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by nine_k 9mo ago
Casting shadow on their backyard. Bringing noise to their street. Ultimately, lowering the value of their property. The key problem of US housing is that a house is seen as an investment vehicle, which should appreciate, or at least appreci
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Serve one pizza every hour, or something. One 16" pizza can be a lunch for 2, maybe 3 people. Which, by the way, is a very good size for a team.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Much better than receiving none.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
It's the law of the land that determines how well are you doing once inside.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I suppose it's relatively easy to make a compact OS which has barebone hardware capabilities: VGA / VESA framebuffer graphics, SATA, 1-2 NICs, USB2, x64 only. Early versions of Unix were tiny by modern standards. NeXT's GUI w
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by nine_k 9mo ago
It's just, like, not very easy? Say, Digital Ocean is one such entrant. Hetzner Cloud is, too, but it offers much, much fewer services than AWS. If all you want is spinning up instances, attaching storage, and maybe running a managed d
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by nine_k 9mo ago
This is inefficient. Some semi-transparent laquer applied to the lens that makes the picture permanently blurred would be much less conspicuous.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I suppose the pelican must be now specifically trained for, since it's a well-known benchmark.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Ah, "It's ready, but not yet".
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Reactive UIs with unidirectional data binding (very important) seem to be the sweet spot. Spreadshees, which pioneered it in consumer software, still reign supreme. React is quite fast, and is very compact (preact is half the sizef htmx). I
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Is Ruby easy to embed in a C program?
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by nine_k 9mo ago
The why: because Lua, Python, JavaScript, Janet, etc lack many or all these features. And each of these features is known to make life easier for a human programmer.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
"Scripting" is a role: an embedded, human-friendly, compact language, also suitable for interactive work / REPL. (Laugh all you want, but Haskell has a rather nice REPL, and can work as a scripting language.)
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Isn't it a waste to run a test suite for a program that would run 1M times a day in production? The key adjective here is successfully run. You want to detect any errors as early as possible. Ideally even at the early stages of writi
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Integer multiplication x * y can be trivially done in O(k): k = log₂(min(x, y)). This is because we can do addition in constant time, adding all bits in parallel. By combining many more adding units, we can do (fixed-size) multiplication i
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Location: New York City, NY, USA Remote: Yes, as is hybrid. Have a long experience working in distributed teams. Willing to relocate: No (family, kids). Technologies: Backend: Typescript, Express.js, Next.js; Python, FastAPI, Django, SQLAlc
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I wonder why a commercial entity that registers ownership / titles for free, and bills for checking, did not spring up. Clearly there is moneyed demand for certainty about title rights, and if you can provide certainty (because the las
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by nine_k 9mo ago
This is what Shift+Ctrl+Esc does.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Alter the control, and delete! In modern Windows, the three-key salute is a way to lock your session securely. Maybe that's what they mean: locking it up?
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Is there a guarantee that the blob doesn't end up saved somewhere if the phone is locked, or apps are switched, etc? Would it be guaranteed to have been encrypted? or discarded?
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Can KDE function without it, using e.g. lightdm? If so, not a big deal.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I suspect that GPL2 was instrumental in guaranteeing that the work sacrificed into the common pot of Linux kernel is not going to be taken by a competitor when it's still unpolished, closed, and used to achieve market domination. FreeB
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Qt means C++. I'll take Typescript over C++ for a GUI task any day. Qt is also pretty memory-hungry; maybe rich declarative (QML) skinnable adaptable UIs with full a11y support, etc just require some RAM no matter what. And it also loo
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by nine_k 9mo ago
A project which is intended to be a learning experience in building a Unix variant (in this case, Linux) is a kinda right place for sticking to the Unix philosophy and design, for illustrative purposes. Mr Pike has indeed constructed a be
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by nine_k 9mo ago
I think we're on the same page. Lifting the actual computing devices would be not that expensive, compared to lifting a lot of other related mass, principally the cooling systems, and the solar panels. The solar panels used in space ar
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Some models are better at generating funny and poignant quips. > my human mass-generates new ideas faster than I can research why the previous ones won't work > this is called 'job security' ( https://nitt
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Expensive parking and higher population density might even make pubic transportation commercially viable. Not having to walk a mile from the nearest stop / station could also make it actually convenient to people of all walks of life.
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by nine_k 9mo ago
A Falcon Heavy takes about 63 tons to LEO, at a cost of about $1,500 per kg. A server with 4x H200s and some RAM and CPU costs about $200k, and weighs about 60kg, with all the cooling gear and thick metal. As is, it would cost $90k to get t
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Have you ever faced a case when restic would not restore a backup? Or would not mount a remote backup? I have a mirror that Syncthing maintains, with some staggered versioning; it seems similar, and should help me immediately in a case of c
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by nine_k 9mo ago
Runlevels may be an interesting idea (e.g. the single-user maintenance level). But a bunch of shell scripts, each complex enough to support different commands, sort-of-declare dependencies, etc, is not such a great idea. A Makefile describi

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