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by wging 4y ago
Another reason I hated snap, when I used Ubuntu, was the performance problems. Opening a url from the snap version of Slack took multiple seconds! The solution to this was to nuke it and install the .deb version. Just completely unacceptabl
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by wging 4y ago
PopOS also doesn’t use Snap — that’s one of the reasons I like it.
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To reveal some hidden fun stuff in the 'reply' links (because hovering over everything is mildly annoying): Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('a')).filter(a => a.innerText === 'reply').forEach(r =&g
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by wging 4y ago
A grant alone should not count as "buying journalists". They clearly aren't acting in his interests (as they shouldn't!).
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It makes a lot of sense given the nature of SBF’s charitable donations and the purported rationale(s) behind them. Kelsey Piper is pretty deeply associated with the EA movement, which is heavily interested in picking the right ways to deplo
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by wging 4y ago
It’s interesting to think about how much of a perspective shift this must have been, especially the service oriented bits. Interestingly, I think it might not have even been made completely in the authors’ minds at the time of this proposal
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The blog post is recent, but it describes much older work, so I think the “(1998)” tag is right. “Distributed Computing Manifesto Created: May 24, 1998”
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by wging 4y ago
There don't appear to be many hyperlinks. Assuming sequential filenames, gluing them together can be done by: mkdir out; pdftk * cat output out/topo_cat.pdf (also, this requires you to have installed pdftk) A table of con
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by wging 4y ago
I don't think 16.1.1 is unaffected. I'm on iOS 16.1.1 and can reproduce it. Blank address bar -> "old " -> crash. The second time I didn't need the space, as others have also reported.
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by wging 4y ago
Hellsongs' cover of "Run to the Hills" (originally by Iron Maiden) is worth a listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AguuHDW42OQ (Since Iron Maiden got another mention for Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I&#x27
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by wging 4y ago
Yeah, I spent a long while (years) using pretty much exactly the solution he describes, as implemented in emacs. It's not as good as a tree, because undo/redo cycles make it very annoying to traverse through the history. I greatly
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by wging 4y ago
For anyone else who was curious: the Reagan version of this quote used "I'm", not "I am". https://www.reaganfoundation.org/ronald-reagan/reagan-quotes... I mention this not to be nitpicky, but
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by wging 4y ago
I didn't mean to imply these were all substitutes for each other - rather that there are both sync and async channels in the list and it seems worthwhile to compare the sync ones against std::sync::mpsc, and the async ones against to
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by wging 4y ago
Well, this has already paid off for me, even though I thought I knew most of it. I recently built a toy chat app with tungstenite+websockets, and am now kind of kicking myself because I could probably have just used axum. At least I got som
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by wging 4y ago
I'd suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field - they'd probably get to the page you linked in trying to understand finite fields, but finite fields (AKA Galois fields) are exactly what the post is
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by wging 4y ago
I think I see why this would be useful for things other than navigation - e.g. using avy to drive replacement or multi-selection, "select all X within this paragraph"-type things. But for navigation by word, for example, I tend to
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by wging 4y ago
By "substructure jump" do you mean jumping to a character inside a word? Avy can do that! Compare avy-goto-char and avy-goto-word-1 (or avy-goto-word-0). I have a prefix arg setup working with avy that I stole from ace-jump-mode t
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by wging 4y ago
Also more recently, he made Protohackers! https://protohackers.com/
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by wging 4y ago
Doesn't it mean 100% of your content needs to be double-checked? You can't easily identify which 2-3% of your content has errors. I'm aware that errors are more likely when the model is less confident of its predictions, but
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by wging 4y ago
It's been covered in science fiction a number of times - what comes to mind immediately is Marc Laidlaw's take. https://www.marclaidlaw.com/online-fiction/leng-along/ (He's a talented writer; if you
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by wging 4y ago
Under "When to Use Bazel - Jason’s Opinion", that is not a particularly good description of how builds (especially code generation) worked at most of Amazon. At least he sort of gestures at the non-universality of his experience b
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by wging 4y ago
Morocco did the same thing in 2018 - less than two days' notice. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-45995634
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by wging 4y ago
I believe “revolutionary efforts in Russia“ above means attempts to bring about a revolution; these spanned a period of many decades before 1917.
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by wging 4y ago
Happening to me without any VPN set up.
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by wging 4y ago
As a semi-educated guess, I wonder if he might just be referring to the compression of log files via standard Amazon-internal mechanisms, which use S3 as the backing storage, for many services.
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Here’s one take: https://twitter.com/qntm/status/1551144296014807040
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There's so much fiction that deals with this beyond what Stross mentions, though he had finite space. On the topic of torturing someone in simulation (at high speed), see Altered Carbon .
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by wging 4y ago
Of that review, Hanson wrote: "If I ever have an executioner, I want him to be Scott Alexander." https://www.overcomingbias.com/2016/05/alexander-on-age-of-e...
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by wging 4y ago
That's not an obstacle to a central cache - you can solve that with symlinks. A build tool should make node_modules/foo a symlink to ~/.npm/cache/foo-1.23 if foo 1.23 is what you need. A packaging tool should be abl
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by wging 4y ago
It's not the storage used but the repeated downloading, if I understand the complaint correctly. Avoiding the network traffic if you have an exact match should be much faster on a clean build, even if you don't care about disk spa

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