makmanalp

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by makmanalp 11mo ago
I'm working on a video / post on how to solve the 1 billion row challenge ( https://github.com/gunnarmorling/1brc ) and get a competitively fast result while keeping the code readable and maintainable. So far I
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by makmanalp 1y ago
Counterthoughts: a) These skills fit on a double sided sheet of paper (e.g. the claude code best practices doc) and b) what these skills are has been changing so rapidly that even the best practices docs fall out of date super quick. For ex
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by makmanalp 1y ago
In some contexts, dictionary encoding (which is what you're suggesting, approximately) can actually work great. For example common values or null values (which is a common type of common value). It's just less efficient to try to
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by makmanalp 1y ago
This is my time to shine - I know the cause of this mistake. Like the article mentions, international trade is specified using the HS (Harmonized System) encoding mechanism. Now, product groups for which data is most frequently and easily a
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From Scrolls to SQL: How Ancient Librarians Pioneered Modern Database Concepts [video](youtube.com)
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by makmanalp 2y ago
God I loved that lobby and the art deco + mexican combination art style. I found a high res version of that mural as a wallpaper at some point but am coming up short for the link right now.
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> almost 25 billion kilometers Had to reread that a few times to make sure
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by makmanalp 2y ago
It's more that the "negative nancies" became necessary nancies. Back when Amazon sold books, they became a considerable player but otherwise big whoop. Now they threaten to dominate logistics AND hosting, and are expanding th
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by makmanalp 2y ago
You might enjoy the excellent Articles of Interest podcast, an episode of which covers this exact phenomenon, but there are many other great episodes about similar subjects in clothing and fashion https://99percentinvisible.org&#
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by makmanalp 2y ago
It's not apples to apples of course but that's well within the ballpark of what spacex spends mostly just shooting stuff into orbit in a year: https://spacenews.com/spacex-and-the-categorical-imperative-... Especi
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> I mostly stayed hands-off and let him explore where he would. I think this is the way. Also quite similarly soon after VB, learned C# so I could make mods for RunUO, which was a reverse engineered server implementation for Ultima Onlin
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by makmanalp 2y ago
When .NET finally came out and I started learning about it (I had signed up for a course at this point) I remember it feeling much more complicated - I didn't understand why I needed objects and I also recall not understanding access m
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by makmanalp 2y ago
This kind of post is what brings me back to this website :-) I'm the guy with the enthusiastic thread earlier on in this post. I'd love to sit down and chat with you for an hour on zoom and hear all about those times, which we cou
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by makmanalp 2y ago
_why the lucky stiff (also known for https://poignant.guide/ and a bunch of other things) had written something called "hackety hack" for kind of these purposes I think, but it may be abandonware at this point: h
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I remember Delphi being the one that people lamented the loss of when VB was gaining in popularity. And ShellNotifyIcon - how could I forget? :D
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Look! https://ia902300.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/4/...
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Oh my GOD I have to comment. This is how I learned to program as a kid. I found a copy of "Write Your Own Adventure Programs" (1983 - Usborne: https://colorcomputerarchive.com/repo/Documents/Books/Wr
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> The sense of sneaking into an adult world, even a fantasy one, might be what made the game feel so special to me Brilliant observation that never occurred to me. Around that age being allowed to sit with and listen in on adults having
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Here's the thing - I remember playing it as a kid and so many things, arguably most of it, went way over my head: the whole travel agent thing and getting ahead in the office, dia de los muertos, the references to noir, the weird but g
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by makmanalp 2y ago
If you like this, you might enjoy: "Column-Stores vs. Row-Stores: How Different Are They Really?" > The elevator pitch behind this performance difference is > straightforward: column-stores are more I/O efficient for re
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> budala :-)
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by makmanalp 2y ago
The thing about Turkish is that the grammar is very forgiving to mistakes while preserving meaning: word order can be leveraged for subtle emphasis but pretty much doesn't matter for general meaning. Conjugations are pretty much always
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Oh that does sound like a fun project!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
What's upvar? :-)
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Lovely analysis, some new music for me, and love to see work from former colleagues get recognition - hi Michele!
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by makmanalp 2y ago
> Nobody complains about tinnitus while playing Playstation As a long time sufferer, I want to support the general sentiment of this post, and I hope it helps someone who finds this that is currently suffering. My core message is that ma
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I was envisioning an image or PDF (which lets you embed the font, effectively) but "click here to install my font" is somehow even funnier
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by makmanalp 2y ago
I don't know why but from the title I was kinda expecting and even hoping for the opposite - that you'd type it up and it'd make a ye olde letter PDF/jpeg and attach it to the response :-)
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Yep, you are right, complete brain fart on my end. Of course it doesn't work if it's required for the salt to be publicly mappable to the SSN, since that just circumvents the whole thing. I just didn't understand what you wer
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by makmanalp 2y ago
Hi friend. I, like you, am exactly that person who reads those docs very carefully and has to know about the seemingly innocuous one liners as well as the one liners that are not there but should be, that eventually make it in after the nex

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