hathawsh

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by hathawsh 2y ago
I know. We're all just rediscovering Lisp in our own way. ... And yet the fact that most of us know we're reinventing Lisp, and still doing it anyway, says something. I guess it says that we're just trying to get our jobs d
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Perhaps you mean to say that you're waiting for a new scripting language to be created that's designed to be "almost Rust." That could be interesting! OTOH, the bindings for existing languages have matured significantly:
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I have often thought that programmers can actually just choose to make Rust easy by using a cyclic garbage collector such as Samsara. [1] If cyclic GC in Rust works as well as I think it can, it should be the best option for the majority of
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Intriguing idea! Some thoughts: - If a consumer buys a car with heated seats and an option to activate the heated seats as a subscription, but the consumer elects not to subscribe, do the inactive heaters still count as inventory? If so, wh
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by hathawsh 2y ago
It looks like py9p was last released in 2013 and it's still marked as "beta". Cool project though!
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I have questions about some edge cases I've encountered in dealing with money. - Let's say I load two money values from a database. Value A is 1 USD and value B is 1 BTC. If I try to add them together, what happens? (I would expec
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by hathawsh 2y ago
The political spin is in the article. Edit: I was referring to this article: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-says-he-spoke-musk-ab... I originally thought the HN post linked to that article, but I see now i
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I hope we can focus on the human kindness that Starlink is showing and ignore the political overtones. Both Trump and the current administration are creating the impression that it was their idea. Maybe Elon or Starlink thought of it first?
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by hathawsh 2y ago
OTOH, OnStar's remote disable feature is pretty compelling for consumers. It's not hard to find YouTube videos [1] of thieves being thwarted safely. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9FbBgG2axE
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Perhaps. I think one of the main reasons JS caught on is that it had no significant baggage and the designers could take it in any direction it needed to go. Every language used by more than a few people, no matter how good it is, has some
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I would be very interested in learning how ATT compares with Firefox's Enhanced Tracking Protection. Does anyone know?
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I strive for the same thing, but every time surprising new requirements arrive, there's a good chance that the elegant architecture my team created is in conflict with the design we now want. At that point, there is a three step proces
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Is there an online discussion about this happening somewhere? This sounds very important, but without some dissenting opinions, it's hard to be sure what details are being glossed over. On the EFF's side, there's this: https
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by hathawsh 2y ago
This is a repeatable pattern: 1. A well-known major company sees that people are relying on something broken and it's hindering progress. 2. The company decides to compete with that thing, but it's not part of their mission,
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I would use a microphone to capture the different renditions and compare them using Audacity or some other similar tool. Here's one place to start: https://forum.audacityteam.org/t/comparing-two-supposedly-id...
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I used to think "they'll tell me what to build and I'll build it." I was plain wrong. Good business doesn't work that way. The more correct way to think is "we're going to figure out together what makes se
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by hathawsh 2y ago
This project is very cool. Amazing execution. Other channels I would suggest: - Cooking - Family movies (from the public domain?) - Baseball
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by hathawsh 2y ago
It's more like SiriusXM than broadcast TV, and I would say the SiriusXM model is a lot nicer. I like being able to choose a topic.
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by hathawsh 2y ago
In the past, old versions of Windows were often considered superior because they stopped changing and just kept working. Today, that strategy is breaking down because attackers have a lot more technology available to them: a huge database o
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by hathawsh 2y ago
SSN = social security number. What else does SSN stand for?
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Conceptually, any information created or consumed outside your organization is not valid as part of a surrogate key, so SSNs are not a surrogate key. Furthermore, any time you reveal the primary key, that key can become the thing that peopl
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by hathawsh 2y ago
The numerous problems with SSNs were identified years ago. https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-05-1016t In plain text form: https://www.gao.gov/assets/a112177.html I remember when the school I went t
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Are you sure all those numbers are in the right ballpark? With a 3.3V supply and a 1 MΩ resistor, the most current you can get from that circuit is in the neighborhood of 3μA, and that's ignoring the LED voltage drop. I would think the
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Thanks for the explanation.
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by hathawsh 2y ago
That's an interesting distinction that clarifies the terms for me. Could you say that nihilism is rejecting values imposed upon the individual, while hedonism is asserting the right to arbitrary pleasure? One is a removal of values, th
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Well, "read" is still the verb we use most often to describe a human interpreting code. Also, many information-dense books are not intended to be read linearly, yet we still say we're "reading" (or "studying&qu
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by hathawsh 2y ago
Still, as pbhjpbhj suggested, if I were publishing both content and ads, I would consider publishing the ads on a different domain (not just a subdomain) to reduce technical issues. Domains with ugly names are very cheap.
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I haven't. Thanks for the pointer!
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by hathawsh 2y ago
As the complexity of a model increases, so does the complexity of determining correct dimensions and object placement. At some point the work becomes complex enough that I spend most of my modeling time cleaning up equations rather than fin
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by hathawsh 2y ago
I really hope CADmium can wean me off of OpenSCAD. With OpenSCAD, I don't really have to think at first; I use a simple language to write modules that build on other modules. The problem with OpenSCAD is there's no solver: I have

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