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by bjackman 2y ago
> A UK source is preferred (due to national pride?) (As a Brit and pre-Norman history enthusiast) I find this really pathetic, if it really is the reason. Why the hell should we prefer a British source of wood? The Anglo Saxons wouldn&#x
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by bjackman 2y ago
The whole web part is in here: https://github.com/bjackman/limmat/blob/master/src/http.rs Like 100 lines of code total to get it rendering in a browser with live updates over a web socket.
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by bjackman 2y ago
I recently tried out htmx for rendering a web clone of the terminal UI for https://github.com/bjackman/limmat It's a simple usecase but nonetheless I was blown away by how trivial HTMX made it! Very cool.
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by bjackman 2y ago
It's democratisating metatheory! What's not to understand?
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I think of you're ok with "just writing a bash script" the tool is not for you Everything I do with Just can pretty easily be done with Bash. But, doing it with bash is yucky. Doing with with Just is comfortable. If you don&#
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by bjackman 2y ago
As a non writer I found that even without the details there's just one very important and very basic insight here: You don't have to say everything exactly once. Until being exposed to this idea I always tied myself in knots tryin
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Show HN: Limmat – Local Immediate Automated Testing(github.com)
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by bjackman 2y ago
I still don't see how any system in the real world can safely assume its users only have names from that list. Even if you try to imagine a system for a hospital to register newly born babies... What happens if a pregnant tourist is vi
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by bjackman 2y ago
I believe this is what Rust OsStrings are under the hood on Windows.
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by bjackman 2y ago
So just because has different failure modes it doesn't count as reasoning? Is reasoning just "behaving exact like a human"? In that case the statement "LLMs can't reason" is unfalsifiable and meaningless. (Whic
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by bjackman 2y ago
It's interesting that this says "Boeing overcharged" and not "USAF overpaid". I know who I blame for wasting the tax dollars, and it isn't the organisation whose raison d'être is making a profit on selling
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by bjackman 2y ago
> Chrome currently has far more paid full time engineers than the linux kernel does. Are you sure? Do you know how many people work on Chrome? 2,000 people contributed to Linux 6.12. only a small portion of those will be full time but it
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by bjackman 2y ago
The practical advice in here resonates very strongly with my experience, I like the analysis a lot. The philosophy about what "shipping" is... Presupposes that your motivation for working in big tech is to get to L9 and make 7 fig
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by bjackman 2y ago
I am very excited about this tool despite agreeing with what you wrote here. The reason for that is that most of the time when I'm resolving huge numbers merge conflicts... I don't give a shit about details like field order. I jus
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by bjackman 2y ago
Yes it can, prediction begins before decode. In general, literally any instruction can be mispredicted, even if it isn't a branch at all, even if there isn't even a instruction there (on x86 where instructions are variable length)
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by bjackman 2y ago
Hmm nothing in this article explains the effect the rosin is supposed to have? "This is the best way to cook potatoes. Everything about it is difficult and dangerous. You have to try it!"
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by bjackman 2y ago
Not on Linux. Things are different on Windows, especially if you wanna play competitive games, I'm told.
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by bjackman 2y ago
I only do coding & browsing so maybe I'm a weak example but I find this even with my pretty old Intel laptops these days. My Skylake one (I think that would be 6 years old now?) is doing absolutely fine. My Broadwell one is startin
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by bjackman 2y ago
How does Firefox avoid this problem?
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by bjackman 2y ago
I get the same feeling with increasingly many games as I get older. It started with games that are basically engineering work. But now it's anything with resource management or long-term strategic thinking (basically whenever I think &
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by bjackman 2y ago
Back at university I found out about Python's operator overloading and decided to reimplement integers: https://github.com/bjackman/pynum
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by bjackman 2y ago
I also once stayed in a remote village in India for a few weeks, I had the exact same conclusion. Washing machines are enormously valuable, a huge win for society.
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by bjackman 2y ago
Rust isn't an Exciting New Language any more. It's in the "work towards widespread adoption" phase. Slower feature development is natural and healthy, the stakes are high, mistaken design choices are much more harmful th
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by bjackman 2y ago
The headline is wrong, presumably the editor did not read the article. YouTube is changing its recommendation system, not limiting access to anything.
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by bjackman 2y ago
I think you have it right but also my experience from optimising Android power usage was: your your intuitions are helpful for knowing what to try, but you have to test and measure everything as there are always complications. Luckily you a
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by bjackman 2y ago
I did almost exactly the same thing at my school (brought down the system with a VB6 script that wrote infinite text files to networked storage). They sent my mum a letter accusing me of terrorism. At the time I thought I was pretty ridicul
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by bjackman 2y ago
I've always thought that tech websites often start with the wrong thing, with installation instructions front & centre like this one. If I'm coming to the website looking for that info I'll be happy to dig around a little
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by bjackman 2y ago
This was my first thought too... You can already see in the examples in the article that the model understands that photos of people tend to have reflections of lights in their eyes. It understands that both eyes tend to reflect the same nu
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by bjackman 2y ago
I don't think it's actually what you meant to ask (I think you are actually interested in legally mandated warranties rather than the courts where they're enforced) but I think most countries have something equivalent to &quo
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by bjackman 2y ago
I think a positive sign of expertise is when you question someone and they go "oh right, I neglected to establish this foundational concept before making my main point". Or "oh right, let me step back and answer the question

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