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by geocar 5y ago
I was taught to bake (and write recipes) using a mixture of units; to prefer metric measurements when precision is required, but to prefer "American" units when it isn't, almost to highlight the absence of precision, and to c
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by geocar 5y ago
I'm not entirely sure how to begin to answer this question. Forgive me if I start too early. An SVG is a list of compositing instructions for some (graphical) artefact. These instructions are given so that their dependencies (the thing
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by geocar 5y ago
How I read nyanpasu64; I think that the point was that a web page will often have multiple png files -- often more than you have cores, so the gains of decoding a single specially-formatted png might disappear in practice. iDOT seems like o
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by geocar 5y ago
q's functions don't capture the environment, so that's the same as: a:42 {[a]a+1}[5] and as in javascript: a=42; f=function(a){return a+1} and when i say they don't capture the environment, i me
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by geocar 5y ago
Last I checked there was a free download with an email on kx.com
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by geocar 5y ago
No. They are not keywords. The program: x:42; f:{[a]x+a} is the same as: x=42; f=function(a){return x+a}
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by geocar 5y ago
I think they meant: A1 = x * y + x A2 = y * x + y
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by geocar 5y ago
You might like looking at how Dyalog handles higher-order functions; John Scholes really put this beautiful presentation together about using them as a depth-first search reusable function https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsZ
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by geocar 5y ago
They're just variables like any other; {[x;y;z] x+y z} is almost exactly the same as {x+y z}
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by geocar 5y ago
> But regarding languages: k/q the issues with them is that they use x, y and z as keywords for the parameters. x is always the first parameter, y - second, z - third. In KatLang parameter names are not predefined keywords, you can
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by geocar 5y ago
Without trying to speak to why "katlang" does what it does, there are other languages that do this and I can speak to how useful it is when you already prefer functions of low arity: It repeatedly demonstrates a substantial improv
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by geocar 5y ago
Thank you for showing me this list. I had a peek at a few items and it seemed really comprehensive. It is frustrating to argue whether "Event Sourcing" is good or bad if we have different definitions of what it is, but I don'
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by geocar 5y ago
I think one major problem is that "Event Sourcing" can mean subtly different things to different people. > The idea of a keeping a central log against which multiple services can subscribe and publish is insane. This really doe
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by geocar 5y ago
> Desserts don't have network effects. They absolutely do: I don’t eat a lot of deserts, and so I hang around other people who don’t eat a lot of deserts. It isn’t a matter of I don’t like people who like cake, it’s just that I don’
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by geocar 5y ago
> I don't see it. When is/was HTTP ever really extended? Most recently, HTTP/2 has become a concern that HTTP servers and clients have required substantial work to implement, but it is easy to say this is a separate protoc
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by geocar 5y ago
I can't speak for "hmrr" but I've used airpods everywhere: NYC subways, London underground, Bangkok's MRT, airports everywhere, and I never had an issue with them connecting. I was initially surprised when friends
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by geocar 5y ago
> Since the first three bytes of the SSH protocol signature input are different from the ssh-keygen signature input, the SSH client and ssh-keygen will never produce identical signatures. Therefore, there is no risk of cross-protocol at
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by geocar 5y ago
It is difficult to see on an iPhone, but it sounds fine in Voiceover.
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by geocar 5y ago
> You can treat them as separate, functional patterns of behavior with their own agendas, feelings, beliefs, etc. Wow. I have seen television shows and art that treat humans as the amalgam of a faceted personality where each facet is dep
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by geocar 5y ago
> Even at $5 CPM (high for a web banner), zoom will make... half a penny per meeting, before incurring multiple cents in bandwidth costs. Zoom says they have over 3.3 trillion meeting-minutes as of October 2020: Let's assume they ar
591.
by geocar 5y ago
I tried this morning in a room with more light, and it did indeed go away.
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by geocar 5y ago
I couldn’t get it to do anything besides select a photo. It showed the ar startup “move phone around” message. I tried Measure and that was working fine so I tried your app again. No luck. iPhone 12 mini (in case relevant)
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by geocar 5y ago
> If I was an employer and an employee said "I can meet all the deliverables in 20 hours a week", I'd say either: > * great, let's get you working on more deliverables, or > * great, let's give you 50
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by geocar 5y ago
If you and your buddy use the same ISP, no it is not unreasonable.
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by geocar 5y ago
Yes. Every so often I go looking for a keyboard kits -- I'd like to make a BB-style phone but with a nice OS/UI, but I don't want to do Linux or Android.
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by geocar 5y ago
If you're talking about a hosted k8s like EKS or a toy/single-node k8s, in 2021, then nothing: k8s is much better. But if you're on-prem, and have a tonne of metal and just arrived in 2014 via a time machine, swarm was so m
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by geocar 5y ago
They're 8-byte ints, and the reported times are sum of 100 runs. This is what my 2019 i5 1.6ghz Macbook Air does: q)`sA`sB`pA`pB set'4 0N#1000000?100 `sA`sB`pA`pB q)\t:100 (sA*pA>=pB)+sB*pA<=pB 60
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by geocar 5y ago
> I'm not understanding this whole "no benchmarks" thing. Back in the 1980s, there was a paper published[1] that compared a number of database systems, and Oracle felt this paper harmed them. Perhaps if the authors knew O
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by geocar 5y ago
> If you're not allowed to publish benchmarks you only can rant like this even if it sounds petty. You can repeat whole-system benchmarks like STAC[1] or that some bloggers do[2], which specify the hardware and software, inputs and
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by geocar 5y ago
> on a GNU/Linux system the only correct method of resolving DNS is by using gethostbyname I don't think that's right. gethostbyname() doesn't query DNS, it queries names, which includes /etc/hosts, and poss

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