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by billti 6y ago
It was the device I started on. I think the limitation was part of its value. At age 11 I felt like I mastered it. I remembered the manual front to back. I could write assembly by “POKE”ing the OpCodes directly into memory. It gave me a sen
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by billti 6y ago
If you look at the leaps in CPU perf the iPhone/iPad has had year over year, why wouldn’t we expect this to continue with these chips which are similar in many important ways? I’d also expect the first release was relatively conservati
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by billti 6y ago
Interestingly... too fast can be a problem too. A prime example is this site, Hacker News, on a really fast browser. I'll often sit there waiting for a navigation to load, until I realize it had already loaded (to a similar looking pag
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by billti 6y ago
Totally agree. I thought this closing statement on this recent BBC article [1] hit the point home: "Sometimes the women are portrayed as exploited victims. At other times as sadistic monsters. The truth is more horrifying. They
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by billti 6y ago
I live in Seattle, WA, which apparently has some of the cleanest water in the country. I use one of those under-the-sink inline charcoal cartridge filters on the sink we use to make tea or cook with. If I grab some water from a different ta
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by billti 6y ago
They still are. I had to contact support for some purchases I didn’t recognize a couple weeks back. I was dreading the usual “support call” experience, but they were super friendly and within 5 mins I was refunded and they deactivated an ol
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by billti 6y ago
Anecdote for what it’s worth: I’ve been a heavy customer for many years. While I bemoan the rampant knock off products and fraudulent reviews, by shopping carefully I’ve actually never had a bad product delivered, and the very few times I’v
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by billti 6y ago
Yeah, I used to struggle to get a work-out in most days. When I'm not feeling it, I play Thrill of the Fight on my Quest (boxing game - I'm a casual boxing fan). It's the most I sweat out of any workout, and I can go for 45 w
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by billti 6y ago
They choose how to spin stories based on biases to the point where they are effectively reporting different "facts". The other week I posted the below, which are headlines for the same 3 stories on the same day from CNN and Fox, a
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by billti 6y ago
I would agree, with the exception that I’ve noticed really CPU heavy things like builds that take > 1 min still complete a lot faster when plugged in, even on a full battery. I assume they still need to throttle somewhat when only runnin
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by billti 6y ago
The article mentions Power Delivery being present/not present as a compat issue, but even without Power Delivery, the amount of power a USB-C port can provide is inconsistent. From Wikipedia: VBUS and GND provide 5 V up to 900 mA
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by billti 6y ago
Interesting to note that decimal fractions (e.g. 0.3) are awkward to represent with floats in computers, whereas fractions based on 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, etc. that are often used in the non-metric system are a very natural fit for t
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by billti 6y ago
If you’re a dev (as I’m sure many here are), many big builds will max all cores for extended times. I had to up the cooling in my machine as building Chromium would regularly peg all 8 core for hours, causing thermal throttling to kick in a
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by billti 6y ago
Yeah, Mathias and I already exchanged on this. (I know him from working on V8). The GIF in that repo doesn’t work as a favicon: https://twitter.com/billticehurst/status/1288721150780964866...
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by billti 6y ago
Good point. But then many (most?) sites these days don't use a favicon.ico file in the root, but point to a .png or similar via a header tag as shown in the article (e.g. "<link rel=”icon” href=”/path/to/icon.pn
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by billti 6y ago
Interesting solution! It shows at the "no favicon" image on the page tab (the dog-eared page icon) in the latest Chrome/Edge for me, not as a blank/clear icon. (I get that same result when I used GIFs that were invalid).
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by billti 6y ago
I tried stuff like that. While it does remove the extra web request, the favicon that shows on the browser tab shows as the broken image/dog-eared page (at least in Chrome/Edge), not as a lack of a favicon (i.e. transparent image)
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by billti 6y ago
When I'm testing locally with a trivial site, those favicon 404 requests bugged me when checking the log. I'm also a little bit obsessive about keeping my pages small. This resulted in me going down a rabbit hole of the GIF spec t
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by billti 6y ago
> ... other than learning vim. Note you can also set your command-line editing key to vi[m] also with "set -o vi". See https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/30454/advantages-of...
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by billti 6y ago
I love Scott’s books. Not just for the quality of the content, but also for the humor he manages to inject into a quite dry topic. That said, I find he only covers a few of the more tricky topics, then after a brief “this is what it is and
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by billti 6y ago
I’ve found when I’m hung over or exhausted (e.g. kids were up all night), are the times when I can really plow through all the mundane todos that have been sitting around forever. It’s almost like my mind is happy to have a bunch of stuff l
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by billti 6y ago
I have a massive AppleTV about 10ft away from where I’m sitting. Just a few more feet away a kindle and an iPad, and just down the stairs my laptop and PC sitting on my desk. Yet I’ve been squinting at content on my phone the past hour or s
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by billti 6y ago
I believe Chromium uses the under-development trunk of Clang, and bumps it forward every couple weeks - and that’s probably one of the most heavily used code bases in the world. https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium&#x2
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by billti 7y ago
Sorry you're going through this too. The gradual decline slowly conditions you, like the proverbial frog in the pot of water. It was strange going back and reading some of his old emails and letters recently to try and find some info I
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by billti 7y ago
I think cardiac surgery is the worst offender because they often have to bypass the heart while performing the surgery, and this can result in blood supply issues while diverting/restoring flow through the heart.
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by billti 7y ago
I researched it at the time (I'd not heard of it when it occurred) and it is apparently quite common. A quick search finds a few hits, e.g. from https://perioperativemedicinejournal.biomedcentral.com/artic... > Deli
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by billti 7y ago
> The neurologists delivered their verdict: He appeared to have a textbook case of frontotemporal dementia—known by the shorthand FTD Oh man, was that a kick in the guts when I got to that bit. My Dad was diagnosed with that in the past
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by billti 7y ago
Could a highly efficient grid solve the "local weather" problem? While it might be cloudy in Washington, at the same time it's likely sunny in Nevada, or Texas, (or Mexico if you had cross border production), etc.. The broade
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by billti 7y ago
I would love all the hours back I spent in discussions around branching strategy, trying to keep complex models understood across the team (and myself), dealing with painful merges and flowing changes through, trying to figure out if a chan
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by billti 7y ago
Their coding guidelines on the topic lay out the pros/cons and ultimate reasoning pretty well: https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html#Exceptions

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