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by mannyv 3y ago
Yeah, statistical things like that need to be pre-calculated and cached for best performance. When you first get stuff working doing a query is easier and faster. At some point you remove it and move to counters that are updated via your da
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by mannyv 3y ago
What's always strange about WiFi certification is that to get a certification you have to drop old protocols. After they deprecated WEP and TKIP you couldn't earn certification if you supported them, which left a whole generation
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by mannyv 3y ago
Even back then the unix abstractions were breaking down. The problem with lseek is pretty simple: how do you know if a file size is bigger than your int? You can do a stat, but that means stat should return a long, but if all you have are i
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by mannyv 3y ago
In Singapore, LKY suppressed the communist party and their patsies to prevent a communist takeover of Singapore. Puritans back in the old days were basically the Taliban, oppressing anyone who disagreed with their beliefs and way-of-life. T
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by mannyv 3y ago
BBedit is the only one i remember. Still going strong today!
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by mannyv 3y ago
Little endian is the vast majority of stuff today due to the dominance of x86, but back when big-endian ruled the day. That's why network byte order is big-endian.
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by mannyv 3y ago
I used plan9 for a while, because the video servers for nCube/C-Cor ran plan9. I can't remember much about it, except that in ran two OSs at a time, but I can't remember which half did which. It also had great I/O perfor
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by mannyv 3y ago
TT is just a tagged file format, just like WAV, TIFF, MOV, MP4, etc. It's probably closer to quicktime, which are the basis of mp4.
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by mannyv 3y ago
ObjectMaster by ACI was pretty much the best OO IDE at the time. Pretty much everything on the Mac kicked the shit out of these pathetic and crappy DOS/commander interfaces that are linked in the article. Unfortunately, there don'
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by mannyv 3y ago
70365,1426!
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by mannyv 3y ago
They're not tracking locations because they're not using GPS. They are checking the environment for stuff that might have known locations, which is different. You can do the same with bluetooth/BLE.
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by mannyv 3y ago
I've been wanting to use mqtt as a mq, and been getting resistance from the other devs because it's alien technology...which is funny, since it's more scalable than a lot of webby things. Domain expertise can be a liability a
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by mannyv 3y ago
MQTT is heavily used in the IoT space because it's lightweight and doesn't require good connectivity.
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by mannyv 3y ago
Surprisingly enough, most places I've worked know who the good, best, and not-so-great people are. In smaller companies the deltas are obvious. In big companies it's easier to hide.
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by mannyv 3y ago
One benefit to uppercase: is that an ell or a one? Upper case letters are more easily distinguishable, especially on low-res devices (like the old CRTs).
736.
by mannyv 3y ago
If you're going to throw a tank of propellant into space, why not just throw a tank that can be swapped in? That bypasses the whole "refueling" problem.
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by mannyv 3y ago
Realistically speaking, homeless drug users don't want treatment or shelter; they want to be left alone to do drugs. Most drug users don't want to get off drugs. That's why you need an intervention. No addict likes interventi
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by mannyv 3y ago
The fact you think programming is about numbers shows you have no idea what programming is. The fact is, programming at a high level means analyzing thousands of dimensions of information and flattening them out into something executable by
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by mannyv 3y ago
I have all 6 and a couple of the other ones. Inside quicktime should be required reading for anyone in the video business.
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by mannyv 3y ago
In the Philippines, buffets are "eat all you can," which is not quite the same as the US' "all you can eat."
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by mannyv 3y ago
FTA, the process is: blast mouth with oral antibiotics then swab the stuff on. It'll be interesting to see if it works.
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by mannyv 3y ago
For everyone who loves the iPod, you've been able to convert iPods to flash for years now via an adapter. Stick Rockbox on it and you have an MP3 player than can hold > 1TB of data. It's a bummer that iPod OS can't really
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by mannyv 3y ago
If there are YouTube-generated captions you can get yt-dlp to download them when you download the video.
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by mannyv 3y ago
It could be that I actually know what I'm doing most of the time, so generally can bypass level 1 and level 2 support. I've talked to product engineers occasionally. Maybe they have a bit on the contact database that says "no
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by mannyv 3y ago
Add me to the list of people who have no problems contacting AWS. They've always been plenty responsive and have no issues setting up calls when needed. I've heard of larger companies that can't get anyone, and it must be tha
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by mannyv 3y ago
The problem isn't implementing it, the problem is making sure the implementation doesn't fuck up everything else. In general, this implies that video metadata is immutable from the source...because the easiest way to do this would
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by mannyv 3y ago
No, it's showing that the risk of errors exists even without AI. AI doesn't necessarily make that risk higher or lower a priori. Plus if you knew how much of current medical practice exists without evidence you wouldn't be wo
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by mannyv 3y ago
Amazing enough, there are a couple of orca models in LM Studio/huggingface. Not sure what the differences are between them. Are these like AMIs, where you can stuff all kinds of odd shit into them?
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by mannyv 3y ago
Does he beat Bezos' 50% loss after his divorce?
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by mannyv 3y ago
There was a hack (using the most liberal idea of a hack) a few years ago that was even simpler: just put a thermal pad into your MBA. Apparently it still works. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/m1-air-with-thermal-p

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