taeric

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by taeric 11mo ago
I mean, sure. But it is totally worth knowing what you have to wait for, versus what you can do right away. I honestly don't know if async makes this easier or harder. It makes it easier to write sections of code that may have to wai
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by taeric 11mo ago
And, notably, those couple of seconds can be key to seeing far off wildlife that may decide to cross the road.
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by taeric 11mo ago
I confess this is why I just assumed my eyes were going bad. I am getting old, and this shift seemed to have coincided with about the time I moved to a more rural area. In the city, I don't know that I ever used "brights" o
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by taeric 11mo ago
If you are interested in this art style, Knuth shared that there is a very cool art display that includes Celtic Tours. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/knights.html is his writeup on the art. If you are in
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by taeric 11mo ago
If it helps, you can find a treatment of this in Knuth's vol 4, I believe. Will have to see if I can actually solve it later. Amusingly, this same basic problem was given to me by Google as an interview question. I was baffled, as I
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by taeric 11mo ago
It really helps me to think of it all as extensive metaphors. Math included. The point is to tell an active story using symbols as metaphorical representations of something. With a lot of assumed language implied (through teachings) by c
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by taeric 11mo ago
They had a briefer invite only period than gmail. But definitely had one.
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by taeric 11mo ago
It was more than just "if we build our version of Facebook." It was, "if we kill off every other social like thing we have and force people into circles, we can build our own Facebook." Google Buzz, in particular, was
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by taeric 11mo ago
The debacle that was Google Wave into Google Plus is... really hard to really come to terms with. I don't even know that Hubris is enough to explain how badly managed that time period was by them. Just so bad.
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by taeric 11mo ago
If you are saying that mistakes will be made, I agree. People make mistakes all of the time. About things easier than schedules. If you want to single out the idea of "shifting timezones" being how we accomplish DST. I agree th
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by taeric 11mo ago
I'm amused that you got pushback. Just going on the metaphor, the very way that we check heartbeats in people is by a proof of work in some other part of the body. Isn't like we are directly hooked into the heart. It isn't
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by taeric 11mo ago
Reminds me of the attempt to TDD a way to a sudoku solver. Agreed that it is a bit of a crazy path. Not that Implement/Test can't work. As frustrating as it is, "just do something" works far better than many alternativ
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by taeric 11mo ago
None of those are difficult in the modern world. Computers have pretty much solved all of them. There are confusing to talk about cases. But none that are truly problematic. Consider some of the most sensitive for people. Take your medi
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by taeric 11mo ago
Right, and that I think is far easier to deal with than you realize. Easier if you don't try it in 1 hour jumps twice a year. But basically every animal already has to deal with the shift due to the nature of actual sunlight. And we
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by taeric 11mo ago
This is part of what I find "quaint" about the conversation. I think there is basically no argument that many states and nations could just stick to a single timezone. Essentially, the closer to the equator you are, the less you
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by taeric 11mo ago
Thats really cool, I'll have to dig into knowing why they did that and why they stopped. My gut is that the way we do DST -- by moving what timezone everyone is in -- is just not compatible with that sort of system. I pushed for the i
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by taeric 11mo ago
I think that is basically the map I was asking for, so kudos on that. I still think it fails to capture what it means to be a rainy day. Is about like when Seattle has a snow day. If you are from a place that actually gets snow, you&#x27
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by taeric 11mo ago
And that was largely a fair point back before we had everything managed by computers. Nowadays, I'd wager the vast majority of folks didn't realize their phone's changed overnight. My kids certainly didn't realize it.
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by taeric 11mo ago
Exactly. It really makes the discussions around how loud fireworks are kind of hard to listen to. It isn't that they are wrong. More that it was a regular thing for storms to shake the house. Our dogs were terrified of "what t
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by taeric 11mo ago
Though, to be fair, my kids steal my Steam Deck from me more often than I try to get the Switch from them. The family share features of the Switch leave a lot to be desired.
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by taeric 11mo ago
A map that also shows the difference between winter and summer for day length would be great. It is down right quaint hearing people bitch about the hour of change that DST does compared to the near 6 hours that nature has already taken.
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by taeric 11mo ago
Even better than the crazy languages, is seeing some fundamental math used to prevent having to do a ridiculously expensive search. That said, raw brute force often did far better than you'd like to admit.
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by taeric 11mo ago
Well, that and being squarely focused on gaming. I also trust the Steam ecosystem far more than I probably should...
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by taeric 11mo ago
I'm unreasonably excited on all things Steam nowadays. I still like my PS5. And the PSVR2 is quite amazing for the games it has. But Steam has been amazing in getting back into games for me in ways that I did not anticipate.
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by taeric 11mo ago
I think this often boils down to the same criticisms directed to LISP's FORMAT? https://gigamonkeys.com/book/a-few-format-recipes has my favorite take, "While FORMAT's control strings can be cryptic, at
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by taeric 11mo ago
Yeah, I confess I would have assumed that this was more common than otherwise. Makes me curious how much of computing is losing perceived speed because we have moved to calculating everything on the fly? Easy example is website layout. Ye
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by taeric 11mo ago
JSON parsing is pretty much guaranteed to be a nightmare if you try and use the numeric types. Or if you repeat keys. Neither of which are uncommon things to do. My favorite is when people start reimplementing schema ideas in json. Or, w
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by taeric 11mo ago
This isn't really answering my question. Have they started using virtual memory in hard real time applications? Just generally searching the term confirms that they are still seen as not compatible.
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by taeric 11mo ago
Apologies, almost missed that you had commented here. I confess I assumed writing controllers for a couple of tonnes of steel at high speed would not use the same system design as a higher level computer would? In particular, I would not e
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by taeric 11mo ago
It is more than just that it uses lisp. I do like that, and I think it is the correct choice. But it is more that even something as basic "move cursor down" is not tied directly to a specific key. And the help system will liter

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