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by marklar423 1y ago
My company moved EiBs of data off of tape a few years ago. It was reliable and durable, but the problem was read speed. It took so long to move tapes around and read the sequentially (no random access!), and as the data corpus grew it got h
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by marklar423 1y ago
Do you think it's possible to make GUI software with a Unix philosophy? Specifically piping together small programs seems natural in a shell but I've struggled to figure out how it could work for GUI apps.
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by marklar423 1y ago
I'm with you, I use Pocket all the time on my Kobo as well - I need to cobble together some self-hosted alternative. Did you find another alternative besides Omnivore?
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by marklar423 1y ago
It's funny, I noticed I happening and thought it was proof of the opposite - that there had to be some artificial cause for the supernovae (including the Sun), because a real supernova takes many years to progress, not 20 minutes. Even
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by marklar423 1y ago
Good article, I think this succinctly says what I've struggled to explain to my own relatives: > The vast majority of people do not know what a Kubernetes is; 99% my skills and knowledge are completely unnecessary to be Good At Comp
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by marklar423 2y ago
Adding on to what others said - I added a button that can download book files from my Google Drive, and it was as simple as copying over rclone and a one line bash script.
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by marklar423 2y ago
Kobo is definitely superior to Kindle in my book. The hardware is great and it's completely open to sideloading and even modding (it runs Linux under the hood). I can't speak to their digital bookstore but they integrate with Over
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by marklar423 2y ago
What sort of benefits come from getting a Masters? Everyone I talk to seems to say a Masters in CompSci is useless, and that you may as well do a PhD instead.
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by marklar423 2y ago
I worked on a large makeup website for a while, and it was common for us to place test orders and subsequently cancel them. The dev doing it usually put their name and the office address as the shipping address. One day, we got a big box of
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by marklar423 2y ago
I think a good compromise is having metrics that are always on, with the ability to enable more verbose debugging logs as needed.
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Nvidia ousts Intel from Dow Jones Index after 25-year run(arstechnica.com)
5 points by marklar423 2y ago|1 comments
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by marklar423 2y ago
One of my favorite hard-scifi movies ever.
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by marklar423 2y ago
Anybody know why this has to be a law? Whats stopping each school or the DOE from making their own rule, just like all other school rules?
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by marklar423 2y ago
Like Y2K, there's an argument that diligence from the tech crowd prevented this.
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by marklar423 2y ago
It appears to me there's probably a "best of both worlds" compromise: 1. Send the astronauts home on Dragon 2. Certify Starliner for human flight if it can make it home safely (uncrewed) If the capsule can make it down, it do
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by marklar423 2y ago
Part of the problem is sometimes the company doesn't have the license to release (i.e. "redistribute") the server code. In that case they're stuck - the law requires them to both release and not release the code. Or what
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by marklar423 2y ago
The full text of the story is on his blog here https://paulocoelhoblog.com/2019/03/30/001/
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by marklar423 2y ago
B&H most famously closes the entire website
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by marklar423 2y ago
https://zeromq.org/ -> TIL really cool, thanks for the pointer.
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by marklar423 2y ago
Mostly because sockets are supported by everything today, and they're easy to understand. What you're describing would certainly work but it looks similar to what the OP did in the blog post, with all the complexity it comes with.
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by marklar423 2y ago
With all this effort required (as the author points out), I start to wonder if a better solution is to communicate via RPC over local sockets. There will be some overhead, but it might be a wash considering calling over a FFI often involves
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by marklar423 2y ago
This is a real problem that needs solving, but I can see this sort of thing at scale leading big tech companies to not allow their employees to do this anymore.
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by marklar423 2y ago
Several of the examples reference "deep linking", for example "While we welcome all normal links to our sites we regard 'deep linking' as an infringement of our copyright." - I wonder what that could mean. Anyt
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by marklar423 2y ago
Just curious, when you say you made it, you mean from scratch with flour & water? What's your recipe?
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by marklar423 3y ago
I'm skeptical that AI will automate away any truly valuable labor, but even assuming it will - what do you think is different this time compared to say, the Industrial Revolution? That period rapid saw automation and reduction of cost
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by marklar423 3y ago
It's basically just writing a design document; Google has a similar culture. I suppose if you're not actually showing it to anybody it becomes rubber ducking via design document.
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by marklar423 3y ago
There's a cross-platform option that will give your users the best experience but will also be the most amount of work: make a separate - native - UI per platform. By this I mean put as much of your core logic and functionality as poss
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by marklar423 3y ago
When they started, I understood them as a CDN - storing copies of your static(ish) bytes on lots of servers distributed globally. Happens to be that a globally distributed network of endpoints is also pretty great for absorbing DDOS attacks
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by marklar423 3y ago
It's a semantic thing and I agree with the feedback - specifically with the "F" in FOSS. That sort of license would be Open Source but not completely Free (as in freedom, not beer).
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by marklar423 3y ago
Over the years I've come to agree with this POV, and distilled it down to this: If your goal is profit, don't open source your core product. We've seen this time and time again where a company releases their core software und

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