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by bxparks 10mo ago
I read this all the time from other people, but for me, Selection sort is the easiest to remember and implement. My next easiest would be Insertion sort. Bubble sort doesn't click for me easily. I think it's because the terminatin
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by bxparks 10mo ago
On 8-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers (e.g. 8-bit AVR, 32-bit ESP8266/ESP32), Insertion sort is 6X faster than Bubble Sort on random data. I have tested this up to about N=1000. Both Insertion sort and Bubble sort are O(N^2). Both are s
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by bxparks 10mo ago
[Passed my edit window, so replying to self] Looks like the original repo of syncthing-android, ( https://github.com/Catfriend1/syncthing-android ), which was maintained by @Catfriend1, now redirects to the one maintaine
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by bxparks 10mo ago
I don't follow the Syncthing ecosystem, so it's difficult to understand what is happening. [Edit: The GitHub repos are called "syncthing-android". The Android apps are called "Syncthing-Fork" or "Syncthing
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by bxparks 11mo ago
Could also be French speakers. They would say "J'utilise le format .avif depuis quelques années." I think the "depuis" throws off the French speakers when they translate that literally as "since some years&quot
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by bxparks 11mo ago
I tried eBay like 4 times. But they were all fake or defective. At least one of them was dead on arrival. I finally bought one from iFixit.com. Far more expensive than eBay, but the battery actually worked great for about a year. Then about
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by bxparks 11mo ago
The last time I tried this in 2022, I encountered a bunch of rough edges. I tried Ubuntu or Mint on a MBA 11 (2013 or 2015 models). Maybe Linux has gotten better since then? For example, the fan did not work out of the box. I had to install
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by bxparks 1y ago
Yes, it was infuriating. In addition to the Classic option that is shown only after hitting "Cancel", they also had a secret "Microsoft 365 Basic" option for $20/year. It includes no Office products, but provides 10
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by bxparks 1y ago
I'm not going to write things like Django, flask, requests, urllib3, numpy, scipy, mathplotlib, dateutils, and psycopg2 on my own. That would take multiple lifetimes. Sure, you can choose to write everything yourself, but you are limit
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by bxparks 1y ago
I use SyncThing for that purpose. It syncs across my phone, my laptops, and my Synologies. But I don't sync all my photos. I don't like the thought of providing Google thousands of personal photos for their AI training. Which wi
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by bxparks 1y ago
Do you happen to know why? A package manager system seems essential for sharing and reusing code with other people. For example, I don't particularly like Python as a language, but I will use it because it has 677,633 packages in PyPI.
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by bxparks 1y ago
From what I can tell (since I am just finding out about this today), they stopped manufacturing the old Chromecast hardware, and at some point, will stop supporting the old devices. The old devices may stop working in the future, for exampl
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by bxparks 1y ago
That was probably me, when I stopped using Google Search some years ago. :-) Got tired of the ads, the blog spam, and AI-generated content crap floating to the top of their results page.
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by bxparks 1y ago
Strava? :-) Half-joking, half-serious, I haven't used Strava in years, I don't remember all its capabilities. Edit: Missed the "locally" part. Sorry no suggestions. Maybe Garmin has something?
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by bxparks 1y ago
Hmm, good to know. But given Google's history, I assumed that it would stop working. I also need to sell my Google Chromecast with Google TV 4K. Brand new, still in its shrink wrap. Bought it last year, to replace a flaky Roku. It was
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by bxparks 1y ago
I also have low-E windows all around, and I still have good cell phone reception. I think it's your aluminum siding. As I understand, low-E reflects solar thermal infrared radiation (3-8 microns, 37-100 THz), while letting through visi
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by bxparks 1y ago
A lot of things on https://killedbygoogle.com/ . I used to use 30-40 Google products and services. I'm down to 3-4. Google Picasa: Everything local, so fast, so good. I'm never going to give my photos to G Photos.
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by bxparks 1y ago
You are lucky. In 2025 I have to run most of my 20-30 wifi devices on 2.4 GHz because 5 GHz won't penetrate the walls in my house, especially diagonally. My dev laptop is about 10 m (30 ft) away from the wifi access point, but goes t
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by bxparks 1y ago
No, unless you have a laptop used by their developers. Every 2 years, I try to install FreeBSD on some of my Dell laptops, find that the wifi doesn't work, then give up. Been doing that for about 8 years..
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by bxparks 1y ago
In my opinion, a language that requires a programmer to have a "revelation" to understand basic control flow is not a language that is useful or practical for solving real world problems. I would prefer to write in assembly langua
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by bxparks 1y ago
> I've actually never worked with a "pure" interpreter in Forth, only compilers of various levels of complexity. Threaded code compilers are (in my experience) by far the most common way to deal with forth -- and they are
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by bxparks 1y ago
From the comments in this thread, it seems that to understand how Forth implements a simple IF-THEN-ELSE control-flow, I have to understand the difference between non-immediate and immediate words. I also have to understand the difference b
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by bxparks 1y ago
> Nowadays Forth is probably most useful on embedded systems. Nowadays almost nothing is written in Forth. That's the problem with Forth. Even on 8-bit Arduino microcontrollers with 2kiB of RAM, we write programs in C++ (with a litt
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by bxparks 1y ago
Wow, that's going to take some time and effort to digest, but thank you. Yes, I think control-flow is easier to understand in assembly language than the implementation you showed in Forth. :-)
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by bxparks 1y ago
I will definitely look into that. If understanding this special IMMEDIATE mode is required to understand the Forth interpreter for something as fundamental as control-flow, it seems fair to say that Forth is not a simple language. It&#x27
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by bxparks 1y ago
Ah I see, this is peeling back a few layers of obscurity about the Forth interpreter for me. Let's stick with a Forth interpreter because that seems easier to think about for me. Are you saying that the Forth interpreter is a 2-pass in
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by bxparks 1y ago
I kinda know how it works at the user-level, I meant to write that I don't understand how control-flow is implemented in Forth. I say more about that in my reply to a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by bxparks 1y ago
Thanks for that. I kinda know how it "works" at the user-level. I meant to say, I don't know how it is implemented . My mental model of Forth is that there is a simple parser that consumes space-delimited keywords. The inter
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by bxparks 1y ago
As I like to say: "C is a language that solves a million problems. Forth is a million languages that solve almost nothing." :-P I've been reading about Forth for 30-40 years. The dual stack is easy to understand. My problem i
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by bxparks 1y ago
Yup, this is the way. Regarding Shorts, I have no YouTube history, but I still get Shorts. I hate them. You must be doing something else to disable them.

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