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by vlasky 23d ago
On the contrary, Meteor.js is alive and well! Version 3.5 was recently released with major performance and scalability enhancements: https://forums.meteor.com/t/meteor-3-5-is-out-change-streams...
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by vlasky 4mo ago
Happy to share your AGENTS.md?
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by vlasky 11mo ago
It's alive and well!
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by vlasky 1y ago
For desktop PCs, Rymdport (formerly wormhole-gui) may be suitable. It's cross-platform with pre-built binaries for FreeBSD, Linux, macOS and Windows on x86-64 and arm64: https://github.com/Jacalz/rymdport
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by vlasky 1y ago
Wormhole William is available for Android devices: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.sanford.wor...
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by vlasky 1y ago
I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration. Since 2015, I've been involved in the design and maintenance of six different Meteor webapps for real-time geospatial applications built for B2B and B2C. Given this, I re
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by vlasky 1y ago
Meteor is alive and well and actively maintained. It just doesn't get attention for some reason. Version 3.3.1 was released 4 days ago.
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by vlasky 1y ago
But does our universe obey Popek and Goldberg's virtualization requirements?
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by vlasky 2y ago
Base rate fallacy is a key part of many erroneous human decisions or judgements. This could easily be taught in high schools: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy
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Aussie math teachers must add Indigenous dance, storytelling to lessons(dailymail.co.uk)
3 points by vlasky 2y ago|4 comments
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by vlasky 2y ago
Maybe "tragicomic" would be a better word.
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by vlasky 2y ago
It's not "strictly illegal" in Australia. Our anti-discrimination bodies across the country frequently grant exemptions to employers allowing sex-based or race-based discrimination in favour of certain groups (e.g. women, Abo
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by vlasky 2y ago
I can also suggest Morefine. I bought a couple of AMD Ryzen 5900HX mini PCs from them: https://morefine.com/
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by vlasky 2y ago
I'm Aussie and I can't believe this Sun Cable project is being taken seriously by our government. The longest submarine power cable in the world - the Viking Link - is a mere 756 km long and cost US$2.2bn to build. Sun Cable calls
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by vlasky 2y ago
ngxtop is also very useful for providing real-time metrics: https://github.com/lebinh/ngxtop
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by vlasky 2y ago
I'll never forget Bob Newhart's heartfelt eulogy for Krusty the Clown. It was better than some real life ones I heard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTZ7lVT7b-Q
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by vlasky 2y ago
I wouldn't want to see this sort of post everyday, but I thought it was an interesting forensic exercise - kind of like carbon dating. Just for fun, I used ChatGPT 4o to answer the question. It reckoned 1997.
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by vlasky 2y ago
I'm surprised that you can't configure the pace or pitch of the voices. The Web Speech API, around for a long time, has that capability. I'd also love to have the option of Australian and British accents.
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by vlasky 3y ago
This software mitigation technique for Rowhammer could also be useful for improving the reliability of programs running on microcontrollers in high radiation environments, e.g. satellite in Earth orbit. By maximising the Hamming distance be
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by vlasky 3y ago
How long does a kernel recompile take?
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by vlasky 3y ago
You've hit the nail right on the head. In the late 19th century, New Zealand raised one of the greatest scientists of all time - Ernest Rutherford, a pioneer of atomic and nuclear physics, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry i
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by vlasky 3y ago
I wonder how difficult it would be to enhance Redis to support FIFO with Lazy Promotion and Quick Demotion.
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by vlasky 3y ago
I am from Australia - a country with very high labour costs. Some years back, I trialed outsourcing programming tasks to developers based in India, only to consistently receive shockingly bad quality work. Over the years, I have also helped
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by vlasky 4y ago
I remember I could play 128kbit MP3s in full quality using mpg123 running under Windows for Workgroups 3.11 ONLY when I overclocked my 486DX4-100 to 120Mhz.
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by vlasky 4y ago
There is also a MySQL integration with Meteor. I'm the defacto maintainer of this package and the Node.js package mysql-live-select. These implement pub/sub and reactive queries using the MySQL binary log as the event source: htt
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by vlasky 4y ago
This also works in MySQL 8.0.19 and above but the syntax of the CTE example needs to be tweaked to use the ROW() constructor: WITH countries (code, name) AS ( SELECT * FROM (VALUES ROW('us', 'United
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by vlasky 4y ago
To all programmers here, the TZ=:<zonefile> syntax is currently unsupported in the icu library (International Components for Unicode): https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-13694 https://github.
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by vlasky 5y ago
I'm the defacto maintainer of the Meteor MySQL integration and the Node.js package mysql-live-select. These implement pub/sub and reactive queries using the MySQL binary log as the event source: https://github.com/
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by vlasky 5y ago
Just curious - whereabouts in Europe have you lived and in your opinion, what are the best places for an Aussie expat?
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by vlasky 5y ago
Jack Smythe returns to visit his brother in "Utopia" - a future Australia where citizens are under constant government surveillance. Privileges are awarded and revoked via a social credit system. The only place where people can sp

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