rkangel

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by rkangel 2mo ago
I think two reasons: Character and history - they tend to be more individual and different, and have more character than the cookie cutter modern mass builds. Solidity - they tend to be more stone and brick, instead of the timber framed bui
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by rkangel 2mo ago
In my area of the UK at least, the house layouts of houses built last year aren't appreciably different from those built 200 years ago. That's specifically comparing detached and semi-detached houses. Terraces are a bit different
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by rkangel 2mo ago
There are some downsides, but most people on the UK would prefer houses that were 100+ years old. In the village I live in the houses immediately around me are "only" 50 years old. Most of the ones on the main street are well ov
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by rkangel 2mo ago
A broader view of this point would be "the economic structures in some countries do not allow for investments with a long payback".
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by rkangel 2mo ago
In general, in the UK, labour costs dominate. How do people not understand that?! This is what's interesting with AI pricing at the moment - it has gone from "a fraction of the equivalent labour cost" and so people have tried
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by rkangel 2mo ago
The Erlang thing is different though - that's a userspace scheduler, scheduling userspace tasks onto one-thread-per-core. Classic M:N scheduling in a similar way to go. It works extremely well at scale - you can handle 10k connections
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by rkangel 3mo ago
> has become highly stigmatized in society When making claims like this, please remember that this is a very international group of people and scope your point appropriately: "has become highly stigmatized in the US" This is no
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by rkangel 3mo ago
I don't think it's too bad, but I also don't think it's good. I also don't think Andrew can claim at the end "I actually don't have any personal criticisms of Jarred" when the post includes the senten
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by rkangel 3mo ago
The big thing for me is that the lifetime of a car is a lot longer than the technology development lifecycle. I just bought a 10 year old Toyota estate (station wagon). It's got a reasonable screen and Bluetooth implementation etc. But
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by rkangel 3mo ago
The Android Auto experience is very smooth and fundamentally exactly the same.
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by rkangel 3mo ago
I worked in a US office for a while (but with a few other British people as well). I didn't feel the need to edit my sense of humour luckily, but I purposefully switched to saying things like "sidewalk", "elevator"
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by rkangel 3mo ago
I believe it's the ISO standard because it is obviously distinguishable from both the MM-DD-YY (US) date order and the DD-MM-YY (UK/EU/Others) date order and so is unambiguous. https://www.iso.org/iso-8601-dat
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by rkangel 6mo ago
Claude Code personal or Team: you pay a flat fee Claude Code Enterprise : you pay per token
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by rkangel 6mo ago
Keeps saying "no websocket required" like it's a good thing. The JS client ( https://github.com/anzellai/sky/blob/main/docs/design/sky-li... ) seems to rely on long polling. Phoeni
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by rkangel 6mo ago
IIRC for Enterprise, using /feedback or /bug is an exception to the "we promise not to use your data" agreement.
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by rkangel 6mo ago
Not all of the functionality is in the firmware though. You can put stuff in the silicon itself that allows backdoors. It's very difficult to inspect a laid out chip for nefarious elements - there's too much of it to do manually.
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by rkangel 6mo ago
It's a whole lot easier to store the keys in a special hardened location than it is to store your whole storage.
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by rkangel 6mo ago
It is VERY different. One company now has complete control of the activities of the team developing these tools. Contributing to Python (money or time) gets you some influence, but doesn't allow you to dictate anything - there's s
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by rkangel 6mo ago
I'm amazed no-one has used the term "Regulatory Drawbridge". It's a classic thing that happens in a number of industries - the big players push for more and more regulation. It costs them money and time, but it makes a m
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by rkangel 7mo ago
> Assuming that we're talking about a unit test here I think the categorisation of tests is sometimes counterproductive and moves the discussion away from what's important: What groups of tests do I need in order to be confiden
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by rkangel 7mo ago
What you're describing is the every day reality but what you WANT is that if your implementation has a race condition, then you want a test that 100% of the time detects that there is a race condition (rather than 1% of the time).
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by rkangel 7mo ago
Your logic is circular though. You are saying that there won't be much speedup for the sort of things people already do in WASM - but the reason they're doing them in WASM is because they're not slowed down too much. What you
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by rkangel 7mo ago
If I missed with tone, that's on me. I was going for "helpful constructive feedback".
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by rkangel 7mo ago
Are you aware that your Github README doesn't actually tell us anything about Roc is or why we might be interested? This might be on purpose given the first words are "Work in progress" and "not ready for release",
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by rkangel 7mo ago
The tolerance for interference fit ("clutch power" in Lego terminology) is important, but that's fairly simple. It's the cumulative tolerance when you assemble large structures that's important. Knockoff bricks can
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by rkangel 7mo ago
I agree, it doesn't say a lot. It also very confidently specifies a series of tolerances with no citations. Lego does indeed have very tight tolerance, but I don't know if the numbers are in the public domain.
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by rkangel 7mo ago
> the push towards smartphone-dependent toys feels weird I haven't seen this push? The new Lego Smart stuff is explicitly "screen free play". There is an app but it's just for firmware update and configuration and you
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by rkangel 7mo ago
> That’s modern people with access to antibiotics etc. Antibiotics don't help against viruses like colds. And we live a life that is has a higher degree of social connectivity than our ancestors, allowing for faster spreading of dis
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by rkangel 7mo ago
The nursery has clear times that it is "open". I must drop off my child between A and B O'clock in the morning, and I must collect them between X and Y O'clock in the afternoon. Like a shop - they are allowed to have ope
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by rkangel 7mo ago
Looks lovely, but unusable by me as I'm on Android.

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