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by naniwaduni 1y ago
> It’s easy to forget what these classic CS papers were about, and I think that leads to poorly applying them today. Notably, pretty much the entire body of discourse around structured programming is totally lost on modern programmers fa
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
... to the tune of about 10 cents a second, yeah. If you can hire a dev team to optimize one of those out, you plausibly come out ahead (well, vs face value).
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
You should mostly assume that they are, in general, vehicles for the empowered to direct toward goals of their choosing (e.g. reputation/legitimacy-building), and that those goals occasionally have externalities for anyone else as an
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
100 ms is an incredibly long time even for humans.
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
The really striking thing is how poorly the name distinguishes the date from the seven days before it...
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
The technical details roughly boil down to "your browser lets internet sites talk to local services"; in this case if they cooperate they can identify each other, but cf. https://mrbruh.com/asusdriverhub/ In
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
For Amazon, this just costs two years on the taxes. They'll still be able to claim depreciation of this year's dev work for the next four, though.
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
The relevanr polities already factor children in when computing taxes. All you need to do is adjust the amount.
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
> If it's only a faster implementation, why change the query language? Often enough, languages have weird accidental quirks of the implementation that resist fast alternative implementation. There are ways around this (and of course
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
Well you see, the author already knows common lisp, is familiar with their own ad hoc DSL by virtue of having just come up with it, and refuses to learn jq. Personally, I probably would've written '[.root[][1]]' for that prob
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
> The leading "{}" is moderately necessary because `jq` technically _processes_ json, not generates it. The --null-input/-n option is the "out-of-the-box" way to achieve this, and avoids a pipe (usually not a big
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by naniwaduni 1y ago
This is a bit of a nonsense benchmark—the author is basically benchmarking process startup time, and finding that if you only start one lisp process, it runs faster than if you start one jq process per input file, which runs faster than if
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Surprisingly, most people are not in fact lying most of the time. (Also, in practice, there's supporting evidence like being able to spout off credible minor details that yes, are still easy to bullshit but again, most people usually a
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
> Nobody ever said "we don't need worry about that, cloudinit takes care of it". Well, why would it come up? You don't need to worry about things you don't need to worry about.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
You don't care about average memory use, you care about peak memory use.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
You can transfer a domain, but I afaik they don't take offer web/mail hosting for domains registered elsewhere at all. It's not totally ideal if you want to decouple your domain registration from your mail hosting. Also, can&
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Interestingly, I find it perceptually closer to /θ/... would want to try recording though.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Try pronouncing [s] with your teeth lined up (or worse, underbite)? It's pretty not the same.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
> You can express both real and rational numbers efficiently using a continued fraction representation. No, all finite continued fractions express a rational number (for... obvious reasons), which is honestly kind of a disappointment, si
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
It's broken down by number of working adults and children.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
The MIT "living wage" figures are, to put it lightly, utterly deranged; more a statement of the purveyors's ideal of a first-world standard of living than a reflection of reality. If they are to be believed, then evidently gr
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
The problems with per-watch pricing most come down to requiring a conscious decision each time they use your service, when you'd prefer that they be indifferent at most margins so that they don't have to be regularly reminded that
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Defaults matter.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Would hope your server time zone changes quite rarely and only when you know about it, though.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
Calls are also just inherently more likely to arrive when call volumes are above average. There are more calls then.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
They've mentioned before that it's Kazakhstan.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
National attitudes have a remarkable ability to shift in response to neighbors getting invaded, as we learned a couple of years ago.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
They probably do occur in the author's conversations, they're just not salient in conversation since who goes listening for sentence breaks in speech, sentences aren't real.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
> And that's on top of french speaking people vs. english speaking people. In the EU, of course, everyone is against anglophones.
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by naniwaduni 2y ago
The average cheap household product on Amazon is, in fact, Fine.

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