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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " They are probably not called ADD and SUBTRACT for a reason. " You'll be pleased to know they aren't called that in the protocol, but they actually are that. They take a delta value so you can do "incr 5"
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> Several components of the Dropbox core file-storage system were written in Rust as one step in part of a larger project to pursue greater datacenter efficiency. It’s currently used by all Dropbox storage today, serving >500 million
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " Not everything encountered in real life will be as easy to use as an app, nor should it be " Yes should it be. There's no value in "I suffered to learn this, so everyone should have to". There is a ton of val
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
"Of course too much is bad, too much of anything is bad, that's what 'too much' means." - Fry and Laurie.
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Having just gone through this question for fun, the codebase DECR command has this clipping code in it to avoid the value going negative: if(delta > value) { value = 0; } else { value -= delta;
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
There are adults old enough to drink in the USA who were born after Bill Gates stopped being CEO of Microsoft.
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/tv4gz5/lua... https://old.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/comments/t080hv/lua...
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Coca Cola provides more good to people than water, penicillin, insulin, cabbage, schools, libraries or parkland, because Coca Cola is more profitable than water, penicillin, insulin, cabbage, school, libraries and parkland?
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
You're the President of a big and busy company which is prestigious to work for, creates well regarded furniture and gets huge investments. The people who can't tell good furniture from bad furniture are kept away from the factory
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Dendron, it's like Obsidian (markdown based notes in files on your filesystem) but as a VS Code plugin, so it's also compatible with Git and other VS Code filetype extensions. https://www.dendron.so/ https:/
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Just because "the authorities" say something is a good idea, doesn't automatically make it a bad idea. If you accept that breathing asbestos dust can cause lung cancer, are you a good little sheep who is part of the problem?
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
You mean this UK? "Two UK Broadband ISPs Trial New Internet Snooping System" - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26430266 "UK’s secret, ongoing mass surveillance rigorously frisked by watchdog (arstechnica
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
There's a drone flythrough of an Australian Plywood Factory from a year ago on YouTube[1], and it made me think: why would managers Segway around a factory in future[2] when they could have FPV drones with cameras and speakers and micr
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
They didn’t do that, though.
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
There are some projects which try to make the audio sound pleasant, like birdsong or water. And there are fountain codes which continually stream data and you can start picking up the transmission at any point and as long as you get enough
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Negotiations exist between a single employee and an international team of Amazon lawyers and professional negotiators. Whether that should really count as "two parties" negotiating on equal terms is up for argument.
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
If it was really losing $800M/year why would they keep it running at all? Could this be "creative accounting"?
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
I have never found it comfortable to imagine gravity as a rubber sheet with a weight on it, where Earth's gravity is making the 'model' work by pulling the weight and stretching the sheet. Trying to turn that into a 3D Sun wi
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Tesla cars report their state back to Tesla HQ and have done so for years, this is one of the things they were banking on for their self driving work - the ability to train their systems on millions of miles of actual driving data. I don&#x
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
The spacebar is huge and under both thumbs, because you use it a lot. - is far away under one fourth finger or pinky, it's bad to type. Shifted letters are common. Seems like it should be shift+space inserts a variable-split-token and
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " because google will be unable to index it " Creating a DNS server is beyond Googles abilities? Why will Google be unable to index it? If you can read the catalogue, they surely can. > " Commercial operators will s
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Why shouldn't I complain? Transactions and snapshots and checkdisk were invented lifetimes ago, and building resilient systems out of fragile parts is so ancient that Joe Armstrong is dead and buried and "cattle not pets" i
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
It's fine to say "OSS developers don't owe anybody anything" in general, but Debian specifically has quite a strict vetting procedure before accepting people as developers and they agree to things like the Debian Social
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " As mentioned, pigs are considered to be intelligent and yet you didn't choose to address pigs but instead chose cows. " If you're going to start with a conclusion, "animals can be intelligent because pigs are
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
Scroll down to the bottom of every HN page, there is a "Search:" box and it uses Algolia as the search engine. And Algolia is a YCombinator company: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/algolia
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
" If people have the right to be tempted - and that's what free will is all about - the market is going to respond by supplying as much temptation as can be sold. " - Eliezer Yudkowsky, LessWrong, "Superstimuli and the C
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " That said, a game can deliberately target such style, and yet hide considerable richness of implementation (consider: Noita, Dwarf Fortress). " It definitely can, and Monkey Island and other SCUMMVM games are examples of ha
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
It's relevant in the sense of being a reply to "we need software written in Lisp" and how, if you substitute Java and say "we need software written in Java", people would just shrug and ask "why do we?". P
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
> " I kind of doubt an independent inventor could bring this to market with today's startup climate. " Especially the kind of inventor who created microwaves for experiments with reanimating frozen hamsters, cough James Lo
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by jodrellblank 5y ago
You load the web page on your phone, put it in to the microwave and close the door. The microwave should be a Faraday cage preventing microwave radiation getting through. Now the phone/web page cannot contact the internet. The chart st

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