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by nurple 3y ago
But single-threaded async/await _is_ special and different from multi-threaded concurrency. Placing it in the same basket and prescribing the same method of use is fundamentally wrong and fails to teach the magic of idiomatic lock free
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by nurple 3y ago
It's true though that in most cases single-threaded event-loop concurrency is sufficient. I wasn't attempting to make a generalization, I was saying that in cases where the CPU-bound work _is_ more voluminous, I prefer process-par
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by nurple 3y ago
My problem with rust's async/await is that it's _not_ a different strategy as the continuation tasks _are_ run multithreaded, so it's technically both strategies. IMO one of the biggest selling points of single-threaded
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by nurple 3y ago
Couldn't disagree more. In my experience, single-threaded event-loop driven async/await should be used for every possible concurrency need, with the complexity of multi-threaded concurrency being reserved for the rare cases it&#x2
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by nurple 3y ago
This lacks quite a bit of nuance. In node you are guaranteed that synchronous code between two awaits will run to completion before another task(that could access your state) from the event loop gets a turn; with multi-threaded concurrency
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Turn Nix Flake attribute sets into GitHub Actions matrices(github.com)
1 points by nurple 3y ago|0 comments
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by nurple 3y ago
I think the most profound insight I've come across while studying this particular topic is the insight that information theory ended up being the answer to conserving the 2nd law with respect to Maxwell's demon thought experiment.
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LLM-Powered Embodied Lifelong Learning SysOp(curiouslynerdy.com)
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by nurple 3y ago
Yeah, perhaps I should have said MSDOS. But even still, I think perhaps your rose-colored hindsight is probably miscoloring your memory. The initial releases of Windows was a nightmare, with Bill's mom consoling him after a particularl
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by nurple 3y ago
Mass surveillance is, like most absolute power, cancer of the soul. I have read your email, and your IMs; I know first-hand how it corrupts a person. I can, without hesitation, guarantee that the situation is like that in the movie Elysium[
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by nurple 3y ago
Heh, good luck. As a tech cofounder, I attempted to do just this and I have extensive development and management experience. It was a nightmare, EVERY SINGLE offshoring company tried to play us as a group that didn't know their stuff,
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by nurple 3y ago
Windows
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by nurple 3y ago
Interesting. At what point might it make sense for the tractor itself to evolve into a pure genset and steering unit, like a diesel-electric train? Might make sense as an interim step to carbon-free electrification.
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by nurple 3y ago
Yeah, this was my thought as well. Not sure how accurate this article[0] is, but it says the trailer to power-unit(tractor) ratio is around 3-5:1. One interesting thought though: if these trailers could implement thrust vectoring and other
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by nurple 3y ago
I don't disagree, I spend a lot of effort thinking about things at exposure-time. I think the thing that sold me on scene-referred is that I started conciously thinking about the kind of data I was capturing. It's often the case t
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by nurple 3y ago
If you're using nix, I was able to make a build from the darktable derivation[0] modified to use fetchgit (since he hasn't made a github Release since December) and `s/darktable/ansel/g`. src = fetchgit {
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by nurple 3y ago
"I wish I were young again!" Ah, the oft-repeated refrain of those who never stop learning.
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by nurple 3y ago
Take a look at the darktable docs: https://docs.darktable.org/usermanual/4.0/en/overview/suppor... The rawspeed lib is at github here: https://github.com/darktable-org/rawspeed
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by nurple 3y ago
That's kind of the nature of non-destructive editing. While I do think the operation stack could be smarter about collapsing edits that are commutative, once I got a workflow order down I haven't really worried about this much. Th
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by nurple 3y ago
When I switched to Linux full time about a year ago, darktable was a godsend. I currently have it pointed at a NAS share with ~8k raw images and it works pretty flawlessly and I can barely tell that the images are offhost. Personally, I rea
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by nurple 3y ago
This is an awful metric for such a discussion, almost seems disingenuous.
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by nurple 3y ago
If you think of the system(s) that you're targeting, and the mutation operations that you're defining in the CM language; the configuration files and their contents, binaries and their instances, etc are all contained as a giant b
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by nurple 3y ago
But you might argue the fact that most software is always adding features and changes is because it really is never a perfect representation of some target theory. In that case, the theory inside the heads of each person behind the software
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by nurple 3y ago
Nuked the notification stream with UBlock: `##section > ol` It's an interesting observation on the reason behind something that's understood fairly well in management circles from its impact: Retention of software engineers is
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by nurple 3y ago
Love that you're playing in the space! The more people that experiment with approaches, the more we'll see what does and doesn't work. Couldn't agree more with how painful "coding" in ansible is, my SOP with it
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by nurple 3y ago
Re embedding, just to take one snippet from an example on your site: { always: true, change: 'echo %s > /work/helloworld' % n.getEnv('HOSTNAME'), id: 'write a file', o
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by nurple 3y ago
It's nice that you've decided to throw off the golden veil of "declarative" that so many of the tools try to sell themselves as, while in practice the user still ends up attempting to write imperative logic while harangu
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by nurple 3y ago
Allow me to share my own recent predicament, on which I'm still deeply cogitating, and from where a lot of my own frustration flows. I am a content creator, I write software and build compute systems to run it upon. I was RIF'd la
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by nurple 3y ago
Or perhaps it means building less-dense light commercial? I'm not a big fan of the perspective that our only solution to the current housing issues are to package humans in quarters whose main selling point over chicken coops is that y
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by nurple 3y ago
Sure, their creation is held behind legal walls in order to create, by definition, an artifical scarcity from which it derives its monetary value. If it was not protected by such a wall, and was not scarce, it would have no monetary value.

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