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by bch 5y ago
> Does it make sense to have another scripting language inside Python scripts? Point of interest, Python already has another embedded language if you have Tkinter available: Tcl. Larry Wall of Perl fame once said: “Tcl tends to be port
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by bch 5y ago
True, he’s mind-bogglingly amazing. Also still probably not a helpful example to developing a sane working group or good office dynamics. He’s a unicorns unicorn.
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by bch 5y ago
Very likely I’ll do something like this. Very frustrating to me the “experts” I’m working with can’t satisfy my fear here, but perhaps I’m overthinking it. I’m not too worried about a catastrophic cockup as much as some slight annoyance t
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by bch 5y ago
I appreciate you sharing your experience. Unfortunately(?) I picked prehung doors to go in (everybody was made aware of the installation environment), so I’ve got-what-I’ve-got at this moment. Unclear if I got suckered or not. I told my ven
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by bch 5y ago
Ugh - I’m living this right now trying to figure out the best (or “a good”) way to hang new interior doors into so-called steel studs, which are actually just box-section aluminum.
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by bch 5y ago
s/Are you sure that's the team.*/Click to continue./
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by bch 5y ago
Or indeed still “operating on someone else’s computer“, but we’re calling it “the cloud” now.
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by bch 5y ago
Of course Andy Rubin[0] from Danger (previously also General Magic as mentioned in article) went on to found Android as well - and Android itself owes (in a way) it’s own name to Apple (Andy’s nickname at Apple was apparently “Android”.) W
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by bch 5y ago
I left for two weeks, with a key and notes left to a friend on what to do with my plants in my absence. Two weeks later I return (my friend had completely spaced out and forgot to come over even once) and my herbs (thyme, basil) are complet
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by bch 5y ago
HLA == high level assembly[0], for any (like me) who didn’t know. I didn’t see it explained in TFA. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Level_Assembly
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by bch 5y ago
Agreed - it seems to me they’ve built a medium that signals at the described rate, but didn’t actually send data? I could be misreading. I was looking to find who’s TCP/IP stack got pressed into service, but I guess that’s for a futu
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by bch 5y ago
> I bought my motorcycle around 1995 for ~$800 […] > I've looked around at a lot of used motorcycles and I've see other 1984 Honda's that are asking $2500-$3000 The average price seems to be $4k-$5k for 20 year old bike
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by bch 5y ago
I’m somewhat ignorant here, and indeed also niche (I’m a NetBSD user), but: > GPUs beat everything that’s workload dependant, and also subject to support, no? Doesn’t GPGPU basically mean CUDA currently, and therefore beholden to Nvidia
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by bch 5y ago
I’m used to it in public engagements too, with respect to civic planning. It features in the story/movie The Best of Enemies[0], set in contentious public policy hearings. Worth watching. [0] https://m.imdb.com/title&#x
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by bch 5y ago
Indeed you’re right (and this was my understanding too) - I misread what a previous commenter was intending. I thought they were saying most broadcasts are 1-piece blobs, thus good for 5G bursting. My experience w HLS is indeed some small-n
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by bch 5y ago
Edit: my objection is incorrect. We’re in fact saying the same thing. I misread a previous post :/ Not if the broadcast is (eg) HLS[0], so I think the proper answer is: “it depends.” [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by bch 5y ago
Is this not a serious enough obstruction as to be deemed illegal? Regardless, you now know you’re not dealing with good actors here.
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by bch 5y ago
Are you talking about cmake-generators(7)?
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by bch 5y ago
“Anybody can build a bridge that stands - it takes an engineer to build a bridge that barely stands.”
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by bch 5y ago
Fine enough advice, except for the tap water comment, which I would think might lead some to distilled water (so it’s not “saturated with impurities”) - that’s not the way water and coffee work, and indeed, in a water-sensing machine (which
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by bch 5y ago
> I can't help but think that 2021 is going to be the year a lot of people […] Let’s hope it’s a critical mass. 2021 is the year I saw a lot of apparent idiots running what looked like trivial errands in their cars in 50°C weather
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by bch 5y ago
John Ousterhout (creator of Tcl (mentioned in OP paper)) also wrote an interesting paper about the “scripting” vs “system” language dichotomy, “Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century”[0] which some may find interesting. [0
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by bch 5y ago
Moving and resizing wireframe boxes seems like to me like an ergonomic and technical win - it’s a bit baffling to me why it’s not the default everywhere, no matter what the compute/gfx capabilities.
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by bch 5y ago
I get that, and appreciate he’s productive and sharing his skill. I wasn’t sure though if the long history of other people’s hard work wasn’t being swept up in appreciation for ‘brendangregg
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by bch 5y ago
Maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean by “author“, but BPF was invented by Steven McCanne, and Van Jacobson in 1992[0], and tweaked over the years by various developers and operating systems. It looks[1] like the Linux e BPF work was in
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by bch 5y ago
I took a quick scan and: it might be analogous, yes. Not sure if any subtlties apply. The git workflow in the docs ( https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree ) looks really clunky. Here’s what I do in fossil: $ cd ~/wo
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by bch 5y ago
Couple things: * immutable * built in first-class ticketing system Happens to use SQLite as its storage engine too (SQLInception?), which brings at least a couple (off the top of my head) features: * SQL is used to query things, which is ve
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by bch 5y ago
> I am skeptical that it would hold its own against latex for "serious" writing https://www.troff.org/pubs.html
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by bch 5y ago
This is fire county, so we’re perhaps more prepared than Nepal is for Tsunamis, but still Lytton apparently has 1 fire truck, there are fires all over the province so we’re not all just focusing on Lytton, and this swept the town in ~15 min
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by bch 5y ago
> I can’t imagine the […] people […] in Canada are accustomed Absolutely not. I don’t live in Lytton, but close, and similarly hot. What is usually called a hot spell would be 34, 35, maybe 36 degrees. The last 3 days we’re well into the

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