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by jlokier 3y ago
Just based on their website, I think selling Mojo as a faster Python-like language isn't intended to be their main product. They place a lot more emphasis on AI/ML acceleration than on Mojo, and on creating compatibility between
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by jlokier 3y ago
I just got 28.1ms IPv4 pinging between a server in the UK (i.e. a good connection) and Hetzner Germany. The timing within Hetzner's network is surprisingly varied, so pings to some of my servers are 27.1ms instead, and pings to some I
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by jlokier 3y ago
Surprisingly, some laptop LCDs work fine for software development in bright sunlight outdoors. They switch to reflective mode so don't depend on the backlight. My old laptop had one, and it wasn't even an advertised feature. Mo
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by jlokier 3y ago
Unfortunately, as a tab hoarder myself, I had to remove Tree Style Tabs when I figured out it was the single reason Firefox was taking about 1 second after clicking to do actions like open a new tab or switch tab, and generally higher tha
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by jlokier 3y ago
I'm not sure if this fits what you want with "allows me to switch tabs with one button", but in macOS Firefox keys ⌘1 to ⌘9 (cmd-1 to cmd-9) switch to tabs 1 to 9 respectively in the current window. ⌥⌘← and ⌥⌘→ (alt-cmd-left
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by jlokier 3y ago
" Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370551
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by jlokier 3y ago
They have to apply for a visa/license to marry, which can be denied or take a long time or require whatever documents the authorities want, and I have the impression it requires them to leave the country too, before they are able to ge
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by jlokier 3y ago
I used to do something like this with my passwords. A folded, printed sheet with tiny font holding my accounts and passwords that I carried in my wallet. Eventually I found there wasn't enough space even on both sides of an A4 sheet wi
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by jlokier 3y ago
I have ~1000 accounts, ~200 of which are used for work occasionally. Their 2FA recovery methods vary, and some have no recovery method. I'd like to say my wallet is not large enough for the printed codes, but only about 5 accounts eve
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by jlokier 3y ago
You might be thinking of DRAM, which does work that way. Reads discharge the memory array capacitance so the data has to be amplified and rewritten.
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by jlokier 3y ago
Upvoted just because your way of writing about joy is infectious!
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by jlokier 3y ago
> But maybe cryptography experts have a solution? They do! The field of zero-knowledge cryptography targets exactly this sort of use case, proving things to a recipient without revealing other things. In this case, you might send a ze
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by jlokier 3y ago
That was a fun read. I found item 6 interesting, "Separate functional and non-functional changes". Because that's obviously the sensible and useful thing to do. But at the last job, whitespace, reformatting and simple refacto
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by jlokier 3y ago
> I just wish they made laptops with them. I'd buy a laptop I can use at the beach with sunglasses in a heartbeat. My Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo SI1520 laptop back in ~2006 had a transflective LCD, and that wasn't mentioned in the
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by jlokier 3y ago
I don't think it's weird. At my last contract job the company supplied the laptop we had to use, and that made me sigh before it even arrived. It was restrictive, with its controlled accounts and restrictions on what software coul
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by jlokier 3y ago
I didn't like Windows Terminal when I used it over the last few months at the last $job because my choices of software were limited and it was better than the Windows Console. There seems to be no way to make the cursor clear and visib
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by jlokier 3y ago
With more than two participants, real-time peer to peer video needs a lot more bandwidth on your local internet connection, compared with a hub. That's because you need to send your AV stream to all the other participants in separate s
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by jlokier 3y ago
No. I'm saying "you" are the person in the Zoom call and who agreed to the Terms of Service when you installed the software, but the "customer" is the Zoom account owner, and these are usually not the same person.
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by jlokier 3y ago
It's a strange mixture, and it's anticipating future needs as well as current things like malware scanning. Probably Zoom and all the other mainstream meeting services will have to use AIs on audio and video streams in due course
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by jlokier 3y ago
It's subtler than that. You are not the customer.
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by jlokier 3y ago
> At Zoom, we do not use customer audio, video, and chat to train our generative AI models without customer consent. I think it is misleading to use the word "customer" here without drawing attention to the fact that is not t
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by jlokier 3y ago
I think that says more about Microsoft's poor optimisation of #include <iostream> semantic caching. There's no good, fundamental reason why #include caching can't be done with similar mechanisms to import , resulti
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by jlokier 3y ago
I agree with boomboomsubban above. This a very common arrangement used by charities to enable a commercial process that funds the charity. For example, high street charity shops may be part of the commercial sub-entity so that their accoun
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by jlokier 3y ago
It used to take nearly 2 months on computers much faster than a Raspberry Pi 4, so yes it's an achievement. It's not insanely complex or anything, but there have been clever technical innovations in the the storage structures (ho
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by jlokier 3y ago
LK-99 has been in development for longer, 24 years, if you believe a quote copied in many current articles and below. You may have heard before, "it takes years of work to become an overnight success..." > Lee & Kim had be
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by jlokier 3y ago
> trying to explain why it's been two weeks and their nodes is not synced yet. Fwiw, it's possible to sync to Ethereum in a few hours now. The features to enable that were added in 2021, before the merge. If you want to sync
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by jlokier 3y ago
Not the person you replied to. I use Cmd-Tab for most app switching, and trackpad configured for four-finger swipe up/down (Mission Control / App Exposé). The dock is set to auto-hide and I rarely use it for navigation.
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by jlokier 3y ago
In my town, most office rents are all time high and there are a lot of empty units, at the same itme. It's been like this for years, even before Covid. However, in the few years before Covid there were more spaces advertised than th
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by jlokier 3y ago
> Why not? You are relatively well paid. Most people in the US received total less than $500k cumulative post-tax income by 35. Median incomes don't reach that level. Here are median personal income figures over the last 17 y
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by jlokier 3y ago
It ended 51 years ago in 1972, but there was indeed a top rate of income tax called "super-tax" or "surtax" (only for very high earners) of 90% for a few decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor

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