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841.
by sfink 3y ago
Kind of fascinating that the benefit here is not so much artificial intelligence as artificial empathy.
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by sfink 3y ago
For lists, use a tuple as default, since it's immutable. def foo(allowed=()): truthy = ['true', 'True'] truthy += allowed # most things work allowed.append('yes') # error It&#x27
843.
by sfink 3y ago
??? 4 x 1" filters, each with a surface area of 10 square megamicrons, provide a total of 40 square megamicrons when assembled into a box. A single 1 x 4" filter strapped to a fan gives a total of 10 square megamicrons. How are th
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by sfink 3y ago
Apparently you can ionize water with a laser. In theory you could float something on the surface of the ocean with an upward laser to collect lightning and a downward laser to direct it to, oh, undersea cables or submarines or whatever. The
845.
by sfink 3y ago
I suspect people who reject this silly notion tend to still get slapped in the face with it. As in the article, when you are forging another relationship with someone else, their attitude and opinions about your existing relationship are go
846.
by sfink 3y ago
"Awesome description of rocks. I would like to understand the rocks used for nuclear reactors."
847.
by sfink 3y ago
Anything where you get crash reports back from the field. It is very valuable to be able to read assembly code and map registers to their purpose, and then perhaps back to the source code that generated the assembly. Debuginfo will sometime
848.
by sfink 3y ago
Heh. I am a developer at Mozilla, so I guess you're addressing this (partly) to me. Yes, I suspect I could find another job. I interview well—don't tell any of my potential future employers, but honestly I interview better than I
849.
by sfink 3y ago
Yes, I very much see myself in this. Though rather than humbly depending on the library, I tend to wander off in disinterest. I realize that my motivation came from saving the world with a supposedly better solution, and I didn't actua
850.
by sfink 3y ago
Yeah, that closure was completely uncommented and mysterious. A later comment linked to a bug saying that the ad had been disabled, presumably because it was showing up where it shouldn't? WORKSFORME doesn't seem like the right re
851.
by sfink 3y ago
> How is "I am not a perfect coder" really different from "I'm inherently flawed"? Being flawed just means you're not perfect. If you believe that your coding ability is an inherent part of you, then they ar
852.
by sfink 3y ago
I understand your take now, but it still seems like the two approaches are complementary. Specifically because afaik the only known way to restore spinal cord function is to get signals traveling through whatever means, so that the body wil
853.
by sfink 3y ago
Yes. My favorite is quickie salad recipes. Their times are correct, as long as you happen to have a refrigerator stuffed with containers of chopped vegetables for some reason. I've seen youtube videos where they "make" such s
854.
by sfink 3y ago
I suspect this is correct. I find softened onions preferably for a number of uses. Caramelized onions can be too sweet, and soggy/limp. I've even found that leaving a trace of crunch is better in many cases (eg beef bolognese). Bu
855.
by sfink 3y ago
> And, since the real value in communication is the information contained, that puts a fairly low ceiling on the value of their output. ...then it can never truly replace people in any role where correctness matters and that's most
856.
by sfink 3y ago
> And there isn't an exclusion zone. Yet.
857.
by sfink 3y ago
> I can't fathom working on the same thing for a decade. I don't think that is being suggested here? In fact, jvns specifically talks about working on other things for the vast majority of that time. I think the idea is that yo
858.
by sfink 3y ago
Great talk. It wasn't the focus of the presentation, but the title brings up one other part she didn't cover explicitly. My kneejerk response at seeing the title was "how could it possibly take 10 years just to learn DNS, if
859.
by sfink 3y ago
Presumably you must want something more than a simple spreadsheet that lists all the books with their owners and current borrowers. It might help to know what you have in mind. Cover images? ISBN links? Import wizard? Personal reviews?
860.
by sfink 4y ago
Sort of the opposite, in fact! It is blocking solar energy to 'terraform' the area around solar farms. (Well, first it terraforms the area under the solar farm, then we use that to terraform the surrounding area.) We are creatin
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by sfink 4y ago
I would guess that he would feel that the commission was the wrong instrument to fix the underlying problem in the first place, and so giving specific suggestions to that same body would only weaken his argument. There is a hint of how he w
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by sfink 4y ago
Meh. Fair point, but that isn't the only topic being discussed. And when the topic is whether ruff the tool is worthwhile, the discussion is more a pile of complaints. I agree that the topic you're describing, and that is suggeste
863.
by sfink 4y ago
It doesn't replace black, at least not yet. It sounds like autoformatting is planned.
864.
by sfink 4y ago
I agree with all of the naysayers here. Speed is not my problem today, so what's the point if it's not solving my personal problem? Speed was my problem yesterday, and probably will be again tomorrow, but today it isn't and I
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by sfink 4y ago
Counterpoint: I think that just means that on prem needs to close the tooling gap some. Cloud was a centralized point of leverage where improved tooling became worth investing in, but now we're at a point where cloud is vulnerable to s
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by sfink 4y ago
And this is kind of a huge deal. 3 different implementations rather than 2 is kind of like the old saying "never go to sea with two chronometers, take one or three". I'm not saying Blink exactly matched WebKit anymore, before
867.
by sfink 4y ago
I agree that eBPF running on a monolithic kernel is not a microkernel. I agree that microkernels are defined by privilege levels. I would not say that something is true microkernel simply because it is modular. I would agree that I am not a
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by sfink 4y ago
I hope there is (or will be) a way to use io_uring for the sorts of purposes that the syscall boundary is currently used for. The example I have in mind is https://rr-project.org/ which uses the syscall boundary to isolate
869.
by sfink 4y ago
I'm kinda with rektide on this. It is true that eBPF is not itself a microkernel approach. But nobody is asserting that it is. The claim is that eBPF is a building block that allows emulating some microkernel characteristics on a monol
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by sfink 4y ago
I don't think anything is toggling them back and forth, it's just that a lot of chunks of executable code are being produced. But I could be wrong; maybe if you have space left for more code on a page, you'll toggle it off an

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