thecatster

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Fluffy Clouds: Centralization and the Untouchable Nature of Cloud Computing(daniilrose.com)
1 points by thecatster 10mo ago|1 comments
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by thecatster 10mo ago
My thoughts in response to the Nov. 18 Cloudflare outage and the prior AWS outage.
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ChatGPT 4 Can Finally Browse the Internet Again(twitter.com)
4 points by thecatster 3y ago|0 comments
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by thecatster 4y ago
I was really hope for that to turn out well, but alas, but to Emacs or Neovim I go. I even paid for an Onivim2 license.
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by thecatster 4y ago
Right, exactly: when that much care is put into a resource, I truly feel that I enjoy it more, even if the material itself might seem dry at first. Those kinds of feeling books are truly special.
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by thecatster 4y ago
Rust is definitely different (and calmer imho) on bare metal. That said (as much of a Rust fanboy I am), I also enjoy Zig.
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by thecatster 4y ago
It's not really CS, but alongside the books you have listed (I have most of those physically and as eBooks!) I absolutely adore "The Art of Electronics" as the Bible to electronics. It's definitely helped me out immensel
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by thecatster 5y ago
Discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30435299
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by thecatster 5y ago
I honestly have a hard time seeing how you could confuse that, but maybe I'm biased because I've seen this terminology forever.
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by thecatster 5y ago
Completely agreed. Plus the fact that all my notes are in plain text, (somewhat) editable on my phone/iPad, and easily searchable, switching to something else doesn't make sense to me yet.
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by thecatster 5y ago
I've had a much better (and arguably as safe) time running CalyxOS or Graphene on my Pixel. It feels like the best of both worlds.
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by thecatster 5y ago
Finally out of beta! Good to see.
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by thecatster 5y ago
Kagi Search [1] has an optional filter for this. Sadly it's only in beta for now. [1] https://kagi.com/
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by thecatster 5y ago
I fairly often do something like this. I have a simple CLI project that I write that hits a few web APIs and reads a file. It's fairly simple, but these are the kind of basic things I want to know in each language. I then benchmark it
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by thecatster 5y ago
This seems to go against the nature of open source, and almost feels wrong. I see how it enables monetisation (pay for my sponsor and you get both the app and source!) but I don't think I could justify using it.
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by thecatster 5y ago
Regardless of other projects like this, I've been looking for a fun project for my CM4. I think you just made my weekend!
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by thecatster 5y ago
I know there was a widespread issue of counterfeit copies of "The Art of Electronics" to the point where the book's official website has a large warning on the front page. Luckily you can return stuff to Amazon, but makes me
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by thecatster 5y ago
I already love a lot of things at Pimoroni, but that Tiny2040 looks great for experimenting with! The wireless pack also seems interesting, might experiment with that concept on a custom board.
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by thecatster 5y ago
I honestly loving using it as well, hence the post. I have not always had the best time with the Parallax Propeller (was going to use it for a work project last week but ended up going a different route) but when I have played with it the e
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Who Needs a Raspberry Pi Microcontroller Chip? Maybe You(eejournal.com)
20 points by thecatster 5y ago|9 comments
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by thecatster 5y ago
Jazz vibraphonist here: pretty sure there isn't a definitive "minor scale," as you say. 4 (3?) of the modes are considered minor, 2 major, and the weird one (dominant 7). So I completely agree it's a bit misleading to ju
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by thecatster 5y ago
Might be in general, but for Ivy League and higher schools, they've seen record application numbers. I got denied from MIT and was told that they won't even refer due to the enormous amounts of applicants.
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by thecatster 5y ago
The author has been doing a great job of keeping the book updated, and constantly emails news and progress reports. Kudos to his interaction with the community!
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Chapter 10 Part 1 is out – Rust Zero To Prod(github.com)
1 points by thecatster 5y ago|1 comments
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by thecatster 5y ago
Dead for me too.
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by thecatster 5y ago
We LISP people will never die, our time will come again :D
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Alpine Linux: Proposal to move Rust to main(gitlab.alpinelinux.org)
187 points by thecatster 5y ago|63 comments
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by thecatster 5y ago
Same as everyone else, happy to see EmacsConf is here. Hoping to get a talk together this time around.
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by thecatster 5y ago
Good book recommendations, but the article looks strange on my browser, wonder why (Firefox 90.) The Thrawn Ascendancy series is great, especially Greater Good. Conflict/Plot is a bit crazy to follow, but I'd highly recommend read