andrewf

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by andrewf 4y ago
This is a pity. I called them once 1 week before the warranty expired on a graphics card that had become glitchy. I think the people I spoke to were in SoCal, they were knowledgable, took their time, and happy to facilitate. I'll be fa
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by andrewf 4y ago
I've been travelling recently which pushed my daily step count up from ~5k to ~20k for two weeks. I packed 3 pairs of shoes but pretty quickly decided to stick with the Revolution 6. Also: soles wear out! If you walk/run more, you
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by andrewf 4y ago
I once ported a small amount of code from C to a managed language. The C code used single precision floats (24 bit significand), the target language supported only double precision (53 bit significand). There was little enough math that it
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by andrewf 4y ago
The question might be: which Macbook might your prospective usershave? For that reason I'd go with something low spec, maybe even a refurb from https://www.apple.com/shop/refurbished/mac . (To translate back
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by andrewf 4y ago
The S stands for Simple: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/xml/soap/simple
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by andrewf 4y ago
Sounds like the thing Atlassian had to build while on fire this year.
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by andrewf 4y ago
Reminds me of that time the RAF really wanted to drop some bombs on the Falkland Islands rather than leaving it to the Navy and its Sea Harriers. Diagram: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Refuelling.plan.black.buc..
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by andrewf 4y ago
San Francisco code (maybe CA?) requires that office lighting be tied to motion detectors. In my experience, if you're in the only one in late, you have to dance around the room every 15 minutes unless you want to sit in darkness. At s
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by andrewf 4y ago
I'm not at this level of optimization I think you are! It's less work to keep it simple, than to make it heavy then try to pare it back.
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by andrewf 4y ago
I work for a place that legitimately has 192.16.64.0/21, it's caused occasional confusion when folks aren't looking really closely.
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by andrewf 4y ago
I think Hangouts beat WebEx because you could invite someone to a meeting and they didn't need to download or install anything to join. And I think Zoom beat Hangouts because you could invite someone to a meeting and they didn't n
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by andrewf 4y ago
I think the OLAP vs OLTP distinction is most interesting when you run into constraints and are forced to optimize for one at the expense of the other. Computers are so big and fast today, many applications won't hit that point.
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by andrewf 4y ago
I shipped consumer software with Qt in the 2000's. It was nicer to work in than MFC. It looked and worked great on Windows 98/2000/XP. Qt's Windows XP renderer called Windows' own uxtheme.dll to draw everything. Mac
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by andrewf 4y ago
I prefer a single larger monitor; if I get absorbed by something "to the side" and gaze at it for 15 minutes, that's a recipe for neck/back problems.
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by andrewf 4y ago
Could you do it with shifts and increments? Constant loads would look just like multiplies, a glorious RISC apotheosis..
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by andrewf 4y ago
This could be "an exciting new hardware platform for FreeBSD people" more than "an exciting new OS for Apple hardware owners."
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by andrewf 4y ago
Agreed, I suspect it'd be most accurate to say the SQLite folks are minimizing their working set. I picked a couple of random performance commits out of their code repo, and they look like they might keep 1 or 2 lines out of i-cache:
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by andrewf 4y ago
https://sqlite.org/cpu.html#microopt - Cachegrind is used to measure performance because it gives answers that are repeatable to 7 or more significant digits. In comparison, actual (wall-clock) run times are scarcely repea
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by andrewf 4y ago
Presumably they'd freeze snapshots/versions of the behavior at various points in time, similar to https://doc.rust-lang.org/edition-guide/editions/index.html An analogy from the C++ world: In late 2016,
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by andrewf 4y ago
They're washdown toilets. https://www.ortonbaths.com/siphonic-vs-washdown-toilet-bette...
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by andrewf 4y ago
And have only one renderer to choose from instead of 3 with all different features. So you want a fourth renderer? :)
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by andrewf 4y ago
Here's one from this week, but I don't think this is the most price sensitive option - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31674957
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by andrewf 4y ago
A third renderer that exists is the assembly for the official Jaguar port. I think Carmack wrote it? It's staged, like a really old C compiler, because the Jaguar's faster processors could only execute programs from a tiny scratch
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by andrewf 4y ago
On average, sure, but what if you're worried about outcomes approaching the worst case (say 10th percentile)?
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by andrewf 4y ago
When I was in college at the turn of the century, the rooms full of computers at university were called "labs". During the same timeframe, folks paying for a networking course+certification (eg Cisco's CCNA) would get access
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by andrewf 4y ago
Is this actually a misrepresentation? Does anybody reading the sign not understand what it's trying to communicate?
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by andrewf 4y ago
In a similar vein: > > * Prefers to spend time with their family or hobbies (e.g. train for that marathon) rather than working on a side project in Github. Ha! I've encountered people whose lives revolved around running. They oft
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by andrewf 4y ago
Agreed; it's the "constant work" principle https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/reliability-and-cons...
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by andrewf 4y ago
As a youngster the two household computers were connected with parallel and serial lines (for Laplink and games!) I didn't realize ECP supported DMA.. when compared to a (16550 UART) serial port, that sounds like an ever bigger win t
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by andrewf 4y ago
I'm a desktop Mac user and collaborate with folks on Mac/Windows/Linux; I sometimes want to whip up a quick local GUI to visualize some data (think collapsible treeviews, images with annotation from another file overlaid on t

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