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721.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Apple loaned TSMC money in order to build manufacturing capacity back around the M1 era. They’ve done that for a number of suppliers and the “interest payments” were priority access to capacity. Everyone was complaining about how Apple got
722.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Dudes who have children with 16 year old girls don't get their name spelled right.
723.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I’ve contemplated building my own CI tool (with a local runner) and the thing is if you assume “write a pipeline that runs locally but also on push”, then the feature depth is mostly about queuing, analyzing output, and often left off, but
724.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I bought a cheap 1200 and then once I had use for it I saved up for a USR 14.4 with a shiny extruded aluminum case. At one point I was sharing that with two roommates using SLIP and surplussed Cisco coaxial NICs.
725.
by hinkley 10mo ago
As if Bezos is better. Elon has a much higher slope but he’s got a head start to catch up on, before they’re all hunting humans for sport on Ellison’s private island.
726.
by hinkley 10mo ago
It’s weird that something that should be in a constants pool would hit the inlining threshold.
727.
by hinkley 10mo ago
One of the problems described here seems to be that the people building the dashboards aren’t the ones adding the instrumentation. Admittedly I’ve only worked on one project that was all in on telemetry instead of using log analysis. And e
728.
by hinkley 10mo ago
> You run observability at your company. But really, you're the cost police. You wake up to a log line in a hot path, a metric tag that exploded cardinality. You chase down the engineer. They didn't do anything wrong, they&#x27
729.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Jabba doesn't exist. The writers and directors exist.
730.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I can't agree with that. While unwavering determination is definitely necessary to overcome lack of success, there are other ways to achieve that. And as was once put to me, the reason that some artists are not appreciated until after
731.
by hinkley 10mo ago
It turns out that Jean Reno refused to film the scenes as Besson wanted them to be.
732.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Specialization is one of the reasons my call trees are just a little bit deeper than what one would expect given my loud but moderate stance on function splitting. Uncle Bob is nuts for espousing one line functions. But the answer to Bob be
733.
by hinkley 10mo ago
There was a weird period in JavaScript’s history where the threshold for inlining was rather fixed and counted comments as part of the function weight. So there was code that would go faster if you deleted the comments. I believe it was cou
734.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I’ve met too many (mostly martial) artists who have stories of their lineage having to hide their art during Mao or a similar dark period in other parts of East Asia to see these people as an uncle. More like the kid in high school you foun
735.
by hinkley 10mo ago
There’s also a lot of artistic creepers, which predate the internet but the internet shone a light on their creepiness. I would, for instance, watch The Ninth Gate a couple times a year if Polanski hadn’t directed it, or had directed it pos
736.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Why do I have to use a tunnel and empower a machine I don’t control to mess with a machine I do? Why has this been made so difficult? Why wouldn’t a master be aware of all of its replicas? Raft does.
737.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I found a used copy of Warcraft 3 at the store about ten years after it came out, proudly brought it home, fired it up and didn’t recall the graphics being quite that awful, but the first time I tried to scroll the map sideways it shot to t
738.
by hinkley 10mo ago
What I’d really like is to run the admin interface for an app on a self hosted system behind firewalls, and push read replicas out into the cloud. But I haven’t seen a database where the master pushes data to the replicas instead of the rep
739.
by hinkley 10mo ago
This is talk about how the OS uses that RAM to make your software better. But to that point, having to explain to people why this 32GB machine with two processes using 10GB each can not, in fact, fit another 10GB process because the respons
740.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I’ve had to explain too many times to people who should know better that “rss” is not how much memory a process needs but how much the operating system allows it to have. Put other stuff on the machine and that number will go down. No it’s
741.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Someone once said the reason we had alcohol before civilization is that we carry around a chemical testing laboratory in our faces. It just so happens that everything in beer that can go wrong and hurt you (any sooner than cancer) creates a
742.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Supposedly Jell-O was originally to be clear but they needed the food coloring to convince your brain you weren’t just tasting sugar and citric acid instead of the little bit of flavor they added per recipe.
743.
by hinkley 10mo ago
It might suffice to just make it look like you’re European to keep their goons from harassing you, which hasn’t happened yet but will, because that’s how these stories always end. Get a PO Box for a credit card and VPN in through Europe.
744.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I would like Python a lot better if the tab character had been marked as a syntax error. Would have solved a lot of bullshit.
745.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Former NCSA employee here. The fuck they did. Netscape caught us out time and again for accepting SGML garbage that we didn’t handle properly. It’s a big part of why Netscape won that round of the browser wars. Such recovery then wound up i
746.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I was there, Gandalf. I was there 30 years ago. I was there when the strength of men failed. Netscape started this. NCSA was in favor of XML style rules over SGML, but Netscape embraced SGML leniency fully and several tools of that era gene
747.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Mate, I haven’t touched a Windows machine in almost fifteen years. It’s all Linux and Mac.
748.
by hinkley 10mo ago
That doesn't quite dovetail with the story I've heard about them shooting the elephant's foot with a gun to spall off a sample. I think there's still some damage control in some of the stories. Which is to say, lies.
749.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I befriended the guy in high school who built a Tesla coil. For his next trick he was building a laser to read sound off of plate glass. The decoder was basically an AM radio. Which high school me found slightly disappointing.
750.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Someone blew my mind by convincing me to read Bush’s “As we may think” which was published in 1945. Then I started digging into him and discovered he was also the second president of the ACM, was instrumental in shaping the formation of the

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