swdunlop

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by swdunlop 21d ago
For me, it is: 1. Yes, the size. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about "do I really want to bother with this in my pocket, I'm just going to the store." 2. The ecosystem. There's a lot of different firmware f
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by swdunlop 1mo ago
Oh my yes. EVE Online can experience issues when a conflict in a solar system exceeds a certain number of players. Each system in EVE is a monolithic process, so, if a conflict gets out of hand, things get slow. This is referred to as Time
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by swdunlop 5mo ago
Amusingly, when a coworker was looking for this postmortem, they found a different postmortem of three Claude issues that caused decay. This one was in the platform, not in Claude Code: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering
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by swdunlop 2y ago
I was thinking the same thing. There are OLED USB-C monitors on Amazon for dirt cheap that are light if a little fragile.
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by swdunlop 2y ago
Add the following to your settings.json: "assistant": { "version": "2", "default_model": { "provider": "anthropic", "model": "claude-3-5-sonn
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by swdunlop 2y ago
https://qemu-project.gitlab.io/qemu/system/gdb.html
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by swdunlop 2y ago
And that is where the drama is frequently found in the Culture series — when Fluffy the Pet Human meets Spot the Feral Human and disaster ensues.
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by swdunlop 2y ago
When Iain (M.) Banks published science fiction (or essays about science fiction), he used “Iain M. Banks.” Other works he used “Iain Banks.” You can sometimes separate the fans and the topic by how they refer to him.
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by swdunlop 2y ago
It's hard for me to read the Culture novels and not hear Porno for Pyros' "Pets" on loop in my head. It is amusing that this essay starts with "Government" and does not get down to the intelligences until halfw
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by swdunlop 3y ago
I was expecting electron in there somewhere.
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by swdunlop 3y ago
I think of contexts as being Go's answer to dynamic variables in earlier languages, like Lisp, and less like thread local storage (like Pthreads). Much like how Go works with errors, explicit is favored over implicit -- being able to
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by swdunlop 3y ago
You can bypass a Nushell command by prepending "^". To use MacOS open, this would be "^open cat.gif" This tic drives me nuts when I hop between fish (which I use for two features, better tab completion and background job
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by swdunlop 3y ago
Good microsd cards are cheap as dirt and easy to use with a Steam Deck. I do not regret getting the lowest storage model and just using a card.
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by swdunlop 5y ago
You can also get a non-customized version without resorting to dead trees -- the Economist is also published on Kindle. https://www.amazon.com/The-Economist-US-Edition/dp/B0027VSU9... This trick probably works fo
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by swdunlop 5y ago
Ditto. I came to HN after seeing the email, looking for the best way to migrate my passwords out of Lockwise. Well, still looking. They are outta here.
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by swdunlop 5y ago
That is like saying Scheme does not have exceptions, except in C, we have setjmp instead of call/cc. It is technically correct, but there is something more flexible that can be perverted into doing the same thing. https://e
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by swdunlop 5y ago
The actual image is linked from https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/nud0y0/if_there_we... if you are frustrated with the tiny images in the Big Think article.
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by swdunlop 6y ago
Same. I cancelled last week for one too many link-bait articles on the front page. After the usual page or two of pleas to stay, they let me go.
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Programatically generate gorgeous social media images in Go(pace.dev)
3 points by swdunlop 6y ago|0 comments
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by swdunlop 6y ago
Goes further back than that. I used to refer to the Powerbook G4 as a liquid cooled laptop -- where the liquid was the user's circulation.
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by swdunlop 6y ago
This is also hitting meat processors very hard. Fabrication (the processing of slaughter to produce cuts of meat ready to ship) is human labor intensive and must be done in refrigerated spaces, so the work is elbow to elbow in many places
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by swdunlop 7y ago
They may mean "Open Source Intelligence" as in OSINT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_intelligence
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Israel Accuses Hamas of ‘Catfishing’ Soldiers to Plant Malware(nytimes.com)
2 points by swdunlop 7y ago|0 comments
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by swdunlop 7y ago
Do bicyclists have an organization like the Motorcycle Safety Foundation (MSF)? Most of what I understand about motorcycle safety was taught by various MSF courses. In many states, the MSF is the most direct way to get your motorcycle endo
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by swdunlop 7y ago
That's a great question, but it does not invalidate the point that there is nothing about Nix that states that binary packages cannot and do not happen.
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by swdunlop 7y ago
NixOS (and NixPkgs) is great, but there are still plenty of binary only packages from difficult to build projects like PhantomJS in the ecosystem. It takes a serious commitment to build complex projects in Nix and maintain them. (edit) An
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by swdunlop 7y ago
See http://blog.racket-lang.org/2019/01/racket-on-chez-status.ht... and scroll down to “Performance of Compiled Code.” That was back in January, so things may be even better now.
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by swdunlop 8y ago
Mostly disappointment after hyping themselves up for a PC sequel to Diablo. I am not outraged, but just cynical: From the article: "it’s a fully fledged Diablo experience on mobile, which everybody will get to play, and hopefully, whi
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by swdunlop 8y ago
The only value I see is reminding people how much Julia has improved since 2014.
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by swdunlop 8y ago
Julia 1.0 will be rough until major packages have caught up with the deprecations introduced in 1.0 and 0.7. 1.0 does not tolerate these deprecations, while 0.7 will warn about them. This makes a poor first day impression for new users who

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