Matumio

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by Matumio 4y ago
Agree, after reading up about fossil. Except for one thing: I don't want the "closed team" culture that was intentionally baked into the tool. When git replaced SVN, it was so empowering that I, as an individual, was able to
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by Matumio 4y ago
Probably no big issue for a small to medium codebase. But I doubt the "just a few days" estimate for something as big as a web-browser. If I read correctly they even found use-after-move bugs during the process.
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by Matumio 4y ago
I remember how we once ran into trouble with a large timestamp counter in a FPGA implementation. (Was it just 64 bits, or 112 bits? Probably the full PTP timestamp, including fractional nanoseconds for precise drift corrections.) The extra
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by Matumio 4y ago
For initial discovery you can (web-)browse a large instance by hashtag. Results will include posts from other instances. Then you follow anyone who is posting or boosting interesting stuff. On a large instance you can also subscribe to tags
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by Matumio 4y ago
I think it's fair to blame this one on capitalism-like structures without implying that the way to solve this is communism. Clearly institutional competition for grant money has increased and changed what it means to be a successful re
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by Matumio 4y ago
Oxygen Not Included is a good game, but it probably doesn't have a single mechanic that makes physical sense. For example, it allows you to destroy carbon dioxide (preservation of mass?) by turning water into polluted water. And pollut
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by Matumio 4y ago
Ah, the irony. An article arguing about how fast web-dev is moving is itself considered outdated just four years later.
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by Matumio 4y ago
It may be my limited experience with C#, but I really missed Rust/serde when deserializing a config file into a class/struct. (Actually INI not JSON.) It feels like doing error handling twice: first catching parser exceptions, and
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by Matumio 4y ago
I think list comprehensions (and generator expressions) already do (or did, in the past?) classify as FP. In this context it seems a bit misleading to care about function call overhead (except for TCO) because Python is so slow overall. I&#
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by Matumio 4y ago
No, but it would be nice to see visually where it is on the size vs (de-)compression speed pareto-front. Like this graphic (from the zstd homepage): https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/master/doc&
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by Matumio 4y ago
I'm not ready to go back to C++ for this, but I know exactly what you're talking about regarding polymorphism. It's all magic and fairy dust for me, I'm really enjoying Rust. But once you want a dyn trait instead of a si
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by Matumio 5y ago
I always get a sense of achievement when I side-step the analysis of a problem with a stupid, straight-forward simulation script (usually probability questions). It may burn several seconds of CPU and still get me only 3 significant digits,
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by Matumio 5y ago
Nice use-case for bookmarklets! With Firefox I've started using the LibRedirect extension for that, which also covers other big sites.
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by Matumio 5y ago
A customized screensaver that displays random static zooms of my art collection. (Modified from one that would only do animated zooms.) A Python script that grabs a wireless numpad keyboard (using evdev on Linux) to be used as remote contro
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by Matumio 5y ago
Of course there is also cost of living, and, quoting the AVETH survival guide (2012): "It is common in many departments to reduce the amount of payment from 100 percent to 80 percent or 60 percent. However, you are still expected to wo
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by Matumio 5y ago
Some 15 years ago I remember there was already a Wacom engineer consistently working on the Linux drivers when there were practically zero applications able to use pressure input. Their kernel driver was always being maintained. The then-up
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by Matumio 5y ago
But this is humans we are taking about. Humans have evolved genetically to be maximally flexible in behaviour. Our psychology is learned from role models and repurposed by our cultural institutions[1]. So here we are, discussing a story pas
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by Matumio 5y ago
This quote from the article sums it up: > "When you rely on incentives, you undermine virtues. Then when you discover that you actually need people who want to do the right thing, those people don't exist." —Barry Schwartz
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by Matumio 5y ago
It's free in the sense of being entirely free software. You can read the SQL code that calculates your balance. It's alternative in the sense that they don't take a cut of your donations. (Sites like Patreon take a much bigge
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by Matumio 5y ago
No, it's not something you can take for granted. Ever heard of Vowpal Wabbit? It's one of the big old libraries in this space. Now read the first sentence of its landing page and compare. Good luck remembering what it does, or eve
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by Matumio 5y ago
Funny, I first read "passive income" as "basic income". It's a related point, though. If you cannot afford to work for free, you'll never write that first lucky rent-generating article. It matches what I see on
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High-Impact Climate Philanthropy(founderspledge.com)
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by Matumio 5y ago
See also the monkey ladder experiment: https://www.wisdompills.com/monkey-ladder/ - The behaviour is, of course, not as stupid as it seems. Humans are especially prone to copy extra steps from others that don't se
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by Matumio 5y ago
Searching for "TechA vs TechB" was also a great trick. Until the SEO people noticed. They also have access to GPT-3 now to generate their auxiliary "content". I think we need web search to move towards something more rep
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by Matumio 5y ago
I think they wanted to express that learning to predict the correct output ("error minimization") puts a limit on the achievable performance. While ranking (not just RL, really) allows to improve beyond the current best-known answ
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by Matumio 5y ago
Someone once tried to calculate the optimal duration, and came up with 15 years: https://rufuspollock.com/papers/optimal_copyright_term.pdf I do not think law should be calculated (it sounds too much like hiding your
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by Matumio 5y ago
Oh no, you are now required to watch this damned cartoon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4 (A one minute ELI5 explanation about the difference between physical and intellectual property.)
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by Matumio 5y ago
I find this materialistic view depressing. Not everything worth doing is ultimately about selling your lifetime to the highest bidder. Some things are just worth doing intrinsically. Like, fixing a bug that affects a high number of people.
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by Matumio 5y ago
This was my biggest misconception when learning Rust. I was thinking "&mut" can modify data, so "&" cannot. Wrong. The "mut" keyword is not the opposite of "const" from C++. It's declarin
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by Matumio 5y ago
Thank you, this can replace my own plugin I've hacked together some years ago. (Not published, was mainly a learning exercise.) The most frustrating thing is: my plugin still works fine. But I cannot easily enable it permanently any mo

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