smilliken

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by smilliken 3mo ago
That extrapolates to $87B per year for just the top spot on HN, more than all of Instagram's ad revenue, or about 40x Twitter's. Or $240M per day, about 1/3 of the ad spend on Superbowl, just for the top spot.
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by smilliken 3mo ago
A literal toddler is one who can read. I'm reminded of a Simpson's episode where Arnold Shwarzenegger is elected as President, given 5 stacks of papers with briefs of options, and he picks one at random without reading it saying &
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by smilliken 5mo ago
patchelf works on binaries. It's also possible to run a binary in a filesystem namespace with the dynamic libraries mapped.
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by smilliken 5mo ago
If your code was committed before the reset, check your git reflog for the lost code.
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by smilliken 6mo ago
If you're price conscious, buy the self-assembled framework kit. It's fun and takes half an hour to assemble. I got a framework 16 with a handful of upgrades for $1400. I added 96GB of RAM purchased separately for $300 (before the
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by smilliken 7mo ago
Compress then encrypt is not an option because your encryption is broken if it can be compressed at all. Mathematically it's a near certainty that the compression would increase the file size when given an encrypted input.
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by smilliken 8mo ago
That strategy may be cathartic, but it will have the opposite of the desired effect. If there's any hope of changing someone's mind, it has to start by respecting their opinion no matter how wrong you think it is. If you start a f
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by smilliken 9mo ago
You're going to look silly in 8000 years!
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by smilliken 10mo ago
Practically speaking, it's impossible to roll 6 one hundred times in a row on fair dice. Not technically impossible, but we each get to calibrate our skepticism based on how far out the probabilities are. In this case we can be sure th
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by smilliken 11mo ago
You can have this today or 15+ years ago using the excellent gevent library for Python. Python 3 should have just endorsed gevent as the blessed solution instead of adding function coloring and new syntax, but you can blissfully ignore all
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by smilliken 1y ago
The best kind of documentation is the kind you can trust is accurate. Type defs wouldn't be close to as useful if you didn't really trust them. Similarly, doctests are some of the most useful documentation because you can be sure
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by smilliken 1y ago
https://histre.com does full text search on browser history
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by smilliken 1y ago
The best way is to open a capsule for each batch you receive to test it by taste, then store in the fridge.
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by smilliken 1y ago
> Second: there is no CEO in tech taking a smaller salary than their employees. That's not just false but very often false.
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by smilliken 1y ago
It's the exceptional codebase that's nice to work with when it gets large and has many contributors. Most won't succeed no matter the language. Language is a factor, but I believe a more important factor is caring a lot. I&#x
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by smilliken 1y ago
They aren't talking about C and its descendants in particular, but more generally. For example in Haskell and Scheme there is only an if function and no if statement. And you're welcome to create an if function in any language you
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by smilliken 1y ago
Fair enough. I'm sensitive about the em dash being used as a tell, which I've seen mentioned once or twice, because I don't want people to dumb down punctuation to avoid being confused for an LLM. I'd guess it's a t
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by smilliken 1y ago
The em dash was in popular use long before chatgpt. It's a useful grammatical symbol and a short dash is not a good substitute. Consider whether you'd use it if it was a dedicated key on your keyboard, if so then it's worth t
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by smilliken 1y ago
The reason someone changes a dependency at all is because they expect a difference in behavior. No one would feel the motivation to go update a dependency if they aren't getting something out of it, that's a waste of effort and an
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by smilliken 1y ago
Like other products in this category, this is for private networks, internal to your company or self. I don't think it's an intended use case to connect to computers not in your control. It's useful when you have computers th
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by smilliken 1y ago
MixRank (YC S11) | Software Engineers | 100% REMOTE (Global) | Full-Time MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and
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by smilliken 1y ago
At risk of the obvious, because it saves $39 and reduces landfill waste.
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by smilliken 1y ago
The operating system provides abstractions for blocking and asynchronous IO, which are the higher abstraction version of the same concept.
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by smilliken 1y ago
Can you see how this comes off as a pedantic difference? If I ran a program 10 years ago and it worked, then run it today and it doesn't work, we say the program is broken and needs to be updated. We don't say the world around it
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by smilliken 1y ago
I've seen benchmarks that estimate the regression at 20-30%, though I expect there's large variance depending on what a program's bottleneck is.
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by smilliken 1y ago
Or you can have technical managers that understand what they are managing.
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by smilliken 1y ago
Would you concede the point if I produce a photo as proof?
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by smilliken 1y ago
MixRank (YC S11) | Software Engineers | 100% REMOTE (Global) | Full-Time MixRank processes petabytes of data every month from web crawling. We have hundreds of customers using our data products including Google, Amazon, Facebook, Intel, and
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by smilliken 1y ago
Works in firefox for many people I work with. Perhaps worth troubleshooting? Or maybe Google serves different bits to different people.
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by smilliken 1y ago
> suggested that every mental disorder (literally, the entire DSM) has a single underlying cause: mitochondrial dysfunction On this topic, Brain Energy by Christopher Palmer: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/

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