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by kortex 4y ago
Then we stop increasing albedo for a bit. Basically PWM-ing the Earth's solar flux. As long as the decay time of the albedo modification is known, it's quite unlikely that we could induce a snowball earth.
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by kortex 4y ago
That's wild. So every column is fixed width? Is anything nullable, or for like the user_data column, do you just use 0x0 to indicate no record?
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by kortex 4y ago
> using one buffer for multiple strings is just a type specific arena allocator. Sure, but there's a lot of advantages of entirely controlling memory allocation in-process. > this approach is going to be EXTREMELY wasteful. Could
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by kortex 4y ago
I just learned about using this tag in github comments for hiding full tracebacks or large code blocks and it is such a usability game changer.
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by kortex 4y ago
Depends what version python you are on and what work you are doing. Our application deals with user calendars and scheduling across multiple calendar providers (google, microsoft, zoom, you name it), so I deal with the full brunt of timezon
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by kortex 4y ago
I watch this channel on the regular and... yeeeahhhh this is right on the money. It's definitely not neutral journalistic reporting of the war, and plays pretty fast and loose with "footage that some viewers might find disturbin
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by kortex 4y ago
Yes, with actual police. Why anyone would use a government- issue email tied to their identity to traffic CP is absolutely beyond me.
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by kortex 4y ago
It'll be in good company with dialing, film, photograph, watching the tube, etc. Actually photo graph was already out of date, because graph had morphed from "to write" to making any kind of image. Which itself I believe m
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by kortex 4y ago
Thanks! This is pretty sleek! I'm going to have to dust off my homelab and play around with this. What is the stack written in? Looks like a lot of javascript and makefiles from the github side of things but idk if that's the whol
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by kortex 4y ago
What does the landscape look like now for "terraform for bare metal"?. Is ansible/chef still the main name in town? I just wanna netboot some lightweight image, set up some basic network discovery on a control plane, and turn
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by kortex 4y ago
Germany's energiewende has been faltering even before the energy crisis. But what do they have a ton of? I can guarantee their coal consumption will increase before it even thinks about dropping again.
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by kortex 4y ago
Language is the real AI and its been improving itself since the first word was used between two people.
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by kortex 4y ago
I just updated the github page with my current state of notes, in case folks are curious to some of the details. https://github.com/xkortex/sito
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by kortex 4y ago
#927 is a fun quip, but as an actual critique of engineering practices, I'd actually much rather see folks attempt new standards and innovate when they feel like they have an idea which could work better, rather than be discouraged by
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by kortex 4y ago
Absolutely, I completely agree with every point in this comment. Round would have been a much better and more neutral term for "one unit of agile work". "Sprint" is tantamount to "bursty and not sustainable". S
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by kortex 4y ago
Oh yeah, I'd totally rather have blind, chaotic, messy nature inject me, vs a scientifically engineered and highly tested product with a scope even smaller than conventional vaccines. Blind Mother Nature would never hurt me! (hides
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by kortex 4y ago
> If you find yourself in 2022 or later designing a file format intended for bulk data and you use any of the words "stream", "serialization", Nit: I think I know what you are getting at, with blocks streams vs byte
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by kortex 4y ago
This is the best criticism of agile, and jira in particular. A lot of software work just doesn't box well. I've always struggled with "when is a ticket actually done?" Merge to main? Well we don't go straight to pro
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by kortex 4y ago
I thought "sprint" was dumb at first, for exactly this reason, it's not a sprint if it's week after week. But over time it's just become jargonized, a term of art for me. It's just a unit of organization.
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by kortex 4y ago
There are absolutely crappy teams, but I think what is more common is incompatible teams, or managers incompatible with their ICs. Many folks may be unproductive with one management style yet thrive in another.
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by kortex 4y ago
You do realize every single virus, many bacteria, and some other germs, are literally injecting molecular/genetic payloads into your body to hijack your body's protein machinery, and your immune system updates itself in response?
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by kortex 4y ago
Heck, I've seen some projects involving trying to diy short range digital comms accidentally turn into a jammer which will mess with anything in the 2.4Ghz band. All it takes is a VCO and the wrong (or right, depending on purpose) ci
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by kortex 4y ago
Amen. The first rule of distributed objects is "don't distribute your objects". It's much easier to reason about a bunch of different actors, each with their own copies of objects, trying to converge on consensus, than i
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by kortex 4y ago
Are you a fire performer, chemist, or otherwise intend on being around fire a lot, or is this just a general precaution? I mean, I do the same, but that's cause I play with fire on a regular basis, and haven't met anyone outside t
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by kortex 4y ago
Fun fact, if you ever want to locate sketchy sites, the keyword is "Wildlife Management Area". Odds are pretty good it's going to be some former superfund, government, chemical, or industrial cleanup site. They do their best
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by kortex 4y ago
Interesting. I don't work in defense / aero, but that seems plausible. Stealth aircraft are optimized to reduce cross section from certain perspectives. Front, bottom, and oblique are pretty good, iirc, while rear and side are har
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by kortex 4y ago
It was definitely a bad choice. I wasn't there so I can only speculate. My guess is because it is sort of ubiquitous and thus a low-hanging fruit and devs didn't know better, or the related corollary, it's what S3 uses for ET
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by kortex 4y ago
I've used both extensively. Git-lfs has always been a nightmare. Because each tracked large file can be in one of two states - binary, or "pointer" - it's super easy for the folder to get all fouled up. It would be unabl
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by kortex 4y ago
> No weird side-band edge cases effects, like if the IP stack could affect DC balance by changing the mix of 1s and 0s it sends out. As someone who started in chemistry and moved into computers, this made me laugh out loud hard. It'
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by kortex 4y ago
"02000" is a "long now" thing, not octal. Thinking about the next 10,000 years and ald that. https://longnow.org/

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