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811.
by bb88 3y ago
> require a huge amount of ceremony and management I think Java made it quite easy to spin off threads, and again, it doesn't help the argument. It just made the f'ing thing worse. Race conditions are still f'ing hard to
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by bb88 3y ago
> Over my 40-year career, programming interviews haven't changed at all I think they've gotten worse actually. A lot of times they're led by 20-somethings that are looking for only the skills that are limited to their own
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by bb88 3y ago
I was a contractor for a large financial institution -- one you've heard of. They fired a number of their employees during a layoff a year before my contract ended. They did it, not because I was cheaper (my contract certainly wasn&#x
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by bb88 3y ago
I saw that as well.
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by bb88 3y ago
You're first question should be, "How much are you willing to pay?". And if they dodge it, it's not a good sign. Edited to add: Sure, be polite, but don't be trapped into 8/16/24 hours of interviewing ove
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by bb88 3y ago
Yes, but the shared-mutable-state issue goes away.
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by bb88 3y ago
The economy cycles between greed and fear, without any room in the middle for stability. All of economics is group psychology. 2000/2001, 2008, 2020 and others were bad years and growth eventually happened. But even The Great Depress
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by bb88 3y ago
> If I launch 50 threads with run away while loops in Python, it takes minutes to laumch and barely works after. I can run hundreds of thousands and even millions of runaway processes in Elixir/Erlang that launch very fast and proce
819.
by bb88 3y ago
And the python people would just point to multiprocessing...which works pretty well.
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by bb88 3y ago
Not disagreeing. The only case for threading in python is for spinning something to handle IO. But now with async even that goes away.
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by bb88 3y ago
Working with threads is a pain regardless of which language you use. Some might say: "Use Go!" Alas: https://songlh.github.io/paper/go-study.pdf After a couple decades of coding, I can say that threading is
822.
by bb88 3y ago
If you're looking to get into 3d printing for the first time, go with a bambu. If you think you'll enjoy the experience of putting together a printer, get a prusa mk4 kit. I got the MK3s kit, and spent a week of evenings putting i
823.
by bb88 3y ago
I think this is super interesting. Kind of like a rust style language for symbolic logic. The timing aspect is super interesting, though I wonder if a compiler given an fpga and a program could optimize the hard parts on an fpga and run th
824.
by bb88 3y ago
This in a way reminds me of the Nikkor 13mm non distorting lens. If there's a lens I would like to see make a comeback today, that would be it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikkor_13mm_f/5.6 It also reminds
825.
by bb88 3y ago
The second paragraph is the key here: It is normally recommended ... However, due to the high immunity rate in the community.... The weasel words being "high immunity rate in the community". What is the immunity ra
826.
by bb88 3y ago
Or passing a wrong value and the compiler allows it because the programmer trusted the compiler to "always do the right thing".
827.
by bb88 3y ago
This has been around since 2013. It's good, but it's not new.
828.
by bb88 3y ago
Oil supposedly also dissolves capsaicin. Maybe put a half a cup to a cup of evoo and warm up the oil, swirling it around next time? Then you can let it cool down and maybe use this to solidify the oil? https://www.amazon.com&#x2
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by bb88 3y ago
Yeah, I'm not that worried after it goes into the dishwasher. The real issue is to get as much as the capsaicin off the cutting board, knife, hands, etc, before it goes into the dish washer.
830.
by bb88 3y ago
Sounds delicious, if a bit punchy.
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by bb88 3y ago
I also remove the membrane on the flesh too. Capsaicin dissolves in alcohol, so I tend to wipe everything down with 70% IPA minimum with a paper towel before sending it into the dish washer.
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by bb88 3y ago
That's interesting, I am curious if it's the capsaicin itself you're tasting directly. I know I've had hot sauces that were just heat without any kind of real flavor. It's not that I couldn't taste it. I coul
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by bb88 3y ago
> I would describe Python as possibly the most complex programming language in existence. You haven't lived until you've argued with a C++ language lawyer. > Go is simple, that’s why it’s verbose. It has no syntax sugar and
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by bb88 3y ago
Thanks for HTMX, I think it's showing the world what the web browser could be. I'm going to be doing a lot of web pages in HTMX in the next couple of years, and it will be much easier to develop/debug than javascript.
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by bb88 3y ago
The nice thing about cubicles were their abilities to absorb sound. That made headphones optional. Conversations in the next cube could be had that kept the noise down to a minimum for the neighbors. But also, and you had a semi-permanent
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by bb88 3y ago
I've seen bad Java/C++ code go to production before, and cost many more hours to fix it than it was just to replace the code with a working python script using the built in libraries.
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by bb88 3y ago
> It has been my experience that rewriting such things in C++, or even Go or Java is an easy way to quickly save truly incredible amounts of compute. Sure but there's a trade off, no? Go is typically 3x the code than python. And C
838.
by bb88 3y ago
No. Google it. I'm not your monkey.
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by bb88 3y ago
I feel like this is google-able, no? I found some metrics after 30 seconds of googling.
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by bb88 3y ago
Numpy is competitive with optimized C/C++. So even if it's running in a Jupyter notebook, it's still going to be insanely fast.

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