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by kitd 5y ago
Kudos to everyone involved. I didn't realise there was a planet-spotting remit to JWST though. Looking forward to the results of that.
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by kitd 5y ago
https://www.quora.com/Kafka-is-written-in-scala-Why-does-the...
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by kitd 5y ago
There are many benchmarks showing Java faster than Go. The trick is picking one that people agree is representative. It shouldn't be surprising though. "Peak performance" doesn't include start-up time, and ignores memory
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by kitd 5y ago
Kafka is currently undergoing a rewrite into java.
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by kitd 5y ago
The syntax isn't the only driver of language popularity. Ecosystem/ tooling/ major sponsors/ large precedent projects etc all enhance a languages adoptability and big shops want to pick a language with a low risk and la
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by kitd 5y ago
Thank you. Your few lines of comment gave me infinitely more information than the linked site.
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by kitd 5y ago
Of course Kubernetes might itself evolve to orchestrate WASM workloads. Already been done: https://krustlet.dev/
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by kitd 5y ago
TIL it's SQLite under the covers! (for now at least)
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by kitd 5y ago
I think that's more a function of where his expeditions were taking place. Everything had to line up perfectly for "success" in those sorts of environments and with the resources they had. The trick is knowing when to bow out
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by kitd 5y ago
I've been doing 14:10 for about 9 months, and even that has had a big effect on my weight. And I don't even consciously realise I'm actually fasting at all.
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by kitd 5y ago
IIRC Java had green threads and coroutines in its initial implementations. Imagine if they had kept them. People would probably complain they're unnecessary bloat. Never got all the complaints about Java. It's a very versatile &q
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by kitd 5y ago
IIRC all the interesting stuff had been removed from the ship already before it went down. But yes, a peek around inside would be interesting anyway.
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by kitd 5y ago
Leg muscles are the most powerful in he body, but they are not used to the extent on a bike as they are on a rowing machine. Additionally, they extend the work done by the arms and back, ie the work is not just the sum of the individual mus
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by kitd 5y ago
Their research includes producing the nuclear power plants on the UK's submarines btw: https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/defence/su...
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by kitd 5y ago
More pertinently, it's the brand that produces the nuclear power plants on Britain's submarine fleet: https://www.rolls-royce.com/products-and-services/defence/su...
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by kitd 5y ago
A rowing machine employs a wider range of muscles and so will enable more power to be produced. Here's a DIY rowing generator that one guy built: https://www.lybrary.com/a-rowing-machine-which-generates-ele... He claim
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by kitd 5y ago
"We can't do with 'no questions asked' because when people come to the UK we need to make sure they are supported," he said. The whole point of a schema to support genuine refugees (and I'm pretty sure people
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by kitd 5y ago
As an aside, if you're at all interested in this period of history, I highly recommend Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and his time spent administrating for Wolsey and Henry VIII. Cromwell must
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by kitd 5y ago
Russia complaining about fake news is jaw-dropping in its irony. They're the ones who turned fake news into an art form. And as an authoritarian government, theyshould have no problem dealing with it.
920.
by kitd 5y ago
Diolch yn fawr! A'r un peth i chi!
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by kitd 5y ago
I think classifying the post as "fanboyism" is a bit harsh. The blog presented figures in a misleading way. Seems fair that he should be allowed to respond and correct.
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by kitd 5y ago
Programming languages are there to make programmers productive 100% agree and I find I can produce more software value [1] per unit time/effort in Golang than anything else. Is it the perfect language? No, there are certainly some wa
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by kitd 5y ago
A better test of the language is whether you can write a complicated application in relatively fewer lines of code. To a point. In many situations, a better test is whether a coder unfamiliar with said complicated application can maintain
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by kitd 5y ago
1. Why would hundreds of unlisted videos be against the ToS? 2. OP didn't say the videos contained ads. And why can't unlisted videos contain ads anyway? 3. YT weren't complaining about ads anyway. It was "cyberbullying&
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by kitd 5y ago
Completely agree. I recently had to work on an unfamiliar JS codebase. After initially pulling my hair out trying to understand what objects were being passed where, I decided to define some types and parameters using JSDoc . VsCode picked
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by kitd 5y ago
I think micro VMs solved a lot of the issues that people had with regular containers and that unikernels were going to fix. There is still probably a performance improvement to be had with unikernels, but not enough to throw away all the in
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by kitd 5y ago
The format I was taught is: Imitate, inculcate, innovate ie. you need to spend time imitating others, but then more time totally grokking it to fully appreciate the whys, costs, & benefits of the old approach before trying to i
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by kitd 5y ago
I have just been reading "Days of Rain" by Rebecca Stott, about her upbringing, and that of her father, in the Exclusive Brethren. This author covers all the same points and, yes, he has a book about his experience in, and leavin
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by kitd 5y ago
A few years back I wrote a tool that would convert Ascii flow diagrams in source code comments to equivalent source code declarations that implemented the flow. The idea being that the comments didn't just describe the flow visually, b
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by kitd 5y ago
There's petite-vue if you don't want the whole stack. https://github.com/vuejs/petite-vue

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