd to confirm what the author really meant. This absolutely killed the flow of the article for me.
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by skwheel 4y ago
"The software code was permanently repaired about five hours later." I always try to permanently repair the software when I find bugs.
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by skwheel 4y ago
after your finals, you should read about forward error correction.
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by skwheel 4y ago
> For compute - a single Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) t4g.small instance running Mastodon, it’s PostgresSQL database, and Redis. its
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by skwheel 4y ago
Yes. Idaho
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by skwheel 4y ago
Yes, I fully support this position by Meta but their reasoning is not quite right when it comes to astronomers and scientists. Passing around a leap second kernel is a major pain for everyone dealing with GPS, satellite ephemerides, celesti
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by skwheel 4y ago
That's what I have: fiber infra as a public utility, with a choice of ISPs on top of that. Funny fact, the ISP I chose is $10/month for 1G down/up. Want to add a phone line (which runs digitally over fiber)? That'll be a
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by skwheel 4y ago
My city runs fiber infra as a public utility, with about a half dozen options of ISPs to choose from which provide internet connectivity on top of that infra. I pay $26/month total for 1000 Mbps down, 1000 Mbps up. It's a huge ben