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811.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Yeah I helped out a bit with Freenet before I saw what was being posted. Basically 4chan. Lots of edge lords. But I helped because a friend dragged me to Amnesty International meetings in college and so I knew there were people who legitima
812.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I was stuck on the backend while CSS3 absorbed most of the functionality of Less and Sass and now I’m trying to play catchup. If there had just been a CSS4 I’d be able to find a tutorial to teach me everything I missed in the interim.
813.
by hinkley 10mo ago
While I have definitely done this a few times, one of my MacBooks could draw more power than the power supply could deliver and there was a particular computer game that I discovered I could “only” play for about five hours before the lapto
814.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Maybe we should use whistle blowers and freedom fighters as examples though and not predators.
815.
by hinkley 10mo ago
My Apple Watch can blow the doors off a Cray 1. It’s crazy.
816.
by hinkley 10mo ago
We now know that gravity moves at the speed of light. Imagie that you aretwo supernovas that for some unknown reason, explode at essentially the same time. Just before you die from radiation exposure, you will see the light pulse from each
817.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I have a vague recollection of tangling with it myself. I worked with PNG decoding when it was a new format and that’s like 28 years ago.
818.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I took to distributed systems like a duck to water. It was only much later that I figured out that while there are things I can figure out in one minute that took other people five, there were a lot of others that you will have to walk them
819.
by hinkley 10mo ago
> Google faced the clock synchronization problem at an unprecedented scale with Spanner, its globally distributed database. They needed strong consistency guarantees across data centers spanning continents, which requires knowing the ord
820.
by hinkley 10mo ago
If Bob and Alice are moving at half the speed of light in opposite directions.
821.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Yes that definitely happens. People orbiting Polaris would be seeing two supernovas explode at different times than us due to the speed of light. Polaris is 400 light years away so the gap could be large. But when you are moving you may see
822.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Vector clocks are one of the other things Barbara Liskov is known for.
823.
by hinkley 10mo ago
> This is an arbitrary picked image, hashed internally and mapped to this page. You will have to see it as long as you in my website. hash: eb46e097… → idx 29/166 What is this nonsense about? I’m on a tablet and over 1/3rd of m
824.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Another reader is claiming the gamma correction value is inverted and Firefox is ignoring it. Which seems plausible. I know when I implemented png I had some issues wrapping my head around the gamma correction function.
825.
by hinkley 10mo ago
By definition any chunk beginning with a lowercase is optional. I’m just surprised gamma is considered optional.
826.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Einstein was worried about whether people in two different relativistic frames would see cause and effect reversed.
827.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Survival of the fittest is also a wrong way to think about evolution that leads many people to make assumptions that are backward. Selection doesn’t pick winners, it picks losers. But bad luck also picks losers, and good luck pick winners,
828.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Code golfers think they’re helping.
829.
by hinkley 10mo ago
In spring 2005 Azul introduced a 24 core machine tuned for Java. A couple years later they were at 48 and then jumped to an obscene 768 cores which seemed like such an imaginary number at the time that small companies didn’t really poke the
830.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I don’t think I even heard of C10K until around 2003.
831.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I saw a video on the CATL sodium batteries the other day and the deal is that they’ve found a way to reinforce the material in a way that brings up the slope of the back half of the discharge curve so it’s almost as good as lithium down to
832.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Engineering is compromise though. If you can make a hybrid that loses 5% at 100 but still retains 500wh/l you’re in good shape. There was someone working on a membrane a while back that’s pretty good at diffusing the lithium transfer i
833.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I think you’ve forgotten or aren’t aware that before 3d graphics cards took over, people would buy new video cards to ostensibly make excel faster but then use them to play video games. It was an interesting time with interesting justificat
834.
by hinkley 10mo ago
A number of my tricks are stolen from game devs and applied to boring software. Most notably, resource budgets for each task. You can’t make a whole system fast if you’re spending 20% of your reasonable execution time on one moderately use
835.
by hinkley 10mo ago
Years ago I wrote a tiny xhtml-basic browser for a job. It was great. Some of my best work. But then the iPhone came out and xhtml-basic died practically overnight.
836.
by hinkley 10mo ago
I think you’re forgetting how terminals work.
837.
by hinkley 11mo ago
That’s literally faster to do a full table scan below a particular table size.
838.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Business people have a nasty habit of identifying two independent pieces of data you have and finding ideas to combine them to do something new. They aren’t happy until every piece of data is copied with every other piece and then they stil
839.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Any robust system isn’t going to rely on reading logs to figure out what to do about undelivered email anyway. If you’re doing logistics the failure to send an order confirmation needs to show up in your data model in some manner. Managing
840.
by hinkley 11mo ago
Log4j has the ability to filter log levels by subject matter for twenty years. In Java you end up having to use that a lot for this reason.

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