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by owyn 2y ago
php was also bundled with macOS 10 and 11 Once upon a time I had to figure how to recompile it with all the "factory" settings plus one additional thing that I needed.
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by owyn 2y ago
That's awesome. I will! I was probably around 12-14? when I spent many hours with that game. After that it was DOS and Doom. But I think when I eventually drifted towards the path to being a software engineer I did grasp a lot of the b
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by owyn 2y ago
They mention that it's C# and that it's at least 10x the amount of code... I loved this game! I actually had the Forth package for the C64 also but I never put 2+2 together that the game was made with it.
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by owyn 2y ago
the promise was "don't send a query, send code that the backend will run securely" This is back now with WASM!
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by owyn 2y ago
Former Wikia engineer here too! I also thought there was a lot of potential there. We even invested in some RDF and structured data and NLP projects (second screen, sentiment analysis on comments for detecting flame wars, etc), but for vari
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by owyn 2y ago
Yeah, Wikia in aggregate was in the top 50, maybe a top 20 site at various points. Wikia was built on caching. From my memory, about 99% of page views hit some kind of cache. If that dropped down to 97%, servers started to suffer. It's
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by owyn 2y ago
I was looking at my parent's bookshelf and saw a book on Shakespeare and I recognized the author's name: Asimov! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asimov's_Guide_to_Shakespeare It's like 800 pages, I ha
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by owyn 2y ago
It is very cool, but I think some version of this feature has been around for years? This commit is from 7 years ago, and it looks like the code originates back to 2010. https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/v2.9.
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by owyn 2y ago
Once in the past I did actually have an incident where the site went down so hard that the tool that we used to update the status page didn't work. We did move it to a totally external and independent service after that. The first serv
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by owyn 2y ago
It can be even more insane than that. Not knowing what I was doing, I bought a house during the sub-prime boom thing (2004). I paid $10k in fees (zero down) for a $400k house with an interest only mortgage because I was able to "financ
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by owyn 2y ago
I just want those ham and cucumber sandwiches in the US. That's the first thing I get whenever I land in Japan.
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by owyn 2y ago
Yep that was my answer too. I didn't get the job so I'm just guessing but I'm pretty sure that's it.
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by owyn 2y ago
Yes, I'm sure that's what they were looking for. I hadn't heard of it before but I improvised my way in that direction until the interview was over. :)
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by owyn 2y ago
Two in one week? What are the odds? First I've heard of it but Oklo is a fission company with zero revenue and their stock is already down %54. That seems promising. /s
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by owyn 2y ago
> You can't uniformly sample an unbounded set. I was asked to do this as an interview question at google! It was about log file processing not math (sample an infinite log file), and I thought my answer was ok? But that's why I
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by owyn 2y ago
I know this is a joke but this OS was first released in 1987... I forgot all about it, but it's pretty cool that you can still run it on hardware.
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by owyn 3y ago
increased rate of diagnosis. it's always been there.
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by owyn 3y ago
Exactly. I consider myself to be one of those last 10% developers who enjoys the work it takes to get good, valuable projects from mostly done to actually done (software is never done but you know what I mean). The geniuses have already mov
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by owyn 3y ago
I was just joking about how Macbook drives are not replaceable but some replies on this thread have potential real solutions, which is awesome. I forgot you could attach two Macs during the boot process, which is usually used when you are s
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by owyn 3y ago
Oh! What I would do is take the disk out, mount it on another machine and delete files then put it back........ /s I think the whole stack of operating systems and tools that assume that this is possible get in trouble when it's n
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by owyn 3y ago
Hannibal invaded Italy with 37 elephants and got a pretty good result. /s But it does seem kind of ugly of us as a species to preserve them as a species for hunting.
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by owyn 3y ago
Well, developers seem to love writing "configuration" rather than "code" these days. But basically a container + the necessary tools IS a devcontainer. It's just a way of automating the "putting in the necessar
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by owyn 3y ago
The idea is to use a voice interface to actually perform "skills", like Alexa. Check out the prompt and you can get an idea of how they've set it up. So the LLM generates code that can then be executed to perform actions. ht
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by owyn 3y ago
It's a pretty great deal if you are a farmer. In California, you have unlimited rights to pump water from your own land, which extends to the ground underneath. So they just keep drilling deeper. Such a great system for the people who
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by owyn 3y ago
I am too but the answer is zero, and nobody knows but probably a long time. The whole Central Valley is like 30 feet lower now. A bit of rain isn't going to fix that.
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by owyn 3y ago
Back in the day (early 80's), my dad spent 2 or 3? years staying at home with my sister and I. My mom was working while he was re-training and switching careers at 40. Training to be a programmer on payroll systems. All mainframe HP Co
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by owyn 3y ago
That's not how it works. It's literally in the article. For undivided attention on a script for a couple of weeks, for a movie that might have a budget of tens of millions of dollars, this is completely reasonable. The article als
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by owyn 3y ago
I've heard stories, my dad went there in the early 60's as a physics major, dropped out and then got a PhD in asian history from a different school, then lived in Japan for a while, taught university history for a while, then came
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by owyn 3y ago
One of the other things is that a lot of the food delivery people don't actually live in SF, so they drive from out of town and do Uber things and then go home. So that also makes it harder to support more sensible logistics.
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by owyn 3y ago
Somewhere there's a database for every bad word and every bad typo in every language and that one just got added.

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