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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
I once swapped an OM617 (the 5-cylinder turbodiesel used in many 80’s Mercedes sedans) into a 67 Chevy pickup. Once started, the engine would run with no electrical system at all! Even the fuel shutoff operated on vacuum. https:/&#x2
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Well, almost. The 5.9L fails safe: there is a fuel shutoff solenoid which operates in reverse: you give it power to keep the fuel flowing. You’d need to modify it to force the solenoid open (or remove it). The OM617 (as used in many 1980’
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
This is ridiculous, I changed like 3 words. While I did originally mention 512GB, the context (“on-chip”) made it clear I was referring to the speed, not the size.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
While I did make a couple of cosmetic edits within a few minutes of posting (before there were any replies), even the original was referring to the speed of the memory ("on-chip"), not its size. You misunderstood my post, and I do
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Speaking of CRUD, would Apple’s on-chip memory have significant advantages for running Postgres vs a threadripper with a mobo full of ram? It seems like vertical scaling has fallen out of fashion lately, and I’m curious if this might be the
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Several people have mentioned exponential back off. What upper limit would you suggest? Someone might not post for 6 months, then resume posting daily. You might miss those posts for months.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
I keep annual journals in Notes and I’ve noticed (on iOS) that the keyboard becomes increasingly laggy as the year drags on / as the note length increases. I can only assume they are synchronously flushing the file to disk on the main
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Macros being supported via quoted arguments is clever
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
While I loved this week-long course, I was a bit disappointed that we offloaded all of the code generation to LLVM. I think it would be fantastic to stretch this into a two-week course and actually emit assembly.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Are you using source-based dependencies? Have you tried Carthage instead?
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
For typical apps, the four variables here are backend latency, network latency, client-side deserialization, and client GUI rendering. (Less commonly, apps which have complex client-side state will also spend time reconciling server and cl
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
100ms to render an iOS screen means dropping 6 frames. That would put an applicant in the "no hire" category.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
No need to fork Swift to accomplish that.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
What would you change at the language level?
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
In line with the self-hosting idea, I'm working on an iOS app which can be used as a native app, or can serve itself as a webapp on your local network (so that you can also use it from your laptop). There is no cloud, your phone is th
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Why would you self-build when you could just lease an Al-Ghaib?
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Uh oh. What do I need to know about PIA and do I need to cancel my subscription?
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Also, you can replace cat with pv to get a progress bar. Or replace cat with socat to stream stdin from a network socket. Etc etc.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
“Subsetting” a language is a useful practice. Consider the set of language features someone has to know in order to understand your code. If you can make that set smaller (without unreasonably sacrificing functionality), you lower the bar
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
This tension between two paths, the microcontroller path vs the analog path, there is a bit of an analog to this in the game Factorio. You can use combinators to build sophisticated circuits (the microcontroller path), but there's als
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Maybe this is just a subtle semantic thing, but what I took from this is that he is factoring out pure functions where ever possible, within a procedural context. In my mind, that’s not the same thing as “functional programming”.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
It is absolutely electrolysis. You can try it yourself with a battery and dish of water.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
When working with infinite canvases, using a combination of zoom and pan makes jumping from one spot to another spot basically instant.
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Holy cow, Kandria looks amazing. Is it also developed using Trial? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usc0Znm-gbA
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
This speaks to the performance of lua, as some of the factorio mods are quite extensive
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
This seems like an odd objection, because when tumbling down the rabbit hole of performance optimization, leveraging prefetch in your memory controller would normally happen before leveraging SIMD instructions, right? Ie the point at which
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
> Put your damned messages where my attention has already been directed to BY YOUR UI. Ok, so where does the toast go if you've already scrolled or otherwise navigated to a different area of the UI? These optimistic updated could t
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
> I would much rather only get the toast if there is a failure to commit the change ... And being far on the screen from where I’m taking an action makes them even more of a distraction. But wouldn't this situation be even worse wit
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
Mixed in with this may also be architectural decisions based from a "let's just spin something up quickly" mentality. Those foundational architectural decisions have a way of becoming set in stone, long after the freelancers
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by cellularmitosis 2y ago
If you think these things are considered harmful, I'd encourage you to read "John Carmack on Inlined Code" http://number-none.com/blow/john_carmack_on_inlined_code.htm... "The flight control code fo

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