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by gfody 5y ago
> 4. Information is not knowledge. information is knowledge packaged for transport. converting information into knowledge is just called learning when humans do it. spreading information you don't understand is a service or a disser
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by gfody 5y ago
I wonder if you could run a DVS in reverse and use it to drive an OLED display pixel by pixel
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by gfody 5y ago
the evil scheduler would be useful for catching deadlock bugs early
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by gfody 5y ago
I suspect "hatred of any sort of planning of any kind" is actually hatred for planning that fails to embody any actual strategy (and is therefor a waste of time because it doesn't help solve any actual problem except maybe al
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by gfody 5y ago
pngcrush -brute 10355kb cjxl -q 100 -e 9 8413kb
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by gfody 5y ago
having done my own experiments with indexed pallets I suspect method #2 is responsible for most of the compression here. most photographs only have half a million distinct colors and it drops considerably as you focus in on an area. if you&
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by gfody 5y ago
do ORMs still target lowest common denominator ansi sql? I only know that EF doesn't - it has "providers" for each rdbms it supports and will liberally emit CTEs and db specific language features like "outer apply"
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by gfody 5y ago
agree this seems like the worst of both worlds between doing things application-side and doing things database-side. imo you're much better off embracing your db's security features
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by gfody 5y ago
I wonder can you use the the two knobs to control the mouse etch-a-sketch style?
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by gfody 5y ago
I think that era of Windows stuck to the literature and best practices, the UI spoke to us in its own visual language and let us know what could be clicked or right-clicked or that it had focus and might do something if you hit the spacebar
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by gfody 5y ago
pooling at all is still pretty much a hack. ideally resource management (and tuning) wouldn't revolve around the connection and actual connections would become as thin as possible
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by gfody 5y ago
at first I thought I was reading the first part of a recipe (like in one of those fancy recipe books) and then I realized that's exactly what I was reading
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by gfody 5y ago
if you're going to compare these two you really ought to get into their materialized views where the real-world performance comes from, and ideally dive into their respective limitations
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by gfody 5y ago
here's a start https://observablehq.com/@pallada-92/sql-3d-engine
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by gfody 5y ago
I don't think we should deem whole sets of features anti-patterns just because a lot of people got themselves into messes. many very nice database solutions I've seen would be non-starters w/o triggers, the alternative would
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by gfody 5y ago
if you're trying to have a general purpose relational database (eg well-modeled/normalized/hygienic/integrous/etc.) things like triggers, indexed/materialized views, and udfs become essential tools for maintain
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by gfody 5y ago
the first search engines worked this way - you'd submit your site to their index in a certain category with some keywords, and anyone could explore the index. they all seemed to realize around the same time that they ought to keep the
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by gfody 5y ago
~2004 I whiteboxed a db server with 48 raptors (WD800GD) via 3 16-port sata raid controllers (areca ARC-1160 w/1gb dram and bbu modules), I striped all 16 in 3 raid0s and put them in a soft raid4 for ~2.5tb of speedy local attached sto
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by gfody 5y ago
I once saw a coworker get destroyed by a rendering glitch in SSMS - he had GPU acceleration enabled and didn't notice his text selection highlight glitching out, smashed F5 on a query that looked like it had a where clause selected b
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by gfody 5y ago
the predictive processing model, the best introduction to it imo is this review of "surfing uncertainty" - https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-un... > 7. The Placebo Effect
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by gfody 5y ago
"I don't see how" can't be trusted coming from someone who hasn't even tried. if you're sorting a pile of stones by weight you quickly learn to leverage the transitive property
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by gfody 5y ago
you can still find curated lists especially on github, eg: https://github.com/jnv/lists
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by gfody 5y ago
they should make sound a module, then they could offer a high-end option with something like an akm ak4490 and users could go legacy free if they want
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by gfody 5y ago
interesting link thanks! motivation is crazy complex when you really try to cut into it. pirsig didnt use those words but he was clearly talking about the intrinsic motivation and his larger point was that students lacking it were better of
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by gfody 5y ago
only experience can save you from making a mess
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by gfody 5y ago
pirsig favored the motivation to actually learn the subject matter (and more generally to actually improve yourself) vs. trying to pass a course because you need the credential etc.
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by gfody 5y ago
immature students lack proper motivation ala zataomm, and there's what they say about women maturing sooner but maybe that's traditional wisdom and not scientific (zataomm isn't exactly scientific either but I think everyone
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by gfody 5y ago
cloudbutt is also the sort of thing that gets installed as a prank if you leave your laptop unlocked and unattended
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by gfody 5y ago
similarly how eskimos have a bunch of words for "snow", and new yorkers have a bunch of words for "pizza", japanese have a bunch of words for "suicide"
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by gfody 5y ago
are you counting unintentional like falling asleep behind the wheel?

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