wmitty

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by wmitty 1y ago
One of the most memorable cycle touring blogs I have read is of Bill St Onge's tour down this road. In addition to the natural difficulty of cycling this extremely remote road (both ways), he was dousing himself in so much bug repellen
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by wmitty 2y ago
OP says the US portion of eastern divide trail, which is on bikepacking.com : https://bikepacking.com/eastern-divide-trail/
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by wmitty 2y ago
A major factor was that early Java in the browser did not support.jar (really .zip) files. This meant every class (and every inner class) required a separate http request (on the much slower http of the day). You used to have to put everyt
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by wmitty 3y ago
Brave has written their own (open source) adblock engine (in rust) that is directly integrated into the browser (ie. not an extension, so is not affected by Manifest V3). https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust Here is a
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by wmitty 3y ago
The article wasn't entirely condescending - sometimes it was patronizing instead.
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by wmitty 4y ago
As long as you have access to a phillips screwdriver, you aren't stuck in the little ring - you can tighten the high limit screw to pick your one gear (at least from the higher ones).
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by wmitty 4y ago
Laplink had a really neat feature for when you didn't have your laplink install disk with you (or had the wrong size laplink install disk). You could connect the two computers with a RS232 null modem cable, then type something like the
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by wmitty 5y ago
My (crude) version of the same thing requires that I go 1000 meters from my house to press the button to enable the DNS for another 30 min of browsing (button is on a custom phone app, distance measured using phone GPS). One feature that I
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by wmitty 5y ago
The website says that he uses: "Xitami web server, because it's the only one that does no caching at all, so the website is always served fresh from the floppy." Source: https://web.archive.org/web/202201
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by wmitty 5y ago
They tell all the Canadian banks and financial institutions that they have to ask all customers whether they are US citizens (and you lose account access if you won't answer). The Canadian banks then have to report all the accounts of
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by wmitty 5y ago
I was born in the US to Canadian parents who promptly moved back to Canada where I have lived for the subsequent 55 years. Other than a US birth certificate I had no interaction with the US gov - we politely ignored eachother like a huge n
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by wmitty 5y ago
I mean the postgres parser (and semantic changes) for ZetaSQL. The zetasql parser is in a file called zetasql/parser/bison_parser.y, I strongly suspect they now have a file called something like zetasql/pgparser/bison_p
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by wmitty 5y ago
The Cloud Spanner SQL frontend/analyzer has been open sourced by google as ZetaSQL. https://github.com/google/zetasql It is amazingly good. You give it textual SQL (+ schema + all your function definitions) and
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by wmitty 5y ago
> Their adblocker is just a fork of uBlock Origin, This does not appear to be true. Here is the github repo for their open source adblock engine written in rust: https://github.com/brave/adblock-rust Here is a (som
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by wmitty 6y ago
I made a (much less fancy) rowing machine program in 1984 (for the original Concept II). It was written in 6502 assembly language for the Apple II. It had a really nice display: - 2 boats, with oars moving timed to your pulls - scrolling sc
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by wmitty 7y ago
Details from sciencemag.org (A magazine from the American academy for the advancement of science): https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/united-states-badly-...
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by wmitty 7y ago
The link to the paper in the article requires an ACM subscription. Here is a link to the version hosted by the authors: https://www.pdl.cmu.edu/PDL-FTP/Storage/ceph-exp-sosp19.pdf
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by wmitty 11y ago
Another crazy excellent (and free) ES6 reference is http://exploringjs.com/es6/ by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer - one of the ES6 committee members. JS is a very complicated language - and the language spec in written in a way
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by wmitty 11y ago
Datahand palm rests detach really easily and come out of the dishwasher super clean.
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by wmitty 14y ago
A network effect applies to revision control systems. Mercurial is a much better fit for how my mind works than Git (I feel that Git is from the school that thrives despite complexity, where I prefer the school that puts lots of effort into