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by kitd 2y ago
Someone wanting to migrate Python scripts to compiled form for performance reasons might want to look at Nim. Cpp-like speeds with less cognitive load.
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by kitd 2y ago
Written by the same person, so kind of expected.
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by kitd 2y ago
One of her last roles was in the fantastic BBC comedy "Detectorists" where she played the mother of Rachael Stirling, her daughter in real life. There was definitely a big hole when series 2 came out without her.
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by kitd 2y ago
One benefit of a separate device, especially a small one like a Roku or Firestick, is you can take it on holiday with you to access all your services while away (assuming your destination has a TV with HDMI).
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by kitd 2y ago
More importantly, each processing stage may have external resources it needs to manage to do its function. In many cases, it makes more sense to let the stage own the resource for all bottles, than to have a per-bottle process having to con
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by kitd 2y ago
I wish them well but ActivityPub feels to me a bit like XMPP: makes sense at a "techie's abstraction" level, but unless you can drag whole communities away from their favourite walled gardens, it won't get enough tractio
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by kitd 2y ago
> and he charted the Gulf Stream’s course across the Atlantic ocean, noting that ships traveling from America to England took longer than those going the opposite direction ?? Has the Gulfstream changed direction in the intervening years
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by kitd 2y ago
I don't often interact with make files so when I do, I usually need to have a reference at hand. This is the best I've found yet: https://makefiletutorial.com/
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by kitd 2y ago
A day or so there was this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41558081 Imagine your shell's model not being a command line console but a spreadsheet!
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by kitd 2y ago
He says in the article. 'Set +e' prevents any error in a fork blitzing the whole script.
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by kitd 2y ago
Good video. (My paraphrase of) Rob Pike's tldr: Concurrency is a characteristic of the design that allows multiple tasks to execute, coordinate and be scaled. Parallelism is a characteristic of the runtime that allows simultaneous exe
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by kitd 2y ago
Very impressive!
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by kitd 2y ago
I mean, technically , "seismology" is all about shaking the earth.
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Jox – channels & structured concurrency in Java(github.com)
2 points by kitd 2y ago|0 comments
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by kitd 2y ago
Pfft, OP will be telling me next Jerry Lewis is vice-president, and Jane Wyman first lady
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by kitd 2y ago
Betteridge's law of repo descriptions, or something
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by kitd 2y ago
> Easy != Informative. Oh sure, absolutely, but note I said "easiest to implement". And there's that cost measure again, as if it's the only KPI. How do we measure the quality of the "quality" system? :)
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by kitd 2y ago
Hence the obsession with customer reviews. In the absence of an objective measure of quality, the easiest to implement is a star rating of "what everyone else thinks about this product".
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by kitd 2y ago
I was astounded when I read Matt Ridley's book "Genome" at just how mechanical cellular life is. The nucleus, loaded with DNA, is functioning like a ready-programmed CNC machine, or robot, or other programmable piece of har
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by kitd 2y ago
Energy efficiency is only one part of the equation. There are economic and social efficiencies in using simple, eco-friendly components that are easy to build/transport/store/run/scale up. Those can easily offset any e
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by kitd 2y ago
There's a similar story about Brunel building Maidenhead Railway Bridge, which 160 years later still has the widest, flattest brick arches in the world (if that makes sense). The authorities absolutely required him to support the arche
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by kitd 2y ago
Very nice and simple idea! One question: how are the articles linked in the RSS file? Are they relative to that file and/or assumed to be in the same folder?
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by kitd 2y ago
Coincidences happen every minute of every hour of every day all over the world. Occasionally they involve people in the news. The chairman of Morgan Stanley is also missing from the yacht. Was he under suspicion too?
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by kitd 2y ago
Seriously? There's no question about the validity of the tornado reports. There have been huge storms around Sicily this week. I think a few people would have noticed.
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UK entrepreneur Mike Lynch reportedly missing after tornado sinks superyacht(bbc.co.uk)
15 points by kitd 2y ago|8 comments
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by kitd 2y ago
British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch is reportedly among the people missing after the luxury yacht sank off the coast of Sicily, sources have told Reuters and PA news agency. The BBC has yet to independently confirm this.
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by kitd 2y ago
I disagree with having the ordering embedded into the map implementation. That imposes an unnecessary performance overhead to support a small subset of use cases. I think what the author requires is iterating over a sorted list of keys. Tha
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by kitd 2y ago
> yet another non-standard data format. Tbf, ASCII delimiter characters have been around since the 1960s. They're not exactly reinventing the wheel
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by kitd 2y ago
There's dqlite, which is a in-process sqlite with raft. https://dqlite.io/
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by kitd 2y ago
Rqlite would be a better comparison. It is actually SQLite + raft https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite

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