lanstin

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by lanstin 2y ago
I wrote a lot of basic and 6502 assembler code inspired by Byte. So much learning.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Isn't doing the exercises a lot more efficient?
633.
by lanstin 2y ago
I think that property is essential to really good books. The running of Aragorn and Legolas and Gimli is a long boring slogto read. The trek up Mt Doom is agonizing. The transformation of writing from the awesome kids tale of Sorcerer'
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by lanstin 2y ago
I didn't realize that. I booted over BootP many times but this is even cooler.
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by lanstin 2y ago
https://academic.oup.com/oocc/article/3/1/kgad008/7335889?lo... a nice summary of the current math.
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by lanstin 2y ago
If only your post were from 2001 instead of a time when solar + batteries is so much faster to deploy and cheaper to build than nuclear. Tho, of course, there is a good amount of funding for nuclear in Biden's climate change law. It ke
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by lanstin 2y ago
I am not Canadian but I am irresponsible and a debit card lets me just spend in a relatively stateless fashion. Check online account, if money can spend, otherwise not. I change the card numbers pretty often so not too worried about fraud.
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by lanstin 2y ago
No that is a webserver that AOL bought. It used TCL but also threads.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Because unless you hire steadily more intelligent developers you will be headed towards a mass of code that is hard and scary to change.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Your successors just hope you can only remember 3 things at once so you end up with elegant designs rather than one of those monsters who can remember "to add a new wrinkle to this feature, just edit these 25 files."
641.
by lanstin 2y ago
Sounds fun. I have a similar policy but only every other year. It means I know what the hell I am talking about when in meetings with people who have slow or inefficient services. It also means my job of mostly telling other people how to s
642.
by lanstin 2y ago
I really wish more people believed in continuous improvement and the malleability of software. Giant heroic refactors or redos are so annoying, but so are ten year old compiler or kernels.
643.
by lanstin 2y ago
Started with Tandem and Stratus pre Unix then migrated to HPUX then Solaris then Linux on stock hardware. Also Digital for big machines and early usage of 64 bit. I ported to Mac OSX but only for local dev. Funny thing about HPUX to Solaris
644.
by lanstin 2y ago
AOL's server code was excellent. It was written by some people that had done similar things for BITNET and had a deep understanding of Unix programming and how to use event loops for scalability. It was in C, but the process was expect
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by lanstin 2y ago
Because of msgs that are larger than I want to allocate. Explicit state machines forces one to think thru the problem. And it forces the solution to be one pass over the input data. I almost never am forced to use Java so unsure about that
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by lanstin 2y ago
I use it because: 1. I am not writing a network API without a solid spec, and 2. I want to decouple the number of tcp connections from the amount of pending work. I don't want one wonky msg to consume many resources and I want a spike
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by lanstin 2y ago
I use protobuf to specify my protocol and then generate a swagger/openAPI spec then use some swagger codegen to generate rest client libraries. For a proxy server I have to fill in some stub methods to parse the json and turn it into a
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by lanstin 2y ago
gRPC gives you multiplexing slow request over 1 TCP connection, which reduces all the work and memory related to 1 socket per pending request; gRPC means you don't have to put the string name of a field into the wire, which makes your
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by lanstin 2y ago
I've seen wire protocols that had junk for the alignment buffering in such structs. And I've seen people have to do a whole lot of work to make the wire protocol work on a newer compiler/platform. Also, the whole point of a n
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by lanstin 2y ago
Nice. I like the event based/callback based parsing tools for XML a lot. A little more cognitive work up front but much more efficient. A little sad if unsurprised that XML is still a thing in 2024, but if you have to read it, use a
651.
by lanstin 2y ago
Because the trial period showed that FSD will routinely try to kill you, on the routes I take around San Jose (interstate and normal roads). But having solar power and electric cars is awesome, and the car is a lot faster and more fun than
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by lanstin 2y ago
There's fewer pedestrians that might or might not be about to step in front of the car. Less need to predict human actions. There's mostly no perpendicular intersections. Generally visibility is good, don't have to remember t
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by lanstin 2y ago
Based on my limited experience with Telsa model 3 FSD and my Toyota lane assist/radar cruise control, congested highways are the absolute sweet spot for self driving. Not much happening on the sides, and stop and go traffic being quit
654.
by lanstin 2y ago
There were a bunch of photos of the kindle in question showing dodgy book names and cover art?
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by lanstin 2y ago
It's almost like capital has become so big that the investment money sloshing around looking for high returns at the expense of anything else, does not care if excessive capital ruins the early dot.com companies, real estate, crypto, g
656.
by lanstin 2y ago
After a few months of writing all my homework in LaTeX I'm finding my thinking slid towards the raw latex rather than the rendered form. I'll have to wait till fall semester to give 3.5 a good whirl.
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by lanstin 2y ago
The thing is there's a lot of dysfunctional organizations, and being an innovation hero is an easier and more fun career path than fixing dysfunctional organizations, which seems (as someone that only half-heartedly tries to keep insan
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by lanstin 2y ago
Claude 3 was much better than GPT4 for functional analysis and abstract algebra (first year classes).
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by lanstin 2y ago
Given the prompt "Why does swallowing gum result in the gum staying in your body for 7 years?" Claude explains that that story is a myth, so maybe search is dead but GenAI isn't totally useless. Wikipedia also comments on it
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by lanstin 2y ago
I actually had the opportunity to try the peanut butter to remove gum from hair once, but my child just cut it out before I could get ready. The beginning of the mullet haircut season. (I was SAHD but with the self-cut hair, my wife (at th

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