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by cillian64 4y ago
> unlikely to break because of dependency version changes caused by the thirty-seventh party. With rust you just check in your Cargo.lock file to your VCS and then the versions of your dependencies and their dependencies (etc) are pinned
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by cillian64 4y ago
I share the experience that impact drivers seem to require less downward force to keep the bit engaged compared to a drill or hand screwdriver but I can’t work out why this should be the case. If they exert the same torque then shouldn’t t
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by cillian64 4y ago
If you’re at a company where things are bad and you have limited ability to improve them and can’t just quit then caring about what you do just makes it all the more upsetting and difficult compared to switching off. Recovering from this a
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by cillian64 4y ago
The objection here is that its training was based on code on github without paying any attention to the license of that code. It’s generally considered ok for people to learn from code and then produce new code without the new code being c
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by cillian64 4y ago
The idea is that if you’re a bag of chemicals then any decision you make is entirely predetermined based on your current state and the stimulus you receive (potentially modulo some quantum randomness and plenty of chaos). If the decision is
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by cillian64 4y ago
In the UK, which was until very recently in the EU, most modern (last 20-30 years) houses have what’s called Protective Multiple Earthing where the house earth is just connected to the incoming neutral and there’s no earth spike at the hous
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by cillian64 4y ago
My company is in the process of implementing SAF. How doomed am I?
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by cillian64 4y ago
Isn't the big point here that the daily stand-up is meant to be for communication within the team, not for reporting to management or stakeholders?
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by cillian64 4y ago
Look at organisations like Against Malaria Fund. 100% of your donations go to buying and distributing bed nets and they collect a lot of data to prove that they end up hung above the beds of the right people. There are an awful lot of rubb
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by cillian64 4y ago
I use Solidworks a lot for designing 3d printed parts for hobby projects. For me, the biggest thing missing from open source alternatives is assemblies. Being able to do constraint-based assembly of your parts and see how they fit together
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by cillian64 4y ago
But with traditional social media structures, as the user group grows, the quality of voting/interaction suffers - you get more people willing to like/upvote memes, clickbait, and controversy. Maybe what we need is more media&#x2F
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by cillian64 4y ago
For starters, x264/x265 are software video encoders, h264/h265 are the respective standards. AV1 is a standard, libaom is the reference software encoder. H264 and h265 are patent encumbered, so depending what you are doing you ne
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by cillian64 4y ago
I can’t tell if the simple stripped-back style would actually appeal to kids or whether it only really works for people nostalgic for simpler times.
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by cillian64 4y ago
A slightly unusual use-case but for my work we have our own file format which is a thinly-veiled sqlite database. Originally we used a json file but we moved to sqlite for performance reasons once the files started getting to multi-gigabyte
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by cillian64 4y ago
I’m always sad that 10”/10.5” racks aren’t more common for this sort of thing. I have my “homelab” in one and it’s the perfect size for a home router, an 8 port switch, a Raspberry Pi, a Thinkcentre tiny, and a 1-bay NAS. Basically no
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by cillian64 4y ago
The painted part says “.29c”
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by cillian64 4y ago
I wonder if this is somewhere it would make sense to use a non-free license which restricts how people use the code or what modifications they are allowed to redistribute. It wouldn’t stop anyone motivated from breaking the rules by themse
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by cillian64 4y ago
One theory is that it's less about actually supporting a joint and holding it in a particular position and is actually more about the sensation it provides which can remind you (consciously or unconsciously) to move in a different way.
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by cillian64 4y ago
> As a bit of a tape connoisseur, This sort of comment is why I read HN.
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by cillian64 4y ago
Last year I bought a Garmin Forerunner 245 smartwatch. I have notifications totally disabled, I don’t really use it as an actual smartwatch. But I’ve found its measurements of my heart rate and stress levels (via heart rate variability) re
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by cillian64 4y ago
I’d guess that not many people are using rust for work compared to how many use it for fun. If that’s true then most people using rust are doing so because they enjoy it, not because they’re forced to. So most people with an active intere
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by cillian64 4y ago
That’s fair, and I hope we see crates being more considerate over what deps they pull in (or people making alternatives with minimal dependencies).
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by cillian64 4y ago
This is more plausible for a language with a runtime like Python. But Rust is fundamentally designed to be a systems language where you have full access to everything (and, if you use unsafe, raw access to memory and arbitrary code executi
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by cillian64 4y ago
If you particularly want to replicate the common C situation where your dependencies are in-tree or you just don’t have external dependencies and write everything yourself then you are totally welcome to do that, even with Cargo. Nobody is
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by cillian64 4y ago
Do you expect the same problems with GPON, which also has a shared medium? At least with fibre you don’t get reflection problems from other people’s dodgy terminations, but you are relying on them obeying the TDMA for upstream.
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by cillian64 5y ago
Trying to identify the thief using evidence from their return of the notebooks seems like it would discourage people in future from returning similar stolen objects. But I can understand not wanting the return of a stolen object to indemni
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by cillian64 5y ago
I’ve never come across an amd64 system where secure boot couldn’t be disabled in the BIOS (as you’d do when installing Linux) - do you have any examples of this?
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by cillian64 5y ago
You assume here that people only work on the area of the codebase which they are most familiar with. I think a sign of a healthy team is when people are contributing to other parts of the code and not getting stuck in a rut where each area
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by cillian64 5y ago
I don’t have a source for this but I recall reading that mechanical throttle wires are actually not especially reliable so drive-by-wire doesn’t have to be super reliable in order to be better. But perhaps it’s the same as self driving cars
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by cillian64 5y ago
This is the main reason I’ve been watching Star Trek TNG recently. If anyone could recommend some vaguely optimistic sci-fi books that would be amazing.

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