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by rkangel 3y ago
I have the same question every time Pijul comes up on HN, and I have yet to get an answer: Can someone give me a real world example (person a makes X change, person b makes y change etc. etc.) that would work better in Pijul than Git? I am
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes, but now you are requiring people to know both Python AND Haskell/StandardML/Whatever in order to maintain your Python app. Python is not just a "base" language, it's also a set of patterns for how you go about
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by rkangel 3y ago
Dupe of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39432843
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by rkangel 3y ago
My team has just spent 20 minutes trying to work out if this library is satire. I love functional programming (use Elixir at work a fair amount), but almost every one of these examples is harder to read than than the equivalent "classi
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by rkangel 3y ago
My team has just spent 20 minutes trying to work out if this library is satire. I love functional programming (use Elixir at work a fair amount), but almost every one of these examples is harder to read than than the equivalent "classi
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes - I quite often get into research paralysis where I keep looking and trying to work out the solutions to different problems I'm going to encounter and never getting started. Whereas if I start protoyping I learn a lot very quickly.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes you can only mirror one screen from a Mac, but he's using the AVP as the computing device itself. So it's not multiple desktop screens it's multiple windows from locally running apps.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Did you consider a port (written in Rust) instead of a NIF? When you're presenting a GenServer like message passing interface a port is a natural fit, with none of the risks related to linking a NIF into the VM itself. (admittedly thos
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by rkangel 3y ago
I don't have a good asynchronous solution, but if you can do it while on the phone/Teams with them, then Web Wormhole ( https://webwormhole.io/ ) is absolutely fantastic. You both open a web page, you drag a file on
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by rkangel 3y ago
They're fairly standard terms from "old style" project management - they show up in the usual V Model of Waterfall vein. E.g. see Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verification_and_validation
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by rkangel 3y ago
I think there is something interesting about the fact that someone writing "no bugs" makes us all uncomfortable. If they really did have a complex product, running in production from a sizeable userbase and had 2 bug reports ever,
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by rkangel 3y ago
Systems Engineering has terminology for this distinction. Verification is "does this thing do what I asked it to do". Validation is "did I ask it to do the right thing".
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by rkangel 3y ago
I didn't realise Bitwarden had taken VC. That's sad. I'm not going to transition away immediately, but I'm definitely going to keep an eye on it.
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by rkangel 3y ago
I wasn't familiar with the the Analog Discovery. Seems good value as it covers a lot of bases in one go. 30 Mhz is a bit low, but would cover the lower speed digital stuff which is what I need a scope for most of the time. Two scope ch
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by rkangel 3y ago
Similarly can anyone recommend an affordable oscilloscope? Ideally mixed signal and PC attached. Picoscopes are great and very affordable on a work budget, but a bit much for my home budget particularly if you want a mixed signal one.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Yes. The statement I agree the most with in the blog post is "defaults matter".
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by rkangel 3y ago
This is close to how I feel about this sort of thing: the author can't be bothered to write properly, but still wants me to read it. But maybe that's a narrow minded view of the situation, due to my own biases. I wrote the origina
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by rkangel 3y ago
Do other people react as strongly as I did to the lack of capitalisation at the start of sentences? The post is generally "well" written with good grammar and punctuation so I find it strange - it feels like a style choice. But th
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by rkangel 3y ago
It's worth knowing that on Windows (and on Gnome) Win+1, Win+2 etc. map to the first, second etc. window on the task bar. I pin the key applications in the same location (terminal on 1, VS Code on 2, Browser on 3) and so can quickly sw
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by rkangel 3y ago
Depends what you're compiling. A kernel for embedded (and therefore a trimmed down set of modules) on a decent machine can easily just be a minute or two. The kernel build system is pretty good at incremental compilation as well.
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by rkangel 3y ago
My (Citizen) watch is solar powered which achieves the same effect without the nuclear complexities. Not as cool obviously!
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by rkangel 3y ago
One reason is that ZigBee got there first. It was the established player, people had worked around the wrinkles and it was generally pretty good. And you have a network effect of installed devices. The main advantage (AFAIK) of BLE mesh is
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by rkangel 3y ago
An industry regulating itself is different from an organisation regulating itself. Self regulation of the industry is common as you say. It tends to involve one central body enforcing the standards on the members, and acting as a centra
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by rkangel 3y ago
From an "interfacing with the OS" point of view, a game engine interacts differently. Most desktop apps ask the OS "please render this text here, with this font" and the OS takes care of that. A game engine just asks the
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by rkangel 3y ago
How do you go about finding stuff on AliExpress that isn't (too) shit when it turns up? Or is that just the risk?
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by rkangel 3y ago
> The beaches are all stones, though. You say that like it's a bad thing. Definitely the optimal type of beach.
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by rkangel 3y ago
There are some bots that you can play against ("tabula": https://code.rocket9labs.com/tslocum/tabula )
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by rkangel 3y ago
I don't know if there is anything you can do about it given the engine - but the web-app is a little difficult to work with as a user. Being fully rendered as a canvas, my password manager can't work with the username/passwor
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by rkangel 3y ago
That's loads for people who are used to designing electronics to run off a coin cell or small Li-On battery. My current project avoids peaks of more than 60mA.
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by rkangel 3y ago
Have you considered having two datasets? The "development" dataset which is public, and the "competition" dataset which is private? That might help against algorithms that are (accidentally, or on purpose) tuned to the s

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