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by dvirsky 6y ago
Astronomical referred to memory, for disks I called it "massive".
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Very cool idea! Still would require unrealistic amounts of memory for a 1994 desktop but super cool :)
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Of course, but you'd still need an array of a few dozens of those.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
> Even a Boolean vector taking just 1 bit per element would have to be more than 3e10 bytes long, so it was clear that the problem had to be partitioned. That's 28GB. That's just astronomical in those days' terms, even st
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What? Half of Ubuntu's internal stuff is written in Python. They've switched to Python 3 but I've never heard of Ubuntu without Python.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
cat was just to demonstrate using it on streams. A more common use case would be to pipe some curl to it to see some API output, or grep some log file.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
but you are out of command-line once you do that. The whole point of this guide is that you can combine all these tools together.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What Linux distro do you use that it doesn't have Python on it?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
jq doesn't come pre-installed with every OS, python's json.tool does. So it's always there when you need it, no installation required, which is why I put it the same category of all those classic command-line tools.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
The python utils section missed the very cool json.tool that can pretty print JSON files (and exists on your OS if it includes Python): cat /tmp/foo.json | python -m json.tool https://docs.python.org/3/library
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by dvirsky 6y ago
My career has soared since I've had kids. I don't think it's because of that (and who knows, maybe it would have soared even more had I not had kids) but it also didn't drag me down in any way.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
My general experience, at least in start-ups, has been the exact opposite. In a good company with great culture and good compensation, strong talent was usually in for the long haul, and those who don't find their place leave after a y
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by dvirsky 6y ago
For L1 there's no issue.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
What no mention of the fact that $FLASHY_LANGUAGE doesn't have generics?
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by dvirsky 6y ago
It kind of depends on whether you like it or not I guess.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I keep a copy of some very old code, from 15ish years ago, and I've peeked into it a few times in recent years when facing similar problems to what I've solved there, only to be horrified by what a pile of garbage that was. So the
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Super popular in Israel, nearly everyone has them, unless it's a tall building where there's not enough roof surface area. It will pay for itself in electricity savings in a year or so.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
I wonder how much usage of solar water heaters exists in these countries. It's a dead simple technology that works amazingly well in sunny areas, and saves tons of electricity when deployed at scale.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Part of it might just be due to not being native to English. Even if you're fluent, translating lyrics is super hard. I've seen many examples of great songs written in my native language (Hebrew) that just sounded so shallow and l
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Interesting. Can you give an example? I've never bothered to translate the German lyrics.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
If you consider all the trade-offs (performance / simplicity / security / etc), and you need to create robust RPC services, whether microservices or outward facing API frontends - Go (to me at least) will be the best choice c
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by dvirsky 6y ago
In general good "experienced professional programmers" don't have one "tool of choice" but their tool of choice varies by what they're doing. I would choose Go for a lot of things, but not for everything.
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by dvirsky 6y ago
> Go is not the tool of choice for experienced professional programmers [citation needed]
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by dvirsky 6y ago
Some unofficial details on NYT: "...A formal order temporarily barring the provision of new green cards and work visas could come as early as the next few days, according to several people familiar with the plan... Under such an execut
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by dvirsky 7y ago
You might be okay, time to reach out to your recruiter.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Or just work in a company that is ethical and provides something useful. I'm just saying working for B2B SaaS is not necessarily covering that base.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
I worked for a good B2B SaaS, and while I was able to tell myself I'm not doing anything unethical or immoral, and while some of the customers were indeed very valuable (in terms of value to their customers) Fortune 500 companies - a l
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by dvirsky 7y ago
At least in Israel no one was using it after ~2005 or so.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
Hangouts still exists, I'm too confused at this stage as to what is what.
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by dvirsky 7y ago
How do ML based lossy codecs compare to state of the art lossy compression? Intuitively it sounds like something AI will do much better. But this is rather cool.

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