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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I was trying to write this while learning Rust: https://github.com/avantgardnerio/rsui I now have some production experience in Rust and have learned to shy away from Piston. I think you've inspired me to try agai
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Lay tile just once and you'll spend the rest of your life seeing every fault in every tile job ever.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
As a person who has used a slew of UI frameworks and written one or two: All of this is happening at a layer considerably lower than React. This is what's happening when the browser redraws when you scroll for example. Arguably it has
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Thank you, I wasn't aware of these options. As a teacher, I was often in situations where a lesson would go on for a while with no computer interaction, and another teacher recommended Amphetamine. It worked well and I never discovered
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
It's just insane that you need Amphetamine, homebrew, iStat menus, and a dozen other 3rd party tools to do what should be part of an operating system's job anyway.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
wow, that is weird.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I was thinking more like "damn it, we failed to blow up the government again", and "you got your bacon in my tagine" and "you woke me up with your call to prayer", "you might worship a different god than m
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Not sure why the down votes. I've been joking for a while I'd like to see a sitcom where the main characters are an Islamic and domestic terrorist living together in New York while they execute their plots. A terrorist "odd c
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
This article was on HN recently, and it does a pretty good job of explaining how we did this to ourselves by making the dollar the global reserve currency: https://www.lynalden.com/fraying-petrodollar-system/
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
The headline says "lied about" but I think it should be updated to "lied to a judge about" - that's perjury! Nothing in the article about them being charged :(
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I also worked on a state unemployment system, and it was much the same. Took a couple weeks to get my laptop, but I still had to come in and sit in a chair and read the physical newspaper. When it did arrive, it took the better part of an h
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
As a seasoned developer who was in early in JavaScript (writing a SPA framework before there were SPAs, creating complex CAD software in WebGL pre 1.0), I can say there are a lot of good, and some really really bad things about it. As a for
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Last time this came up on HN, I believe it was $5000
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I believe you can get access from eastern European phone companies for as little as a few thousand dollars. SS7 was designed kind of like BGP: if you're in the "in crowd" you can do whatever you want. You can start by googlin
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> This is Bezos’ genius. His genius is gaming a readily game-able tax system for personal gain and public loss? I do agree it's what he's good at, but I disagree about it being "genius" and question whether it's
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
If you're curious about more viable energy storage solutions: https://youtu.be/kAB3-lzxvkE?t=277 (hydrogen is covered)
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Doing some really sketchy math on Wolfram alpha: 500 years :( Edit: 500 days. Don't trust me with math.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
With starship costs possibly being ~ $20/kg, some quick math says you could pull existing solar panels up from earth at ~ $100/kilowatt [1]. For comparison, it looks like installation on a house costs about $2500/kw [3]. It&#
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Solar panels perform 2x better in space, and also you could beam it down day or night so you don't need to worry as much about storage. https://youtu.be/bveGhdtlFn0?t=169 Edit: re-watching that, the economics doesn&#x2
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
This [1] was in HN recently, and I honestly never understood the term "petro dollar" fully until I read it. It does a pretty good job at explaining why the US can basically print money at will without facing inflation. Spoiler ale
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> that people who borrowed the money now don't deserve it then Do you mean "people who loaned that money"? That is a lot of foreign governments who will refuse to keep loaning us more money which would mean we'd need
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> The allure of xmlhttprequest was that over connections much slower than today As someone who implemented a SPA framework prior to "SPA" being a word much less React or Angular, I have to say for my company, it was all about s
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
It's a very interesting trend - opinions that got me down-voted into oblivion on HN in 2015 are now super popular. The biggest part of the change seemed to happen when Trump got elected. Anecdotally, it seems like that was the moment w
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
This is cool, but it would be a lot more helpful to see how to run it on the git log directly in the readme, vs with JSON input. If that's possible, and you can brew/apt/choco install it, I'd use it for sure.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
That number is shocking. I'd love to know details. Can you provide a source please?
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
lol, proof amanfrommars was AI 10 years ahead of it's time. https://forums.theregister.com/post/search/?q=amanfrommars
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I love Rust for systems dev, and I truly can't wait to read the article, because I can't imagine ever wanting to use it for exploratory data analysis, one-off stuff, or notebooks. Why deal with the borrow checker and compilation j
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
That's genuinely understandable. My worry is that it was true back in the days of the boomers, and it has been so ingrained in us that we didn't even notice it shifting, and now lack of awareness of this fact causes a kind of cogn
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
You can hit 100% with zero assertions if you like. Probably not the test you want to have though.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
But GDP is most certainly not a measure of wealth, and not doing it per capita makes no sense. https://www.britannica.com/topic/gross-domestic-product https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth Edit: GD

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