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by jwr 2y ago
That timescale… got me thinking. In my case it was closer to: 0-25: dicking around, with some incidental learning 25-35: learning how one gets screwed in business deals (by getting screwed in business deals) 35-40: dicking around pretending
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by jwr 2y ago
Another good option is one of the UHK (Ultimate Hacking Keyboard) keyboards — I've been using them for years now and I'm very happy with them. The huge customizability is a big plus for me, especially as I use multiple operating s
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by jwr 2y ago
The EU won't do much, because this is a car company. Car companies run the EU, basically, especially German ones.
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by jwr 2y ago
I so hope this will start an avalanche and car companies will not be able to get away with collecting so much data about users (cars, but that's pretty close). Especially in the EU, the hypocrisy is jarring: on one hand, GDPR, protecti
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by jwr 2y ago
It's the first terminal app that made me switch from Terminal.app on my Mac. It gets basically everything right, and doesn't try to have every feature. Fantastic work, thank you!
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by jwr 2y ago
That might be true for Windows, on Mac OS I get perfectly reliable connections (years of usage with multiple mice) with Bluetooth. And I don't have to use any stupid dongles.
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by jwr 2y ago
…unlike appliances from non-Chinese companies like, say, Amazon? :-) There is nothing "Chinese" about enshittification of the world around us. My LG TV insists that my "home screen" is not my property, even though I boug
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by jwr 2y ago
The E-mail categorization is so bad that it's totally useless. Most of my E-mails are categorized wrong. I can't see how anyone thought it was a good idea to deploy this.
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by jwr 2y ago
I regularly do repeated cuts of identical stuff width with my tracksaw, so I'm not sure why you'd think you can't easily do that. About the only thing the tracksaw is not good for are long cuts of narrow stock. And yes, dad
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by jwr 2y ago
One reason could also be that the US woodworking culture treats a table saw as an essential tool (especially the basic table saw, without a sliding table), while elsewhere track saws are used more, it seems. If you run commercial production
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by jwr 2y ago
I wish urban designers in Poland learned from this. Our bike lanes are terribly designed, cars turn right into them with very poor visibility. The "solution" is that lawmakers introduce additional restrictions for bikers, which ar
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by jwr 2y ago
> The 8.5% thing you talk about is not really that great I would be inclined to disagree — it is absolutely wonderful for solo entrepreneurs. You might say "it only makes sense for small one person companies", but that's e
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by jwr 2y ago
Incidentally, in a neighboring EU country (Poland) the tax system has a bizarre nod towards solo entrepreneurs running a SaaS: you can choose simplified revenue-based taxation and fall into the 8.5% bracket. 8.5% tax on revenue is really
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by jwr 2y ago
Please don't get me wrong: I really do appreciate the hack value and I absolutely understand choosing this route to scratch a personal itch! My point was more general: I see a lot of things getting built using Linux that really have
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by jwr 2y ago
So, will we get an evaluation of FDB one day? Pretty please? :-)
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by jwr 2y ago
This is a wonderful hack! But — using a Raspberry Pi and Linux is overkill for this. It introduces huge unnecessary complexity. A simpler approach would be to go with Zephyr and a small microcontroller (ARM Cortex M4).
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by jwr 2y ago
Yes. But going through Jepsen and surviving is different. Gives an entirely new reputation to a database.
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by jwr 2y ago
I'm still hoping Apple (or Snowflake) will pay you to do an analysis of FoundationDB…
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by jwr 2y ago
What emulator do you use? I'd really like to run HP50G on iOS, but the only emulator I know was abandoned years ago (I got the source just in case, but it's a lot of work to fix the issues and build it).
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by jwr 2y ago
Yes, that series is really good. The calcs I use most often: * HP-25 (yes, a nearly 50-year old calculator, but you can hold it in one hand and it does most things I need very well) * HP-11C or 15C (doesn't matter which, I don't u
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by jwr 2y ago
It's kind of like a 48, but with preloaded stuff — I'd normally spend a lot of time loading all kinds of libraries onto the 48 (to get a better stack view, basic CAS, fonts, etc). The 50g is really good out of the box.
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by jwr 2y ago
You can do everything in Python. But perhaps it is not the best tool for every job. This is similar to programming language discussions: any programming language can be discredited by saying "but I can do all that in assembly/C&#x
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by jwr 2y ago
Squat rack, barbell+weights and bench as a minimum, bonus points for a pull-up bar and bars for triceps dips. Most machines in gyms are either mostly useless, or actually detrimental to your health and fitness.
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by jwr 2y ago
Hey, if you feel more American, that's fine! My point was just that staying outside of Europe makes you realize that all these EU countries have much more in common than people think and that divisions between countries in the EU are l
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by jwr 2y ago
Nothing makes you feel European like spending several months in the US.
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by jwr 2y ago
This thread is making my point for me rather well.
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by jwr 2y ago
The 48G was a really good calculator, but only after loading additional software. The HP50g that came much later is better in every respect, except possibly for the smaller "ENTER" key (and people used to 48G will have to change s
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by jwr 2y ago
Run my compilation on a CPU, note down the time it took and the Geekbench score for that CPU. Run the compilation on another CPU, note down the time it took and the Geekbench score for that CPU. Now look at the ratios — if Geekbench scores
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by jwr 2y ago
Single core performance is what I need as a developer for quick compilation or updates of Javascript in the browser, when working on a Clojure/ClojureScript app. This affects me a lot .
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by jwr 2y ago
I verified Geekbench results to be very tightly correlated with my use case and workloads (JVM, Clojure development and compilation) as measured by my wall times. So yes, I consider it to be a very reliable indicator of performance.

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