Andys

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by Andys 3y ago
It runs at the original "base" level (4.77MHz) so there's no Turbo to toggle :D
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by Andys 3y ago
A lot of software back then tended to stick to integer operations for everything as much as possible, at least where performance mattered.
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by Andys 3y ago
That was Windows 3.1, apparently
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by Andys 3y ago
Fair point, but in this case (4mhz 8088) I think it doesn't really have the guts to play 16 bit stereo digital audio? Update: apparently there's a hacky way to play digital audio through these FM synth chips, and several games and
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by Andys 3y ago
At least its 40Mhz, the performance should be more than enough for retro fun
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by Andys 3y ago
Check out these systems based on AMD laptop chips - https://www.servethehome.com/beelink-ser6-pro-7735hs-edition... Idle at 6-7W, but a full-powered multi-core CPU when you need it. Plus USB4 and 32 or 64GB RAM.
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by Andys 3y ago
Plus farming is often time-sensitive and you need to repair equipment with what you have on-hand, not have to wait for parts or repairers.
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by Andys 3y ago
Go is a boring technology that works extremely well.
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by Andys 3y ago
If its so competitive, why are profit margins so high? I understand AWS is at nearly 30%.
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by Andys 3y ago
One more: the ability for one application to have different versions of libraries imported by different modules. This makes maintenance and upkeep easier, especially after years have passed.
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by Andys 3y ago
Coming from Ruby: it is fast, and compiled, but still very easy to use. Lacking fancy features and having types and structs is a bonus when it comes to reading other people's code. When you come back to a program that is 5 years old t
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by Andys 3y ago
Yes, their margins are huge, they have the capability to cut prices more than any other carmaker really.
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by Andys 3y ago
I don't do well on flights, usually feeling slightly nauseous the whole time, and this made it worse. I could tell the difference from the Boeing jets.
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by Andys 3y ago
Oh, I thought it was just me! All the Airbus planes have horrible autopilots that gradually rise and fall, in a barely noticeable way. I found myself feeling irritated and wished the source code was opensource so I could have a look at it
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by Andys 3y ago
CRDB is almost a drop-in replacement at this point. I personally found it easier to run locally than postgres.
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by Andys 3y ago
Yeah, hopefully its plugin architecture will continue to develop and make changing things easier in the future.
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by Andys 3y ago
Have you tried sqlc? Different to any other SQL library I've used and suits Go really well
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by Andys 4y ago
Something to consider (for Go users): Use the sqlc library, which makes whole classes of bugs/mistakes into compile-time errors.
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by Andys 4y ago
I think the situation is simple: the experts they listened to had an agenda, and the actual experts were repeatedly ignored.
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by Andys 4y ago
Yes, AWS is similar with their DB offerings. You can discourage it from doing any updates/reboots (which causes a failover), but ultimately if they want to failover, they can at any time.
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by Andys 4y ago
Its also become politically correct to hate him, so his actions and success are practically irrelevant in that regard.
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by Andys 4y ago
re: Context, I actually like having things as explicit function signatures, because it is very simply & abundantly clear at a glance which functions take a context. This helps reduce magic or unexpected behaviour creeping in. Agreed ab
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by Andys 4y ago
It also really helps having the ability for one Go program to use multiple versions of a package. Makes it easier when you come back to an old program with old dependencies and try to start working on it again.
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by Andys 4y ago
"Eliminating roughly 7% of roles globally". Best of luck to anyone who had the Operational Resilience rug Improved from under them.
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by Andys 4y ago
To be fair, AWS once had a global Route53 outage, which was effectively a global outage for anyone using AWS for DNS.
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by Andys 4y ago
She said alot of words that were pleasing to their ears.
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by Andys 4y ago
PRs should be small units of change. PRs should be the edit history. If your process involves one PR per feature this makes them large and unwieldy, hard to review, hard to test, and more likely hard to rollback.
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by Andys 4y ago
So cool to see Bill Mollison in there. I live on a farm and work remotely in part because of that book.
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by Andys 4y ago
From my own experimentation, CockroachDB is fantastic and exactly what you just described (90%+ of the features of postgres, but transparently sharded). It is somehow new and shiny and boring old tech all at the same time.
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by Andys 4y ago
Thanks! Also there'll be less need for custom builds now that ARM64 binaries are being offered

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