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by beagle3 4y ago
Messaging and PR equated the new controversial vaccine with the older routine ones (in the sense of safety and effectiveness, leveraging their track record) and -- surprise -- it goes both ways - it has cast some of the controversy back ont
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by beagle3 4y ago
Unfortunately, I can't enjoy DLP projectors due to the rainbow effect - It's LCD only for me. https://pointerclicker.com/rainbow-effect-projector/
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by beagle3 4y ago
My main problem with projectors is noise. How are these ones fairing?
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by beagle3 4y ago
I was referring to your "only downside" statement (size and mutability of messages). No, that's far from the only downside, and in my experience, not even the most important one. > In the cases where we use these, the call
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by beagle3 4y ago
There is another downside, much more problematic in my experience - the failure modes of a distributed system (even over multiple processes in the same machine) are very different. The other process might be killed by OOM manager, user init
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by beagle3 4y ago
git diff understands function boundaries, and for many languages will “report” equally well on a single file. It’s a good idea to break things down to files along logical boundaries. But got reporting isn’t a reason. edit: "got diff&qu
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by beagle3 4y ago
Counter point: you have 2650 files, with a couple of 10 line functions in each. Your task is to just make it a little bit faster. Where do you start? Answer: the same place - with a profiler. Logical code organization matters a lot more tha
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by beagle3 4y ago
… but many satisfy this requirement by going to a pharma sponsored convention, which only has a small number of talks (all vetted by the sponsor to be favorable, if not actively marketing for sponsor), and just happens to be in a great reso
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by beagle3 4y ago
I'm in my late 40s, people around me still comment that I'm radiating heat (and have commented that for at least 30 years), and I almost always feel too hot - used to walk with a short sleeve shirt in the dead of snowy winter wh
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by beagle3 4y ago
restic has a very similar feature set (it has compression now), and is well integrated with rclone.
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by beagle3 4y ago
The problem with delivery issues is you often don't know you have them ; I was paying for mail hosting to a small-ish hosting provider, and after 16 years of essentially perfect service, I started realizing that gmail delivers ~25% o
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by beagle3 4y ago
That’s about as effective as checking if a picture was made by DALL-E2 - for a month or two, it might work; but soon enough there will be 5 commercial ones and soon after you would be able to self host.
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by beagle3 4y ago
Some of us were suspicious of the “new Microsoft”, mostly because with the exception of a few projects (VSCode among them, and not anymore), nothing really changed. Turns out, we weren’t wrong.
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by beagle3 4y ago
Reminds me of “Coupling” - a brilliant British TV sitcom. It is incredibly funny. The US version had the same text, with minor changes to account for e.g. the different way to call back to the last incoming call on a landline. The US versio
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by beagle3 4y ago
Ken Iverson. It’s called APL, it is incredibly effective, it won many awards, there’s a book about it called “Notation as a tool of thought” which is a bit dated but still highly recommended. But it is not really compatible with modern prog
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by beagle3 4y ago
Adding to (1), you don't have to code anything to the backup API - the standard "sqlite3" command line has a ".backup" command that does it for you.
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by beagle3 4y ago
Somewhat related: Can anyone recommend a (r)introduction to modern vector programming on CPUs? I was last fluent in the SSE2 days, but an awful lot has happened since - and while I did go over the list of modern vector primitives (AVX2, not
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by beagle3 4y ago
I have a similar situation: I have registered for a google account (not an email account, mind you - just a google account) because I needed to use an online calendar for a month. That was 13 years ago, with a different computer, different
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by beagle3 4y ago
The original incarnations of RDP, going back 20 years and more, preferred graphics when it could. Back then, it was more bandwidth efficient, and most programs actually used the GDI primitives to draw directly onto the screen, so it actuall
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by beagle3 4y ago
Recent version also added a toolbar button with a box you can just copy text into and get a translation, which is awesome. The first release translated endless twitter scroll inline perfectly. Unfortunately, this stopped working for me - ei
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by beagle3 4y ago
Related: Nimpy[0] provides an easy way to write Python extensions in Nim, which manages the ABI side very well. Python 2 is now gone, but until it was, Nimpy was an easy way to write Python extension modules that only needed to be compiled
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by beagle3 4y ago
It definitely had crashes, especially with C++ intellisense - visual assist was a must for crashes (and the functionality was also nice). I had been using it since 1998 on reasonable hardware. It was always reasonable for me.
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by beagle3 4y ago
Peak IDE happened in 1998 with Visual Studio 6 for C++, and it had been down hill from there. Everything available today (and since then) is clunky in comparison. I kept using it until 2007 and had to switch because of the need to move to 6
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by beagle3 4y ago
libsodium itself is a fork of NaCl[0], an acronym for Networking And Cryptography Library, but also the chemical composition of table salt (Sodium Chloride; the latin name for Sodium is Natrium hence Na) [0] https://en.wikipedia.
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by beagle3 4y ago
But some dynamic features, e.g. “with” make JS and its JITs give up and run slowly. Those features are not in common use. Python’s hard-to-optimize dynamic features are more commonly used.
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by beagle3 4y ago
A trick I learned a long time ago, that is very helpful in old structured code style (e.g. C, mostly-class-free Python, some subsets of C++ -- but rarely Java) is to estimate the number of non-comment lines for each task, rather than the ti
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by beagle3 4y ago
Thunderbird has had it for ages - you do need to pick it from the menu (“customize from address”) for completely free form. You can also set up multiple identities to pick from for the more frequent addresses you use; I set up the 6 most us
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by beagle3 4y ago
QNX was a true microkernel architecture that worked, and worked well. The basic building block was called IIRC Send/Receive/Reply: Every "system" call looked like a regular function call, but would "Send" a mes
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by beagle3 4y ago
It is an incredibly elegant scheme for bringing Markov context outputs together without actually trying to figure out what those contexts are.
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by beagle3 4y ago
Comes with extreme dependence from what I’ve heard.

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