koala_man

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by koala_man 4y ago
I was surprised to learn that a swap file on hdd is not nearly as fast as a dedicated swap partition at the start of the drive. https://www.vidarholen.net/contents/blog/?p=1110
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by koala_man 4y ago
> All set -e does is halt further execution of your script if any line exits above 0. This is the expectation, and the article is about why it's not that simple.
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by koala_man 4y ago
I didn't know about datalist, but now I'll start using it. I've been annoyed at the multitude of completion implementations that all behave slightly differently.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Can you reuse 𓂸 or 𓂺?
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by koala_man 4y ago
For anyone else wondering about the name: it's actually "MiSTer", from "MiST on Terasic [FPGA board]", with "MiST" being a previous "aMIga/ST" FPGA reimplementation effort.
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by koala_man 4y ago
I think parent refers to the fact that if you insert a floppy disk and reformat it without running anything on it, it's safe. This is not true for USB drives, as USB controllers can be programmed to re-insert a virus or fry the system
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by koala_man 4y ago
See also Magnetic Refrigeration on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_refrigeration
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by koala_man 4y ago
I would love a strict Haskell, but I don't think functional programming would have been the same today. Laziness was the big motivator for keeping the language uncompromisingly pure, and we may not have developed monads and similar wit
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by koala_man 4y ago
The fact that making work more efficient can be a problem highlights some fundamental flaws in our society.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Orca memes
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by koala_man 4y ago
My parents gave me an old photo album I was going to digitize. It includes a photo of me age 1 having a bath in a wash tub. It never occurred to me that this might get my account banned.
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by koala_man 4y ago
It refers to "being at work", not "actively heads-down working on something". If you come in at 9am, do work, have lunch, make coffee, work more, suffer meetings, work, chat at the water cooler, work again, and leave at
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by koala_man 4y ago
"Agile" means different things to different people. I would argue it's agile if you release early&often to continuously incorporate feedback, even if you don't play Planning Poker in Scrum Sprint Planning every two w
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by koala_man 4y ago
Sprint here refers to crunch time, and not agile development.
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by koala_man 4y ago
I don't know about these days, but I implemented an XLS reader 20 years ago. The cell formulas were actually stored in Reverse Polish Notation with each function represented as a number. The actual ASCII you entered was never stored an
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by koala_man 4y ago
tl;dr: Author convincingly argues that Rust `unwrap()` (Java `Optional.get`, Haskell `fromJust`) is fine when you either have checked that the call will not fail, or when you're in a unit test or similar where a panic is a helpful resu
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by koala_man 4y ago
Today such jokes are made about engineers, mathematicians, and professors.
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by koala_man 4y ago
It's seems like what you're describing would help you find music that's new to you , not necessarily music that has been produced recently like in the article. I imagine this is especially true with today's data driven
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by koala_man 4y ago
My internet in the Silicon Valley today is worse than I had in Europe 10 years ago. It's pretty disillusioning.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Or Cristoforo Colombo, aka Christopher Columbus
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by koala_man 4y ago
> hockey puck or triangular things that were rice, seaweed, and a soft boiled egg or something Sounds like onigiri: "Onigiri, also known as omusubi, nigirimeshi, or rice ball, is a Japanese food made from white rice formed into tria
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by koala_man 4y ago
Someone said that his favorite part of shopping at Trader Joe's is afterwards when you go to a supermarket to buy all the stuff you need. Safeway has everything I'd want from Trader Joe's at this point, and I don't have
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by koala_man 4y ago
What's the elevator pitch for this game? "Factorio meets Civilization"?
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by koala_man 4y ago
Are you saying that you spend your base salary but save your RSUs? If this counts as "living paycheck to paycheck" I'm much less concerned.
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by koala_man 4y ago
Original author here. The intended point was that `dd if=.. | something | dd of=..` is just as useless as the two cats in `cat .. | something | cat > ..`. People sometimes mock the latter while still believing that the former is necess
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by koala_man 4y ago
Author here. You're welcome ^^
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by koala_man 4y ago
Original author here. An example would be `{ dd bs=1 count=0 skip=1234; myprogram; } < file`. This is similar to C `lseek(0, 1234, SEEK_CUR); execve("myprogram", ...);` It's not something you'd realistically use, but
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by koala_man 4y ago
One of my favorite moments at work was coming back to see half the team gathered around one computer, chuckling to each other. The guy at the keyboard said "now watch this!", hit a few keys, and the team erupted in raucous laughte
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by koala_man 4y ago
For comparison, this is my experience: 1. Easily available at every grocery store for half the price of pods 2. I just leave the spout open and it's fine 3. It doesn't clump 4. Occasionally the door does fail to close but I quickl
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by koala_man 4y ago
> I got through to the bank, but they couldn’t work out why they had called me. The bank said "we have no record of calling you" and it didn't stop there?

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