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by sam_bristow 1y ago
One feature I wish the Arch wiki had last time I used it was conditionally hiding sections. It presented various options throughout their guides and depending on which options you chose later sections weren't relevant. I often found I&
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
It's a pain for even experienced users. Popping open the developer tools in the browser because you've done Ctrl-Shift-C is annoying, accidentally calling a group chat of 50 people in MS Teams for the same reason is really annoyi
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
I've been doing a bunch of receuiting recently and I make a point at the beginning of each interview to explicitly tell them that we don't do trick questions. We also don't do leetcode at all. My approach to interviewing is t
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
I was talking to one of the engineers at Daisy Lab[1] at a local hardware meetup a few months back. They are working on precision fermentation for dairyas described in the article. It's a really interesting technology and they seemed t
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
I believe you've got confused between the NRO (National Reconnaissance Office) and NGO (Non-governmental Organisation). The NRO is very much part of the US government.
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
Apparently System-scope custom fields have a significant performance hit in Jira. I think project-scope custom fields are better. Sometimes it feels like Jira is so incredibly configurable but is really missing the "pit of success&quot
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
There are a lot of bits and pieces that are clicking into place lately in the Python ecosystem. Recently I've been using the combination of Marimo and these uv script dependencies for building reproducible rwporting and diagnostic tool
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
Beyond whatever design or production issues caused this particular anomaly there will also be the delays due to the fact they just blew up a lot of ground support equipment.
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
For C++ on similar systems its becoming more and more "I hope you like LLVM with the serial numbers filed off". Lots of the tool vendors are sunsetting their bespoke compilers. Most of the vendor IDEs have always been Eclipse with
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
My most common use is similar: when I'm working on problems in a somewhat unfamiliar domain finding out what their "terms of art" are. The chances that I've just come up with a completely new concept are pretty low so it
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
Uv and PEP-723 style inline dependency declarations has been great at $DAYJOB. It's made a bunch of our standalone scripts trivial to distribute to non-software engineers. I'm also bullish on using them with Marimo notebooks as a
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
NOSA is an absolute pain to deal with. In particular requirement that all changes be your "original creation" has scuttled a number of efforts to integrate projects into the wider ecosystem.
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by sam_bristow 1y ago
Git bisect is one of those tools that - once you learn how to use it effetively - fundamentally changes how you think about your git repos. I have had people tell me that a clean git history isn't worth the effort but once they really
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You can fly a rocket with Python and WiFi, you just shouldn't (2024)(youtube.com)
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Fair Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship(go-fair.org)
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I've had a reasonable amount of luck with a combination of Buildroot and Bazel. I use Buildroot to assemble a minimal Base OS with just the kernel, bootloader and a few system services. Then the application layer is built with Bazel an
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Blender 2.5 was another big UX milestone. Since then my impression is that it's been a case of steady refinement and a few key changes to defaults.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I think the Open Movie projects really helped with that. They had artists and devs working closely together to polish up particular aspects of the application for each movie. The movies themselves also did a great job of raising the profile
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Modern CI tends to grow features until it's reproduced the all the features of a build system. You then end up with the actual logic of your build smeared across mutiple layers. Or contorting your CI setup to allow the build system to
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I can't parse what you mean by "China and Russia whose GDPs are far larger". Larger than what? China's GDP is about 3/4 that of the USA and Russia is about 1/10th.
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Beyond 'latency numbers every programmer should know'(thundergolfer.com)
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Modern CI is too complex and misdirected (2021)(gregoryszorc.com)
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Damn, I was half hoping it was doing some deepfake face swapping rather than just totally replacing the whole image. Part of me would love to install a "Being John Malkovich" style face replacement plugin onto someone's machi
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Just advertise it as guaranteed 0% false positive detections and you're good-to-go!
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I think this is the article you're refering to [1]. The most frustrating manager I've had felt like they were just a layer of indirection to the rest of the business. Every meeting I was in with them was basically a readout of ano
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
Adjective noun verb noun?
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
It's also not really a case of "rewriting in Rust" anyway, it's more just "writing it in Rust" since most of the stuff the Oxide team has built is greenfield work.
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Becoming Data Driven, from First Principles(commoncog.com)
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I'm excited to switch a number of my embedded devices over to the mainline kernel now that PREEMPT_RT has landed.
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by sam_bristow 2y ago
I tend to phrase it as hit by a bus OR jump on a bus to another company.

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