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by wjholden 1mo ago
It's also possible to be overfat without being overweight! These "skinny fat" people often look normal enough but they carry very little muscle. It is a concerning condition because a doctor might not recommend a normal-weigh
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by wjholden 2mo ago
I did a small research project years ago (like 16 years ago) where I tried to detect hosts in promiscuous mode. The entire effort wasn't super relevant even in 2010 because switched networks had already largely replaced old hubs but it
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by wjholden 2mo ago
I'm going to hazard a speculative answer with poor evidence: love. The ants love one another, as shown by their child-rearing, grooming, playing, the "antennating" mentioned in the article, collective defense, and deliberate
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by wjholden 3mo ago
Super nostalgic for me just to see the name. My computing teacher gave me a Knoppix LiveCD when I was about 18 and I immediately fell in love with Linux. Within weeks I was (repeatedly) attempting to install Gentoo on my first computer that
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by wjholden 3mo ago
A converter would be fantastic, too. I experimented with having a few LLMs try to translate TikZ to Cetz and none of them were great. The best thing I have found so far is tylax ( https://github.com/scipenai/tylax ), whi
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by wjholden 3mo ago
Oh man, good on you identifying a product that needs to exist. I've used a few TikZ editors (both online and desktop) and none of them are just amazing. But, I've taken my papers to Typst. Could you have the agent do the same thin
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by wjholden 4mo ago
Not OP, but I can comment on my anecdotal experience switching. Typst is great. I had been using Markdown with Pandoc to write a book. I frequently needed to use raw LaTeX commands, and it was mostly OK but I had a few frustrations with my
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by wjholden 4mo ago
Moreover, I'll appeal to authority and point out that Ratatui's motto is "Cook up delicious terminal user interfaces" ( https://ratatui.rs ).
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by wjholden 5mo ago
Not OP, but thank you for your sharing this. If you don't mind a follow-on question, I always hear people talk about the "runtime" in languages like Go and libraries like Tokio. What is that these runtimes are doing that you
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by wjholden 5mo ago
I think Python might be the first language to adopt a named sentinel value type. Has anyone seen a design like this in any other programming language?
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The Most Controversial Post I Ever Wrote on Quora(derangedmathematician.substack.com)
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by wjholden 5mo ago
The header of an IPv4 packet has the source and destination addresses, both as 32-bit values. These fields are adjacent, and there's other stuff next to them. If you appended more bytes to the source address, routers would think that t
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by wjholden 6mo ago
For what it's worth — my last workplace did not allow cell phones in the building and I learned to love it. When people attended meetings, we all made eye contact and talked about the task at hand. Nobody ever got distracted by notific
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by wjholden 8mo ago
That is an insightful response, I may quote you on this.
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by wjholden 8mo ago
I remember a colleague jumping through hoops trying to get Python installed on an enterprise computer. We never did get to a yes and resorted to using PowerShell instead. The policy constraints at enterprises that this author describes are
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by wjholden 8mo ago
Cool! I just recently began learning the Raspberry Pi Pico. Could anyone recommend a specific display that I could use with the Pico 2/2W and Mousefood?
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by wjholden 8mo ago
This 1951 film shows a chemist who invents a fabric that threatens to upend all aspects of the textile economy.
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by wjholden 8mo ago
Similarly: "The indication for machine-generated text isn't symbolic. It's structural." I always liked this writing device, but I've seen people label it artificial.
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by wjholden 8mo ago
YouTube is actually one of my very first places to go for new concepts. For example, one of the recent Advent of Code puzzles was solvable with "coordinate compression," a technique I had never heard of before. I didn't find
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by wjholden 8mo ago
Sports. CrossFit and similar social sports have been healthy for me and for many others, and I think the community is at least equal to the exercise in improving people's lives. Not saying this is the only way, but it made a big differ
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by wjholden 8mo ago
Love it, I always enjoy good examples of hard problems solvable with a constraint solver.
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by wjholden 10mo ago
It also has mixed square brackets and curved parentheses. I stopped reading the article when I saw this.
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by wjholden 10mo ago
This is not the first article I've seen where developers say they're getting overwhelmed by AI-generated bug reports. Maybe this is a new way people can volunteer to help open source. If anyone is struggling to triage bug reports
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by wjholden 10mo ago
Hadn't thought of it from this perspective. An untraceable signal coming from the moon would also be useful for military communications. Electronic warfare and signals intelligence have been powerful tools for both sides in the Ukraine
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by wjholden 11mo ago
Year ago I wrote a very simple SAT solver in Java. I initially used List but later primitive arrays to represent my formulas and clauses. The change made a modest and measurable difference, but I agree with the author's suggestion that
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by wjholden 11mo ago
I think Julia largely accomplishes these goals except for the platform integration.
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by wjholden 1y ago
I had never thought of this before. What is the solution? Can any video software show two subtitles at once?
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by wjholden 1y ago
That's insightful. So where Rust might help you to program safely (write code free from certain classes of bugs), cargo has much/all the same supply-chain risks we would see in development ecosystems like pip and npm. And your
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by wjholden 1y ago
I've thought about this, although perhaps not framed the same way, and one of my suggestions is to vibe code in Rust. I don't know how well these models handle Rust's peculariarities, but I believe that one should take all th
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by wjholden 1y ago
To the author: I love this idea, but your blog has two problems that made it less enjoyable for me to read. The first is the pull quotes. I find them confusing and unnecessary, especially when they repeat sentences in the preceding paragrap

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