mianos

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by mianos 3y ago
40+ years of programming. Full time, most every day of the week. I almost always have a look at some thing or other on the weekends, home projects, problems I think I solved badly at work during the week or experiments on ideas for things c
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by mianos 3y ago
Eventually the most alcohol tolerant bacteria, the ones primarily fermenting the sugars, get killed by the alcohol itself (by denaturation, the alcohol makes the membranes soluble in water). At that point there are very few more alcohol tol
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by mianos 3y ago
I have as well with MacOS. Never with a PC. I have some TTGO-display boards that have some USB to serial chip I could never get working on a Mac, no matter what drivers, uninstalling, installing etc. They worked fine on a PC. In the end I t
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by mianos 3y ago
I agree. Of course there is no 'single factor' for almost anything. So, going with the themes of attention seeking hyperbole, I would say the 'single biggest factor', is the ability to find and keep skilled developers in
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by mianos 3y ago
Considering the size and momentum of drone props, this is not in any way whatsoever auto-rotations. It's just some rando trying to sound technical. Considering they don't have collective or clutches as well he just sounds like a d
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by mianos 3y ago
I wish he put the other valves in, seeing a two valve head triggers me badly. :)
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by mianos 3y ago
Yes I am trained in electronics but I don't think understanding that level of detail ever helped me find bugs or improve the performance and reliability as that level is fairly static so you have to play the cards you are dealt. The sa
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by mianos 3y ago
But the void has been already filled if by Minisforum and many others. I just got an N100, Dual NIC, 8GRam, 256G mSata SSD with a 9W TDP for AUD $270. I have quite a few NUCs, and they are awesome. It's a shame Intel is getting out of
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by mianos 3y ago
It's not the point, but a lot of people are going on and on about the lack of need for calculus as a programmer. If you even touch how any machine learning works it's all basic calculus and intermediate linear algebra under the ho
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by mianos 3y ago
Particularly if they distribute it over a large area, as they do in practice and shown in the vid.
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by mianos 3y ago
It is against the rules to talk about voting, but anyway. It is almost a meme here, that, on any mention on C and C++, there will be people contributing comments: 'but Rust ..'.
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by mianos 3y ago
If you code that same thing in js, java, c++, python or rust they all look similar. If you can achieve the same performance in a language understandable by more people you will be better off. Another example is, Russian is much more express
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by mianos 3y ago
I would not do it all in one long line. I would not do it in an exotic language. I would not do it in a language that it is impossible to find skilled experts at a reasonable price. KDB people cost 2X anyone else with the same skills. An
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by mianos 3y ago
Those initial two examples look like kdb. Particularly the second one. That's production code in many places where I have worked. I would send it to hell if I could. edit: oh, J lang is a later K. That explains it. Similarly it should
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by mianos 3y ago
It is no less transparent than google search in the end. You are right. This is a war google has lost. I wonder if we can have a adversarial process that can do better in the AI domain than google can do it in the domain they use for search
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by mianos 3y ago
Yes, that is why I say 'if they had'. No way they have that many now but amoungst my associates many are still just starting to purchase the payed subscriptions.
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by mianos 3y ago
OoenAI may be hype but if they got 100M people paying $20 a month for the occasional use of their premium models I would call that a valid business. It does not matter that vicuna or whatever are nearly as good if people are paying for thei
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by mianos 3y ago
Or, as for the Subaru Starlink head-unit, even if it is so buggy and crashes all the time, once the car is out the dealer's door, there is nothing the consumer can do. Even class actions don't mean they would be recalled or even f
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by mianos 3y ago
No doubt, kdb/q is offers a of bang for buck in a commercial scenario. We use it and for some stuff it's good value, aside from staffing costs.
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by mianos 3y ago
All good except the 50K a year license to run 'q'.
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by mianos 3y ago
I was following this a few years so I did a few things with streams on my sun 386i. 'Everyone was pretty confident streams would replace everything'. Like DCE later. By the time I went back to client server work a few years later
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by mianos 4y ago
I just bought a 12 year old car with very low mileage. I got the centre dash replaced with a 7" Android head unit. To me, it pretty much makes it much the same as a new car in terms of entertainment and navigation and will continue to
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by mianos 4y ago
It was floating point math. There was nothing in the CPU to support it so it was ridiculously slow. But, sometimes you just want to have those functions to do some complex geometry.
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by mianos 4y ago
I had an Osborne 1. I had to swap disks multiple times to compile anything. I remember the C compiler by some guy, 'Walt Bolisvki'?, had the arguments passed in reverse on the stack (last on the top) and printf and friends ended u
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by mianos 4y ago
This takes me back. I did the transcendental functions for a CPM C compiler in the early 80s using Chebyshev polynomials. My tutor failed my implementation because my code formatting was utterly crap. :) I am still laughing as there was no
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by mianos 4y ago
Funny you should mention ASN.1. Protobuffers is Really just a toy ASN.1 written by some guys who just solved the problem at hand instead of looking further afar. It's great for what it is. Many of us have written something similar. It
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by mianos 4y ago
Funny thing is swaps are sold on the back of bonds, whose holders are prepared to lose when the market interest drops to keep the capital value stable. They are the exact instrument that protects bond holders against the above scenario, ove
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by mianos 4y ago
I once replaced a 10 machine Hadoop cluster job with a python script and parallel on my laptop because I didn't want to wait for hours for it to finish. The i7 on my laptop with quite a few CPUS/threads and a few optimisations got
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by mianos 4y ago
I think in the even more modern world, there is also the use of post C++17 smart pointers and still avoiding boost if at all possible. Personally I have grown a little softer on it now that adding boost does not take an application that too
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by mianos 4y ago
This sounds very like open plan offices. Survey after survey after study all the support the idea that they are, on average, vastly less productive. Yet, management simply goes ahead and makes everyone sit in one huge cattle pen. Sure, ther

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