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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I’m mainly a C++ developer, not a frontend developer (though I dabble), and when I have a choice of multiple approaches the first thing I do is go to godbolt.org, implement MWEs and compare the assembly. I also do a lot of code generation,
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I used swig for a long time. It's really handy. If you're just targetting python, and it's your first venture into building python extensions, it's fantastic. After a while, it's worth trying out building an extens
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
> There are millions of English libraries available. You can look for the closest in Google Maps. LOL! Though I have a bug report. There are actually only 320k. This makes me feel sad.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
When I learned C++, there was no auto. Range-based for loops didn't exist. The combination of those two were particularly nice because instead of writing: for(std::vector<sometype<int>>::const_iterator it = my_container
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Aside from the syntax (I find it ugly, you find it visually appealing - it's subjective), iostreams are inefficient, awkward to customise, not thread safe (allows interleaving), and mix format and data (that one is also subjective). I
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Some ads - fine. Selected and appropriate ads - fine. Let me explain via my experience of THIS website on an iPhone. A banner ad appears at the very top, covering most of the cookie notice. I would be surprised if this doesn’t violate EU la
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
“The thief”: When your approach to open source is that you close pull requests and merge the diff manually under your own name. So many large corporate-run projects do this and, while I’m sure there are some compliance reasons, it just look
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
A full on helmet? That’s awesome. I reject the claim that there is no killer app. Have you not seen Judge Dredd? ;) But seriously, I like this. Honestly I think I’d rather this than a normal headset. There are so many design challenges and
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
That sounds very cool. I have to ask - do you build parts for your machines using your machines?
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Likewise, the big players in any field spend vast resources on R&D to produce the better products, and the patent is the only thing that makes that sustainable. It’s all well and good wanting the world to be a safer place, but every com
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It depends. The thing about the baby market is that, because it’s driven by emotional decisions, there are buyers at every price point - and it isn’t even directly related to wealth. Some people get into debt trying to make this harsh world
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This sounds very cool. Wait, no, hot. In a factory setting, there is a bunch of heat wasted in other processes, e.g. waste heat from machines. Is this heat collected and fed into the air source?
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
This is an interesting concept. I like it. There isn’t any real information about the site available though, or not that I can find anyway. No about page, no T&Cs covering e.g. who owns the rights to the audio, no FAQs, etc. The audio c
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I got caught in one when I was a kid. They don’t take you out very far, but they push you away faster than you can swim, and it’s the struggle that gets you. I hadn’t been told about them so I didn’t know what was happening, or that I just
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Track 7 (wake up) kind of feels like it’s loosely inspired by Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s free (to wear sunscreen)”.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It’s a strange feeling reading Ioffe’s memoir. When I was a physics undergraduate, I understood the mentality. The high-maintenance asshole professor was exactly who I’d be drawn towards. I learned how unhealthy that was, and many of those
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Oh, one more thing. Your bar method. Are you using number of trades or sum of trade sizes? Because if the former, there is little distinction between me firing off two market buys of 100 shares each in quick succession vs me firing off one
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Nicely done. A couple of pointers. One on data, one on that RAM usage. First I’ll go with the RAM usage because this is hackernews and everyone loves algorithms. —- There are a lot of libraries out there that do technical analysis, and most
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Hyprland, which I believe is based on Sway but I’m not sure. Either way, most of the problems I’ve been having do not seem to be implementation specific, and instead stem from buggy usage of the protocol. It’s no secret that Electron’s wayl
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Absolutely. A PoC is supposed to be badly thought out, that’s the point. Get from A to B quickly, in whatever way possible, and then get feedback while building the real deal properly. There has been some pushback against that idea on here,
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
There’s a subtlety here. Something can still have a few bugs without being bug ridden. It’s the difference between a puddle and a flood. X11 with i3, the setup I’ve used for years, is not bug ridden. There are quirks, but nothing fundamenta
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Wayland as a concept is pretty good. But I would strongly urge anyone from switching to it unless you have nostalgia about the bug-ridden nature of the 2010-era Linux Desktop. I’m still using it, by the way, with Hyprland, but I think I’ll
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
An alternative: Build a PoC first. The reason coding the shortest path first feels better is that you hit milestones early. However, it is a major generator of technical debt, and fleshing out the project is the hard part that takes longer
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I don’t believe such projects actually exist, and my two theories are a bit whacky, but one of: 1. They’re actually used as ways of laundering money out of government pockets without congressional oversight. The whole “oh but it’s top top s
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I think it’s clear to the author and every reader that it wasn’t a misunderstanding.
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
Scroll down below the article: > My colleagues and I have decades of consulting experience helping companies solve complex problems involving data privacy, math, statistics, and computing. > Let’s talk. We look forward to exploring th
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
That’s all well and good, but as soon as the mass manufacturing of the item halts, it’s no time at all before the assembly machinery is dismantled, the people reskilled, software updated, supply chains cut, etc. So when they’re approached t
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
What’s the important metric? Performance. What’s one of the measures they use to establish performance? In-person attendance. Why? Because it… improves… performance? I mean, that’s just like testing to see how warm a house is by seeing how
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
It changed the way I use computers. Absolutely love it. Though I moved to Hyprland a few months ago and it's very similar, but for Wayland (and a slightly nicer look, but not without its own quirks). Funnily enough, I moved to Hyprland
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by i-use-nixos-btw 3y ago
I used Manjaro for a while, because they had an i3 community edition and, well, I wanted to give i3 a go. I think it was DistroTube that convinced me to try it and, honestly, I loved it. It’s a slippery slope, though. Manjaro is just a gate

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