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by phaedrus 4y ago
The default settings of SQLite are very conservative and essentially enforce serial writes. With tuning and loosening that enforcement, you can go from 50 writes per second to 50,000. Edit: forgot to mention that yes a major part of that
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by phaedrus 4y ago
To the point in your last sentence, a few years ago I worked at a software company where there was a prolific code writer who similarly tied up about ~2 SWEs cleaning up his messes. He was a Perl programmer who was set loose on C# code. T
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by phaedrus 4y ago
From the title, not knowing what E and P cores are, I wondered if maybe it meant using software emulation to make a "virtual CPU core" could actually be more energy efficient than running on a physical core. And now I kinda won
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Some of the proposed models for human thought can't handle negation. An example of this is map-based models. Theories which propose human thought is a form of a production system (as in logic) get a boost from the fact they can expla
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by phaedrus 4y ago
Anything Raymond Chen writes is worth the time to read.
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I use Sqlite for all my projects, but most of my projects are Windows applications. At prior employers I did work on web applications that used traditional server-based databases. In my opinion the biggest thing separating Sqlite from a &q
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by phaedrus 4y ago
I have a similar list - except I've never finished anything.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I agree - from experience - but your assertion the easy wins are deceiving also reminds me of the joke about the economist who won't pick up a ten dollar bill in the street because in an efficient market someone else would have already
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Why is the nurse criminally negligent, but not the company or programmers which made the software that runs the automated medicine cabinet? Or the hospital administration who failed to recognize and do something to correct the systemic pro
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by phaedrus 5y ago
In a life imitates art moment, I watched the story from the trailer for that game (the character ends up in the cell after being held criminally liable for a mistake at work due to complacency), and then saw this headline in another open br
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I think there's a huge potential for Software Archeology. Maybe not 5 years but within 50 years this will be huge. You could come at it from two fronts. Bottom up there's a need for tools that better help you investigate "w
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by phaedrus 5y ago
This is interesting because I recently read of a theory that clinical depression is actually an altered state of consciousness, like dreaming or being under the influence of psychedelic drugs. It seems to explain a lot about depression as
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Actually you could have more advanced boss AI while still keeping the player ability to learn its "tells" if the animation system had access to what the AI is thinking. Lights that turn from blue to angry red when the AI is conte
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I've been reading recently about the Language of Thought Hypothesis and the idea that conscious thought may be a production system. That is, it seems to work like a formal language or rule-based logic where a "sentence" (in
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by phaedrus 5y ago
This was the same conclusion I came to as well. Both for my personal projects, and what I now recommend at work when the subject of potential Linux ports comes up, is that if WINE is good enough to run it why not just do that?
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I watched a video by HealthyGamerGG where he described employees as all walking around with "score cards" in their head which he illustrated with two rows of tick boxes: a "promotion" score and a "fired" score
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The part about users coming up with their own formats for tagging including using "word-dash-word" as a format reminded me of a story. When I was in high school I wrote chatbots. One of my earliest started out as a "mad libs
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by phaedrus 5y ago
My first programming environment was dBASE II! Would have been cool if these were dBASE databases and I could have helped, but then again I have neither the software anymore nor knowledge of the raw binary format.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I'm working on a free and open source Windows app to both learn and demo the new C++ coroutines. I realized one metaphor for how they're implemented is a Choose Your Own Adventure story. I wanted to have pictures with the text an
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Earlier today I was idly wondering: if aliens invented computers and went through the whole 8-bit era, 16-bit era etc. - would they perhaps have developed architectures which had additional "shadow" or "tag" bits on ever
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by phaedrus 5y ago
It reminds me of a particularly fantastic piece of lore from Skyrim. It's remarkable to come across in real life something similar to what stretched my suspension of disbelief in a fictional setting. "The Underground Express was
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Might not be possible in the current supply chain of "built to fail" bicycles. You may wish for a Toyota Corolla, but what we get is more like a Yugo. https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxdgq9/mechanic
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Your comparison of Mac vs PC user experience reminds me of a criticism I read of Java's cross-platform GUI implementation. The critic compared Java GUIs to an episode of Star Trek where aliens had created a facsimile of a room and tab
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The author of the article also sounds like the sort of individual or clique who derail Stack Overflow posts because they feel the premise of the question is wrong (leaving both the original asker and any later reader with their actual probl
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The Io language is elegant both to program in and in the way the design is built up from simple parts. In fact it was my first introduction to dynamic typing after many years programming in C++, C#, and (various) BASIC(s). Io allows you to
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The No Free Lunch theorem tells us no search algorithm is optimal over all possible problem-spaces. Without prior knowledge about what may be found and what will be needed, no one can say whether deep-dive in one place or shallow-jump into
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I have hyperphantasia but also difficulty with faces. If the person changed their hair, applied their make-up differently, is standing at an angle I haven't seen them from before, etc. it won't match the hyper-specific image my m
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I have hyperphantasia. It's like having a CAD program inside my mind, and I can design entire physical devices, machines, or structures and later when I build them the 3D arrangement of the parts works out just as well in the physical
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by phaedrus 5y ago
We already had viruses on DOS before CDs existed. The fact CDs supported autorun and Microsoft programmed Windows to have that feature on by default was mind-blowingly stupid and an obvious vector for viruses even at the time Windows 95 wa
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by phaedrus 5y ago
...and the corollary to that is turning things into data is often a much simpler alternative to abstraction. For example suppose you have a program with configuration. You might have a "ConfigurationProvider" and abstract that

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