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by somat 2y ago
Same, I am a bit conflicted, I enjoy the sql and don't really like the ORM's but I hate seeing the big blocks of SQL in my code. So I wrote a thing that lets me use sql text as a function, it is several sorts of terrible, in that
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by somat 2y ago
I think desktop(and phone) icons are a fundamentally flawed ui design in the first place. something about having your stuff semi randomly spewed across two dimensions makes me feel we are not using our computers correctly. I think we should
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by somat 2y ago
There was a good point made, that has stuck with me over the years. that our syntax highlighters are highlighting the wrong thing. They should not be coloring the grammar, we are good at picking out grammar, they should be highlighting the
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by somat 2y ago
Or the the double the
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by somat 2y ago
sqlite on nfs from several processes on the same host should work. I think... Perhaps... maybe... (but why then are you using nfs?) It is just where it is unable to use the shared memory lock system that it starts corrupting. At least I hop
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by somat 2y ago
I find it interesting how much effort was put into getting high quality scalable vector fonts and how useless these techniques were once we got our accelerated vector graphics co-processors. I mean, there are some very interesting projects
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by somat 2y ago
Algol-68 is sort of the reference case for the problem with prescriptive standards. They sound like a good idea "Lets get the best minds together and create the ideal standard" however because they are not based on anything built
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by somat 2y ago
Honestly I doubt that, and not because I distrust steam and gabe newell, in my books steam is one of the good guys, in an industry filled with nickle and dime rent seeking, steam provides a reliable, unobtrusive service. Personally I think
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by somat 2y ago
Added to my list, very nice. One thing I like about google translate that nether deepl or this do is tell me how to say the word. I mainly use it to add a reading hint to an otherwise opaque japanese title in a database.
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by somat 2y ago
You can't just throw silverfish out there without mentioning their chief predator, the house centipede. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scutigera_coleoptrata And fun fact about centipedes(and millipedes), lacking th
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by somat 2y ago
One thing, that a lot of people get wrong, is the first amendment does not apply to you the citizen. it is a directive to the government, and I quote. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting
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by somat 2y ago
The FEM is just a model of the crash resistant structure. Hopefully it will behave like the actual structure, but that is not guaranteed. We use the FEM because it is faster and cheaper than doing the tests on the actual thing. However if y
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by somat 2y ago
I grew out of it. I started to really loath the spreadsheet data model. "it's a big bag of cells" was not really doing anything for me. I started wanting better data structures and programing environments to work on that data
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by somat 2y ago
What is the difference in battery life between linux on and macos on the Apple M1? That is, I would be surprised if linux on the M1 had close to macos levels of battery life. My theory being the better battery life on the M1 is more due to
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by somat 2y ago
My understanding is the particle model of electromagnetism, the photon, really only shows up where the em field interacts with matter(electrons really), the em field itself is not quantized, or at least not quantized at the level of the pho
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by somat 2y ago
Hopefully nothing, posix is, or at least it should be, a descriptive standard. This is why posix is so terrible, and why posix is so great. The way I feel posix, and other descriptive standards work best is when they describe what every one
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by somat 2y ago
I have always wondered if some of that audiophile gear is to hide transactions of illegal goods. "If you buy this $600 cable and include the code CC in the order we will make sure to ship it with some white powdery desiccant packages i
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by somat 2y ago
I hesitate to comment on something I know so little about, but that has never stopped me before. The EHTC approach would appear impossible to calibrate correctly, My understanding(the thousand foot view really) is they calibrated a generati
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by somat 2y ago
I don't intend to be mean but isn't the federated wikipedia, the web. Wikipedias whole value function, don't get me wrong it's a great value function, is that it is a curated centralized web.
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by somat 2y ago
Just out of curiosity, because I don't know and don't know how I would look it up. what prevents bronze from being "worked nearly everywhere by nearly everyone" or to put it another way what make iron easier to work? If
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by somat 2y ago
Very impressive. I love how subsidence zones are clearly visible in the 3d view. I think if I had a feature request it would be an option to have a fixed interval(or window) of time visible, rather that the current method of a fixed start t
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by somat 2y ago
It's a sort of shibboleth, a filter to separate the audience into two groups. do you care about the evidence of the higgs boson or do you care about the use of that infernal font. Quite often people from the openbsd project will use th
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by somat 2y ago
I have only seen it on US navy vessels, I have never seen it used for communications, but they like to put up the ships id on the flags, And I always enjoy breaking out the manual and fumble my way through deciphering the flags when I see t
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by somat 2y ago
Oh man that brought back a memory. I once had a job operating an ibm mainframe. it was the night shift of a low tier job mainly feeding tapes to the machine. I would spend the downtime reading the documentation for what was for me a foreign
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by somat 2y ago
Libressl is openssl with a coat of paint (a sane interface) and improved documentation. They are doing good solid work, but I would not expect any dramatic improvements in security and seeing as the openbsd project values correctness over s
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by somat 2y ago
I would say 1 + 1 = 4 for very large values of one. You only need mid values of 1 for 1 + 1 to equal 3
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by somat 2y ago
That sounds right, I would have implemented google drive as a filesystem driver, but I am not google so what do I know.
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by somat 2y ago
On that note. what is with this modern trend of trying to pretend the filesystem does not exist. why does google(or apple) need "special interfaces" to access the filesystem in a specific way, why don't they just use the exis
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by somat 2y ago
The funny thing is that before that we taught light bulbs how to think(thermionic logic), and before that we taught magnets how to think(relay logic) and before that we taught levers how to think(gear logic)
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by somat 2y ago
I suspect it could be, however it sounds like the author has lost all motivation to continue work on syncthing android and has formally announced that no further development will be done. And as much as I like syncthing-android I appreciate

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