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by nickcw 2y ago
Hare looks like an interesting language. Though this limitation will limit its adoption in this multicore age I think: From the FAQ https://harelang.org/documentation/faq.html .... Can I use multithreading in Hare? Pro
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by nickcw 2y ago
You can use `rclone ncdu` on Google Drive https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ It is great at answering the question - where is all my storage? Also has a handy interface for deleting stuff.
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by nickcw 2y ago
You can use `rclone ncdu` to work in a very similar way on any cloud storage that rclone supports https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_ncdu/ I love ncdu and this is my homage to it!
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by nickcw 2y ago
This hack seems to take a 480GB SSD and transform it into a 120GB SSD However the write endurance (the amount of data you can write to the SSD before expecting failures) increases from 120TB to 4000TB which could be a very useful tradeoff,
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by nickcw 2y ago
Yes I'm pretty sure that is what happened. I was consolidating random functions into one file which was already using math/rand so when I moved the function which was using crypto/rand there it picked up the math/rand im
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by nickcw 2y ago
I think this was my fault. I refactored some code using crypto/rand into a file which was already using math/rand and failed to notice that the imports were wrong and not magically fixed by goimports like they usually are! So goim
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by nickcw 2y ago
From the article > Go aims to help developers write code that is secure by default. When we observe a common mistake with security consequences, we look for ways to reduce the risk of that mistake or eliminate it entirely. In this case,
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by nickcw 2y ago
Ha, yes this was my experience exactly! There is also the national radio center to visit which I didn't get a chance to visit unfortunately. http://www.nationalradiocentre.com/
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The Arsenic-in-Rice Scare – 5 years on(drleilamasson.com)
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by nickcw 2y ago
The base64 command wraps its output every 76 characters by default. This is because of its original use which was to encode binary files to include in emails. Very long lines in emails don't work well. See the precursor to base64 which
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by nickcw 3y ago
I always wondered how Marmite was made and how it was invented and now I know both after reading the article. I'm tempted to give it a go! My family would say I'm obsessed with Marmite. I had Marmite on crumpets for breakfast. Onl
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by nickcw 3y ago
Here is my effort https://app.suno.ai/song/13cffa0c-bbd5-41b6-abde-43332b21b0f... I took the litany of fear from Dune and got Bing Chat to re-write it to be about facing down code complexity, then I put those lyrics in
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by nickcw 3y ago
I tried to write a mandlebrot plotter in FXYT. There are a number of challenges! First FXYT only provides a bounded loop - this can be overcome with a bit of inefficiency. However the deepest stack manipulation allowed is 3 values - the R c
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Microsoft pushes Bing, GPT-4 in Chrome pop-up adverts(theregister.com)
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by nickcw 3y ago
About the proper quine the author says > While both these programs take care not to read the same memory region that is being executed by the CPU, the data bytes they read look exactly like the executable bytes. This is what I meant when
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by nickcw 3y ago
I have driven round the similar roundabout in Hemel Hempsted many times https://maps.app.goo.gl/hdU8g6mS2eAv4GgRA It looks scary, but you just treat each mini-roundabout as a normal roundabout and you'll be fine. We ha
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by nickcw 3y ago
I think that is a nice idea - maybe something we could implement in an overlay backend. However people really like the fact that the object they upload with rclone arrive with the filenames they had originally on s3, so I think the incompat
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by nickcw 3y ago
> Agree. In MinIO (disclaimer: I work there) we added a "secret" parameter (metadata=true) to include metadata and tags in listings if the user has the appropriate permissions. Of course it being an extension it is not really s
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by nickcw 3y ago
Great article - would have been useful to read before starting out on the journey of making rclone mount (mount your cloud storage via fuse)! After a lot of iterating we eventually came up with the VFS layer in rclone which adapts S3 (or an
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by nickcw 3y ago
Ah that makes sense! I think I'd use a rasperry pi pico now-a-days for about the same cost but with enough flash built in (2MB) and enough processor to play mp3 files. See this example project which makes a pi pico into an mp3 player f
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by nickcw 3y ago
For those of you who aren't jugglers here are some interesting patterns to look at: Mill's Mess. Once you've mastered this, you've mastered 3 balls! https://libraryofjuggling.com/Tricks/3balltricks&#
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by nickcw 3y ago
From the YouTube video description :-) ... With mere hours of experience in the art and science of optical design, the team at SUPERCHROMAT remain novices in the field. As such, this prime lens, with 6 elements over 4 groups, provides infer
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by nickcw 3y ago
A very long time ago I used the idea that there aren't actually that many possible tic-tac-toe boards to make an HTML player that is just static web pages https://www.craig-wood.com/nick/oxo2d/ I generated th
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Look at That: Google Has Become a Cable Company(businessinsider.com)
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by nickcw 3y ago
We used to use these in the 1980s on our combined cadet force field days. I was in the signals division of our school CCF (less drill and more playing with radios!) and it was our job to lay communications lines on field day. I have vivid m
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by nickcw 3y ago
May favorite fake birthday is 1st January 1970. This is a date very familiar to Unix people $ TZ=GMT date -d "@0" Thu 1 Jan 00:00:00 GMT 1970 and it gives me a smile!
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by nickcw 3y ago
I have read a few of these and enjoyed them greatly. Reading them you realise that Euler really did invent a huge swathe of mathematics in use today. In particular I read this one: http://eulerarchive.maa.org/hedi/HEDI-
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by nickcw 3y ago
One of the checkers in golangci-lint does this. I forget which one. golangci-lint rolls up lot of linters and checkers into a single binary. There is a config file too. https://github.com/golangci/golangci-lint
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by nickcw 3y ago
I think the best heckle I had while riding my unicycle was from a policeman who shouted: "Are your brakes working?". This is funny because (just in case you didn't know) unicycles don't (generally) have brakes - you slow
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From Vexing Uncertainty to Intellectual Humility(academic.oup.com)
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