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by wolfgang42 2y ago
That requires the parents to be accepting and engaged, which is a great long-term goal but will take much longer to achieve than the first-order effects of losing access to peer communities. (There are also feedback loops: a group being l
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
From the fine article itself: > If you wanted to have this thing completely isolated though, you could have a no-outbound-internet subnet with this device on it so long as the device you are going to run the script on has line-of-sight.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
After staring at the linked PDF for a while, I think the display was a collection of lightbulbs (presumably behind a mask plate), probably arranged something like this: Upper dial V XV (Quotient) III Lower dial LLLV
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
Prepare yourself for a shock then; bootstrapping rustc starts from an already-built version of rustc[1]: > the only way to build a modern version of rustc is a slightly less modern version. (There is, at least theoretically, a non-circ
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
HN policy also suggests using a representative phrase when the main title is misleading[1]; in this case the subtitle (The Path Towards Safer Transmute) seems suitable. (This can be changed either by the OP or by someone who bothers to emai
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
>assembly language... made it very small and efficient There’s an interesting post from someone who worked on the codebase and argues the opposite[1]—some relevant quotes: > we wrote fifteen million lines of 8086 assembly language.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
There’s also Content-type: multipart/x-mixed-replace, though last I checked it had the downsides of (a) only working in Firefox and (b) causing the loading spinner to run forever.
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
> the bridge is burnt before it is crossed. That’s the usual interpretation I’ve seen, yes. It’s a mix between the other two metaphors you mention, with the humorous implication that the speaker is going to delay taking an action until
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by wolfgang42 2y ago
I don’t know about this architecture for AI, but your description sounds like the explanations I’ve heard of the Ruby on Rails philosophy, which is clearly considered optimal by at least some humans.
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An Engineer's Guide to Cats (2008) [video](youtube.com)
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> how would you implement this kind of cache in idiomatic, lock-free javascript? The simplest way is to cache the Promise<data> instead of waiting until you have the data: -async function fetchDataAndUpdateCache(key: string
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Having once made a similar mistake myself, I assume what they mean is that it was downloading everything as a .gz—that is, the browser was asking users “where would you like to save index.html.gz?” instead of showing the homepage. (This h
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I wrote a blog post a while back about reading these dumps: https://search.feep.dev/blog/post/2021-09-04-stackexchange Presumably they have a script that does something similar to that process, and then writes the
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Technical Manual TM 11-410: The Homing Pigeon (1945)(gutenberg.org)
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
There is (or was) no authentication within the core of the public switched telephone network, since it was designed at a time when that was impractical and physical infrastructure was assumed to be reasonably secure. So you don’t need to fa
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Somebody just last year finally worked out what that battery is doing and why the adapter doesn’t work after it dies: https://www.projectgus.com/2023/04/griffin-imate/#mystery-ba... (discussed on HN: https:&
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
The whole point of the ccTLDs is that ICANN doesn’t really have any control over their contents—they’re “sovereign soil”, so to speak, and each country can do whatever it wants with its namespace. Which brings us to the answer to your quest
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
My understanding is that they replaced the 1040/1040EZ split with a simplified Form 1040+Schedules 1/2/3, so instead of getting a short form (which only applied to a limited set of situations) or a long form, you always get a
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
I have overpaid my taxes several times due to clerical errors, and each time the IRS sent me a letter explaining what happened and a check for the overpaid amount, plus interest. One time I forgot to deposit the check, and after waiting a
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> In one possible scenario included in the agency’s report to Congress, the I.R.S. could fill out tax returns with information it already has, like data from W-2 wage statements. For the pilot, however, participants will have to enter t
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
On Ubuntu, the command `notify-send` is provided by libnotify: $ dpkg-query -S "$(which notify-send)" libnotify-bin: /usr/bin/notify-send The README for https://github.com/nowrep/notify
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> half a billion queries a month across 14 tiny VPSes For reference: $ units -1v '1|2 billion reqs/month / 14 servers' 'req/sec/server' 1|2 billion reqs/month / 14 servers =
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
zsh has some special handling if you define functions with magic names: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Functions.html#Hook-F... (I apparently knew this when I wrote the above code, since on closer inspecti
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
Somebody made a Cray-themed Pi Zero cluster which perhaps fits the bill (if you’re a mouse, that is): https://www.clustered-pi.com/blog/clustered-pi-zero.html
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
"The comment above was for the 2012 Pi 1. In 2020, the Pi 400 average Livermore Loops, Linpack and Whetstone MFLOPS reached 78.8, 49.5 and 95.5 times faster than the Cray 1." Apart from the Cray-1, that whole section is also worth
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
The article mentions not wanting to put a bell in their terminal prompt because it would cause too many notifications, but I found it difficult to remember to put `;tput bel` on every command that would be slow, so I compromised by configur
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
My suggestion is to pick a templating engine and markup language you like, wire them together with a bit of glue code, and try not to spend too much time fiddling with it instead of writing. When I do realize there’s some feature I want t
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
> can always set it per transaction [3] I just found out yesterday[1] that in Postgres “serializable” transactions can still have anomalies if other non-serializable transactions are running in parallel! So check your DBMS very caref
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
My experience is that I didn’t really ‘get’ analog clocks until I was old enough to start managing my own schedule. They’re useful for quickly visualizing addition/subtraction of intervals*, but until I was a grown-up I just didn’t nee
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by wolfgang42 3y ago
A hierarchical numbering scheme is exactly the prefix system I just described. Pregenerating numbers still doesn’t solve the problem that the carrier doesn’t know when any given number goes from “generated, will be handed out someday” to “a

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