jrockway

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by jrockway 2y ago
What a good idea for a project. CNC-ifying things is quite fun, but at some point you've seen everyone build a 3D printer, CNC router, CNC mill, CNC grinder, etc. from scratch. This is new, though, and I love it.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Everyone spent the cash they were going to invest into startups on NFTs, I guess.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think 2018 was the year of FinTech, which translates mostly to "altcoins". I was looking for a job in the summer of 2018 and that's what all the ads were for. Ended up working for an ISP though, which was nice.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I mean, they parted ways long ago, and pg released a statement recently as to the nature of that breakup. People and organizations can change their mind.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Did we even fix Section 174 yet?
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by jrockway 2y ago
Tests are not 100% accurate, so running a test without a good reason can lead to a lot of unnecessary medical intervention. A false positive can lead to thousands of dollars of expense and not getting better.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Aurora has treated us well. We make a self-hosted product that requires Postgres; our sales/customer engineering folks just started telling people to use Aurora, and it hasn't caused any problems despite the fact that all of our
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by jrockway 2y ago
I don't think that this is the root of depression. A lot of people get a lot of joy from working, and aren't that sad about having just barely enough resources to keep living another day. A lot of people even aspire to entertain
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by jrockway 2y ago
That is probably true, but you know you suffer for your art and all that. People don't really like software, but they love games. We know that games are just software, but it's so fun, that people forget that. It's pretty
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by jrockway 2y ago
That's a very good point. There is the entire Linux network stack in the way, and the Hyper-V virtual network driver, and the Windows networking stack. In like 2008 I was using a Perl library that was all about zero-copy networking.
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by jrockway 2y ago
You motivated me to look into this more. I wrote a program that just floods stdout and prints what time it got SIGINT and then exits. Of course this program exits immediately when you press C-c. The program that I have the most trouble wi
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by jrockway 2y ago
For me it's because I game and don't want: a) 2 separate machines b) To get banned for running the games in a Windows VM Work is a Microsoft place, but honestly the web version of Outlook works great under Linux. Teams is usable.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I agree with all of this completely. I also run Windows as my host OS and do all my work in Linux. I don't use X, I ssh into the Linux VM and have Emacs alongside a bunch of shells running in tmux. It is very productive and even whe
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by jrockway 2y ago
Testing is a continuum. I don't write a test for every change. Sometimes I spend a week writing tests for a simple change. I will say that I've never said "I wish I didn't write a test for that". I have also neve
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by jrockway 2y ago
"That's one fine looking barbeque pit."
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by jrockway 2y ago
Bugs are kind of the fun part of games. If every subroutine worked perfectly, you wouldn't have the chaos of real life. Some of players favorite mechanics are just bugs. (Overwatch example: Mercy's super jump, now a legitimate
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by jrockway 2y ago
Is that a bad thing? I don't make a lot of arithmetic errors in M-x calc or whatever.
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by jrockway 2y ago
I think I'm too old for common core (39). It was "Chicago Math" or something like that. We did multiplication by making a 2x2 grid with diagonal lines and whatnot? I didn't really understand the simplification that mu
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by jrockway 2y ago
I still have some Tom Lehrer songs in my playlist. They sound like they're a product of their time but are still relevant today. I am also amused that I learned "new math" in elementary school, but I think it's actually
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by jrockway 2y ago
I was perusing some Simpsons clips this afternoon and came across a story to the effect of "So and so didn't want to play himself, so Dan Castellaneta did the voice." It's a good impression and people didn't seem v
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by jrockway 2y ago
I don't think this is strictly true. I think that Amazon could automate more of their order fulfillment if they were willing to invest in that. I also think that for the jobs that do need humans, they could afford health insurance (r
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by jrockway 2y ago
> "Our leadership team wasn't aware of the termination when it occurred. Once they found out and looked at the circumstances, they quickly reversed the decision." So yes, they got fired, but it was a mistake. Certainly dr
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by jrockway 2y ago
This seems unlikely to me. No company is going to fire you because you were trying to help. However, accepting money for this service seems pretty much guaranteed to result in termination even if 100% of the accounts you help with were legi
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by jrockway 2y ago
At Google we had a conversion chart between things like memory / cpu and SWE hours, so if you had an idea that would save 8TB of RAM and take 4 hours to do it, you could decide if it would be worth your time or not.
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by jrockway 2y ago
Typically the problem is that Comcast won't peer with you. They always use the excuse that they only peer with equals, and since they aren't sending you as much traffic as you're sending them, it's not in line with thei
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by jrockway 2y ago
That is so smart to try it on Github. None of those look fatal but I think they all differ from the intent of the author. That's why code review is so good. You just need someone to ask "what's 874600?". Turns out: no
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by jrockway 2y ago
It's really a matter of who's going to catch your typos. If you use the constant built into your language, millions of people are looking at it. If you type them into your throwaway bash script, nobody is going to notice you typ
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by jrockway 2y ago
John Carmack may have misremembered the 10th digit of pi, but you should all search your codebases for 84,600 and see who typo'd the number of seconds in a day. It is surprisingly common and there is a lesson about whether or not you
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by jrockway 2y ago
Newer clocks use the phase modulated signal: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/05/09/NIST-... If you have AM-based clocks, you might find that these work better. However, nobody
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by jrockway 2y ago
I'm OK with people using the expression "memory leak" to mean "unbounded growth in heap size over time". The case that I see most frequently is a routine that's set up like "use some memory, wait until an

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