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by jonstewart 9mo ago
I dunno monied interests leveraging newfound scale of propaganda through internet monopolies might also bear some of the blame.
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
Heavy smalltalk-style OOP in C++ has kind of died out, especially with data structures. So with any templated data structure you’re reducing indirection from vtables and you have the opportunity to allocate however you want, often in contin
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
“It’s the memory, stupid!” So wrote Richard Sites, lead designer of the famous DEC Alpha chip, in 1996 ( http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/architects_look... ). It’s rung true for 30 years. Where C a
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
There should be luminaries to whom this does not apply, and tridge is certainly among that small pantheon.
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
It can do this at the level of a function, and that's -useful-, but like the parent reply to top-level comment, and despite investing the time, using skills & subagents, etc., I haven't gotten it to do well with C++ or Rust pr
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
The older I've gotten, the more I've learned to scrape my plate clean into the trash. Then I rinse it, then I put it into the dishwasher. I'll run the garbage disposal as I rinse plates and pots and pans. This way I don'
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by jonstewart 9mo ago
This is a terrible practice. If you have a septic system, you’re screwing yourself. If you’re municipal, you’re screwing your city. Compost your compost, don’t dump it down the drain.
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by jonstewart 10mo ago
What’s the fidelity like compared to tika?
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by jonstewart 10mo ago
My team uses a squid proxy to control egress for AWS VPCs, all integrated into our CDK scripts. The CDK script states the allowlist (including AWS endpoints) for the VPC, and squid enforces it, including DNS. It works beautifully well. Lock
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by jonstewart 10mo ago
Not corporate, but two of the best individual developer blogs are Eli Bendersky's and Rachel by the Bay. They've both been blogging prolifically for a decade+, Eli with a focus on, broadly, compilers and Rachel on SRE/debuggi
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by jonstewart 10mo ago
<waits for animats to show up>
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by jonstewart 10mo ago
My great-grandfather was born in a dugout (i.e., sod) house on the Kansas prairie in 1880. His father died when he was 9. When he went to teacher’s college, someone gave him an orange and he ate the rind, as he didn’t know you were supposed
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
See also: washing machines. If you have three pairs of underwear and all day, Europe’s washing machines have you covered. Otherwise, you’re SOL.
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
If this is a trend, I have not noticed it. Are there particular brands and/or regions where there is happening?
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
Sure! First, while I’m in no position to judge cryptographic algorithms, the success of cha-cha and 25519 speak for themselves. More prosaically, patriecia/critbit trees and his other tools are the right thing, and foresighted. He’s no
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
He’s smart and prolific, for sure, but I lost respect for him several years ago.
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
It’s not like ElasticSearch lacks ranking algorithms and control thereof. But it can require tuning and adjustment for various domains. Relevancy is, after all, subjective.
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
I was at an AI/cybersecurity conference recently and the talk given by someone from Anthropic was a lot like this report: tantalizing, vague, and disappointing. The speaker alluded to similar parts of this report. It was though everyth
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
10 for 1 split on USD.
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
In C++ there’s the Boost Interval Container Library, which has an excellent API: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/latest/libs/icl/doc/html/inde... Unfortunately it’s implemented on top of st
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by jonstewart 11mo ago
H-h-how did you learn this?
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by jonstewart 1y ago
I did read Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle, it’s true.
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by jonstewart 1y ago
Oh, I am not at all implying or insinuating this article is connected to populism, nationalism, etc., or advocating for them, nor mean to impugn the author through association. Lead is bad. PFAS and microplastics are bad. Glyphosate maybe i
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by jonstewart 1y ago
Hachoir was rad, just not very fast.
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by jonstewart 1y ago
I like using it for parsing structs but then intersperse procedural code in it for loops/containers, so not everything gets read into RAM all at once.
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by jonstewart 1y ago
I know but tell that to GitHub/Gitlab/BitBucket/etc.
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by jonstewart 1y ago
So was CVS!
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by jonstewart 1y ago
What I miss from the Perforce and Subversion days is committing directly to trunk in a team environment. Now everything revolves around PRs and lengthy code review. With direct commits to trunk, everyone was in a rush to get their commit in
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by jonstewart 1y ago
Humbert as the product name for families is inspired. 10/10.
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by jonstewart 1y ago
I am, indeed, a C++ developer. :-)

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