mkoubaa

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by mkoubaa 4y ago
People are still coming up with best practices for accounting, a field with thousands of years of history. Principles are fine but not final
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
The techniques that control the way electrons flow in silicon is hard to grok. But that gives way to logic gates, that let you build CPUs with branch predictors. The way that branch predictors actually work in CPUs is hard to grok but how t
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Actually it says it was done in Loki, which is explained in this journal article https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3528223.3530058
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
That's perfect actually. I'd pay for a browser extension that does this
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I wish there was software that reads an article and spits out a tl;Dr. I don't have patience to read a narrative, give me the info In any case, this was worth the read. Its really counterintuitive that loose rocks don't just get
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Porting the GIL is trivial compared to what all it would take to support the C API
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
With HPy yes
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Bonus points if you take a one or two year detour to do another function. Let your org know it isn't meant to be a one way trip and you are doing it to gain perspective to make in an easier sell.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Wayland is like the windows Vista of x
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I have a hard time taking this seriously. The alternative to null pointers isn't no null pointers, it's programmers hand rolling their own conventions around optional pointers, and it would have been a nightmare ( at least in C)
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Economists have a habit of abusing data. It's seen as preferable to simplify the system enough to test a hypothesis than to acknowledge that the system is too complex to analyze. A little too much physics influence and not enough engin
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I think the self branding of this particular movement as a secular one is a triumph of marketing.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Because only adults vote, you have to factor in the rate of religious retention for these communities. If 60% of the offspring in a religious community are areligious, the opposite effect will occur. And this belief/concern presuppose
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
> From the dawn of humanity to the eighteenth century, human life was dominated by starvation, poverty, wars, and pandemics. Actually no, human life only started to be dominated by this after the shift from hunter gatherer to agrarian so
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
It's even worse. The claim sounds like: "Billion dollar company needs to invent new things to succeed, surely it is doomed to fail."
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
It isn't what the author intended but I come away from reading this more confident that mammoth de-extinction will happen.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Just in time for micro nuclear reactors to be commercial I suppose
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
The UX of my favorite chrome downloader got worse but there isn't a competitor that's as easy to use to download chrome so I'll stick with it
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I don't know but I hope that Chomsky is less wrong. Because if statistical methods reach an asymptote, we will have no choice but to try to better understand the principles and foundations. If statistical methods do not reach an asympt
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Must be partially because employers of mechanical engineers are liable legally when things break and people are hurt.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
It's targeted towards ideologues who want to see something done. Not all legislation is meant to be actionable unfortunately
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I have and use kdiff3 regularly for other purposes
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Am I the only one that prefers manually resolving conflicts in a text editor? It sucks but I can't imagine a GUI that sucks less
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
What shape is this doubt? The medieval version of "Pics or it didn't happen" Or We have documented evidence that you never went there
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
My thoughts exactly. Extremely irresponsible leadership. I'd guess that they probably are just looking to use some year over year growth metric for the year or two they are at this job and then go hop to the next job with that on their
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
If you plan to work somewhere for more than 5 years, this can be done for entirely selfish reasons. When a dev invests time improving the codebase, refactors mercilessly, and cleans up the code - they gain mastery over it, respect from thei
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
There's always the risk that the people tasked with paying down the technical debt simply drive the code into a different corner. Excellent technical leadership is extremely rare and can make a huge difference.
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I use sites as composable mini venvs, but there's no tooling for that
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
I always like to say that's barring divine inspiration, it's impossible to make the right choice. It's far more possible to make a choice and then work hard to make it right
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by mkoubaa 4y ago
Don't get promoted, an entry level dev does this pretty much all day

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