NortySpock

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by NortySpock 1y ago
That's the joke, both are valid uses of the phrase and sound alike. "My scarecrow is the best in the business! He's out standing (outstanding) in his field!" (i.e. a field in a farm, or in his area of expertise)
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by NortySpock 1y ago
... How well does that work? Asking because my SC3K runs always ended up being boring cases of "yes, we sell landfill space to the surrounding 4 cities, and if people want education they're going to have to go to a library and lea
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by NortySpock 1y ago
The wet cloth between the counter and the cutting block keeps the cutting block from sliding / moving on you when force is applied, which is more comfortable and safer.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I mean, yeah, it's "a lot" because we've been starved for so long, but having run analytics aggregation workloads I now sometimes wonder if 1k or 10k cores with a lot of memory bandwidth could be useful for some ad-hoc q
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Suppose it's something where the user may be accused of doing something nefarious if a sequence or pattern of behavior is exposed. - "Ex-spouse: I looked you up on a dating website, and your userID indicates it was created while y
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Hey, thanks for posting this! The Kushan Carrier looks exactly like the one I put together as a kid after playing Homeworld, right down to the readme file saying "if you've never done anything like this before, I'd suggest st
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by NortySpock 1y ago
https://www.advancedsciencenews.com/clickable-buttons-that-r... (2023) https://www.engadget.com/2015-09-23-geltouch.html (2015)
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Agree that is has been great for weekend coding. Learning Elixir and fixing a bug in an open source project went from "risk of a long slog over the course of a month with no reward" to "pepper an LLM with questions (debugging
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by NortySpock 1y ago
The redundancy is pen and paper. The EMR just helps teams coordinate faster, pull up records faster, etc. When I worked at Cerner years ago (now owned by Oracle), there were rumors that the Cerner EMR still could barely handle DST* spring
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I did. It was convenient. The official docker image includes all the tools you need. Overkill? Sure. It sips memory and compute, but when most everything else is in docker, what is wrong with one more container. I did a write-up here: http
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by NortySpock 1y ago
GitHub may be dominant, but it's not like it doesn't have competitors nipping at its heels (GitLab, BitBucket come to mind). VSCode is open source, and there are plenty of IDEs... I guess I'm just focused on different lock-in
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by NortySpock 1y ago
https://youtu.be/u9da3UzEhEI For those who enjoy long form video interviews, here is Kris Jenkins of Developer Voices interviewing Sean Allen on Pony language
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by NortySpock 1y ago
The demo is good, through I wish you had presented it as text rather than as a gif. I do see your point of wanting an option to refuse to delete the wal so a developer can investigate the wal and manually recover... But the the typical user
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Oh come on, people have been writing code with bad, incomplete, flaky, or absent tests since automated testing was invented (possibly before). It's having a good, useful and reliable test suite that separates the sheep from the goats.*
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Makes sense, the ISS is moving at ~Mach 25 relative to a fixed point on the ground. Not much survives at those speeds, in an atmosphere, without careful engineering.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Found a wine fridge at the thrift store last month, pulled the model number, realized it was basically a Peltier cooler and a fan, and thus likely to be still operational. Powered up just fine, so... $10 and an hour of deep cleaning later,
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by NortySpock 1y ago
> Go to church (I'm serious, even if you are an atheist). A few cities have a humanist group called "Oasis"; I used to go and it was basically exactly the same structure as church, except the "sermon" would be a
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by NortySpock 1y ago
This was a beautiful letter to read, with a simple piece of wisdom about life, spelled out for the student. I am grateful that this was submitted to Hacker News, and that I was able to read it.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
> focusing on human spaceflight Which has been lampooned by Robert Zubrin as "the ISS going in circles for decades in order to collect blood and urine samples". Robotic research has gotten more bang for our buck (You can explor
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Oh Terraria is totally worth it, especially when spelunking with friends. Its better than Minecraft, in my opinion.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
The same website is also for the excellent Science News print magazine, which will ship you top notch science reporting right to your door. My father was a subscriber since, well, whenever blue LEDs were invented, because I recall reading a
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Alistar Reynolds' _Terminal World_ had something sort of like this (only discussed halfway through the story, of course), where the world had "zones" , each of which supported a maximum precision or resolution... Technology t
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I suggest one of Benthos' descendants, either Bento or RedPanda Connect. Configuration driven, with a transformation DSL, and good documentation (I prefer the Bento documentation over RedPanda Connect's documentation). And Benthos
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I hope at least the option remains to enable the GIL, because I don't trust me to write thread-safe code on the first few attempts.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Cool! I am not a "car guy", but I have (with my father-in-law) changed my own oil and replaced the shocks on my (ICE) car. I appreciate the somewhat open-source nature of car repair work, and I would hate for EVs to become all pro
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Regarding 6 You can do this on Linux while on a LAN... Perhaps Syncthing would partially cover this? Not the applications, but the files ....
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I've used "a series of CTEs" to apply a series of transformations and filters, but it's not nearly as elegant as the pipe syntax.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
I presume this is part of the knock-on effects of Confluent (managed Kafka) buying WarpStream (Kafka emulated on S3 object storage). Also a shout-out to Bento, the fork of Benthos after RedPanda acquired it.
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by NortySpock 1y ago
Ah, that must be the research paper that is being referred to by this short video by the paper author: https://youtu.be/azDaPm13CT8?si=Z11qpbjNIwuhxdnB
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by NortySpock 2y ago
I think there will still be room for "debugging AI slop-code" and "performance-turning AI slop-code" and "cranking up the strictness of the linter (or type-checker for dynamically-typed languages) to chase out silly

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