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by simias 6y ago
In the blog post they mention that they store over 4PB of data every single day, I can't blame them try trying to rationalize this a bit. I'm really curious to know how much data they'll be able to expunge on January 1 2023,
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by simias 6y ago
I do the same thing but I think it's all the same for Google, if you don't actively log into Gmail they can't know for sure that it's still being used. We'll just have to remember to log into the service once every
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by simias 6y ago
To be clear I'm not talking benchmarks, I have no idea what the raw numbers are. I'm talking about my personal experience using ARM SoCs. Specifically I've worked with Tegra chip and they're powerhouses for instance, I c
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by simias 6y ago
If employees know that discussing unionizing or showing any pro-union tendency or behavior is going to arm their career prospects (or maybe even make them lose their job altogether) it's definitely going to be a lot harder for them to
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by simias 6y ago
Apple's ARM SoCs are definitely ahead, but it's not like the competition is hugely far behind. Top of the line Android phones and tablets perform well enough for most desktop tasks IMO. It's mostly the software and I/O t
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by simias 6y ago
I agree with you but I basically filtered that as "typical Mac fanboy noise" and try to search for insightful content which I think this piece has, in spite of its "I have a shrine dedicated to Steve Jobs in my living room&qu
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by simias 6y ago
Functions can be opaque of course, but macros are worse because anything goes. I think the standard loop macro is a good example of this: (loop repeat 10 for x = (random 100) if (evenp x) collect x into evens e
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by simias 6y ago
I've never owned a Mac and don't intend to own one but I'm very happy with this M1 move, mainly for the reasons highlighted in the introduction to the article: >M1 Macs embarrass all other PCs — all Intel-based Macs, inclu
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by simias 6y ago
I think the trick is to post when west-coast America wakes up, more or less.
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by simias 6y ago
The Lisps core appeal is that it's an extremely flexible and dynamic language family. They got an unparalleled macro system that lets you effectively design your own DSLs trivially for any scenario you may encounter. It's also the
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by simias 6y ago
Oh that's a great idea, I'd definitely stealing that, thanks!
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by simias 6y ago
This is the main one (that actually only uses FZF, not ripgrep): https://gist.github.com/simias/b1d8356469d2a9386deeb7c45984b... You'll need to set NOTES_DIR in your environment to wherever you want your notes to
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by simias 6y ago
FZF + ripgrep is really killer for me. I don't even bother organizing my notes anymore, I just throw everything markdown files in a flat directory and then I have a script that uses FZF + ripgrep to search through it when I need it. I
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by simias 6y ago
But then that seems a bit strange doesn't it? Triage just means "sorting" in French, to this day as far as I know it doesn't have the specific meaning it has in English (or if it does, it's more to do with trains th
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by simias 6y ago
I don't understand, how do these low level changes impact the OS exactly assuming that the ISA remains the same? It doesn't seem much more impactful than SSE/AVX and friends, i.e. code not specifically optimized for these fea
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by simias 6y ago
I like how people will be snobby about everything. Belgian-style French fries can be good, but that doesn't mean that they're better than the rest, it's a matter of taste. I personally prefer McDonalds-style fries which are s
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by simias 6y ago
On a related note the firmware of the PlayStation's CDROM controller has been successfully dumped by No$ and other reverse engineers: http://www.psxdev.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=557 The microcontroller is a well d
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by simias 6y ago
>Yes, for prose. And no one actually said easier, they said faster. Code is typically full of parenthesis special notations and characters. Nobody's speed-reading code. That doesn't make sense. Because code is harder to read
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by simias 6y ago
Nim is nice but "better metaprogramming" is going to be very contentious I think. "Different metaprogramming" for sure, but the rest is a matter of preference frankly. Nim macros are a lot nicer than Rust's, but Rus
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by simias 6y ago
I'm not sure what's unusual about this. Fires at night are dangerous because people sleep so they're more likely to be caught by surprise when the fire is already completely out of control. All it takes is an electrical spark
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by simias 6y ago
Of course but remember that it grows exponentially with the number of bits. Every bit you add one bit it doubles your usable size. The visible universe (according to Wikipedia) is 8.8 * 10^26 meters or about 5.4 * 10^61 Plank lengths. That
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by simias 6y ago
You can think of it that way, sure, but since you want your computations to remain as fast as possible you don't want to use the full "double-precision" float everywhere, so that's where it gets tricky. You essentially w
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by simias 6y ago
>And of course, 0 is represented in floating-point with all the bits set to 0. +0 that is, -0 has the MSB set. That's one of the potential annoyances of IEEE floats, unlike two's complement integers there are two zeroes.
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by simias 6y ago
What you describe is a common problem for video games, because if the engine uses "absolute" floats for everything in the game you effectively lose precision as you move away from the origin. If your maps get very large it gets ve
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by simias 6y ago
Local air pollution caused by Diesel engines is a real issue in many European cities where Diesel was embraced. The big picture matters of course, but you can't discard smaller scale issues either. Diesel engines are usually significan
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by simias 6y ago
>I don't think many people in Europe really prefer SUV Oh I think you're wrong, there's definitely a significant market for people who prefer SUVs, electric or not. This is not new. After all most of these European urban S
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by simias 6y ago
That's very true, there's a shop on the outskirts of Paris that specializes in selling import American cars (a booming business apparently) and never having been to the USA I was genuinely amazed at the scale of the vehicles. It&#
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by simias 6y ago
I don't have an SUV but I ride a motorcycle and it's true that being able to see over other vehicles is pretty nice, I feel oddly boxed in when I'm driving a car. But of course it's just an arms race at this point, if ev
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by simias 6y ago
It's always amazing to see what creative people can do with what is very likely a bug in the game engine. I suspect that the developpers of Line Rider didn't originally intend for people to be able to do the majority of the tricks
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by simias 6y ago
I don't think SQL builders are a good comparison because: - SQL can already be made fairly readable by default, it's not just a long series of cryptic tokens. The main point of SQL builders is not to make SQL more readable, it&#x2

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