geophile

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by geophile 3y ago
Sure, but it was the same categories, Calendar, for example.
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by geophile 3y ago
I had a Psion 5, an amazing device. It had the same apps as the 3, if I remember correctly. The keyboard was astoundingly good. The keys, if larger, would make an excellent normal keyboard. What I really loved about the 5 was that it could
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by geophile 3y ago
Depends on what you mean be effective. TDD is great if you want to be sure you don’t break things in the future. Repl seems better for getting the next thing working right now.
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by geophile 3y ago
I assume that you are attempting sarcasm here, but I'm missing your point.
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by geophile 3y ago
I remember SETL, and it made a huge impression on me -- just the idea of sets as a primitive datatype. I remember one lecture on using SETL to specify language optimizations, which were set-oriented. Also, that experience primed me for appr
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by geophile 3y ago
They could not be less similar.
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by geophile 3y ago
This is just completely wrong. I learned and used SNOBOL for RBK Dewar's compiler classes at NYU, 78-79. (Dewar was one of the authors of SPITBOL, an implementation of the language). Because of this, experience, a couple of years later
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by geophile 3y ago
P=NP alert
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by geophile 3y ago
I use Dropbox for transfers between Linux and iOS, so syncthing doesn’t help. Is there something similar that supports iOS?
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by geophile 3y ago
Yeah, I remember when they were briefly going to solve the problem of being a universal translator of file formats. They announced this at a conference I attended and I could see the thought bubbles of everyone in the audience: What? That w
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by geophile 3y ago
There are many alternatives to table locking, including more conventional row locks. MVCC is great, but this article does identify some of the puzzling design choices of the Postgres implementation. The index problems are particularly bad,
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by geophile 3y ago
... because there are minimal quality criteria.
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by geophile 4y ago
I was in grad school, 77-83. The first year was part time at NYU, and then I went back full time elsewhere, for a PhD. In that one year at NYU, I took two compiler courses, from RBK Dewar, of Spitbol and Ada fame. My specialty is not langua
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by geophile 4y ago
I have no idea what that has to do with the points you are responding to.
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by geophile 4y ago
> Surely these scientists ... aren't so stupid as to think emergent behavior potentially resembling intelligence could result from such simple systems? It's just statistics after all. Why is that a stupid thought? What is so pr
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by geophile 4y ago
Marcel ( https://marceltheshell.org ) is a shell designed around the idea of piping objects instead of strings, in a way that should be more familiar to Linux users. It is designed to be bash-like. Instead of learning sublanguages
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by geophile 4y ago
It obviously depends on what the startup does! My favorite startup (2003) was building a shared-nothing distributed system. We chose Java for the distributed part. Messages were formatted in one of the language-independent serialization for
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by geophile 4y ago
Maybe just don't ride motorcycles?
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by geophile 4y ago
I love the Model M, and have not found another keyboard as good. I'm using a Unicomp now, which is close. (They had a previous model whose keys were flaky, occasionally failing to produce output. But apparently they have fixed that pro
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by geophile 4y ago
Yes and no. Now if your index fits in the L2 cache, then you've got something. Otherwise, you have to keep loading the cache from RAM and performance starts falling off a cliff.
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by geophile 4y ago
What does "SORT terribly" mean? That there is no semantically useful ordering? Well of course not, that's not what they are designed for. If you want ordering by time, then include a time-based column and sort on it. Does it
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by geophile 4y ago
My rant about Apple turning into Microsoft. A bit dated, but still accurate (IMHO) about what Apple is doing wrong. https://github.com/geophile/reality-distortion-field
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by geophile 4y ago
I have a nearly 4-year old Darter Pro. Pop OS is great on it, and the hardward has been flawless. Except that the speakers are really crappy. Otherwise, great.
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by geophile 4y ago
Because of the first part of that title, I read the last word as "domed".
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by geophile 4y ago
Purify was a fantastic tool. I was so surprised to find out that he went on to found Netflix.
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by geophile 4y ago
Two friends who aren’t on other social media. A few bands who don’t announce shows elsewhere.
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by geophile 4y ago
I encountered a similar situation at a tiny startup. The VP of Engineering was hired by the board, against the founder's will, and he was a disaster. Our main metric was measured by a graph, showing foobars/second. Similar to the
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by geophile 4y ago
Eww. This is basically screen-scraping command output to enable structure-oriented commands. That means you need a scraper for every output, the scrapers need to be aware of all the options, handle filenames with whitespace correctly (not s
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by geophile 4y ago
I got a knots app to learn a few basics that I need. One of my needs is tying up a small motorboat to a dock. I used to improvise, and just go crazy cross-crossing the cleat with the line many times, and then wrapping the line around the cl
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by geophile 4y ago
I don't follow crypto, so these are actual questions, not trolling: - If Celsius is a trading platform, how can Celsius itself owe anybody anything? - My naive understanding is that cryptocurrency, being based on blockchain, is a log o

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