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by mightyham 4mo ago
Scoffing and acting exasperated doesn't actually refute anything I said. I obviously don't disagree with you that SQL has been wildly useful and popular, but that has very little to do with my comment. SQL is an outdated and flawe
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by mightyham 4mo ago
Having the result type of a function change based on context sounds like a horrible idea because it would introduce tons of unnecessary ambiguity. If it's an issue that you have to chain one extra collect call, just write a helper func
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by mightyham 4mo ago
The comparison with JavaScript as an exemplary imperative language is silly. You can find examples of C code from 40 years ago that still work perfectly with modern compilers. Like C, SQL is a technology that has far outlived its usefulness
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by mightyham 4mo ago
Too bad it will not be adopted for anything serious in the next 50 years. There is no reasonable value proposition from a business standpoint for picking zig over rust. It is already the reality in much of the tech industry that Rust is fil
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by mightyham 5mo ago
Really? You are telling me that the discovery/development of general relativity or quantum mechanics has not thrown new increasingly complex doubts on the accuracy of previous physical models due to these new "essences" imply
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by mightyham 5mo ago
It absolutely is a problem with the article. Science deals with physical phenomena; metaphysics quite literally means beyond physics. It's ridiculous to say that consciousness is the last hold out, as if there aren't a million oth
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by mightyham 5mo ago
> It is because of the hundreds of years of astonishing and unexpected success of the sciences that have convincingly shown that apparent metaphysical gaps are never such. This has to be one of the most dumbfounding pseudo-philosophical
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by mightyham 5mo ago
> This isn't actually possible Bambu absolutely could create a system where their printers both communicate with the cloud and local devices, they just don't want to do the difficult software engineering necessary because it is
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by mightyham 5mo ago
Yeah this is a good point, and maybe a hole wasn't the right way to explain myself. The point is that the way a WAL is supposed to work is that the main data store always lags behind the WAL, so that if a partial operation (always idem
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by mightyham 5mo ago
Thanks, that's interesting and I wasn't aware of that. Is there a consistent way to detmine if a device offers this garuntee at runtime on Linux?
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by mightyham 5mo ago
Unless I am mistaken, it seems like there is a glaring flaw in this scheme, which is that without fsync you cannot guarantee the previous WAL blocks have been persisted before the current one, so a power loss event could leave a hole in the
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by mightyham 5mo ago
For the uninitiated who didn't watch Terry's streams, HolyC is both an AOT and JIT language, but the JIT was in some ways much more rudimentary and in some ways much more powerful than a typical JIT compiler. Like this CJIT proje
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Exponentially Smoothed FPS Counters(blog.wilsworld.net)
3 points by mightyham 5mo ago|0 comments
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by mightyham 5mo ago
Thanks, I added a formula for a dynamic filter coefficient to my original comment. It makes sense intuitively to me, but I'm also not certain if the exact formula I provided is correct.
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by mightyham 5mo ago
If all you care about is a windowed average you can implement the fps counter (really you keep track of seconds per frame) using an exponential moving average which has constant time and space complexity regardless of window size. The calcu
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by mightyham 6mo ago
You really can't compare crates to a taxi service and I think the article lays out the reasoning nicely. The people running crates are a small team of mostly volunteers offering a free service. If someone offered a free taxi service as
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by mightyham 6mo ago
I have a phone and laptop; those are my only two "mobile" devices that I might ever use to access my home network remotely. I set them up once, it took a few minutes, and I won't have to do it again unless I replace one of th
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by mightyham 6mo ago
Genuinely curious: is Tailscale actually providing any values to this use case beyond what you get from a raw Wiregaurd exit node with port forwarding instead of Tailscale's NAT traversal? I've never used Tailscale, but I have a W
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by mightyham 8mo ago
I've worked on large React and Solid codebases and don't agree at all. You can make a mess of either one if you don't follow good practices. Also dynamic dependency management is not just a nice to have, it's actually cr
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by mightyham 8mo ago
> I struggle to see the point. The paper in question doesn't claim to be practically faster... I struggle to see the point of your comment. The blog post in question does not say that the paper in question claims to be faster in pra
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by mightyham 8mo ago
I publish a Firefox plugin and needed help a few years ago. Not to get too far down that rabbit hole, but they suddenly blocked my plugin because they couldn't build my source code, even though the issue with their build environment wa
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by mightyham 9mo ago
Your comments are shallow because you just continue to assert the idea are bad with no reasoning. You also clearly don't know your protestant history: Martin Luther did basically just whine about the Pope. He was thoroughly a reformer
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by mightyham 9mo ago
> Because they have all been tried before and had the opposite affect. Did you even read the document? Claiming that Wikipedia has implemented all of these suggestions in the past is just plainly false. If you disagree with the documents
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by mightyham 9mo ago
I don't understand how you could read the nine theses essays and think they are anything but reasonable. Even if you disagree with his politics, the results of his suggestions would almost certainly make Wikipedia more pluralistic, wel
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by mightyham 10mo ago
Typically firewalls will record the src and dst header values of outbound IP packets then temporarily allows inbound IP packets that have those values flipped.
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by mightyham 10mo ago
I already am aware of how NAT traversal works. Linking a generic article explaining it is not a meaningful response. Also NAT is a pretty simple abstraction, it's literally a single table.
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by mightyham 10mo ago
> it just has to be established from the local side This is exactly the problem. Unless you expect users to manually share their IPs with every other user in a given lobby through an external service, you would need to make a central pee
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by mightyham 10mo ago
You're just asserting that without explination. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but afiak the only difference in NAT hole-punching is that clients don't know their public port mapping ahead of time. This actually doesn't
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by mightyham 10mo ago
> Peer-to-peer communications such as gaming usually have to deal with NAT traversal, but with IPv6 this is no longer an issue, especially for multiple gamers using the same connection You know the list of "benefits" is thin wh
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by mightyham 10mo ago
For consumer traffic, your probably right. In data centers, cloud computing, and various enterprise networking solutions, IPv4 is still king. I'm sure IPv6 would work fine in all these use cases, but as long as many large tech companie

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