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by dirkc 4y ago
I feel for the poor person that now has to clean up that mess :( I've been that person in the past and it was no fun
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by dirkc 4y ago
Yeah, I have unpleasant real analysis memories of frantically taking notes while the lecturer stood facing the blackboard writing down proofs. But, I made it in the end and I have it on good authority now that 1 is indeed bigger than 0!
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by dirkc 4y ago
Two reasons I can think of 1. A moon day is 28 earth days, thus 14 days of darkness 2. Ice are in permanently shaded areas near the poles of the moon, it might be easier to setup satellites to beam down power rather than setting up in 2 loc
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by dirkc 4y ago
I would imagine that population growth follows something like a sigmoid growth curve. Having birth rates slow down is to be expected once humans reaches carrying capacity. I wouldn't worry about humanity fading out - I mean, reaching a
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by dirkc 4y ago
A less stringent requirement would be to "build for longevity" and part of that could be planning for the end. Because things do end and that isn't always bad.
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by dirkc 4y ago
About the only point I agree with is the "Lorem Ipsum" point. To put it in another way, try to design with realistic data. Eg designing a grid layout with lorem ipsum filler content can easily lead to not addressing issues when pr
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by dirkc 4y ago
> Therefore, our only hope for superlinear productivity lies in changing the task which is being executed. This is the key insight for me. If you're adding people to a team but you're not putting them in a position to affect wh
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by dirkc 4y ago
I would state this as "you'd be surprised by what you can do with a monolith on a single server"
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by dirkc 4y ago
There are several images in the article that I think would make great t-shirts for developers!
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by dirkc 4y ago
It still feels like my Sony Vaio from 2012 had a better screen than my current laptop. I would have liked to keep that screen with the rest being new.
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by dirkc 4y ago
ZeroMQ [1] - it's sockets on steroids. I've used it to do distributed load testing using a small javascript program, a script written in python to cache aggregated results for a big database and as a transport for high performance
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by dirkc 4y ago
There is an argument to be made that a recipe is code, it just runs on a different platform
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by dirkc 4y ago
I've used it for a long time before switching to Arch and then Ubuntu. When using Gentoo I used to know more about the different subsystems running - it was a function of seeing what needs to recompile when you update and also having t
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by dirkc 4y ago
There used to be a project that kind if did this: https://beagle-project.org/ . It's long since defunct and I'm always surprised that nothing emerged to fill the gap? EDIT: I did a bit of Wikipedia rabbit holing on
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by dirkc 4y ago
I've never considered using Celery on it's own - it's part of my typical web app stack. Do you mind sharing some examples of how you're using celery?
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by dirkc 4y ago
I remember seeing that video or some other demonstrating that input! I wonder if in the parallel reality where that idea took off people are now using the finger motions as a new alphabet for writing on paper :)
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by dirkc 4y ago
Does that take any enjoyment out of reading for you? I tried speed reading for a brief stint, but then decided to stop. For me reading a good book is like savoring good food, I wouldn't want to chug it down.
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by dirkc 4y ago
The reason I really like text for a lot of note taking is that I find it a lot easier to use compared to a word processor. Word processors tries to be smart about formatting, but never fails to annoy me. I still struggle editing the text of
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by dirkc 4y ago
Rough, hand-drawn diagrams and spreadsheets are where my text-based note taking system falls apart.
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Thoughts on using web components for a small SPA(thebacklog.net)
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by dirkc 4y ago
> blockchains to fingerprint their behavior and build an unbreakable chain of authenticity. Later in that book that is used to authorize the hardware access of the deceased and uploaded individuals. maybe I misunderstood, but I had it th
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by dirkc 5y ago
I have fond memories of the algorithm. Two practical things I've used it for are 1. fitting flat surfaces to a point cloud 2. assigning people to study groups based on music tastes (they picked a few artists they liked I used to echone
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by dirkc 5y ago
It sounds like you've had some bad experiences, sorry for the bad ones :( I've had my own experiences and perspective, some good some less so. It's important to remember that making anything concrete requires tradeoffs to be
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by dirkc 5y ago
> submitting design and usability improvements to open source projects What format does this take. My experience is that more often than not, design and usability improvements are abstract (mockups) and requires implementation by someone
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by dirkc 5y ago
I did this a very long time ago, really helped me understand what goes into building a running linux environment. I also had expensive dial-up internet at the time, so had some lessons in patience too! I still recommend this to people inter
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by dirkc 5y ago
while `rm -rf` is intimidating, it's `fdisk /dev/hda` that strikes fear into my heart
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by dirkc 5y ago
Just want to confirm I understand the issue here. 1. `docker run -p 0.0.0.0:6666:6666 ...` - docker will update the firewall to allow traffic to port 6666 2. `docker run -p 127.0.0.1:6666:6666 ...` - docker won't update the firewall. 3
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by dirkc 5y ago
I read the title and for a moment I got excited and thought, that's a good idea, what if using a website was like using a program that operates on a file with all my data in there and next time I want to use the site I need to open my
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by dirkc 6y ago
Wow, that platform moving does seem painfully slow!
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by dirkc 6y ago
Read up on Jonathan Blow [1], sounds like you might like his philosophy. The short of it is that he believes time is valuable and should be respected. I also love Braid, a game he made. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F

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