the-alchemist

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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Mushrooms (to be more specific, only certain species) can be used to clean up dirty sites, since they absorb heavy metals so well. +1 for raised beds. +1 for testing. Here in the US, almost every college has a Cooperative Extension, and do
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
We must be brothers from another mother. ;) Thankfully, some of these anti-whistleblower laws been overturned by the courts, under the 1st Amendment. I've also heard of some folks being arrested for animal cruelty once the videos got
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
I don't have much experience with Haskell, but Clojure also has STM out-of-the-box. I don't know if it's the approach described in paper, but it's quite fast. It's probably made faster by the fact that almost all
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Very cool stuff... To take advantage of all these, where would one go to ask "what's the best data structure to use to implement X, Y, and Z?" Is there a stackoverflow tag or something like that that folks use??
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
I always thought that combdb2 looked really awesome from a design / features perspective. I wonder why it didn't get as much attention as the other databases out there. Anyone work with it directly?
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
It's a shame https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-columnstore/ didn't make it... Actually, looks like the Enterprise version is alive and well: MariaDB Enterprise ColumnStore 6.3.1 was released on 2022
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
I was exposed to Common Lisp in college in a "Programming Language Concepts" class, almost 20 years ago, and it didn't "click". I got no help or assistance or explanation, and this was pre-youtube and Google so it
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Seems like China is gonna be have the best nuclear energy tech in the near future. They currently use French and U.S. designs, but within a generation I bet they'll be making their own, probably better ones. """ Lufeng,
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
I'm really interested in GPU-based compression / decompression. Anyone know what the current SOTA GPU-based algorithms are, and why they haven't taken off? Brotli has gotten browser support, so it seems to my naive self that
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Anyone know enough to tell if this can be used to calculate sparsest cut?
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
* Who do you see as your competition? AWS's CloudWatch / Centralized Logging? Splunk? GCP's Logging? Logstash? Graylog? * What kind of query language are you thinking? I imagine SQL-like, as that's Clickhouse'
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Anyone know a difference between Yugabyte and YDB? Both seem to be in the OLTP space. I actually thought Yugabyte renamed itself YDB. :(
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by the-alchemist 4y ago
Exciting! Clojure is one of the few modern languages (someone please point out the others!) that you can use on top of any major platform: * web, via Clojurescript * mobile, via React Native * JVM server-side, via reg' ol' Clojure
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Looks great! I also like the informal, conversational tone of the documentation. :)
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Netbeans died an unfortunate death once it moved to the Apache foundation and Sun/Oracle funding died out. https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... Unfortunate, because it had (has?) a g
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
For the clojure crowd, there's bb tasks [0]. * parallelism * hooks (before/after each task, etc.) * command-line arg parsing * --help equivalent * bash/zsh/fish autocompletion * you can also just spawn a shell with bb&#x
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
In addition, I heard in some states (CA, I think?), even a single member LLC has to be offered the same group rate for health insurance that other small-company (<100 employees) get. Maybe someone can confirm.
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Fascinating! I heard the Netherlands has a strong part-time job culture too.
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
What advantages/disadvantages does EdgeDB have over Dgraph.io?
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Thumbs up for https://www.simplepdf.eu ! Just generated the Equifax form.
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Anyone know Fastmail's privacy policy? Or security policy? Does it have 2FA? Support FIDO hardware tokens? As much as I have a love/hate relationship with Google, they probably have some of the world's best security expert
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Supply-side storage--batteries, etc.--is definitely part of the solution, but demand-side "storage" is even cheaper and better. It's summer, it's hot, you set your smart thermostat to 72. It gets really sunny and hot, s
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Love it (as a parent)! And, wow, it sounds complicating (as a business owner)! Wonder if there's an indie children's book writers guild you can tap into instead of having to go through publishers, which you can then print yoursel
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Rich Hickey, of Clojure fame, has a talk you might find interesting. It goes by multiple titles: * Step Away from the Computer * Hammock-Driven Development https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f84n5oFoZBc The idea / hypoth
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
For those interested in a real deep dive, and I mean, deep, check out the blog https://pedestrianobservations.com/construction-costs/ . And the comments are super informative! It makes a lot of complex analyses using t
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Looks great, @microgilles! Is it difficult to add new languages? I'd love to see Clojurescript support. :)
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Great question! I've thought about this too, in my younger days. All of this is IMHO: * an abstract concept like Alan Kay's OOP is not the same as programming language syntax * your examples are programming language specific.
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
For the curious, this is a deep, technical analysis of the latest generations (no pun intended!) of best-of-breed garbage collectors on the JVM. By best-of-breed, I mean G1, Shenandoah, and ZGC. Honestly, for those of us who grew up on the
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
Wondering how you made the connection between '21K' and Omicron. 'Omicron' isn't even mentioned in that page... is 'Omicron' a media nickname, maybe?
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by the-alchemist 5y ago
ZGC is already available, since JDK 15, September 2020. =) https://wiki.openjdk.java.net/display/zgc/Main#Main-ChangeLo...

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