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by zvrba 28d ago
Tried to read it, gave up.
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by zvrba 2mo ago
> Isn't plain JSON even worse? At least the design you're criticising has a dynamic schema definition separate from code. The point is that "dynamism" isn't needed in this case. It's used to define fixed par
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by zvrba 2mo ago
I've seen a set of SQL tables designed to mimic "flexible classes". There's a table for the "class", another table defining its "fields", and two other tables defining class instances and related fiel
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by zvrba 7mo ago
I usually don't watch videos, but this one captured my attention.
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by zvrba 9mo ago
Similar story here. C64 was amazing, even to load a game, you had to learn some commands. (Unless the game was in a cartridge.) Then I got a PC, and learned structured programming with Borland Pascal and later Turbo C. These were great IDEs
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by zvrba 9mo ago
What'd I tell to Bjarne: - In the future, you'll carry in your pocket a computer more powerful than the sum of all computers currently present at the university - The unchecked flat memory model of C will cause numerous security i
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by zvrba 10mo ago
Because with POST you have a RPC (remote procedure call) with arbitrary semantics and HTTPS is just a convenient transport. That's also why I only use a couple of status codes: Ok, Created, NoContent, BadRequest, Forbidden, Unauthorize
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by zvrba 1y ago
It just works without any tweaks. Also, Visual Studio, One Drive, One Note, (office apps in general).
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by zvrba 1y ago
Oil and gas extraction is "invisible", platforms far, far away on the sea. Nothing to complain about. :)
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by zvrba 1y ago
By "nature" i mean e.g., mountains. Not necessarily managed park. IIRC, the people have also protested against high-voltage lines because... dunno, they "ruin the view" across the fjord I guess. > reindeer herding ar
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by zvrba 1y ago
Nuclear has the highest energy density (kWh produced per km2). "Renewables" need much larger areas to produce equivalent power. This means that habitats for many species are negatively affected or destroyed. This is an ongoing d
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by zvrba 1y ago
> Allows me to move directories around, without having to depend on an IDE to keep namespaces in sync. So... without and IDE, you'd move code around, let the NS be changed due to being placed in a different directory structure, and
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by zvrba 1y ago
C# allows file-level namespaces so you can write namespace Math; static class Adder { public static int Add(...) { ... } } (one nesting level less). Next, elsewhere you can write namespace Whatever; using
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by zvrba 1y ago
> Pushing these into an IDE is the Windows way of doing things. s/Windows/modern/ > To win in Unix land, C# needs to be editable in a plain text editor. I guess hard-core unix users still use sticks and stones to make f
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The Ubiquitous Skiplist: A Survey of What Cannot Be Skipped About the Skiplist(dl.acm.org)
3 points by zvrba 1y ago|0 comments
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by zvrba 1y ago
> [...] how do you find the code that will run when they do fail? You would have to traverse [...] I work in a .NET world and there many developers have this bad habit of "interface everything", even if it has just 1 concrete
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by zvrba 1y ago
Check out work by Microsoft research. Examples: Z3 solver, project Orleans.
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by zvrba 2y ago
Recently I wished for "VB for Web". Something that'd make it easy for a tech-competent, but a non-programmer, person to prototype a functional web application.
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Open-sourcing code after shutting down a startup (Quine AS)(zvrba.github.io)
1 points by zvrba 2y ago|1 comments
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by zvrba 2y ago
Hi, I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed; the company was dissolved in July 2024. I'v
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Open-sourcing code after shutting down a startup (Quine AS)(zvrba.github.io)
3 points by zvrba 2y ago|1 comments
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by zvrba 2y ago
Hi, I've been a co-founder of a Norwegian startup, Quine AS, that attempted to automate workflows in media productions (as in movies, series, commercials). Ultimately, we've failed; the company was dissolved in July 2024. I&#x27
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by zvrba 2y ago
Microsoft hired Dave Cutler to develop WinNT. Prior to that, he worked on VMS.
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by zvrba 2y ago
Depends on how you define "persistent data structure". In most definitions that I've encountered, a new version is made after each update. This code makes a new version only when you explicitly request it with Fork(). This al
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by zvrba 2y ago
I implemented an academic paper (join tree) in C# here https://github.com/zvrba/Pfm It provides the opposite: a mutable CoW data structure that is extremely cheap to "fork" so that all subsequent updates occu
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by zvrba 2y ago
> Three properties completely describe a black hole: mass, spin, and charge. So it's like an elementary particle?
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by zvrba 2y ago
Also smoking was once both popular and everywhere. At least smokers enjoy it, I'm not sure anyone "enjoys" using git.
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by zvrba 2y ago
Git is an abysmal tool for many (most?) uses of it, but that unfortunately has become "standard". The sheer awfulness of git is witnessed by the amount of posts about it and little consensus on "best practices" (e.g., re
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by zvrba 2y ago
I implemented a sorting network in C# with AVX2 intrinsics. https://github.com/zvrba/SortingNetworks
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by zvrba 2y ago
Hah, have learned about the book while searching for the text that androids repeat during their "evaluation" in Blade Runner 2.

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