vnorilo

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by vnorilo 6y ago
CMake punishes you whenever you choose to do anything which in the configure/build step that is not blindigly obvious, adding friction to all the crazy stunts one might dream up. This a language an evil genius might come up with while
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by vnorilo 6y ago
What portion of those "subscriptions" are just first payments of a trial users forgot to cancel, and what percentage of employee time is devoted to tweaking the funnel to get more of the same (conversion rate)? This may be cynical
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by vnorilo 6y ago
This is great, thanks! This is the first time I hear it explained like this and it just somehow clicked immediately. I now have this (probably wildly incorrect, total layman here) vision of the time dimension of velocity being "a norma
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Much like a "desktop" app will always lag behind bare metal software in terms of access to hardware capabilities and runtime efficiency. That's a caricature, but all these platforms provide a variety of scaffolding and securi
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Yeah - it's great. I'm rocking a 2008 Nehalem at home, having since doubled the memory to 12GB, upgraded the GPU and replaced a failed PSU. It runs like a champ and my non-techie friends think I'm kidding when I say it's
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by vnorilo 6y ago
I agree that most computing can be done easily with 5 year old hardware, or 10 or 15 if you pick your software carefully. But I do know that whenever my 2019 mbp is heating up, it's more likely than not to be the browser (with a rogue
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Thank you for the well-argued and rational post. To me, buying 20 years for decarbonization sounds kind of great. So, it's a fallacy to think we could just plant trees and otherwise go on as usual. We just need to be careful about lang
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by vnorilo 6y ago
While it's technically impressive and has a decent surface-level resemblance, none of the samples had any sense of direction or substance. I can see this kind of tech taking over stuff like stock music that's automatically added t
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by vnorilo 6y ago
That's awkward because parsing ASTs can't usually be done with a regular language (for most programming languages), so a language-specific parser would be needed on top anyway. This stuff is useful, though, and easy to do in lisp
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Good observation. Writing as second author was a very positive factor very early on. I was an assistant to a research fellow from my second year at uni, mostly because of coding skills. Pretty soon they encouraged me to write a pragraph or
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by vnorilo 6y ago
I am not sure a Yelp-like system would work for the reasons others have mentioned. I would suggest these metrics to help you evaluate a doc program from the outside: Do early-stage grad students get (any) authorship credits together with pr
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by vnorilo 6y ago
You can use double-doubles for near-128-bit floating point [1]. It's much more powerful than 53.53 fixed point you mentioned, but more complicated as well. [1] http://web.mit.edu/tabbott/Public/quaddouble-debi
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by vnorilo 6y ago
I think I saw an essay linked on HN once about how many popular kids' shows have fascist worldview (examples were Thomas the Tank Engine and Paw Patrol) Now before you roll your eyes, these shows have nothing to do with murdering the
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by vnorilo 6y ago
For paper, which absorps light instead of emitting it.
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You could think of a library like this as an argument in a conversation about frontend. One that is demonstrated and backed by an actual implementation. As such, I'd say it is valuable regardless of npm download counts. I'm sure h
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by vnorilo 6y ago
However, you need to have a big picture view or potential optimizations when you architect. The profiler can't save you from slow architecture.
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Yes, I can confirm you won't get intermodulation and the harmonic mix will be less dense.
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Somewhat related, my colleague has studied the interplay between distortion harmonics and chordal harmony in metal music: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b2e2/c20f8fe3ad45d39bc8f562...
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Sir, you work on a different definition of "impressive" than I.
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The quick-and-dirty light/dark mode flip is to invert and rotate hue by 180deg. However, putting that on <body> taxes most browsers, as they will use an additional buffer to filter pixel data.
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by vnorilo 6y ago
"Nothing" on an additive medium, the screen, is black. With absorptive color (paper) it is white. I just find everything to look better if you stick to this. I find light mode apps and sites uncomfortable and ugly, much like a whi
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by vnorilo 6y ago
Uh, like paying for hardware and a beefy connection, or renting a server? I don't think that was ever any cheaper.
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by vnorilo 6y ago
After 15 minutes of googling, I believe you'll have a good grasp on that stuff. I've been there. So there is new stuff you need to know. On the other hand, these days you'll find that blog post that walks you through installi
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by vnorilo 6y ago
I got the impression that it runs "Script" instead of js. So porting web apps is not a goal (?) Looks like something you'd use for UI in a native app.
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My first reaction was that if we need protection from pieces of software we ship because nobody knows what we ship, something must be deeply wrong. But npm-snark aside, maybe some lack of trust must come from a highly modular open source ec
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Reverb is indeed linear time invariant (sans some rarer internal modulation techniques) but it's quite a high order filter.
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Well, I got there with a cello diploma. Maybe you could leverage your domain knowledge to get some software-adjacent gigs to pad your resume? I started my software career in musical audio signal processing, which branched out to mobile, gam
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by vnorilo 6y ago
As Rich himself wrote, none of these ideas or implementation strategies were novel or original in clj. What appeals to me (as well) is how tastefully it was put together. A bit like the typical clj project that composes smallish libraries.
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by vnorilo 6y ago
True, and even if the meal is not "Tate modern", even a workday lunch can make me feel that someone actually cared and reinvigorate my soul in the middle of work. Most of the time I will choose to pay a premium in time or money
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by vnorilo 6y ago
I use hg by choice and git when needed. The git interface feels confusing to me, but after learning the data model (enough to construct commits with the github data api) it suddenly seems a lot simpler, which I feel is a good reason to grok

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