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by ddulaney 4y ago
Or it’s indeterminate, which it is. They think it might be a disruptor, but they’re not sure yet. They see that potential, but they don’t have it yet.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Management selling is pretty typical. You'd have to dig into Coinbase specifically, but if a big part of your pay is stock/options, you will generally constantly sell a portion of that. Obviously, a big spike in management sales c
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by ddulaney 4y ago
If you’re interested in some of the individual components, there’s a great 1950’s US Navy training film on the individual components of analog fire control computers here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4 The ideas
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by ddulaney 4y ago
> The government department for land information does make almost all GIS data publicly available That’s awesome! What country is this, if you don’t mind me asking? GIS datasets are really fun to play with.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
What do you mean by conditional-based editing? I've found its language to be pretty concise and readable, especially with the // operator.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I've experienced both sides. My rough sense of it is: If you're in a city or suburb with a Google office, it's spotless, including transit options that are often customized to the city itself. If you're in a city or subu
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by ddulaney 4y ago
It's a reference to a very old (and since removed, at least in my version) Chrome Easter egg where Chrome Task Manager had a hidden column called "Goats Teleported". See https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromi
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by ddulaney 4y ago
On each of the two machines I have immediate access to: $ apropos search apropos: Command not found. Aside from the obvious, man pages just aren’t the answer most of the time. Part of the issue is that a man page is a reference
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Admiral Cloudberg's write-ups are excellent. The MH 370 one is a fascinating read as well, but I'll recommend my favorite air disaster writeup: https://admiralcloudberg.medium.com/lesser-of-two-evils-the-... Nobod
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by ddulaney 4y ago
They were definitely influential, but it's way more complicated and probably has as much to do with The Guerilla Guide to Interviewing, which was Microsoft-based. Here's an article that digs into this specific history: https:&#x2
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by ddulaney 4y ago
But that’s the issue — discoverability. How to get from “I want to search” to man grep or “I plugged in my USB drive and need to get at the files” to man mount/man fstab/man something else. man pages are a decent reference once yo
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I’d say that a big part of it is a lack of discoverability. The reason people copy blindly, especially if they’re new to Unix-likes, is that there are lots of commands with lots of flags, each of which you just kinda have to know about. And
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by ddulaney 4y ago
There are some things from Cosmopolitan that demonstrate its integration with GDB and other standard tools. For example, the article demos ShowCrashReports() which is nicely integrated with GDB. Also --ftrace, not to be confused with the ke
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Logs can definitely be a form of documentation. I write software that is generally run low in the stack, quietly doing some mundane tasks that are business-critical but rarely thought about. If one of our clients has to mess with our softwa
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I was considering Obsidian, and your comment worried me enough to investigate. Looking through that link, though, I don't see anything too absurd. It's a closed-source app, which isn't ideal but is common enough. It looks lik
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by ddulaney 4y ago
One difference between fuel and food is that the fundamental ingredients are cheaper for “meat” than meat. Impossible has huge and ongoing R&D expenses as they try to simulate more things and enter more markets. But at the end of the da
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I worry that this won’t have the effect you want. Some of the worst software I’ve ever used met all aspects of its specification because “be pleasant to use” could not be meaningfully captured in a formal spec. I’m not sure what the solutio
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by ddulaney 4y ago
For me, this is the money quote: > Restoring price stability will take some time and requires using our tools forcefully to bring demand and supply into better balance. Reducing inflation is likely to require a sustained period of below-
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by ddulaney 4y ago
On mobile, hit the arrow at the bottom of the page for more posts.
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by ddulaney 4y ago
This is not true. Either that it’s 50% at 80 or that it is flat after 80. Here’s an actuarial table: https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html Annual chance of dying is 5% at 80 and continues rising every year
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by ddulaney 4y ago
I know this isn’t relevant to the point about usage in 1990, but it shocks me (as somebody born in 1995) that over the course of 4 years you went from being ridiculed over demanding a computer to a computer on everyone’s desk. 4 years!
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by ddulaney 4y ago
Like with everything, there are engineering tolerances. 6061 can have up to 0.15% "Other", as long as no single "Other" component is more than 0.05%. So no more than 0.05% scandium if you want to call it 6061. See https
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by ddulaney 5y ago
You generally have lots of layers of separation between trash and ground. Usually layers of clay and plastic. https://www.epa.gov/landfills/municipal-solid-waste-landfill...
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by ddulaney 5y ago
> Sometimes I need more flexible layout of fonts and graphics That’s the key. For much of my writing, all I need is text with a little formatting, and markdown is great for that as a user. (It’s less nice if you’re writing a parser, but
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by ddulaney 5y ago
Yeah, if you’re never planning on calling exec, vfork doesn’t make much sense. Can I ask how you approach resource management and dependencies in that kind of code base? As the article briefly mentions, using fork without exec means you nee
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by ddulaney 5y ago
vfork halts the parent until the child exits or calls exec, getting its own address space. In the normal case, you vfork and immediately exec, and the parent continues on with what it was doing. The time between vfork and exec is “special”
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by ddulaney 5y ago
“Best” is really subjective and depends on your goals. It’s certainly a nice language, but it’s really a modern take on C++ rather than C. Zig is worth a mention here: it’s a modern take on C, and it tries to avoid the complex features that
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by ddulaney 5y ago
This is a known issue with Rust, for example. I have an enum with variants A and B. Somebody writes an exhaustive switch (match statement) that handles A and B with no default case. I add a variant C. Their code breaks because they don’t ha
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by ddulaney 5y ago
Nobody is clean. Everybody must judge. Not only is it possible for an American to condemn abuse of children, they have a moral duty to do so. It is also a requirement that China hold America to account for what America and Americans have do
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by ddulaney 5y ago
They don’t say, but presumably it’s an average at each X coordinate, and those scores have enough posts that the average converges nicely. As scores go up, each score doesn’t have as many posts and we don’t see the averages converging.

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