johncalvinyoung

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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
I was re-reading your 'CRDTs-go-brr' blog post just today! Recently prototyping a major collaborative feature based on Automerge, and am discovering some of its performance limits on our largest data samples (25+ MB of JSON). Very
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by johncalvinyoung 3y ago
most gasoline available in the eastern USA is E10. I go out of my way to get E0 for a vintage high-performance vehicle I drive on occasion, it's noticeably happier without the ethanol, even if it can drive on E10 without damage.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Random aside: > I just hate writing with a pen - total blocker for me to get words on paper I don't know your details, and your experience could stem from something like dysgraphia. But I personally did not have any such difficultie
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
I must have had a bad run of big H8 AGMs in my Jag and Volvo. I think I've replaced about one a year on average. The Jag is very subject to parasitic drain and sometimes it just didn't come back from running itself out. Did the Mi
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
As a current owner of a 90s Jaguar and an 05 Volvo, I've been looking at low-mileage E90 era BMWs for my next daily driver. Not too scared of moderately expensive maintenance, but would like it to be more reliable than the Volvo has be
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Switching to a tented split keyboard (UHK v1) effectively saved my productivity from a really bad case of forearm tendonitis a couple of years ago. Was still typing with coldpacks on my wrists, but it was doable in a way continuing on the l
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Had a brand new Seagate 2.5" hard drive fail after ~60 days of laptop use, back in 2010. I was a reasonably heavy desktop user, but scarcely a stress-tester, and I didn't have any memorable drop incident or accident that'd ex
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Definitely. I'm a team lead (duties: mix of team management, project management, and some IC development), and my mentor is on the management team, and I mentor a junior dev. One of my prior mentors (as a junior dev back then) was the
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
I live and work within sight of the vapor plume from a major nuclear station. Visited the station (admittedly, the visitor side of the control center nowhere near the reactor) as a schoolkid. Living here doesn't worry me, and I really
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
it's not magical, but if Apple's 1080p camera is 'very low quality', I have plenty of experience on potato-cams to talk about, even in the previous generation. I also suspect that the design was intended for Face ID, but
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Oh you can. It's just a lot more work. You can do it with paper forms, a calculator, checks, and stamps, pretty much. You just are unlikely to know/find the rules for optimal results, and the process will take a lot longer. Not a
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
According to Apple's press release^1, at least the M2 Pro is fabbed on a 'second generation 5nm' process. Since the power/cores/performance claims seem to be sub-linear going to the M2 Max, I'd expect it contin
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Man, I wish Rosetta (or Microsoft's ARM emulation) could support AVX. I understand it might be a patent issue. It's the one significant thing keeping me from running some of the software I'd like to on my MBP.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
IIRC, I remember from discussions with other scriptwriters that BTF was rejected SO many times (and he redrafted it each time, afterwards) that the version that got filmed was like v12 of the story. Very, very tight and plotted.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
There are assuredly advertisers for steam-engine-adjacent products. Memorabilia, experiences/outings, conventions, models, books, artwork, games.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Ugh. I'm not planning on updating this cycle, but eSIM + physical SIM was best of both worlds for me, as a US user who travels internationally. Carriers in my most common European destination do not offer eSIM or restrict it solely to
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Of that list, I'll listen to Schneier or Hunt way before Krebs. And that was before this story.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Closer to artificial vanilla, actually.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Not crazy obscure, but half-edge mesh data structures are super cool to me.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
Not a double entendre, but a reference to a well-known idiom of 'yak-shaving' to refer to recursive chores with deep dependency trees.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
I still use Instapaper, though their mobile apps are not terribly useful, and very slow. Mostly I just use it to bookmark things--I read so voraciously that searching through 25 new bookmarks a day is way easier than searching through 250+
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
I thought it was bronze. Points for the parody though.
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
They inject a liquid polymer solution into the water+glycerol solution, in the area they want it to be. 'Immiscible' means they won't mix, it'll just form a homogenous bubble/blob in the water. And they carefully ad
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by johncalvinyoung 4y ago
I'm fairly sure that the medium within the ring-shaped mold is homogenous once cured--I don't think it's a cured surface membrane with a liquid interior? Presumably that's the purpose of the heat-curing process describ
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
Upvoted for your final-line analysis of 'normal for muggles' and how HN is not a representative sample.
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
Basically all of the above makes me very sad. But it's still useful enough that I'll still be paying, but they are drawing down that goodwill.
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
From what I’ve read, the Oregon truffles harvested are different varieties noticeably different from the top ones, and even more perishable and time-limited. I don’t think many people eat Oregon truffles outside of Oregon.
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
my only real disappointments with the new MBPs so far, on paper (haven't received mine yet) have to do with networking. I was really hoping the new MagSafe would be precisely that, data+power with ethernet in the power brick. I'd
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
I think the current ISS is hosting an experiment at making ultra-high-purity optical cables.
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by johncalvinyoung 5y ago
Node 14 won't compile natively on arm64 right now. Though I do understand it's installable with Rosetta.

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