emilecantin

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by emilecantin 3y ago
Yes, Javascript is used in browsers and has a few different competing runtimes, and as such, there are a lot of resources invested in making it faster than the other runtimes. As a result, except in only very trivial cases, Javascript is on
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by emilecantin 3y ago
For charging a laptop, it's usually easy to tell by the thickness of the cable.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I presume that the "limb" the EFF attorney went on is basically what would've been disputed in a court of law. It's easily argued that if an app is so badly configured that just _following the Firebase protocol_ can give
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by emilecantin 3y ago
90% of the article is about HOW the ratings are taken into consideration...
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Well, it says WEB applications, so presumably this is something that will run in a browser, which implies some flavour of Javascript. Tangentially, I've been interested in this space for a while, and I have a few in-progress projects b
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by emilecantin 3y ago
If I recall correctly, Apple went straight to 64 bits during the Intel transition. If they didn't, it wasn't long after so devs were still in the process of porting over to Intel anyway.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
I self-host Pancake, I like it.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
Re-read TFA. He didn't just post a transcript, he posted an actual recording.
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by emilecantin 3y ago
They're still designing it, and learning to build it (building the "machine that builds the machine"). They've already scrapped booster 4 / ship 20 without even a test flight. Today's rocket was a byproduct of
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I guess this might work in a pure SaaS environment, but our product has an on-premise version (think Jira data-center), so what keeps us from releasing more often is the maintenance burden that imposes on our customers.
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by emilecantin 4y ago
On the opposite end, my degree was in computer engineering... We studied everything from circuits (analog & digital) to networks; even going into CPU design (we had to add an instruction to a MIPS CPU). It didn't make me an expert
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by emilecantin 4y ago
> I have these images in my mind of massive land areas devastated by strip-mining and other activities just to be "clean" in lands far and away from the mines. Because extracting petrol is so much cleaner... Our civilization is
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by emilecantin 4y ago
The "standard" radio on boats is the marine VHF, which is voice-only except for Digital Selective Calling (DSC). DSC is present on "newer" / more expensive radios so it's not a guarantee that a given boat has i
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by emilecantin 4y ago
> I wouldn't say our infrastructure is good I meant, at least there are sidewalks, designated crossings, and pedestrian lights at intersections. Can't really say the same for other states.
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by emilecantin 4y ago
Sharing beyond a boat's internal network isn't much used yet except for a few use-cases. You need to have a way for the individual boats to share that data. The most obvious way would be to have access to the internet, and host a
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by emilecantin 4y ago
Not sure what regulation you're talking about; the only existing standards in this space are either proprietary to one manufacturer (e.g Raymarine's Seatalk), or just industry consensus (e.g NMEA). There's no regulation enfor
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by emilecantin 4y ago
Minor nitpick: NMEA0183 is a text format (based on "sentences"), it's at the protocol layer, RS-422 is the most common transport layer but we often carry it over UDP or TCP too. SignalK can convert and output your data in NME
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I've been traveling down the US east coast in a sailboat last fall, so I was a pedestrian every time I went ashore. The northern states weren't so bad in terms of safety; in Gloucester MA cars would stop to let you cross as soon a
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I've used MacOS for about 15 years now, and I almost _never_ use full-screen [1]. What I do instead is group windows in the different desktops by task / context. These windows are mostly sized to take ~80-90% of the screen, but I
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I have a MarineTraffic antenna at home, and it uses a Comar AIS receiver. The first one I got was a purpose-built device, but they later sent me an "upgraded" version from this series: https://comarsystems.com/prod
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by emilecantin 4y ago
His fictional story reminds me of the Homebrew 2.7 debacle: https://github.com/Homebrew/discussions/discussions/340 TL;DR: They deprecated "brew cask install" in version 2.6, then removed it in vers
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I've done something similar back in university (a course about signal processing); we were reading some kind of 2d pattern which had alignment marks like a QR code. There was also some (artificial) distortion done on the image so we ha
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by emilecantin 4y ago
Looks like it's basically Upwork with a dark theme. If this focuses on high-quality work and doesn't become a race to the bottom, it could be nice, but I doubt it. As a freelancer, I'm very wary of tying my income to a third-
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I've seen a lot of chatter about tail calls, but I don't think I've ever seen actual examples of what they look like. Does anyone use them or is it just something for language nerds to obsess about?
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I've always just dragged the file to the terminal window...
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by emilecantin 4y ago
MAX happened because the logical change (tweak the body / landing gear of the plane to accomodate the larger engine) would've been too onerous because of the FAA rules, so they fixed it in a stupid way that complied with the FAA r
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I don't know erlang, but honestly it's much easier to grasp / easier to avoid footguns with callbacks than threads. The main "issue" is callback pyramids when you have a lot of dependent callbacks, but that's s
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by emilecantin 4y ago
Yeah, but V8 is Chrome's engine, which _is_ in competition for fastest engine against Safari, Firefox & Edge (although Edge isn't much of a competitor anymore).
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by emilecantin 4y ago
I wouldn't lump JavaScript / Node.js with the other interpreted languages. While it may look similar on the surface, JS has an advantage over most other languages: It's used in browsers, and as such, there's an arms race
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by emilecantin 5y ago
Most recent newcomers to Mac and ex-Windows users get tripped up by the fullscreen windows, which are honestly pretty bad. The way to use MacOS is to use the Spaces to group windows by theme / task. For example, I have one space where

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