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by cgh 4y ago
Oof, this is real shot/chaser stuff. For anyone interested, the relevant statement starts on page 115 of the linked document. It’s quite short and worth reading. Some real Big Short vibes here.
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by cgh 4y ago
It depends on your athletic goals. Exrx is geared towards athletes and coaches more than the normal folks who, as you said, would benefit from a simple, limited slate of fundamental movements.
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by cgh 4y ago
In the real world, programmers are brought into projects with literally millions of lines of code that have been developed over years or decades by tens or hundreds of programmers. They are under intense time pressure to fix bugs that they
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by cgh 4y ago
> The ICBC has a literal state sponsored monopoly over car insurance No, this is only true for the most basic plans (called Autoplan). For anything beyond this, eg third-party liability, collision, comprehensive, etc., you can buy privat
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by cgh 4y ago
Yeah my Frontier, which is only a mid-size, is so stiff I can feel absolutely everything. Washboarded logging roads, on which this truck spends much of its time, can be a chore as the truck bounces and jumps around. But because it’s tuned s
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by cgh 4y ago
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was asking. I don’t write Rust so it’s informative to see this.
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by cgh 4y ago
How cache-friendly are zip/enumerate implementations? Zig is influenced by the ideas behind Data Oriented Design, mentioned in the article (and a buried lede, if you ask me). Explicit for loops like this are generally cache-friendly an
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by cgh 4y ago
One of the largest and oldest package repositories, Maven, got it right two decades ago. No one ever seems to mention it though.
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by cgh 4y ago
Easier, slower, more error-prone. Also, you should consider implementing code reviews rather than just firing people who commit code you don't like.
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by cgh 4y ago
I think so, yes. struct io_uring_buf_ring is a union that includes a bufs member: struct io_uring_buf bufs[0];
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by cgh 4y ago
As mentioned in the post, one of the big wins for a lot of web developers is freedom from Javascript. It doesn't necessarily mean throwing out the DOM by default.
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by cgh 4y ago
You might be interested in data-oriented design, nicely described in this talk by Andrew Kelley: https://vimeo.com/649009599 Treating data in code using the same basic layout that databases use is common in game programming
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by cgh 4y ago
Good point. Maybe corporations could benefit from offering similar communications courses to employees, in the same way they offer eg mandatory security training and so forth.
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by cgh 4y ago
One of the best non-comp sci courses I ever took was Business Communications. It taught me how to write clearly and to focus on essentials. The instructor was especially allergic to cliches, which is Orwell’s rule #1. Writing for communicat
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by cgh 4y ago
It’s the lowest ever recorded in the US, as this WaPo article makes clear: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/02/04/northeast-...
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by cgh 4y ago
Same except we use a different in-memory database (H2). This makes it simple for CI systems like Jenkins to run the tests and you can have various degrees of integration. Really amazing that your comment was the first mention I saw of in-me
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by cgh 4y ago
+1 on the eigenchris stuff. They start a little rough as he’s still learning how to present online, but improve quickly, and he has that knack for explaining things clearly that some people seem to be born with.
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by cgh 4y ago
Optimistic concurrency control is mentioned as a feature of Convex, the advertised product. But OCC is a common concern and has been for ages. In Java, the JPA standard specifies the @Version annotation which enables OCC on entity objects a
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by cgh 4y ago
It’s close but not quite. If it were truly ‘80s, there would be no need for stops because everyone would be smoking in the train. Probably the worst example of this was when I travelled through Turkey in the ‘90s, mostly by bus and train. T
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by cgh 4y ago
My personal best example of this is tape-trading (which were mostly CD-Rs, but whatever) underground metal back in the '90s. The sheer amount of work it took to find people to trade with, burn the music, send it through the mail and, b
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by cgh 4y ago
The lack of smoking is something to ponder. It's always so glaring to me when TV shows that take place in the '80s and '90s show almost no one smoking, when in fact if you went into any public place, probably 30-50% (or more,
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by cgh 4y ago
Our house was built in 1973 and still has aluminum wiring and a 100A fuse box. So I feel your pain.
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by cgh 4y ago
> Code generation for shaders. Interesting, I always assumed shader code was generated by the engine and tweaked by gurus. In all the talk here about backend vs frontend or which engine to use, you never hear about companies explicitly h
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by cgh 4y ago
Canada's Immigrant Investor visa program was canceled in 2014. This new law has nothing to do with visa applications and is intended to address foreign speculation in local housing markets.
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by cgh 4y ago
Legit automated services tend to be opt-in and allow me to specify sms, eg our provincial health service notifying us about vaccine availability.
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by cgh 4y ago
Our phone provider has a free service, Call Control, that’s completely eliminated scam calls. Callers get an automated message asking them to enter a random number. If they enter it correctly, my phone rings as usual. This system foils auto
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by cgh 4y ago
Some post-Christmas humour: the other day, Cathie Wood said Tesla will go to $7000/share within five years. I am not making this up.
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by cgh 4y ago
He did. She is a director of this Receptio publisher that published the plagiarized work: https://www.receptio.eu/scientificcomitee
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by cgh 4y ago
Exactly, I read it right around when I was finishing university. Because of a large theatre studies department, mysterious black-clad, chain-smoking girls stamped from the Donna Tartt mould were constantly wafting around the place. So this
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by cgh 4y ago
His bad luck, which could be seen as poor choices, led to him attempting to restart his film career in probably the worst possible place given his ethnicity. "After he got out of jail, Goldstein tried to re-establish himself as a filmm

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