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This is cool! I can definitely second the recommendation for those two books, they really opened my eyes to the basics of what is going on under the hood of a compiler. Recently I've been trying to target Monkeylang to Webassembly whic
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution ~ Steven Levy The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder
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> What mechanism is it that made these political/buisness/celebrity figures more likely to catch it? Outside of meeting a lot of people, shaking hands, lots of contact etc it's worth remembering that they probably have muc
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People in this thread (and the original article) emphasise building stuff to help you get job interviews and do better in your job. I'd argue that's the wrong way of looking at it, yes having something to show might be a signal bo
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Oh yes absolutely, I come from a family who work in jobs where WFH would be impossible so it's definitely something I'm not taking for granted.
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I was just in the US (San Francisco) for new employee orientation and they sent us all home 1 day early because they feared something like this would happen, especially after the Europe ban came into force. What's amusing is after retu
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> Higher prices are also a deterrent against hoarding, particularly in the days leading up to a disaster. To be on the safe side, many consumers are inclined to buy more than enough of whatever they think they'll need. The more expe
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UK folk should head to https://www.reddit.com/r/UKPersonalFinance/ I've always been interested in personal finance, but this community has helped me learn new things and everyone is very supportive.
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There was a time in racing/car based video games where a lot of licensed vehicles could only suffer superficial damage in the game, due to onerous policies like this. Its look hilarious when you crashed into a wall at 120mph and drove
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Is there a database file format that supports columnar storage query able via SQL? For OLAP style queries. I've tried SQLite for this usecase but the query falls down when querying millions of rows. I know there is parquet file format
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I've been making my way through "Writing an Intepreter in Go" and "Writing a compiler in Go" https://interpreterbook.com/ The Go stuff is really just a means to an end, the real value comes from the
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Very enjoyable read, thank you. I'd imagine simply turning off the "User Experience Program" opt-in is a flaky setting that probably gets reverted to "on" when you do updates etc A better option is to install Little
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I used to be a prime member, for quite a number of years, but I cancelled it as I didn't feel I was getting the value out of it that I originally thought I was. There's a break even point somewhere where the cost of shipping vs. n
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I played a really small role when looking at some caching data for a system another team run (their logs are ingested and processed by us) and noticed that a lot of the time the content requested is only requested once - this is sometimes r
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Does this include retweets? I'm mostly a passive twitter user who mostly likes/retweets tweets that pique my interest. I wonder if these companies evaluate what sort of things you are liking/endorsing and associating that wit
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I thought iBooks would be my answer to this, but for PDFs it just opens OSX Preview so you don't get the page syncing feature.
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I've given up with trying to find The One True Note Taking Tool, so have ended up writing my own thing that I tinker with now and again to tune it to exactly what I need. It's essentially a simple web server that sits on top of a
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Good luck Brad, you were one of the reasons I got into Go in the first place!
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Really enjoyed reading this, thanks. While I'm no way near mathematically capable (yet) of understanding the jargon the author uses later on in the post (e.g. "randomized singular value decomposition"), I'm glad he puts
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I've got some gaming ones I have on rotation all the time, but the rest I tend to dip in and out if I see something in the show notes/title that looks interesting.
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I'm not sure what is meant by impactful, but for me the most interesting podcasts this year have all been miniseries, namely * 13 Minutes to the Moon (13 episodes) - a documentary about the 13 minutes leading up to the first moon landi
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Emulating a gameboy is a fun project, I highly recommend it. The most patience testing element of it is you won't really see any direct results for quite a while, but once you get that Nintendo logo scrolling down the screen, achieved
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If you're hosting a static site on shared infrastructure (e.g. github pages, S3) where access logs are hard to come by, you can achieve some level of statistics gathering using a 1x1 pixel GIF and putting a CDN in front of it, then put
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There's a lot of things in this article that I agree with whole heartedly. A few weeks ago I posted this comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21650908 which shares some of the same frustrations. Another thing t
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I got to preview this service (the code review service) a few weeks ago. The best thing about it was the recommendations on how to use the AWS SDK better as that's probably got the most potential to drift or make mistakes on
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I guess I focussed too much on the PDF aspect, my desire is some sort of system where if I annotate something, be it a PDF, website, image, text file or whatever, I'd like the contents of that annotation (with maybe some context/m
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One thing I hate about annotation in general is everything is siloed. For example, I have an app on my iPad called PDF Viewer (I think) which is pretty good and has lots of annotating features. I've often used it to highlight pieces of
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Article doesn't link to any study, so I don't know the method. However, I wish email had like a feature that's something akin to the Slack reaction emojis, say a thumbs up or something. Sometimes I've sent emails asking
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Uganda, it's in the article about 3/4 of the way down
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Another aspect of the OneCoin scam is they targeted people from the Muslim community by using a fake certificate/endorsement that suggested OneCoin was Sharia compliant.

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