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by cbdumas 2y ago
Increasing housing density is a great thing and I'm all for it. That said I wish that cheapo stick framed buildings weren't the only way to get it done. In my experience, living in a multistory stick framed building usually means
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by cbdumas 2y ago
For anyone planning a visit to Spain, I can't recommend Madrid highly enough. I wasn't sure what to expect from the city, but it might be my favorite I've ever been to. Madrid is beautiful, clean, walkable, and very welcoming
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by cbdumas 2y ago
> PUBG as the first Battle Royale and catalyst for Fortnite? As I recall, H1Z1 actually came out before PUBG (though it has since faded into obscurity). A quick search on Wikipedia seems to back that timeline[0]. [0] https://e
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by cbdumas 3y ago
I don't read that paper as backing that claim. At best the paper finds that the mechanism is more complicated than "money transfer from the poor... to the rich". To quote the conclusion directly: "Notably, our results ar
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by cbdumas 3y ago
There's nothing more permanent in this universe than a quick hacky proof of concept that was never intended for production use.
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by cbdumas 3y ago
> Have either database-like transactions or (at a minimum) write barriers for file operations. Go one step further and have the kernel expose a much more structured view of storage to user space by default. 99.9% of user space programs I
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by cbdumas 3y ago
My first real software job I worked primarily in Python and diligently added and maintained unit tests for every code path. This effort really paid off as my team and I could be so much more certain that changes and refactors wouldn't
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by cbdumas 3y ago
I may be in the minority here but I bought an LG TV in 2020 and the built in webOS interface and streaming apps have been great. I think there might be some ads but I'm honestly not 100% sure as they are very unintrusive. We had a Roku
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by cbdumas 3y ago
An alternative might be regulation ensuring people have access to banking services, either privately or by the government offering these services directly
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by cbdumas 3y ago
> we actually follow deserialization is validation (is that a term?) Perhaps you are thinking of this great blog post on the subject https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-va...
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by cbdumas 3y ago
Terrifying. It is my understanding that in the US all BEVs are required to have a mechanical braking system in addition to the electronic regenerative brakes, though I can't find a source for this at the moment. Does anyone know if the
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by cbdumas 3y ago
This one hurts. Simple interface, does exactly one thing well. I use it every day, never had an issue with it.
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by cbdumas 3y ago
This is interesting, I read that question as unambiguously about permission, not logistics. I would only interpret it as being about logistics if the question was "How can I ...".
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by cbdumas 3y ago
Super cool that this shows latency under load! It's a shame ISPs seem to only market their throughput numbers, and never mention latency. So many people play multiplayer games now, you would think there would be at least some consumer
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by cbdumas 3y ago
You should post this as an answer to the question on stackexchange
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by cbdumas 3y ago
> Is this just due to all the marketing from Apple around their proprietary M processors leaking into the enterprise market? That doesn't seem likely, as the release of AWS Graviton based instances predates the Apple M1 release by a
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by cbdumas 4y ago
Very cool, thanks for sharing!
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by cbdumas 4y ago
It's a shame magnet URIs never caught on outside BitTorrent
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by cbdumas 4y ago
The rise of SMS as a second factor for security across the web has raised the incentive for SIM-swapping tremendously. No one should be shocked that when tech companies start outsourcing their identity verification to cell phone providers t
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by cbdumas 4y ago
Introductory programming courses at the University of Arizona were still taught in C when I was a freshman in 2008
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by cbdumas 4y ago
Yeah now that I dig in a little further it looks like it's not as clear cut as I thought. DBM read performance is better for me with larger test cases than I was initially using, though I am getting some weird performance hiccups when
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by cbdumas 4y ago
So I read the script used to compare 'dbm' and 'sqlite3', and in sqlite it creates a table with no index. Hard to take that comparison seriously. I wrote a little benchmark script of my own just now and sqlite3 beats DBM
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by cbdumas 4y ago
The script linked at the bottom of this page uses sqlite without an index on the table. In my testing if you add an index sqlite quickly outperforms dbm in terms of read performance
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by cbdumas 4y ago
This cuts both ways though. Working from home my "circle of communication" has gotten much smaller than it ever was before, because I don't run in to people.
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by cbdumas 4y ago
> Private transport represents freedom, public transit represents control. I think you have this backwards. Public transport gives freedom to many many people who are unable to drive (can't afford a car, too young to drive, too old
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by cbdumas 4y ago
IMO GraphQL shines when used more like an RPC framework. I've never found the "Graph" parts to be worth the complexity.
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by cbdumas 4y ago
> The model most are working toward is "hub to hub" not point to point. As in, A human driver drives the truck from the warehouse or port to a hub on the highway outside the city surface streets. Then they get out of the truck
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by cbdumas 4y ago
The "Graph" part of GraphQL is entirely optional, and IMO not worth the trouble. The best way to use GraphQL is to use it more like an RPC framework, as a replacement for calling generic HTTP endpoints that return JSON blobs. The
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by cbdumas 4y ago
This page got the HN hug of death it seems. Absolutely deserves all the traffic he is getting, Mr. Ciechanowski's blog is an absolute gem.
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by cbdumas 4y ago
Because HN readers skew more technologically literate, people here are on average (slightly) more capable of seeing though the techno-babble hype than on other social media sites. It's not that the financial status quo is held in high

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