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by fnord123 6y ago
The Qt version worked. Then they released a terrible Electron version around 2016. You couldn't make video calls in the Linux version. This constitutes not working. I stopped using it. I just installed the snap now and it seems a lot b
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by fnord123 6y ago
Teams is also pretty snappy for the first month or so. But once you use it for about 8 months, it's just so painfully slow; it will take multiple seconds to switch channel. I suspect it's because they use sqlite under the hood for
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by fnord123 6y ago
More food for thought: https://bitbucket.org/ewanhiggs/csv-game/src/master/README.m...
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by fnord123 6y ago
>Perl in serial is already faster to run than Python Not it isn't. >The only reason that stuff like tensorflow or numpy is not as dog slow as the rest of python is that they are bindings to c(++) or fortran libs. So if I make a f
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by fnord123 6y ago
Title is "How Zoom works". It's a good article with valid points but nothing about Skype. The editorialized title "Turns out Zoom isn't all that different to Skype after all" has no appreciation for how hostile
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by fnord123 6y ago
With car share schemes, the value of buying a car when you only use it occasionally is greatly diminished while a cargo bike can be used daily for the school run. But it depends where you are. American towns and cities are largely built for
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by fnord123 6y ago
>No, no it's not really. Then maybe I only used broken ones with no perceptible key travel whatsoever.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I eventually threw away my apple keyboards from 2005 so they are literally garbage. Regarding the 2017 keyboards, I'm not even talking about the fault rate. They had no escape key and the key travel was too small so it was like typing
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by fnord123 6y ago
The 2019 MacBook keyboards are ok. The ones before were worthless. The ones in 2005 had jitter resulting pro keyboards in double key presses rendering them also total garbage.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I haven't had a McDonald's hamburger for many years. You are partly correct that it is because of my perception that it is trash. But when I walk by a McDonald's it doesn't smell like food to me anymore and smells more a
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by fnord123 6y ago
> I dunno what your experience is like, but I have seen this scenario repeat itself many many times in many places: someone is rewriting something without fully understanding what the old thing did, blindly proclaiming that their rewrite
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by fnord123 6y ago
This is only delightful when you are doing synchronous computation or you have async/await in the language. Until Loom is available, using this same pattern with CompletableFuture breaks in the face of try-with-resources. Also I don&#x
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by fnord123 6y ago
Red Line - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiFjyqRfkpo Ninja Scroll - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaXJI339uQs
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by fnord123 6y ago
>And they'll be much faster than any custom compression scheme on top of another data store. As usual, it depends on the situation and what's being measured. For example, if you are able to batch a lot, then write performance o
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by fnord123 6y ago
Yes absolutely. However if you are aggressive in getting performance then you're likely to do things like batching the data and storing compressed blobs in the db and the rest of the row is essentially just metadata to the blob. Once y
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by fnord123 6y ago
You could have made a timeseries db. There's nothing magic about it. It's just a collection of engineering tradeoffs where you throw away relational features and indexes on various fields, instead focusing on performance for the h
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by fnord123 6y ago
>Postgres is truly an exception that proves the rule. That's not what "an exception that proves the rule" means. It means "you may walk here" implies (proves the rule) there is a rule that you can't walk els
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by fnord123 6y ago
Safely allowing protests to take place and let people have their say without fear of rubber bullets in their faces is a fantastic way to run a civilization.
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by fnord123 6y ago
That's right. Depending on the law and the context, if the police don't enforce it then there are fewer problems. That's pretty much what Superintendent Andy Bennett said in the video.
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by fnord123 6y ago
There is one UK example which is actually a counter example where the police allowed a statue to be destroyed instead of intervening and creating a potentially dangerous altercation.
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by fnord123 6y ago
In the case of everything working smoothly that model may play out. But if you get a client that times out, or worse, a slow connection then they used one of your workers for a long time in a synchronous model. In the async model this has l
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by fnord123 6y ago
tbh the only source of truth is the code. Documentation and comments are all lies! shakes fist
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by fnord123 6y ago
I think it's a tongue in cheek way to say that they are teaching their 10 year old child to code and they have had to shave some painful yaks.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Maybe I am a stupid layman but isn't that mouse pad basically a low power induction cooker? Am I superstitious to not want to keep my hand on an induction cooker for hours per day?
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by fnord123 6y ago
It's more stuff that can go wrong. I understand why you would want a wired mouse for a weird setup where you don't want a wire from the mouse or /can't/ have a wire from the mouse to the machine. But I don't se
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by fnord123 6y ago
>In theory we should be able to get rid of cables In theory, but no thanks. I don't want wireless peripherals.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Indeed. suckless refers to https://suckless.org/philosophy/
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Do/did these works hold up a mirror to society? Or are they heavily fictionalized so as to color the world with the idealizations and prejudices of the author that they aren't really recognizable.
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by fnord123 6y ago
Both of these books are fiction. I don't see how any conclusions can be drawn about how easy or hard it is to be a weirdo in any particular time.
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by fnord123 6y ago
I've read a lot of academic papers like this.

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