Beltalowda

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by Beltalowda 3y ago
Cheers; I've always difficulty mapping those pprof graphs to actual concrete code and I never managed to get anything more useful out of it. This is the biggest take-away from this post to be honest; had no idea it could do anything li
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by Beltalowda 3y ago
How did you generate the timings on: https://benhoyt.com/images/go-1brc-profile-r9-source.png ?
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by Beltalowda 3y ago
> got burnout and disgust at the modern tech hiring practice. In my experience it's even worse outside of tech. Because I really need a job I've just been applying to everything. Minimum wage: I don't care. In a way I&#x27
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by Beltalowda 3y ago
A good Belter never wastes anything.
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by Beltalowda 3y ago
I find myself wondering if my email is broken. Which is to say I get very little reply. Compare this to a year ago when I got a reply to almost every application I sent out. I'm kind of kicking myself for being so picky; I haven't
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by Beltalowda 3y ago
The conflation between "not a morning person" and "lazy" is completely ridiculous, and seems to prevail mostly in countries with a "protestant work ethic" background. I've literally been fired from jobs wh
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
On punchcards having it as the highest character (with all holes punched) is the only way you can reliably do "delete" or "ignore" outside of having a special dedicated hole for it.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
You can still use multiple windows, but it hasn't been the default for a long time.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Murdering one person is murder; murdering a substantial number of people in a region is genocide. Scale can definitely change the fundamental nature of something.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I wll strt mttng vwls frm my cmmnts t rduc nrgy cnsumptn. Svng th plnt n vwl t a tm!
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
That depends on the settings used for less; AFAIK the default for many distros is to display control characters.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
> this type of policy changes on a whim Ehh... "I want to share another idea in this post to keep it open-source [..] Let me know what you guys think" is not a "policy change on a whim". It's an idea. It was no
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
The downside of that is that piping to less won't display colours any more either, so then you need "progname -color=always" or some such. Some programs solve that with a built-in "pipe to terminal" feature, but I a
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
There is no "50 years of technical debt". If anything, a significant amount of complexity has been removed compared to the 70s and 80s when everyone and their mother was making wildly incompatible terminals (actual terminals that
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
That's kind of what aliases are for.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
It's useful if you want to write interactive applications from scratch ("curses-like"). Beyond that ... probably not so much.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
You don't need to "step through 40 years of organic development" unless you want super-fancy things like an interactive TUI with mouse support or whatnot (and even then, it's not that hard). For most regular CLIs you nee
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Repost from a few days ago (61 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34315499
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
No doubt; same in Netherlands (more pigs than people in the country). But there's been improvement over the last 20 years on the animal welfare front, at least in the Netherlands and presumably Denmark too. And routine administration o
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
If someone gave me a big bag of money then working on a better dating site would probably be what I'd do with it. I think it's very hard pull off as a "personal project" though, because a dating site needs people to be u
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Also there's less need for it in the first place as welfare conditions are usually better. Who could have expected that livestock that's not kept unhealthy conditions tends to be healthier.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
You can just replace "men" with "people" and it still works.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Seems like some way to be better aware of "service days" would be the solution (e.g. reminders or the like)? The second seems like a more difficult problem to solve on your own; it's really up to the city to clearly demarcate
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
IMO the big advantage of languages like Go in this space is that you can ship a binary to your users and that will Just Work™ . Shipping a Python tool tends to be significantly more complex either for your users who will have to set up Pyt
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
I think what we've slowly come to realize is that "liberalizing trade" only really works if everyone shares roughly the same values. Even trade between the EU and US can be stressed at times due to this, and they largely shar
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Indeed, that was my point: it's not an isolated incident, but a pattern. The people in charge (in politics or business) are in charge due to the current system, so they have very little incentive to change it and have a lot of incentiv
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Everyone deflects responsibility to everyone else. Consumers say government should do something or that businesses should change their ways. Businesses say what they're doing is legal and merely catering to consumer demand. Government
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
We could simply give the coal workers a sort of "pension". 40k people at $60k a year is $2.4 billion/year, which is a tiny fraction of the annual $4.8 trillion federal budget. You can structure parts of this in different ways
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
We've seen the same thing with tobacco, asbestos, lead, etc.
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by Beltalowda 4y ago
Looks like it will expire in 2025, so not too long.

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