ericbarrett

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by ericbarrett 11mo ago
One of the most striking things about this article were the photos of the disguised cameras, especially the ones dressed up as traffic cones and electrical boxes.
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by ericbarrett 11mo ago
Thanks! The first study is interesting because it links axial eye growth inhibition to high light levels, not necessarily being strictly outdoors (UV) nor avoiding close-up activities like reading. Interesting.
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by ericbarrett 11mo ago
I believe that more screen and reading time causes more childhood myopia. That seems hard to refute. I just do not believe, without serious peer-reviewed studies, that "a couple hours a day outside" is the magic cure. Out of my fr
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by ericbarrett 11mo ago
I keep hearing this, but I spent a lot of time outdoors as a child. Hours every day, riding bikes with friends and running around with BB guns in the woods. We played a lot of video games and read books, too, but we spent plenty of time ma
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by ericbarrett 11mo ago
> which was often red tape hell Seconded. I was working for a storage vendor when AWS was first ascendant. After we delivered hardware, it was typically 6-12 weeks to even get it powered up, and often a few weeks longer to complete deplo
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
> "Desert wasteland" teems with life, just maybe not the kind that most people care about. As somebody who lives in the Southwest US, thank you . There are so many people on HN who think the desert is just Martian dunes to be
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Does it even work great for nerds? I have seen a distressing amount of turning host key warnings off, or ignoring the warnings forever, or replacing a host key without any curiosity or investigation. Seems even worse in the cloud, where s
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
> Using modern techniques like higher order methods, scatter-gather arrays (similar to map-reduce), passing by value via copy-on-write, etc, code can be written that works like piping data between unix executables. Everything becomes a s
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Almost every branch of every story in Choose Your Own Adventure books ended with bold, centered text that said: THE END But there was one story I vaguely recall where if you made the "wrong" choice, you fell into a botto
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
I did this when I figured I had exhausted all the branches, to look for oversights and easter eggs. Found a few!
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Proton had a bug that deleted all Steam Cloud saves made on Windows for any game I launched it with. Not sure if it is fixed yet because I'm scared to try again. Beware & make backups
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
There are some older fsync() bugs (as famously explored by Postgres developers: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Fsync_Errors ) but I'm not aware of any modern mainstream kernel where this is broken. If I'm w
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
> We were not permitted to escalate to engineering at all. I have no words! Except that I really want to know the organizational dysfunction that ended up creating that policy.
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
> (you sign away all rights to the things you made free) I don't see that in Autodesk's terms, which (per quick search - not exhaustive) seem to apply to "Fusion for Personal Use": https://www.autodesk.com&
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
SF had a ton of cheap, low-occupancy warehouses in Soma until the mid-late 2000s. Many have since been renovated into swanky offices.
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Agreed, and a great example of the signal often hidden in anodyne corporate titles.
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Did you block cookies?
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
I’ve never had problems getting to any Anubis site even with uBlock origin and uMatrix. You have to enable cookies and scripting for the main domain.
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
That is Anubis trying to get your browser to do proof of work: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Seconded. Pretty sure the narrator is the same voice actor too (Edit) yup: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Ridings
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
Do you mean gtk-rs ( https://gtk-rs.org/ )? I have done a bit of programming with it. I respect the work behind it, but it is a monumental PITA - truly a mismatch of philosophies and design - and I would a thousand times ra
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
I once got asked to write a Levenshtein edit distance calculator for a “15 minute” SRE phone screen
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by ericbarrett 1y ago
For me, XXX is a mental note to "fix this before your next pull request." If I'm being serious I'll set up CI to reject any code with a comment containing this string. So in that sense it would be the highest priority.
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
I am neither a mathematician nor a scientist, so I’m unqualified to judge Wolfram’s current theories* of physics and computation. But my impression is that he remains quite rigorous in his work, even if the path he’s walking is far from the
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
I'm not sure this is still true. I'm just a hobbyist but esp-idf, for example, supports C++23.
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
Indeed, the NYPD has 33,000 officers and Belgium's armed forces have 24,000 serving plus 6000 reserve. They also have very similar budgets: $6b vs. €7b.
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
Sometimes I stand in the sun and feel it as hot as a nearby oven on my skin. Then I consider that I'm receiving about 1e-24 of its radiant energy. I don't blame our ancestors!
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
Among other things, the USB host polls the keyboard at a fixed rate. Fantastic breakdown if you have 30 minutes: https://youtu.be/wdgULBpRoXk
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
The alignment greatly reduced the amount of energy/propellant/weight to launch the Voyager missions with all four of the outer planets on the menu. Alignments that allow you to reach a smaller set of the outer planets with the sam
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by ericbarrett 2y ago
A query for a given item goes to a router*, as you said, that directs it to a given shard which holds the data. I don't know Uber's schema, but usually the data is "denormalized" and you are not doing too many JOINs etc.

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