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by jaxrtech 4y ago
The speed at which I could get TBs of new drives or SSDs overnighted by Amazon without paying extra shipping (in the city, granted) is incredible.
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
I realize now that the problem was with my browser forcing HTTPS and the site using old TLS or something causing it to fail
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My Kung Fu Is the Best (2009)(web.archive.org)
54 points by jaxrtech 4y ago|11 comments
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Parsing: A Timeline (2022)(jeffreykegler.github.io)
4 points by jaxrtech 4y ago|0 comments
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
Would agree in large part. I think the ones that were successful, they're successful enough that you forget it was an acquisition. One off the top my head is Google Docs[1] which, for the longest time, I was pretty sure it was in-hou
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
You should be able to see inode usage with `df -i`, no? I usually use `df -Tih` (print the file system type, list inode usage, in human-readable format). I've had the other case where `df` says the disk is full with plenty of inodes le
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
It's also the case that `char` in Rust is a 32-bit primitive. Though, `String` being UTF-8 is convenient until you need to do Unicode operations on actual chars... It is surely better than dealing with UTF-16 "surrogate pairs&quot
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
Or at least in my experience using pskill from the Sysinternals Suite, even if you kill a process (at least on earlier versions of Windows), it would not do the same as a SIGKILL (as in "tear down the process, don't wait for it wh
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
Are there any fairly good off-the-shelf auto-summarizers with modern NLP?
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
Tangential, but this is one of the main reasons I never liked Ruby on Rails with Active Record when I first took a look at it. Not having DB-level foreign keys by default always drove me insane. Isn't maintaining data integrity/c
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
If you were ready to throw away a bit of archival quality, I wonder if writing Apache Arrow straight to disk and then just mmap your columns back in for a query.
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by jaxrtech 4y ago
Why not have some ML-rendition of BitTorrent designed for sharing pre-trained models? At least then you're not paying for AWS egress ha
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
My guess is that the npm package itself got hijacked? The latest version on npm is v11.1.0 (updated 3 days ago) while master on GitHub is v10.1.0 (updated 9 months ago).
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Agreed, commenting assembly is bit different "environment" to explain the "why?". You're explaining why you're putting a value in a register vs why you're calling some particular API or whatever in a highe
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Well, it's a number in a ledger system somewhere (e.g. mainframe system, Oracle database, or what have you), with a lot of auditing, reporting, and procedures around changing that number. (Though, having an internal API to instantly ge
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Isn't half the problem in the U.S. at least, we don't have a legal differentiation between political commentary and "news" as in reporting the facts as they are?
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Well there are pros and cons selling at a loss
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Can also say that the SQL implementation in Access is reprehensible in terms of silent errors and other weirdness.
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Absolutely. I've also seen my fair share of horrendous home-grown "ETL" programs that waste more time shuffling bytes to and from database with poor ORM queries in loops, that could be done with a couple half decent SQL queri
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
ngl the borrow chicker is miles better than it used to be in terms of implants cit behavior and just dealing with more "natural" scoping patterns. It sure isn't perfect, but at the end of the day, I trust the borrow checker m
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
The only thing that worked for me was: - Hit Ctrl + Shift + Del (TIL this exists) -- which will open the "Clear Recent History" dialog - Select under the down "Time range to clear": "Everything" - Select at
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
> The centralization of apis (infura, opensea and ethscan used by metamask) is the biggest problem. I could be wrong, but I don't think we've seen that fast consolidation in other early tech. I remember in the late 90s there we
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
At a previous job was looking at different binary parsing methods. This project looks quite interesting having binary format descriptions in YAML that then can be generated into your language of choice. https://formats.kaitai.io&
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
> Re-write your code. Re-do your projects. Start from scratch. Let a new team try on their own. Software has such tremendous leverage, it’s way more valuable to do one thing twice than to do two things once. Well I guess creating a gajil
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
Is it more of a problem of regulation not keeping up with modern developments? Or draconian requirements that got implemented once several decades ago to spec and now no one wants to poke it with a 10ft pole? I guess both apply to most hea
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
> Us-East-1 took out commuter rail travel in Chicago for like a good 30 minutes, so not just companies Was it Metra or the CTA out of curiosity?
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by jaxrtech 5y ago
I currently work in the crypto space (views are my own). For the life of me, I cannot understand why we do not have a foundation built on something like TLA+ or the Z3 theorem prover instead of paying another human to try and poke your code
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by jaxrtech 6y ago
Honestly, this reminds me of the case of the rating agencies during the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis[1] (with rating agencies rating CDOs of "junk" loans as now magically AAA)[2]. Practically speaking, these rating agencies were