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by ungerik 29d ago
uuid.UUID is implemented as [16]byte, like most other UUID implementations out there. If you want to keep your package implementation agnostic, use [16]byte as argument type; that's assignment-compatible with any other type that is suc
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by ungerik 29d ago
That's why we called ours uu.ID https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/domonda/go-types@v0.0.0-202607...
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by ungerik 11mo ago
So only they can give direct legal and medical advice, which is still illegal in most countries. It's not a promoted service yet, but everyone is using it to ask such questions.
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by ungerik 2y ago
Those images look exactly like what you get from every OCR tool out there if you use the XY information.
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by ungerik 2y ago
Rendering fails after first start and trying to resize the window on Mac. Hardly release quality.
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by ungerik 3y ago
Because PDF is a minefield and PDFtk does not solve all problems on all platforms. You'll learn that if you try to process millions of PDFs in the wild that may or may not comply with any of the numerous specs.
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by ungerik 3y ago
var names []string
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by ungerik 3y ago
Because we can ;-)
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by ungerik 3y ago
Old guy here: funny how manipulating bits is worth a HN post nowadays :-D
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by ungerik 3y ago
Unrelated: is VARCHAR(255) still a thing?
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by ungerik 4y ago
There also seems to be a scam industry forming to take advantage of those quick moves plus remote work. If one such scam employee makes it to the first salary, it already more than paid for the few hours spent on interviews and communicatin
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by ungerik 4y ago
Awesome hardware and I will get one. But interesting that with the slight price increase there has been zero progress in performance per $ since 2 years. Shows how far ahead the M1 was.
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by ungerik 4y ago
Awesome, time to build!
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Iceberg Research Report on Lilium EVTOL(iceberg-research.com)
2 points by ungerik 5y ago|0 comments
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by ungerik 5y ago
You are asking the wrong questions. Care about your product and customers, not about founder beauty contests!
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by ungerik 5y ago
Surprise of 2022: you get to the top of HN by telling the world about HTTP Basic Auth ...I am getting old ;-)
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Quasi Solid-State Lithium Sulfur Aviation Batteries with 450Wh/Kg(futureflight.aero)
1 points by ungerik 5y ago|0 comments
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by ungerik 6y ago
If you can, choose a big black hole. The smaller ones spagettify you faster.
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by ungerik 6y ago
I think it was within the last 2 years when I searched for domains on Namecheap. They were shown as registered and I was offered to buy them for a premium price. When I searched on another other provider, it was shown as available and I bou
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by ungerik 6y ago
Also love those Chinese e-commerce websites that use automated translations based on location for every text on their website, even on product names...
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by ungerik 6y ago
Those are the simple things to worry about, it can even get more complicated in the real world. So complicated that writing our own parser was the only way to go. So what are some of the more advanced challenges: * Banking systems that trea
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by ungerik 6y ago
Ever, like ever ever? Or ever since we measured?
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by ungerik 7y ago
I wanted a little bit more from FS department, so I rolled my own: https://github.com/ungerik/go-fs
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by ungerik 7y ago
This is why Google developed Go. Python like productivity with C++ like performance...
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by ungerik 7y ago
Horrible read. Still don't know what the problem is.
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The young centre of the Earth (2016)(arxiv.org)
121 points by ungerik 7y ago|71 comments
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by ungerik 7y ago
You can't be that smart, if you don't figure out how to bridge the "communication range". Showing that IQ is a much too narrow measurement of puzzle solving ability, not related to being smart in real world situations.
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by ungerik 7y ago
True, but when have you heard a test pilot criticising his employer while still having an active career?
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Ask HN: When has big $$$ before product-market-fit ever worked out?
47 points by ungerik 8y ago|25 comments
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by ungerik 8y ago
Why worry about the long term, when you can get rich in the short term? After you are rich, long term is someone else’s problem.

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