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by Zababa 2y ago
A bit more context from the page: > The images historically used for compression research (lena, barbra, pepper etc...) have outlived their useful life and its about time they become a part of history only. They are too small, come from
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The New Test Images – Image Compression Benchmark(imagecompression.info)
10 points by Zababa 2y ago|15 comments
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Building Static Binaries in Nix(kokada.capivaras.dev)
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by Zababa 2y ago
Advice doesn't work that well in general, especially when it's vague and general advice like that. I would also guess that there are competing forces trying to make you eat their product and that they put a lot of money into that.
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by Zababa 2y ago
> Instead of encouraging healthier diets which have lots of follow-on nutritional and long-term medical benefits This has been done for a while and mostly doesn't work.
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by Zababa 2y ago
It's also nice in the small. At home I like using datasette to search SQLite databases. One day it decided to stop working. I tried reinstalling it with pipx, didn't work either. nix-shell -p datasette, it works.
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by Zababa 2y ago
In my experience it kind of just works. Takes a bit more maintenance than arch, around an hour a month at most. I had to reinstall it once and it was way easier than my arch, since way more stuff is in text files I can commit. Also, since i
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by Zababa 2y ago
It is in that if something happens less often, you don't need to prepare for it as much if the severity stays the same (cue in Nassim Taleb entering the conversation).
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by Zababa 2y ago
You're welcome! I think as Go users we're very lucky to have all that information in the open, and that the people driving the language take the time to write it down, and discuss it with the community. I'll assume good inten
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by Zababa 2y ago
https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61405#issuecomment-16388... : > Can you provide more motivation for range over functions? > If the results can be generated one at a time, then a representation that a
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by Zababa 2y ago
No it's not. Please read some more recent writing by Rob Pike, like here: https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2024/01/what-we-got-right... . The money quotes: > In short, Go is not just a programming languag
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by Zababa 2y ago
All of this is specifically about the "Go's Apparent Philosophy" paragraph. Instead of pulling the same quote from Rob Pike over and over and over again, people should watch/read is recent talk about Go titled "What
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by Zababa 2y ago
Sorry, my comment was harsher than it needed to be. I've struggled with belonging where most people seem to fit in, but on the other hand I've benefited greatly, I think, from the processes that make me a taxable citizen rather th
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by Zababa 2y ago
I think part of medicine is that, but part of medicine is trying to keep you alive despite your body. Or maybe what I'm arguing here is the "body healing itself". But for example, if you have autoimmune disease, or allergies,
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by Zababa 2y ago
I think part of it is regression to the mean. Like, your body heals itself naturally from many things. Say you get a cold. For most people at some point it'll heal. If you have a group of people with the cold, and try to determine how
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by Zababa 2y ago
Yeah, the author does not seem to know what a data structure is, or assume the reader does not know and won't mind.
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by Zababa 2y ago
> Two decades ago, in his book Seeing Like a State, anthropologist James C. Scott explored what happens when governments, or those with authority, attempt and fail to “improve the human condition.” Scott found that to understand societie
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by Zababa 2y ago
Looks interesting, I'll probably use it if I'm forced to use a KDE or Gnome or something. Counterintuitively, the reason I use tiling managers is not tiling, it's the virtual desktop handling. Last time I tried both gnome and
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by Zababa 2y ago
Scrolling WMs seems to be alt+tab on steroid. Alt+tab is context dependant. Sometimes you'll need to press tab 3 times to go to your note taking app, sometimes 1, sometimes 5. On my computer it's always secondary screen (mod+right
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by Zababa 2y ago
So what's the issue here? AI is being deployed rapidly? The author found a flaw in the models? Some AI companies do not have a button to report a bug? An AI company did not consider this bug as a security flaw? > If that sounds like
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by Zababa 2y ago
An interesting thing is the graph mapping user bond against physical longevity: https://res.cloudinary.com/rca2020/image/upload/f_webp,h_108... . I would love something like this with more object, but also a t
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by Zababa 2y ago
Is "if reproduced at scale" the material science equivalent of "in mice" in biology/medicine? I don't mean this in a cynical "this will never work" way, I'm just wondering about the culture and &
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by Zababa 2y ago
It's very interesting to see how a new "enterprise open source" project is born. The part where right at the start the author knows that they should have more than one company on board, and how the other companies each contri
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by Zababa 2y ago
Interesting, I can't tell if the comic is about "people will become obsess and develop taste in what they see every day", or "people will develop preferences to separate themselves into groups".
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by Zababa 3y ago
It's interesting how Cloudflare is offering a kind of "new way of making applications". Instead of starting from the "bottom" with renting virtual servers, they started from the "top" with I think lambda f
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by Zababa 3y ago
I don't think it is the only problem. Even if you learn the language and know it well, if you start contributing on a big project, it's going to be hard to understand exactly what happens and to be sure that you didn't make m
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by Zababa 3y ago
From what I understand, a few/many of the big frameworks are converging on signals, and another commenter said that Qt had signals in the 90s https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39891883 . I understand your worries, an
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by Zababa 3y ago
It is weird to say both that "CSV files have terrible compression" and then that the proposed format, Apache Parquet, has "Really good compression properties, competitive with .csv.gz". I think what's meant here is
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by Zababa 3y ago
Progress and innovation absolutely does lead to greater human happiness and fulfillment. As an example, absolute number of people living in extreme poverty started to sharply decline at the start of the 21st century: https://ourw
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by Zababa 3y ago
I agree, especially since 'go build', 'go install', 'go test', 'go generate', 'go vet', 'go fmt', etc will do what you expect when you run them without parameters. I think the diff

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