nickpeterson

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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I don’t have a ton of faith in scotus right now, but I think they understand their only power is in whether people consider them independent. Allowing a third term for Trump would be accepting that they’re basically in charge of parking tic
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
If someone had asked me 2 years ago how long it would take China to overtake the US in world power, I'd have guessed 20 years, now I'd guess 2 years.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I’d love something in between “knowing a subset of the subject” and reading all the values. But, now that I think about it, nats lets me subscribe to kv changes so I could incrementally maintain some index and retrieve the keys from that…
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I've recently been really trying to get up to speed on NATS. It would be great if JetStream had some degree of querying.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
You should work on a new and improved filesystem implementation and name the project 'New Folder'.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
My first gpu ever was a voodoo 2 8mb. I remember starting up the original unreal and getting it working. Shortly after we got a cable modem. 12 year old me was having a total blast. ;)
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think this take only makes sense if there is no such thing as morally or justice. If we were just discussing a business deal, fine, but Ukrainians are being killed and told to be nicer to the killer’s leader. It’s an insane position.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
You don’t get big corporate donations to your superpac by trying to bust up monopolies.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Only one man would dare give him the raspberries.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Also, who cares about the per citizen deficit when some of the wealthiest and largest companies pay no taxes?
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
When they promised to lower the price of everything I guess they also meant murder.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
What about the Project 2025 plan to force all government servers to run red hat linux?
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Whom does income tax cuts help? Median US salary is 62k. That person pays ~12k in income taxes. Conservatives are going to ‘save’ that person 1k on their taxes or some other paltry sum and then cancel a bunch of services, fire a few hundre
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
These firings will have no impact on your taxes. Instead of people having a job, the money will just get given to oligarchs and you’ll pay largely the same taxes but have moderately less government services. Socialism is needed to some degr
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
It’s like blood letting, but less effective.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think a hostile work environment might be a fun outcome of ‘return to office’ mandates.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
This is kind of true, but it depends on risking your financial stability in the short term. Better to get a bunch of IT workers on board and then strike. What are they going to do, not have IT? they’d be out of business in a month. Good luc
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
The problem in the US is that outlets run at 120v and an overnight charge is closer to 30-40 miles of range assuming 12amp on a 15amp circuit. In countries with most outlets at 220v it’s probably easier, plus usually less long distance driv
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Embarrassing how little of this I knew, especially with my username.
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think trying to fit everything into the same lens is usually the real problem. Functional programming is a great methodology for a lot of things, but there are many ways to design things. Chances are really good that something elegantly w
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I could definitely see how if you work in Java or C# all day, repls feel like a neat curiosity. Picture telling someone who writes scheme in emacs that repls aren't a good design tool. If you want to argue the point with non lisp peopl
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think even when companies project arrogance from their c-suite, it’s more to keep the market happy and calm nerves. I’d be shocked if RIM wasn’t also sweating bullets internally after that iPhone presentation. They weren’t morons, and saw
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think software optimizations are going to heavily impact gpu/ai-accelerator demand. It feels like we’re leaving the ‘brute force’ make it work era and entering the ‘make it work on my phone without killing battery life” era. I wouldn
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I remember being 10 and going to a computer lab full of power macintoshes and playing sim city 2000, kid pix, and Carmen San Diego. This was in between looking at a cd encyclopedia (encarta?), old computers were awesome ;)
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think the critical miss of that era was Research in motion not buying palm. I think that combination could have had a real shot of staying relevant. Rim basically already made hardware that would have worked and had tons of corporate supp
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I’m a Pittsburgher who moved to Indianapolis when I was 7. I remember encountering the word y’all and thinking, “oh they just mean yinz.” I wonder if someone came from an area where neither are common, if the first encounter is more jarring
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Most newer games are just weird forms of social media (Roblox), so I kind of doubt it improves intelligence…
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
I think it’s easy to forget the palm pre and webos because it wasn’t a competitor for very long, but to be blunt, it was the only decent competitor to the iPhone but in the 2008/2009 timeframe. Android was awful on launch, blackberry w
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Does GitHub have an option to turn off most interactions on a repo unless you’ve had pr’s accepted? In effect, a public repo that is read only (no comments/issues/etc) unless you’ve contributed? I’d imagine it can be done through
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by nickpeterson 2y ago
Any reason to prefer this or fflat (bflat)?

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