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by simula67 3y ago
How unfortunate that Sqlite Virtual Machine has opcodes to directly manipulate B-Trees. The opcode documentation[1] is even written in terms of B-Trees. This means that it would be too complicated to replace the storage engine with somethin
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by simula67 3y ago
Can anyone with good robotics experience explain why these types of robots are not in wider commercial use? We have seen interesting robots like this one, from Boston Dynamics and others but they still seem to be far from displacing humans
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by simula67 3y ago
> It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. I think PyAutoGui is pretty good.
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by simula67 3y ago
> Google should be forced to open the system settings panel that allows users to change the default browser, not do it for them. Why is it not enough that the user clicked on the button to change the default browser? > If this window
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by simula67 3y ago
I think we are now conditioned to think that higher numbers are 'better' or 'continuations' of lower numbers. For example, "Back to the Future: 3" movie is a continuation of the story of the movie "Back to
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by simula67 3y ago
When I was starting out using the web, one of the reasons for using Google over competition was that it was fast. The home page loaded fairly quickly, and the results were instantaneous. Google spent a lot of time optimizing for performance
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by simula67 3y ago
You can solve this problem with branding. Have a "Windows OS Bleeding Edge" brand that changes regularly. Have "Windows OS LTS" brand that changes less often.
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by simula67 3y ago
I have never used them, but I think C has garbage collection libraries: https://stackoverflow.com/a/28779266 .
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by simula67 3y ago
I always thought that Google made a big blunder by not encroaching upon Microsoft's turf more aggressively. They should have tried to make a better desktop OS (just buy Canonical or something) and then eat into Microsoft Office market
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by simula67 4y ago
Isn't 30 seconds a lot of time just to start a browser?
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by simula67 4y ago
Remote work is very valuable. It makes the economy more efficient by reducing transportation costs, reducing carbon emissions etc. It allows companies to hire from locations that they previously thought were unviable. It helps employees spe
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by simula67 4y ago
> "We are now happy to make clear that none of the above was true," the FT wrote. Why are they happy ?
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by simula67 4y ago
For those interested, here is the comment that got him banned: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10017538
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by simula67 4y ago
Have you ever considered writing a new protocol and create a network only for Pidgin users?
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by simula67 4y ago
But is there any need to make things different for the sake of difference? For example, why not name "car" function as "first", "head" or "beginning"? Why not name "cdr" as "rest",
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by simula67 4y ago
Is this project still relevant with the advent of RISC-V? Can't the Chinese focus their efforts on RISC-V instead? Is there some reason Loongson is still being actively developed?
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Microsoft: 1975-1999(learn.microsoft.com)
3 points by simula67 4y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 4y ago
> Meta managers gave approximately 10% of employees ratings indicating they are underperforming, the people said. That proportion wasn’t unprecedented in the years before the pandemic. In other words, Meta is conducting business as usual
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by simula67 4y ago
There is nothing specific to tyre manufacturing in this article. The original title was more informative: "Bringing Clojure programming to Enterprise"
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by simula67 4y ago
I think that the bigger concern is mentioned here: > That means two app stores, two browsers, two voice assistants, two text messaging apps, two keyboard apps, and on and on. These all get added to the system partition and often aren&#x2
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by simula67 4y ago
Agree with the author. I have many simple automation scripts that are not written to the standard of my professional pride because it helps me stay in the flow. Often, people say that you should only automate things if it saves you time ove
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DOJ Sues Google, Seeking to Break Up Online Advertising Business(wsj.com)
30 points by simula67 4y ago|4 comments
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by simula67 4y ago
> Instead of an in-depth discussion of architectures, data structures, software development methodologies, and challenges of modifying the state of a distributed system, those motivational talks often resulted in a cargo cult of expert b
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by simula67 4y ago
Sockets, hopefully. For example, it should be possible to build websites for downloading YouTube videos that does not use server side code execution or bandwidth. These were popular at some point but disappeared after Java applets stopped b
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by simula67 4y ago
Not much, but it has become the default way to share information for many groups: churches, friend/family groups, study groups, and even some government associations. If you do not have WhatsApp it has become very difficult to navigate
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How ChatGPT saves me hours of work every day(twitter.com)
4 points by simula67 4y ago|0 comments
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by simula67 4y ago
Maybe it is for patent protection? I think BSD licenses do not grant explicit patent licenses but GPL does.
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by simula67 4y ago
What is the best way to learn to write programs for Windows? For example, let's say 'I want to disable taskbar tab grouping programmatically', how would I know where to look?
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by simula67 4y ago
ArchLinux + Xfce would probably fit your bill.
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Sponsorblock Is Down(status.sponsor.ajay.app)
2 points by simula67 4y ago|0 comments

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