the_alchemist

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by the_alchemist 9d ago
And sugar is dollars :'D
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by the_alchemist 23d ago
I'm confused by the usage of the word consensus in the explanation, to me it seems like a last-write-wins strategy, no consensus involved?
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by the_alchemist 7mo ago
It's 'de jour' , which means 'of the day' in French
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by the_alchemist 10mo ago
Please elaborate
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by the_alchemist 1y ago
Slightly off topic question , but do you pronounce it n eight n, or Nathan ? I got blank stares when saying Nathan from my colleagues :')
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by the_alchemist 1y ago
Should add (2016)
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by the_alchemist 2y ago
I love how Petzold's Code went over the details of switching segments for a clock using these tubes.
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by the_alchemist 2y ago
Isn't this tiered support a necessity when operating at scale? How can you help thousands of customers where faqs and getting starteds don't cut it? You need a filtering mechanism (L1) to help users directly without overloading th
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by the_alchemist 3y ago
I like Merlin better, it is the 'live match' version. With birdnet you have to record and submit. Both are from the Cornell Lab for ornithology.
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by the_alchemist 3y ago
Lance Hendrick has a nice deep dive on this paper as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuqVUsMPs-U&
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by the_alchemist 4y ago
But then the main contributor, Lightbend company, decided to change the license from Apache 2, to BSL.. Now Apache Pekko is the fork that should continue the implementation :)
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by the_alchemist 4y ago
> "Tere" means "hello" in Estonian. It also feels nice to type. On qwerty I think that's the case :)
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by the_alchemist 4y ago
What a great post-mortem write-up! Thans for sharing
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by the_alchemist 5y ago
Without paywall on archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20220319112653/https://www.washi...
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by the_alchemist 5y ago
*Cost will vary by location between $300–$400
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by the_alchemist 5y ago
Title could use a 2001: Cardiovascular Research, Volume 50, Issue 2, May 2001
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by the_alchemist 5y ago
Nice write-up, and good to see that maven also evolves. The use of the daemon is really significant for the build time. Is there any clue what would take 90 seconds everytime you execute the maven process? Is it the creating of the build gr
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by the_alchemist 6y ago
In the readme it's mentioned. brew bundle dump https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-bundle/blob/master/READ...
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by the_alchemist 7y ago
As long as you keep the public part private, there is no issue ;)
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by the_alchemist 7y ago
Scala happily accepts null as it is the bottom type for AnyRef and needed for jvm compatibility. Kotlin has a compiler check that enforces it, Scala does not.
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Bazel 2.0(blog.bazel.build)
160 points by the_alchemist 7y ago|113 comments
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by the_alchemist 7y ago
This might be your first instinct, but a new contractor would have to gain the knowledge KPN did on preventing these outages, there is no guarantee any other company would have better uptime. Reminds me of the quote or story that someone ra
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by the_alchemist 9y ago
That tool saved me many times. It's hard to do obscure symbolic searches in Google :')
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by the_alchemist 10y ago
> Riak uses the SHA hash as its distribution mechanism and divides the output range of the SHA hash evenly amongst participating nodes in the cluster. Wait, Riak uses SHA as distribution hash? Why use a cryptographic hash for distributio