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by leblancfg 3y ago
IMO one doesn't preclude the other. Our forebears would have used the same logic to assume that the Sun orbited around the Earth.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I think GP meant "the minority browser we bend our logic for, in order to accommodate"
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by leblancfg 3y ago
What a great link. Love that Archive reference book. Cheers!
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by leblancfg 3y ago
History tidbit: before the Haber process was discovered, most commercial fertilizer was calcium cyanamide ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium_cyanamide ) as a downstream product from calcium carbide – one of the firs
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I was able to feed stdin to `gcc` instead of all that IO, which considerably sped it up and spread over 5 cores. But ultimately I gave up after the third time my computer crashed. I was at length 4 by that point, next step would have been t
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Welp that's a nerd snipe if I ever had one. Will report back once my bruteforce hack finishes crunching away.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
My comment is about how this man is seriously entertaining a 2B$ valuation for this napkin math, with no experience in the 4/5 different industries his plan entails – and sharing no definite plans of what to do with it except "be
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I will refer to this as the moment when LLM hype jumped the shark.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Someone at Microsoft better get a trademark on “Powerchord”.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Raw concrete price in USA is closer to 150$/m3, often less. One thing we don’t know is life expectancy vs Li-ion, whose 10-year charge is ~60%. I haven’t read the paper; one thing that’ll also be interesting is operating temperatures.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I’d say the peak of Github copilot adoption might have been during that month as well, IIRC the VS Code extension got released late March
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I seriously thought you had to be joking. But no! Ok I figure, the carbon footprint of milk is massive[0], it must be taxed at a higher rate? > In some European countries, plant-based milk is subjected to a significantly higher VAT than
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by leblancfg 3y ago
https://leblancfg.com TILs mostly about Python & vim
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Automating Command Execution Across Tmux Panes(leblancfg.com)
1 points by leblancfg 3y ago|0 comments
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by leblancfg 3y ago
That’s a lot of hand waving for such a short post. I don’t disagree with the overall idea being presented, but I feel like there was more potential here. Why 77% exactly? Surely that number must depend on other factors? How do you measure t
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by leblancfg 3y ago
TIL about the pipe/newline, thanks. Edited.
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Being a Good Unix Neighbour(leblancfg.com)
36 points by leblancfg 3y ago|7 comments
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Whatever's cheap and slightly conical – most will do. Worst case you let it sit for ~1h so it melts a little. From 10 seconds of Googling, something like this: https://browzefactory.com/products/tumbler-stainless-s
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Not an issue. It's only partially filled, less than half-way. As it forms, the ice floats and glides up the sides until it's like, 1mm higher than where it started.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Or just passing the cloudy bit under hot water. Melts like a charm.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Doesn't really work – the real trick is to make sure your ice is crystallizing directionally. The impurities are the last to crystallize, so this pushes them out. Then you take your ice out of the container when it's 90% done, and
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Former bartender here. Having nice cocktail ice chunks at home isn't as complex as this might make it seem. No need for a clunky box in your freezer or costly gizmos. I keep a travel-sized coffee thermos in my freezer with about 2-3 in
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by leblancfg 3y ago
FWIW here's what I got (GPT4): 1. *Budget hosted VPS website, heavy caching, and dynamic DNS with outside cache* - Software: Nginx, Varnish, PHP-FPM, MySQL - Hardware: Entry-level VPS, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM 2. *Shared hosting with CDN
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Have you considered somewhat of a smoother transition? Keep your current job and work extra to get to a point where leaving the FAANG job is a natural next step.
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by leblancfg 3y ago
s/have/keep/g
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by leblancfg 3y ago
We had cubicles like that at the Canadian Space Agency (back in 2017). Man were they ever nice. Some of the best concentration I ever achieved at work back then – no doubt about that. Coming from someone who is easily distracted, that was e
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Fractional Calculus(en.wikipedia.org)
5 points by leblancfg 3y ago|0 comments
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by leblancfg 3y ago
I wish the author had spent more time to unfold the public vs private debate here: >if a country installed all the measures I mentioned As opposed to the wastewater infrastructure in the first section that can be mandated and put in moti
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by leblancfg 3y ago
My wife has a goal to run 1000km this year, and uses an Apple Watch to track them. But getting to the YTD total is a pain in the fitness app. So I made the worlds most basic iPhone app with React Native, that grabs the data from HealthKit a
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by leblancfg 3y ago
Definitely a marketable idea right there, ChicagoBoy11

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