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by codemac 4y ago
Sadly 1992 is 31 years ago. The authors pushed for log structured filesystems in an earlier paper in 1988 : Beating the I/O Bottleneck https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1988/5760.html . It was
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by codemac 4y ago
> refusing to block tracking You realize that Apple is still doing the tracking, just not allowing third parties?
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by codemac 4y ago
> but having more than one and leaving it empty just to raise the price of a similar unit Is there a dearth of this happening? SF vacancy rates are roughly the same as they are across the country. Also, from a balance sheet standpoint: i
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by codemac 4y ago
... they already have those on housing. No one taxes you more or less because of how frequently you use your boat, or if you rent your boat to others, etc.
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by codemac 4y ago
Emacs has literate-calc-mode which I use with org-mode: https://github.com/sulami/literate-calc-mode.el
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by codemac 4y ago
Re: Susan Li Unlike Google, they did not hire the former EVP & CFO of Morgan Stanley, and next in line for Head of Treasury before she withdrew (making too much money at ms to move). I think Susan seems great from afar (i am but a lowly
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by codemac 4y ago
Arch isn't too difficult, but I've been using it since ~2005 or so. Something that is hard to quantify - arch uses vanilla software, almost entirely. Very very few patches/configurations are deployed. This means you're a
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by codemac 4y ago
> Software is not like a tv show or a stand up comedy set or an album. It is not a cultural artifact. It is machinery. You get two things wrong here imo, though I'm not saying the article is great. 1. A lot of software is a cultur
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by codemac 4y ago
I actually don't, but that's another interesting hypothesis. My hyothesis is that all these "simple" lines of code that are 1000s and 1000s of lines of code, are actually a burden and produce bureaucracy.
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by codemac 4y ago
Unfortunately, it is also true for android. Especially with the google drive "audit" requirement for software to access your files in google drive, it's actually much worse than iOS.
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by codemac 4y ago
Being able to work in a large organization to accomplish goals smaller organizations could not is one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind. The part that is arguable is whether or not smaller organizations could accomplish the same. I
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by codemac 4y ago
This is the similar to the classic "design concept" from "the design of design." It is the idea that must be shared between the software developer's minds to increase velocity, not software itself. The pressure you
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by codemac 4y ago
In my case I have exceptionally drafty windows. The rooms with new windows all have CO2 elevate almost linearly with time human is in room.
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by codemac 4y ago
We went with the baby brezza formula pro which mixes, warms water, and dispenses into the bottle all in one click. Worth the $, every time we travel we hate ourselves for not bringing it.
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by codemac 4y ago
Two big lessons of GTD (and majorly influencing many many other systems like basb, ztd, etc): - DO NOT read/peruse/etc on first inspection! Just add it to a list. - Collecting these items is not processing them which is not organi
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by codemac 4y ago
wait until you find out about exwm
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by codemac 4y ago
nomodes.com
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by codemac 4y ago
This.. this is not true at all. The comments on his internal post elucidate where the conflict is, but it's a larger strategic choice about where Meta should be investing. It is more about his comments here: https://ventureb
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by codemac 4y ago
meta, metamates, me
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by codemac 4y ago
Almost all your complaints are addressed with the quest pro. Especially the sweat and passthrough are all much better. I just used it yesterday to work w/horizons workrooms while at the office, and being able to see my surroundings was
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by codemac 4y ago
Exactly, thank you. I was going to say - $8/mo per US user would be a failing ad business.
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by codemac 4y ago
> RCS is not end-to-end encrypted RCS uses TLS, which is about as good as iMessage if you turn on iCloud Backups[0], as they just copy your private keys. [0]: https://support.apple.com/guide/security/security-of
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by codemac 4y ago
I used immersed with quest 2, but the resolution still bothered me a lot more than something like beat saber. Now that the quest pro is available, I've already pre-ordered it for this use case. I'd love every project I work on to
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by codemac 4y ago
> But we cannot PR chunks because the build cannot fail Could you code review & approve on a branch without those build restrictions, and then have an additional review of a merge commit to main? The "has to build" requirem
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by codemac 4y ago
I've been thinking about this thread a lot, because I did not agree with you at all based on my experience with CL. After a while I realized it - I may have programmed in Common Lisp but never professionally... on a professional code b
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by codemac 4y ago
Archetypes are useful in how you sell yourself. Don't forget that it's not what you are, just how you sell yourself. You can change between these every review cycle, job, career, all you want - no one in management is keeping trac
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by codemac 4y ago
This is what the pixel phone screen feature does for me. The difference between my partner and I's phone frustration is obvious. My unknown calls that are questionable get sent to voicemail nicely with a bot asking them what their name
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by codemac 4y ago
Realistically, people would probably make this some weird macro that is: (peopler-simplifier well people 2 are likely to like this better) This is where generally macros & helper functions in lisp actually produce a new "s
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by codemac 4y ago
> No, they're not. And no, I'm not. And no amount of using coworkers as a crutch for not having a private social life will change that. You can say that, but the data says otherwise[0], with time with friends peaking at ~18 or
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by codemac 4y ago
Really unfortunate, and I think Google is making a long term mistake here. Stadia worked extremely well for me and some friends who all basically didn't want to invest in a gaming tower. I had a theory though, that if you were a seriou

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