anitil

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   by anitil 1y ago

   I tried to explain cockatoos to a Dutch friend once. I hadn't even gotten to the best parts and she was already convinced I was making everything up.
2. 332.▲
   by anitil 1y ago

   They stole my bacon the same way, serves me right for not sharing I guess
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I worked somewhere that maintained their own branch of some software in this way, and they then committed the patches to git. A strange workflow for sure, but it seemed to mostly work
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   by anitil 1y ago

   Coincidentally this was the topic of the latest episode of "The Studies Show" podcast [0]. It covers similar aspects including carbon 14. [0] https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com/p/episode-74-neurogenesis - Ther
5. 335.▲
   by anitil 1y ago

   It reads like possibly slander, but dangerous? I don't understand how it could be dangerous
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   by anitil 1y ago

   A friend of mine suggested that being able to stop eagles attacking his drones used for land surveying would be worth a lot of money, they often come back with scratches and damage. I'm not sure if he's lost any drones (yet).
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I've never used a fly machine and probably never will, but I really enjoy the way fly's blog is written, particularly these bug ones - it tickles my brain in the exact way that chasing a bug does. And it's nice to get a bit o
8. 338.▲
   by anitil 1y ago

   This moved from quaint - > Honestly, consumers just don't seem to want location-based advertising that much To a little bit dark - > The reason, of course, is data mining But was a pretty informative read. This blog has been post
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   by anitil 1y ago

   I believe this is called something like the 'Michelin Curse' but my google is not returning hits for that phrase, though the sentiment seems roughly correct [0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/style/michelin-star-remo
10. 340.▲
    by anitil 1y ago

    I have seen young men get diagnosed with gout, but they were Islanders (Samoans and Maori in my case), who I believe are at a higher risk so doctors are more aware of it
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    by anitil 1y ago

    This was an interesting read, along with the companion article about the early development from last year [0]. I feel like this is a very interesting development, but I can't quite put my finger on why. It's also interesting to co
12. 342.▲
    by anitil 1y ago

    Is this postgres only? What an interesting idea!
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    by anitil 1y ago

    10% sounds like an employee with a decent lottery ticket to me. Maybe that's unfair.
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    Pixel is a unit of length and area(nayuki.io)

    145 points by anitil 1y ago|176 comments
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    by anitil 1y ago

    This is a fun post by Nayuki - I'd never given this much thought, but this takes the premise and runs with it
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I'm annoyed that it was faster to open a new tab and ask chatgpt than it was to run `xxd -r -p` and ponder over it with my slow meat brain
17. 347.▲
    by anitil 2y ago

    Wow that's a fun game but I found it surprisingly stressful! Once I relaxed I did (a bit) better
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I'm actually not sure, It's no really a flowchart editor, more of a vector drawing program, though it has some features like being able to pin the end of a line to an object so it follows while you drag
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I don't understand this phrase, are you able to explain it?
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    by anitil 2y ago

    This was a really refreshing read! It's so easy to measure the wrong thing and build optimisations that make zero difference. I spent hours making a perfect hashing module for Python using gperf, all of the micro-benchmarks looked bett
21. 351.▲
    by anitil 2y ago

    I use excalidraw, even upgraded to pro out of my own pocket. It's not git-compatible in the sense that it's not text (though you can export to SVG and commit that, which I've done). But I love that it has the feel of an appro
22. 352.▲
    by anitil 2y ago

    Did they scan both sides of the shreds?
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I'm going from memory but I think when posts of hers get traction here she'll get comments that I think she refers to as 'The One' [0], and also comments that... you typically wouldn't get for a male poster. [0] ht
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    by anitil 2y ago

    That is such an interesting bug!
25. 355.▲
    by anitil 2y ago

    I believe she hasn't had the best behaviour from our members unfortunately
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I love this style of communication. It says a lot about the author they they're willing to actively work towards proving the insecurity of their own system
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    by anitil 2y ago

    There's been times when I've been dumped some script and told to get it in production. Yes it would've been better not to need this, but it's a handy first step.
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    by anitil 2y ago

    I think it's a neat approach to a practical problem. I'd love an equivalent in C to be able to smoke out this sort of issue (though of course we'd have to fix 'errno' first)
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    by anitil 2y ago

    Lately duckdb is becoming a serious competitor for my use of datasette because it's eliminating a step for most of my workflows - converting csv to sqlite. I've been thinking about how to swap it in as a backend for datasette (may
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    by anitil 2y ago

    Signals And Threads (a Jane Street podcast) had an interesting discussion about documentation [0]. There was also an interesting reference to literate documentation (I think similar to Jupyter notebooks but as documentation). [0] https:&#x