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by nicwolff 2y ago
This is very confusing naming: > write pointer: the next address to write to OK > peek pointer: the address of the next frame to read > read pointer: the address where data can be overwritten What? If the "write pointer"
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by nicwolff 2y ago
If I'm hiring them without telling them in detail what I'd like them to do, yes. Try calling a contractor and asking "how much to redo my kitchen?" In the real world I can demand an estimate because I'm giving them
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by nicwolff 2y ago
Building a contextual ad-targeting engine to replace Grapeshot which Oracle is shuttering, uh, tomorrow.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
I demoed Orbstack to my whole department of 100+ engineers, now we've canceled our Docker Desktop account and switched everyone over. Zero complaints.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
How the hell is Louis DeJoy still the Postmaster General?
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by nicwolff 2y ago
Sequel to Children of Time by the (great!) Adrian Tchaikovsky – middle book of a trilogy.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
90% of humans live in the northern hemisphere, it would still be strongly predictive if true.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
I'll be pissed off if they cure aging when I'm already 80. And then if they cure death I guess I'll be pissed off forever.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
> “Will they be ok?”, “All I want is a healthy baby,” most say. And why is your baby's health so much more important than that of the other hundred million babies in the world? Because it's (half) yours. Your selfish genes made
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by nicwolff 2y ago
Link to actual AP article instead of Gizmodo ad-bait: https://apnews.com/article/new-york-drones-shorebirds-beach-... and, nominative determinism fans, don't miss "said David Bird, a professor of wildlife bio
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by nicwolff 2y ago
I've got a fun issue right now – two packages with dashes in the package names but underscores in the module names: https://pypi.org/project/xml-from-seq/ → xml_from_seq https://pypi.org/proje
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by nicwolff 2y ago
People should know that electoral-vote.com is not just an election science blog at this point; Andrew and his co-writer Christopher Bates publish a very cogent summary each morning of the previous day's political news and its possible
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by nicwolff 2y ago
Well, obviously Fastmail does. And the (excellent!) alternative Mac Fastmail client FMail2 does. http://fmail-app.fr
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by nicwolff 2y ago
I don't think the camera goes on the motorcycle.
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by nicwolff 2y ago
Oh! Thanks. It was gone last time I looked... I recommend it, it's excellent!
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by nicwolff 2y ago
I'll never delete the Exit Strategy app, which is no longer in the App Store, for two features: 1. the "neighborhood map" for each station, showing the actual extent of the station underground, and 2. the app's main feat
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by nicwolff 3y ago
It was already out of date when published in Feb 2022: > PostgreSQL has built in support for UUIDv4 through the pgcrypto or the uuid-ossp extensions. PostgreSQL hasn't needed an extension to generate UUIDv4 since v13 which was relea
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by nicwolff 3y ago
I'm in a house up in Chelmsford, north of Boston – one person on the second floor felt it.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
My https://pypi.org/project/xml-from-seq/ is a simple mapper from e.g. ['p', 'This is a ', ['a', {'href': 'https://example.com'}, 'link']
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by nicwolff 3y ago
https://grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/api.html#diskcache.Cac... Decorator to wrap callable with memoizing function using cache. Repeated calls with the same arguments will lookup result in cache and avoid functio
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by nicwolff 3y ago
The accompanying Safari update seems to have re-broken the GitHub IDE as well – trying to select text is "off" by a few lines. This was pretty annoying when it was broken previously and I was glad for the fix in 13 – oh well...
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Which is pretty counter-intuitive: it's "copy", then "paste but delete the original"? Much more natural to remember ⌘-c, ⌘-delete, change folders and ⌘-v.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Most Patreons also offer per-episode payment, which zeroes out the risk that you'll pay a non-producing creator anything at all.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Huh? GraphQL field arguments are used to filter and paginate result sets.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Humans want to be paid.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
The lede asks "why you need to add back pressure and power" and then only explains back pressure.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Direct link to video, which didn't play embedded for me: https://science.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/hubble-r...
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Much nicer than the OP link! Thanks.
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Sounds like it finally caught up with Apple Maps!
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by nicwolff 3y ago
Something's wrong with that site's CMS... > "While some of these points, notably and, are already employed as strategic positions in space for satellite stability with minimal propellant consumption (as exemplified by the

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