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by dhosek 2y ago
The kids these days don‘t know how to use their cars. They go to mechanics to do something basic like change the oil or replace the brake pads when they could spend a few hours doing it themselves in a half-assed way.
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by dhosek 2y ago
So I stopped at the bit about the proxies because seriously, I’ve had to care about proxies almost never in the last 11 years. If your network is set up to require some special proxy setting, it shouldn’t be a network that people sign into
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by dhosek 2y ago
I mostly use my real name, largely as a consequence of doing so back when I was first exposed to the predecessors of the internet in the 80s and wanting to establish a reputation for myself. I tend to be either dhosek/Don Hosek (for mo
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by dhosek 2y ago
You mean the resident-elect and sorry, he’s incapable of not saying stupid shit.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I do a yearly post of my favorite reads of the year ( https://www.dahosek.com/my-favorite-reads-of-2024/ ) and this year I noted, “there are only three male authors on my top reads for the year and only five white author
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by dhosek 2y ago
I think at the staff level, the key is to focus on multiplying the efforts of the team at the expense of your own individual productivity.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Luck plays a lot of a role in many vaguely similar things. I regularly submit fiction and poetry for publication (with acceptance rates of 2% for fiction and 1.5% for poetry) and so much depends on things well out of my control (which is pa
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by dhosek 2y ago
Tt’s worth noting that this article makes it sound like ICON invented everything from scratch, but the technology is much older than the company.
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by dhosek 2y ago
This page from Cemex might answer some of your questions https://www.cemexventures.com/3d-printing-in-construction/
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by dhosek 2y ago
My parents’ home, built in the 1950s was built from pre-fabricated components. From what my dad says (his mother was the original owner of the home), the fit of walls was very poor and they had to do a lot of patching to fill in gaps betw
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by dhosek 2y ago
When I was working at USC-ISI back in 2009–10, there was a project about doing 3D printing for construction taking place there back then. I was a bit surprised to learn that not only was this company not derived from those efforts, but acco
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by dhosek 2y ago
The hardest thing for me to believe in The Martian was that one of the astronauts would have brought a book with a printed ASCII table in it.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Given that in my (small, employer-mandated) explorations with Copilot autocompletions it’s offered incorrect suggestions about a third of the time and seems to like to also suggest deprecated APIs, I’m skeptical about the current generation
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by dhosek 2y ago
It’s because amateur radio operators also enjoy Serrano ham.
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by dhosek 2y ago
The era of 4-digit Mac names was such a mess, trying to figure out which one was the best option available at your price point, One of the best things Steve Jobs did on his return was to trim the number of Mac models to a minimum. When my e
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by dhosek 2y ago
Levers are brain computer interfaces.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I was initially reading it as LL V M performance and thought, “how cool” and then I realized the V was missing and stopped caring.
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by dhosek 2y ago
We’ll be free of that as well.
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by dhosek 2y ago
Come January 21st, expect junk fees to explode. But don’t worry, as long as you make at least $10,000,000 per year, you’ll get a huge tax cut.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I remember learning about chirality from an Isaac Asimov article about “left-handed” sugar which, while it tastes the same as normal sugar, is unable to be metabolized by our digestive systems. I would imagine that something similar would c
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by dhosek 2y ago
The state law stuff only applies to unpublished sound recordings. Anything published has copyright terms fixed by federal law (although the terms differ from other copyrightable works which I did not know before googling this matter), but f
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by dhosek 2y ago
But if you want to go really hard core, the thing to do is to build a mechanical Babbage-style machine that will calculate those 50,000,000 primes and print them letterpress.
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by dhosek 2y ago
You just reminded me of when I bought my first PC in 1990 and one of my former professors, on learning I had bought it with a 200MB hard drive declared that I was crazy to buy such a large hard drive because I would never fill it up.¹ ⸻ 1.
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by dhosek 2y ago
The IBM mainframe I had access to in the 80s at University of Illinois of Chicago had quotas of compute time (that reset on a weekly basis). Since I worked in the computer center, I had an account that had a larger quota (or possibly unlimi
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by dhosek 2y ago
I’d assumed this was in reference to the rebuilding after the White House was burned in the war of 1812, I had no idea about this reconstruction which is really fascinating.
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by dhosek 2y ago
The author is confusing .map(…) with the Map interface for collections.
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by dhosek 2y ago
The other problem with the parallel streams is that it’s badly implemented. Threads for parallel streams are pulled from a single thread pool shared across the whole application so if you have multiple parallel streams in an application th
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by dhosek 2y ago
It’s interesting to note that performance of a for loop versus the functional-style mechanism varies by language. On Java, there is a performance penalty (possibly shrunken since Java 8) for using the FP idioms while in Rust, they end up mu
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by dhosek 2y ago
I told him about the match and told him he only had 7 years to be the new youngest chess world champion and he told me that he didn’t want to be a world champion, he just wanted to play. I approve of this philosophy.
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by dhosek 2y ago
I always wanted to do a trio version of this with my brothers with me on double bass, one brother on banjo and the third on violin, but alas, my oldest brother died before it could move beyond just being a dream.

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