dan-robertson

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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
I suspect a lot of the complication here is ultimately due to what the hardware allows, but it’s unfortunate that everything is so underdocumented (or requires reverse engineering). An amazing performance tool is the ‘Processor Trace’ instr
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
So your advice is to treat all interactions with colleagues as one-off transactions and to make sure you try hard to always ‘win’ – demonstrate that they are stupid for not knowing something, try to get them to commit to doing more than the
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by dan-robertson 9mo ago
It’s a funny way of describing things but it seems like sensible advice. Probably lots of people don’t need this lesson explained to them this way, but it probably does click for some people, and getting them to see the bigger picture of wh
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
Is there a more detailed map of the cables somewhere. The map here and on Wikipedia does not match the OP’s resiliency claims.
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
?? The system was completed in 1902. There had already been transatlantic telegraph cables (and I assume others) for many decades.
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
This seems to be a win-win where developers benefit from more work in niche areas, companies benefit by getting better developers for the things they want done, and Igalia gets paid (effectively) for matching the two together, sourcing suff
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
Two things that can have a big impact on SSH throughput are cipher choice and the hardcoded receive buffer size. These are described in the fork https://github.com/rapier1/hpn-ssh Maybe that will be useful for thinking
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
A few random thoughts: 1. Perhaps on more modern hardware the thing to do with badly behaved senders is not ‘hang on to unfull packets for 40ms’ but another policy could still work, e.g. eagerly send the underfilled packet, but wait the amo
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
This just seems pretty wrong. Obviously there were also lots of bad things the Americans did, but that doesn’t mean they weren’t attempting to realize those ideals. The US was quite influential in ending colonialism by Britain and France ac
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
I think China also made it difficult to invest in China.
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
These sorts of prompts used to be quite important when DALL-E was new. I do feel like a lot of the article is just that prompts should be written differently though I think there’s some truth in the idea that nanobanana feels less artistic
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
Businesses sign contracts about what happens when the data is uploaded. Ultimately your purpose is to make money more than maximally locking down your IP.
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
I think 1700 is not the best year to use, depending on the place. Rural people in 1700 England were quite different from most peasants who have ever lived – they were in a relatively advanced monetary economy, literacy rates were high, secu
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
People sometimes say that people in the past would have been familiar with the idea that mortality is high and therefore fine when half their children died. While there would have been cultural rituals in these cases, it seems like there is
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
Wouldn’t an alternative be to increase watch time by making each show desirable to a larger set of people. That wouldn’t necessarily require quality to decrease?
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by dan-robertson 10mo ago
More different shows each with fewer seasons seems better to me. I suppose if you compare to YouTube it seems that view preference is for both a lot of variety and for those shows to have many similar episodes and doing both while maintaini
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Haskell is a bit tricky to talk about here because it has other big differences on laziness and suchlike, and this means there are pervasive monads. If you instead consider a language more like JavaScript where async functions return values
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
This solves a problem for library authors which is that blocking and event-based io implementations of functionality look the same but are not actually the same so users end up complaining when you do one but not the other. It adds a proble
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Reader monad is a fancy way of saying ‘have the ability to read some constant value throughout the computation’. So here they mean the io value that is passed between functions.
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
I certainly learned a lot of mathematics at university that I probably wouldn’t have learned without it. Perhaps more importantly was some amount of mathematical maturity. The former has probably not been that useful in my career (idk maybe
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
You’re reading a code of conduct for contributing to the zig project. I don’t think everything there is guidance for everything written in zig, eg ‘English is encouraged’ is something one might not want for a project written in zig by nativ
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
When I open the link there is a table of information before the main RFC text. One row is titled ‘formats’ in bold and has a ‘htmlized’ link in it. Presumably that is what you were missing due to some understandable banner blindness.
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Maybe one thing to keep in mind is that there are a big range of colleges in the US. If you go to a poorly regarded party school then probably you have a good time and maybe even get some useful connections out of it, but the main advantage
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Maybe one advantage is there aren’t things like syntax errors to deal with, or naming things. The structure makes things purely functional and allows for multiple outputs from a block as well as optional inputs. Seems to me that it removes
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Is Indeed seeing much of the tech job market? I never considered looking for a job there over LinkedIn.
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
In World War II, it was in hindsight a poor decision for the Royal Navy to stick with coal and an expectation of nearby friendly ports to refuel. The USN having oil-burning ships that could be more easily refuelled at sea meant an increased
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
One advantage nuclear may have in the UK is in the per-Megawatt planning applications required, purely by the energy generation being more concentrated. Of course, while people hate wind turbines and solar panels, they _really_ hate nuclear
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
The Royal Navy only uses nuclear power for submarines, at least for now (unlike USN which uses it for big aircraft carriers)
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
1. Why would McKinsey etc be interested in a well-functioning government? Best argument I have is that if the economy grows then government (and private) spending on consulting may grow. 2. Note that the consulting firms already managed to
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by dan-robertson 11mo ago
Either way we’re totally cooked

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