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by dadadad100 3y ago
I’ve never looked at NTP so I followed a link here to RFC 1305. I found this gem of humility. > Note that since some time in 1968 the most significant bit (bit 0 of the integer part) has been set and that the 64-bit field will overflow
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Is it also age? As I got old (50s) I could feel it hitting more. It’s stronger now (60s)
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Good point. My comment was mostly about “essentials”. If your “essentials” includes Asian or south-Asian essentials then we have those too and love going there almost as an excursion. And those stores are also small, to the OP.
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by dadadad100 3y ago
We’ve got a costco and an Aldi in the same parking lot. Between the two we rarely have to go elsewhere. To the point of the OP, I think Aldi by itself is bringing down the average size of stores. Great European quality stuff at ridiculously
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by dadadad100 3y ago
This seems to be in roughly the same space as the radius project[1] out of Microsoft. They are a data structure rather than a language, but the idea of merging the application and infrastructure seems similar. Is there a place for one appl
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Yep. Sloppy on my part. Suggested better title above but I can’t change it myself.
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by dadadad100 3y ago
OP here. Happy to change the title to “on the effectiveness of ChatGPT for GitHub users”. Sloppy reading on my part. Sorry
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Italy did an accidental experiment on the effectiveness of GitHub Copilot(arxiv.org)
23 points by dadadad100 3y ago|16 comments
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by dadadad100 3y ago
By turning off access to GPTs the Italian government showed how their country’s developers felt about copilot
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Here,s a deep, deep dive into AGC rope memory. My mental model was stuck on core memory until I saw this and finally got the difference. Tl;dr Way higher information density. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hckwxq8rnr0
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Obligatory shoutout to curiousmarc and Mike Stewart. I’m stunned by the amount of work that have put into making this national treasure (partly) operational again [0] https://www.curiousmarc.com/space/apollo-guidance-c
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by dadadad100 3y ago
A long time ago I worked at a company trying to commercialize a visual programming framework for general use. And before that I was on a team that built a visual programming environment to define simulation models for the largest flight&#x2
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by dadadad100 3y ago
If you crashed trying to ensure your antenna was optimally oriented then you chose “communicate” over “aviate”. It’s a stretch, but the point is to clearly define your priorities and stick to them, even in a panic
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Thanks for this. I didn’t know there was a name for this technique. If you listened to RFK jr on Lex recently you heard many many examples. And also Trump. I’ve only heard it described as “flood the zone with shit”, which is a reference to
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by dadadad100 3y ago
Philosophize This! podcast did a 4 parter on Simone Weil earlier this year. Stephen West does easily accessible introductions to philosophy. He started 10 years ago with the pre-socratics. Quite a ride. https://www.philosophizeth
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by dadadad100 3y ago
> FWIW I usually start my code or refactoring requests with a "please" - it's not that I think it'll find it rude, but I think it's just how I was taught manners) This is right on point. You have been aligned as
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by dadadad100 3y ago
In French also [1] [1] https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/French/Alphabet
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by dadadad100 3y ago
This one reminded me that this is a well-studied problem. It turns out cooperation is nearly optimal [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Evolution_of_Cooperation
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by dadadad100 4y ago
This is an entry into the application AuthZ world. The space is in need of a general approach to get away from ad hoc solutions in every application or in the IDP. Cedar falls somewhere between OPA with its datalog (prolog) based search app
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by dadadad100 4y ago
These things happen very often and there could be many explanations. Every time the President moves one is declared. There is a permanent one at Beale AFB, CA. And there are permanent ones at Disneyland and Disney World. Any aviation mappin
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by dadadad100 4y ago
“The thick of it” is right up there. Less about the process and more about the bullying. It’s creator then created Veep.
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by dadadad100 4y ago
The software is good, but your point is about the flight model. The flight model is all about tuning. That was not my area but I watched it being done. It started with curves from the flight testing program and then many hours of trial and
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by dadadad100 4y ago
Avionics, sadly is not like this anymore. When I started in avionics (late 70s, when this instrument was state of the art) I was fixing some radios that still had tubes, a mechanical crystal carriers that got moved to change frequency. In 1
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by dadadad100 4y ago
Merry Christmas, happy holidays and the best of the season to all. Thanks dang.
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by dadadad100 4y ago
DAPR[1] comes at this problem from the other direction. It creates an abstract infra that any language can use [1] https://dapr.io/
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by dadadad100 4y ago
That is what freeze spray is for
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by dadadad100 4y ago
Back in the dark ages when I fixed avionics (I grew up and went into software) I was faced with many intermittent hardware failures. The standard procedure was to use freeze spray. One component at a time. I had a lot of theoretical educati
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Airlines closing seats because we (and our stuff) are getting heavier(airinsight.com)
3 points by dadadad100 4y ago|1 comments
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by dadadad100 4y ago
The FAA is changing how airlines compute average passenger weight. The default is going up by 20 pounds. This will put some planes overweight if they sell all their seats
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by dadadad100 4y ago
Thank you for this link. I’ve been looking for a good discussion of the browse vs search argument and this is very, very good

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