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by __d 2mo ago
Code generation (by compiler) has one major difference: it's deterministic.
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by __d 2mo ago
The Plan9 network API is an interesting successor to all of STREAMS, streams, and sockets.
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by __d 3mo ago
There’s an interesting middle ground: not fully malleable software, where the end user has full customisation ability but requires full programming skill, but eg the Unix tool model where prebuilt utilities can be composed with a simple syn
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by __d 3mo ago
That's not what Glynne said. The whole justification for Starlink was to create demand for Falcon.
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by __d 3mo ago
Falcon9 has basically no market: the only thing that keeps it flying is Starlink. The whole AI/orbital datacentres/launch thing is a giant grift.
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by __d 3mo ago
I think this is an important point. A time when a take-home, closed-book test, relying on the honesty and integrity of the students, was viable seems completely unrealistic now. I assume there were always some who cheated, but I can imagin
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by __d 3mo ago
The same logic applies. At least where I live, universities used to run entrance exams. They didn't care about high school grades, or even if you'd ever been to high school: if you passed the entrance exam, you could enroll.
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by __d 3mo ago
At my child's high school, phones are "off and away all day", and the punishment for being caught with a phone in your pocket (or hands) is pretty severe. During an exam, it's an instant zero mark, on top of the after-sc
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by __d 3mo ago
I'm hopeless at pure cursive writing. My default writing is a joined-up-ish kind of printing. Writing using it works really well for retaining information for me.
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by __d 3mo ago
It's been clearly shown to be beneficial for some people. I too happen to be one of them. For others, hearing stuff (and saying stuff) out loud is more useful. I had a friend who'd make nonsense songs of stuff to learn: just d
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by __d 3mo ago
I would often do a bullet point summary/outline of my answer on the paper. That would have arrows and insertions and crossed-out stuff everywhere -- it was usually a mess. But then I'd use that to write the actual text answer, an
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by __d 3mo ago
My child's high school is doing the same thing: all exams are now handwritten on paper in a supervised room. Phones and smartwatches are always banned during the school day, but laptops are banned during exams. This is standard at st
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by __d 3mo ago
The fun part is that this all plays out concurrently with our destruction of the Earth’s climate. That permanent underclass might easily end up a lot smaller than you think. And then you think … maybe that’s not coincidence?
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by __d 3mo ago
Yes. But. I imagine the others did not fail to learn from this.
45.
by __d 4mo ago
Try gitolite? https://gitolite.com/gitolite/index.html It has fine-grained permissions but works with regular git clients.
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by __d 4mo ago
Shoot the messenger. That’ll fix it.
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by __d 4mo ago
The concept of a "job" can encompass many things. Some of those change when machines become more capable, some don't. For example, one part of a job is the satisfaction, the purpose, the meaning of life derived from being us
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by __d 5mo ago
> let them run for a season/series and gauge popularity vs cost, and cut the under performers (why I don't watch a show until a couple seasons are live). And so you don’t contribute to the selection of shows. It’s a dilemma. I
49.
by __d 5mo ago
If I could afford that I wouldn’t need a social media app.
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by __d 5mo ago
I have a heap of family and friends who live in a different country to me. I'd love an old school Friendster / early Facebook-style social medium where we could share posts, but the tapping mechanic makes this impractical for me.
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by __d 5mo ago
I’m sorry to be harsh but this is 100% your fault, and attempting to shift the blame onto Cursor and Railway just doesn’t fly. The onus is on you to make sure your system uses the APIs in a way that’s right for your business. You didn’t.
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by __d 6mo ago
Helpful video, thanks! At about 1:20, the presenter says the BFS uses a different OS and hardware (not sure if that means a different instance, or a different class, so to speak).
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by __d 6mo ago
Yeah, that was my guess too but the comment about separate implementation for the backup system made me wonder if there was a different OS, and the which was running where.
54.
by __d 6mo ago
This is great! Curious about the choice of toolkit: what led you to wxPython?
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by __d 6mo ago
Does anyone have pointers to some real information about this system? CPUs, RAM, storage, the networking, what OS, what language used for the software, etc etc? I’d love to know how often one of the FCMs has “failed silent”, and where they
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by __d 6mo ago
Yes. Europe has far more wind than Australia, I imagine for that reason.
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by __d 6mo ago
What is the purist’s solution to eg. polluting rivers or air or soil in pursuit of one’s own enrichment?
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by __d 6mo ago
It’s a daily event now in Australia. Very low prices during the middle of the day, and higher in the morning and evening. Anyone with a battery or an EV they don’t need to drive far can play the market, usually with scripted sell/buy
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by __d 6mo ago
They would find it hard to compete with negative prices too.
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by __d 6mo ago
One difference to something like email is that you can change search providers with minimal effort. There’s no server-side context to back up or migrate, no third parties involved: you just use a different URL.

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