chunkyks

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by chunkyks 5y ago
I've been using this for at least a year or two. With their stripping, my binaries (which use very little other than system.* and math.*) are 12M in size on each OS. I tested with today's release of version six, the binaries are a
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by chunkyks 5y ago
What do you use for x on macos? Xquartz was unusable for years. It's true that a new version came out recently, but it still doesn't feel great. Are there any better options?
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Also, for reference, Zero's SRS is pretty badass: https://www.zeromotorcycles.com/model/zero-srs - if they just licensed Bosch's electronic safety brains, I'd be all over it. But, even not considering th
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Ten years ago, I rode the Harley Livewire when they toured it around the country. I was sold on electric bikes immediately, just not that one; that one had all the trappings that make me dislike Harley, but I was totally sold on electric, m
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by chunkyks 5y ago
True, but the posed question was "how much information can a small image contain", not "how many unique images are there"
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Amateur. Use the whole space [32x32x3 bytes = 3072 bytes] to encode a Busy Beaver.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Dodged a bullet there, I'd say. You can safely assume that google will EOL anything in GCP that you might actually start relying on for business function. "Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You": https:&#
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Those may be bible references, not timestamps?
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by chunkyks 5y ago
For me, 1) Linux and jetbrains rider 2) 30k sloc heavily v&v'd code? Why? The cost and effort would be insane, and, to MS' credit, the current .NET ecosystem is great. 3) First class citizen. Rider (and the other jetbrains stu
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by chunkyks 5y ago
My phone literally just forced me to stop using hangouts to chat with my wife, and now I have to wade through the Gmail app just to send her an instant message. I have total confidence that this isn't the last time. But even worse, may
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Thank you!
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I get my jollies using sql for stuff, mostly. Partly keeping skills sharp, partly being deliberately obtuse
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I don't know of anything explicitly around the wrong tool to the job, although I think it's the same itch that gets scratched by Code Golf [eg 1, stack exchange] or IOCCC [2]? [1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com&#x2F
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Show HN: A Pure SQL Raytracer(github.com)
26 points by chunkyks 5y ago|7 comments
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by chunkyks 5y ago
This tool started off as Excel VBA a million years ago, and has made trips through VB6 on its way to VB.NET. The language is ... ehhhhh. I don't love it, but I don't hate it either. There are things I like, but occasional items th
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by chunkyks 5y ago
At work, I'm the maintainer of a 30k SLOC VB.NET codebase. Originally windows-only, when I took over I ran it under mono on Linux and OSX. The day that MS released dotnetcore, I jumped to that. Overall the experience has been really go
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by chunkyks 5y ago
A quick internet search finds lots of examples. Here are 27: https://www.businessinsider.com/best-canceled-netflix-shows-... I, too, largely have stopped watching Netflix shows with one season for exactly this reason
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I strongly resonate with the part about Circles being an active-maintenance-effort that even 10 years ago, when I actually had time, was more effort than I could be bothered with. I think an interesting question is, what would it take for
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I've been struggling for days getting a rhel8 server with a tesla to work properly with python. All the Cuda samples and graphics driver work, but none of Jax, tf, or pytorch are letting me coerce them into finding the gpu. Maybe this
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Parent comment was about Gnome3 stability and lack of change. I dispute that premise.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
No sudden changes? Gnome3 was a pox and broke literally everything. The entire family of touch friendly interfaces on non touch systems can fall into a black hole, and the world would be better for it.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
To counter your point, it's not just that product managers are easy to blame; it's that it's literally their job to change stuff. Developers want to change stuff and do greenfield because it's fun, but that's a wh
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by chunkyks 5y ago
And they're also in the situation where good talent isn't going to tolerate that rubbish.
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Yes. The job says "requires git", the first person filtering resumes doesn't know that if you've been working on software for ten years the of course you know git. Also, not everyone knows git, or Linux. If you're a
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by chunkyks 5y ago
If it weren't for Linux, git wouldn't have existed ; git was Torvalds scratching the itch that was needing a better way to manage the Linux source. He's an outspoken detractor of subversion [1], and after bitkeeper went pear
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by chunkyks 5y ago
No one has mentioned git yet. It depends on what you think of as great, but the man has developed two of the biggest software items in the world. One that runs the entire internet, and one that runs most software development. Just about eve
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by chunkyks 5y ago
The thing that I, personally, desperately care about is cross-platform on the desktop: Mac, Windows, and Linux . MAUI was promising to become such a thing [although MS themselves are being a bit non-committal about Linux], but should I be
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I was vaguely flippant in my post and it lacked nuance. Actually this project [and my workplace in general] is very friendly and collegial, he was happy to do it, he even already knew where to look since I had done the bisect and otherwise
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by chunkyks 5y ago
Fond memories of the time I used "git bisect" to find a bug, and the commit that introduced it was some breathtakingly-large codebase-reorganisation-but-shouldn't-have-changed-anything-functionally. Thankfully the commit didn
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by chunkyks 5y ago
I do enjoy these sorts of things. There was a time when it was about "user interface design" instead of "user experience". Back then it was about "human interface guidelines", consistency, efficiency, and minim

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