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by nrclark 1y ago
TIL. Thanks for this context!
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by nrclark 1y ago
There's a certain irony in the idea that Hawaii has interstates, given that it's an archipelago. It's great that H1, H2, and H3 exist, and Hawaii deserves the same road funding as any other state. But there's some lesson
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by nrclark 1y ago
I'm not sure about that. For whatever reason, I've noticed that my brain has a hard time holding onto ideas from LLM-written documentation. Maybe because LLMs generate the mathematically lowest-energy thing that they can. I'd
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by nrclark 1y ago
When talking with recruiters, I usually decline to state the first number politely - saying something like "salary isn't the only reason why I'd take a job, and I always look at the whole package as well as the role. I'm
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by nrclark 1y ago
I just gave that a read. Good doc overall. There are a few items I disagree with: - Cargo-culted use of -o pipefail. Pipefail has its uses, but it breaks one of the most common things people do in a pipeline: filter the output with grep. Ad
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by nrclark 1y ago
Yes. They were approved for C++20 with no working reference implementation. This was done over objections from representatives from every compiler and build system. 5 years later they're still not widely (or fully) implemented. They&#x
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by nrclark 1y ago
Modules are a disaster tbh.
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by nrclark 1y ago
Agreed if you're looking at it through the lens of portable software that you plan to distribute. Automake generates portable Makefiles for a reason. But there's another huge category: people who are automating something that&#x27
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by nrclark 1y ago
How do those stack up against lp_solve ( https://lpsolve.sourceforge.net/5.5/index.htm )?
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by nrclark 1y ago
Understood. I'm actually thinking about a product design for an aarch64-based industrial controller. I'd want to run all of the machine interfaces directly on Linux, but am interested in using Android for everything user-facing. C
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by nrclark 1y ago
A question for any Android folks in the thread: how performant is Cuttlefish? Would I get good performance if I ran it in KVM on something like a Raspberry Pi 5? I've been thinking about a design that runs some robotic services nativel
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by nrclark 1y ago
I'd have expected this to need a hashbang (#!/bin/sh) at the beginning. Why doesn't it?
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by nrclark 1y ago
I did a lot of chores growing up. Looking back, X>x was true for the first few months of each new chore; but X died down to zero as time went on.
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by nrclark 1y ago
Alcohol stoves can be very fast. I've done a bunch of hikes using one of those double-walled cat can stoves, and it works great. Really pumps out the heat. Very reliable, and almost as fast as my canister stove.
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by nrclark 1y ago
I've taken this stove backpacking lots of times: https://zenstoves.net/CatCanStove.htm it's been very reliable, lightweight, and works in cold weather. Fuel is cheap and a lot more environmentally friendly than di
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by nrclark 1y ago
I work in embedded systems. In that space, it's pretty common to need some vendor-provided tool that's Windows-only. I often need to automate that tool, maybe as part of a CI/CD pipeline or something. If I were to do it with
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by nrclark 1y ago
In my mind, I almost feel like the opposite is true. Wine is getting better and better, especially with the amount of resources that Valve is putting into it. If you want a stable, repeatable way to wrangle a Windows tool: Wine is it. It&#x
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by nrclark 1y ago
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch.
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by nrclark 1y ago
I won't defend these tariffs, or their rollout. But I will say that our dependence on Chinese manufacturing (and engineering, these days) is not good for our nation. Free trade combined with cheap labor led to a massive loss of nationa
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by nrclark 1y ago
I don't think you're being overdramatic. At this point, I'd give 50/50 odds that Trump will install himself as a Putin-style dictator (if we're not already there). "Elections" will happen, but the outcome
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by nrclark 1y ago
The first rule of dealing is "don't get high on your own supply".
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by nrclark 1y ago
> We found that the the Great Flood in the book of Genesis existed Floods are certainly a thing that happens in nature - especially to the flood plains that surrounded large rivers like the Euphrates before dams were a thing. Are you ref
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by nrclark 1y ago
what is unconstitutional about a wealth tax?
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by nrclark 2y ago
A quick note on this for non-editing folks: in context, a "proxy" here is a low-res version of your actual footage. It's common to use them while editing a cut together, and then to replace them with the full-res versions at
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by nrclark 2y ago
Agreed - I hate captouch buttons, and would rather have physical controls every time. But in case you're curious why they're so common: 1. They're cheaper than mechanical buttons. 2. They're more space-efficient in
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by nrclark 2y ago
Can you elaborate a bit on the dependency-handling topic? I've always thought that Bitbake's dependency handling worked pretty well. It only has package-level granularity, but is quite good within that context.
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by nrclark 2y ago
To be honest, that kind of sounds like a dystopian hell: chatGPT writing memos because we can't be arsed, and the reading the same memos because neither can the recipient. Why even bother with it?
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by nrclark 2y ago
I don't disagree, but wanted to note- if you're ever stuck trying to trace a value, you can see everything that went into its calculation by using "bitbake -e".
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by nrclark 2y ago
I've had mixed results with this approach. What happens when I try it is: 1. I communicate DATE and CONFIDENCE_INTERVAL 2. My manager hears DATE and CONFIDENCE_INTERVAL. 3. My manager tells project-manager "probably som
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by nrclark 2y ago
I believe it. My wife is boycotting Tesla, specifically because of Elon Musk's role in the destruction of our government. We're actively shopping for an electric car, and Teslas are off the table for us. I would guess that there a

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