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by sigil 8y ago
Actually Windows wasn’t a monorepo back then: there were separate repos for the shell, kernel, filesystem, etc. Hence the need for cross-repo tooling like “sdx”. This is a bit misleading to outsiders. Each of these repos was huge for the
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by sigil 8y ago
`/bin/ed` has gotten me out of a few serious disk recovery binds in the past. In one of them, a FreeBSD system's `/usr` and `/home` slices got corrupted, but they still had entries in `/etc/fstab`. The mou
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by sigil 8y ago
Most frequently, I see teams B, C, and D in a polyrepo world do the worst of all worlds: take dependencies liberally, pin them in place, and try to forget about them. This has been my observation as well, minus the value judgment. Why is
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by sigil 8y ago
Thanks for the response. Out of curiosity, how does your engineering organization introduce new dependencies within the monorepo? Can B, C and D all depend on A without A's consent or even awareness? (Suppose A is some checked in code
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by sigil 8y ago
Observe how the verb "force" gets used 6 times. Monorepos "force the conversation." You the individual contributor are "forced to deal with the situation" and "forced to see the upfront cost" of break
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How should we evaluate progress in AI?(meaningness.com)
1 points by sigil 8y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 8y ago
See also the 1985 film “Brazil,” where a fly stuck in a printer (a bug!) sends a SWAT team after one Mr. Buttle instead of one Mr. Tuttle.
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by sigil 8y ago
You’re right that it seems unlikely an individual could exploit this, and it’s silly for the article to emphasize that threat. However: “it may be that not everybody has exactly the same chance” — this might still be a concern. Whether it r
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How Restrictions on Private Securities Offerings Harm Investors(cato.org)
1 points by sigil 9y ago|0 comments
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by sigil 9y ago
It's possible, albeit onerous, to submit credits for yourself on IMDb. I'd be very interested in a dataset with better completeness. Not aware of any, but we do have some half-baked ideas around this -- feel free to drop me an ema
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by sigil 9y ago
This is absolutely true. I'm the technical co-founder of Endcrawl, and there's just no way I could have pulled this off without the deep industry connections & insight of my co-founder Pliny. First off, the idea never would ha
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by sigil 9y ago
Check out IMDb's data dumps! They're licensed for non-commercial use but they're quite complete. https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/
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by sigil 9y ago
> I think the reasoning your suggestions wouldn't work is because it takes people out of the "magic"... I obviously know movies are fake, but I don't necessarily want to be reminded of that... I want music and some gr
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by sigil 9y ago
Gotcha. Yep, getting fancy with the end credits is something big budget films tend to do. Those have better visibility, but there's fewer of those now and more of a long tail indie downmarket developing. A few bigger films have used En
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by sigil 9y ago
No worries. I agree "SaaS" might be a bit of a misnomer in our case, but we wanted to distinguish ourselves from desktop software (which still rules our industry). Thanks for reading!
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by sigil 9y ago
Not sure exactly what you're referring to there, but you nailed it with that last bit. We're after the non-fancy stuff because it scales. And there's more of it. Bigger productions will hire a title designer to do the openi
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by sigil 9y ago
Not terribly service-y tbh. Some of our customers (post production houses, title houses, prolific producers) help finish lots of films per year and might be receptive to the subscription model. Most of our customers, however, are indie film
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Growing a SaaS App for the Film Industry with Rigorous Experimentation(indiehackers.com)
122 points by sigil 9y ago|30 comments
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by sigil 9y ago
Fixed, thanks.
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by sigil 9y ago
I was hoping this would answer a recent question about the origin of the `unlink(1)` command. [1] The table says it appeared in FreeBSD 3.5.0, but in digging I found that FreeBSD introduced it after NetBSD, who introduced it "for XCU5&
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by sigil 9y ago
Fellow Jekyll refugee here. I also switched to the Makefile SSG approach for the much faster incremental rebuilds. Parallel speedup with make -j is also nice. My SSG is called tinysite [1] [2]. Templates are jinja2. Posts are written in mar
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by sigil 9y ago
Seconded. It does reveal the right playhead once Face ID unlocks the screen. Perhaps playhead position is sensitive info?
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by sigil 9y ago
This “rebuttal” itself contains no facts, and more specifically, none that refute the 137,000/day figure in the parent.
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by sigil 9y ago
“The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenaline but rather the gradual, lifelong construction of a state of wonder and serenity.” ― Glenn Gould
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by sigil 9y ago
iLuminate | Miami | Embedded Software Engineer | ONSITE | http://www.iluminate.com Tired of writing code that does boring things? What if your code wowed millions with live performance art? iLuminate is an art tech company with
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by sigil 9y ago
cperciva’s tarsnap server implements a log structured filesystem on S3. [1] This enables bundling of multiple writes into large objects, with the explicit goal of reducing per-request costs. It’s not open source, but maybe some of the high
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by sigil 9y ago
I once failed a Policheck for using the word “womb” in a comment.
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by sigil 9y ago
It sounds like there's precious little certainty to be had [1]: So far, nobody has recovered ancient DNA from archaic human skeletal remains in Africa. The 2000-year-old Ballito Bay boy is not the oldest, but there are no DNA results
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by sigil 9y ago
> it was the legalization of homebrewing that was the gateway into the innovation. I'm with you on this part. It's hard to imagine the boom happening while tinkering was outright illegal! Also, surely the 58 year gap (1920-1978
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by sigil 9y ago
Summary: benevolent regulation caused the craft beer boom. I call bullshit. Look at this graph [1] and tell me again how great the three-tier system was for market diversity. America went from 700 post-Prohibition breweries to less than 100

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