DamonHD

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by DamonHD 1y ago
C (and C++) when needed.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Rachel is absolutely not like this in my experience. How rude!
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by DamonHD 1y ago
I had a huge row with my prospective US investment banking client manager because we had a conversation that went something like "we'll pay you for 8 hours but we expect you to work 10" (or 12). I said, why lie immdiately in
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Almost definitionally most of the ads would be shown to visitors thought to be bots, which might not impress advertisers, even if G was careful to only count those that passed the CAPTCHAs (though the LLM bots can too, it seems). There is a
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HTTP headers that tell syndication feed fetchers how soon to come back(utcc.utoronto.ca)
3 points by DamonHD 1y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html ... In Comments Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, a
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Please stop making personal attacks, and also please stop making unsupportable sweeping generalisations.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
1) Please don't be so rude or attack me. 2) You said "entire generation of people [that] don't use browser at all": I only need to find one counter-example to falsify your sweeping claim. It's bad hype. Please try
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by DamonHD 1y ago
I use the 'open Web' on my phone and basically no apps (I side-load some for testing): I don't even have a sign-in for the apps store. And we had worse walled gardens before - I created an early ISP in the UK to help get peo
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by DamonHD 1y ago
No, one does NOT need to just accept that doomer view. And one can work against the bad stuff and for good stuff on the Net. I have been doing so since the late 80s since before most of the current shiny existed. I ran an ISP in the 90s.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Lots of good stuff in here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/clean-power-2030-...
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by DamonHD 1y ago
If this is you site please disclose with "Show HN" else it's just SPAM...
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The small web is beautiful(benhoyt.com)
3 points by DamonHD 1y ago|0 comments
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by DamonHD 1y ago
When trying to make better systems in moderately-critical roles (investment banking, not medicine though) my approach was both try to understand and fix the immediate fault, but also find out if (and fix if so) any systemic issue that would
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The Kingett Guide to Free Pizza(sightlessscribbles.com)
4 points by DamonHD 1y ago|1 comments
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Please prefix with "Show HN: "
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Show HN: or it's just drive-by SPAM.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Please use "Show HN" so this does not look like drive-by SPAM.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
The 100kloc thing had no malloc/free, ie most significant persistent data objects were static, and the inlining with LTO (and some help) was pretty intense, so the stack was used, but not as much as it seemed on the surface. We did (r
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by DamonHD 1y ago
BTW you can get very close to the metal in Java too if you are so inclined - I was part of a team doing high-speed trading with microseconds timing and minimal GC in Java. A very few 'unsafe' lines made that possible (but also th
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by DamonHD 1y ago
For simple things I also like shell scripts. But for bigger more complex systems, especially with long life-times, many users and many developers, the sharp edges get too dangerous. In those case I move to Java or at least something with
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by DamonHD 1y ago
That may be 6% of the lowest clock speed of one slow/efficiency core. Still far too much, but maybe a little less extreme than it appears.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
That may be 6% of the lowest clock speed of an efficiency core, as I suspected when I saw a similar figure for a very tame CSS animation on my MBA M1. In the end I capped the duration of the animation to cap resource use unconditionally.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Not just front-end! https://www.earth.org.uk/RSS-efficiency.html
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by DamonHD 1y ago
And won't annoy people who get over-stimulated. I don't normally have that issue, but one site had (has?) a bright green thing that jumped periodically that was so vastly distracting that I could not read the text on the page with
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by DamonHD 1y ago
I created a little CSS-pulsing 'live' button and give it a fixed number of cycles of pulsing to cap worst-case resource consumption. But it took me a while to work out that that was the right thing to do!
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by DamonHD 1y ago
It's basically the only way I've ever worked, and clients (eg in investment banking) kept hiring me! Trunk/main should always be just about prod-ready; take staging/prod branches to prove that and do any final tweaks.
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The Benefits of Trunk-Based Development(thinkinglabs.io)
2 points by DamonHD 1y ago|1 comments
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by DamonHD 1y ago
Yes, yes.
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by DamonHD 1y ago
I am in the UK and here on HN without VPN.

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