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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I have the OS taking up space, games that now take up 1+ GB, some offline music, and offline maps so I can use the GPS in rural areas. All of that eats up a sizable portion of that 32 GB. Add in photos and 1080p video and it doesn't ta
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I think you overestimate how much free capital the average person has. Even in my case, where I could afford an iPhone with max storage (to assuage my previously stated concerns), I'd have a really hard time justifying it. We budget pr
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
Same boat here. I'm not with Android because I think the OS is better or because I hate privacy. It's a matter of cost (I think I paid $650 net for my S9+) and lack of hardware options. I'm preaching to the choir, but it suck
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I finally gave in and moved back to Android. My wife wanted my Lumia 950 XL and she loves it. She's not going to be pleased when she needs to move to something else. That dedicated camera button is an incredibly nice feature. As for ph
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by nirvdrum 7y ago
I don't know if it falls under "freedom to tinker", but having a microSD slot saved my vacation once (well, the pictures of it anyway). We were out at a children's amusement park in the mountains with poor service, so ju
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Awesome. Thank you for a thorough response. Airsonic looks like just what I want, too. I have a FreeNAS system and would love to centralize my music catalog there. Over the years I've ripped my CDs maybe 4 or 5 times. I used to have a
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Thanks for the pointer. I'm largely on Linux and my wife largely on Mac, but I'm sure I can spin up a VM somewhere if the software is worth it.
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Heh. I'm actually on a Linux desktop but figured most people would reply with an iTunes-based solution. Cmus looks interesting I'd love to hear what your workflow is for converting, naming, tagging, getting artwork, etc.
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Slightly off topic, but do you use something other than iTunes for this process? I'm looking for a good way to manage a FLAC library.
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GraalVM’s JavaScript Engine on JDK11 with High Performance(medium.com)
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
I was astonished at how this was handled on the issue tracker. It was closed as "works as designed" even though the design was the problem. https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=43223
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
It was disheartening how much time I spent tracking this down. I generally use Firefox, but since the web is bifurcated, I need to be able to access some sites with Chrome.
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
FWIW, Chrome does this as well. Its DNS prefetch feature will ignore your local hosts file and configured DNS servers. It creates annoying problems if you have a VPN where some hosts resolve differently than they do publicly. Granted, in th
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Fair enough. You could date the project back to the Maxine days as well :-) Joking aside, the Java-Level JVM Compiler Interface [1] was only added about a year ago, in Java 9. This is what allows using Graal with a stock JVM. So, for many p
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
If you're interested in looking into some active research in the area of partial evaluation, you should look at Truffle [1] and Graal [2] from my team at Oracle Labs. Graal is a new JIT compiler for HotSpot written in Java, with an API
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
I've read your comment a few times and I can't really tell if you're trying to refute what I said or if you're agreeing with it. I don't think mail order operations ever amounted to more than a tiny fraction of what
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
One way Amazon was able to compete on price was by not having nexus in most of the country. Consequently, Amazon didn't collect sales tax on behalf of states and consumers, on the whole, never declare use tax. I still see that mentione
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
The problems really begin when a browser doesn't want to wait for a standards body. I realize the situation is different with WHATWG now than how this played out in the IE6 days. But when the dominant rendering engine decides to start
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
I'm glad you're happy with Selenium and that it's helped you out. As for the rest of it, I asked a rhetorical question that you dismissed out of hand and then went on to talk about IE6 in a timeframe about 10 years later than
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Feel free to read through my post history if you really want to question my intentions. By the way, I also built a TechStars company that automated the detection of rendering issues across different browsers, I've written BHOs for IE6
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
You weren't the person I was responding to, so I really can't tell if we agree or disagree. I think we agree on many of the same points, but disagree perhaps on the whole picture. In its day, IE 6 was great and devs embraced it. W
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
As there are increasingly fewer non-Chromium based Web browsers, it becomes increasingly likely that Web sites & apps overfit to Chromium. At that point, you no longer have Web technologies. You have Chromium technologies that happen to
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
> I think you have an unreasonable view of what “the lessons of IE-6” for web developers are. I agree with the OP. Perhaps you can elaborate on why you think we both have unreasonable views.
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
I think your overall point is fair -- you own less, but of a more valuable asset now, so you should come out ahead. However, in my experience the ones that say dilution doesn't matter are often the ones that are likely to be "made
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
The article makes mention that FastR supports GraalVM's polyglot mechanism. One possible option for your task is you do your data analysis with FastR and render it with Node on Graal.js or Sinatra on TruffleRuby. At first blush this mi
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Faster R with FastR(medium.com)
162 points by nirvdrum 8y ago|78 comments
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
If you prefer the video format, I also gave a talk based on this content at RubyKaigi 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQnxukip368
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
Is there any particular department you speak with to get free trades? Based on your comment, I just gave it a shot and was told they don't do free trades and the person I spoke with was confused as to why I would even ask.
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
I use Fastmail's subdomain addressing [1] to sign up for services in a very similar manner. I'm certainly sympathetic to bad services abusing the privilege of having your email address. My contention is that while this is the purp
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by nirvdrum 8y ago
The trial does stop the user from using it after a trial period. If you want to fault anything, it's using an email address to equate to a user. Fine. I'm guilty as charged. But, it's pretty common. Most legitimate users of a

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