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by wscott 3y ago
The beauty of Starlink is while they use a cgnat for ipv4 they assign you fully routable ipv6 addresses. So Tailscale has no problem making that bridge, it just uses ipv6.
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by wscott 3y ago
I use linuxbrew at work which uses relatively old SLES 12 machines with some odd configs. I find the nix portable solutions don't work because the kernel is too old to support the needed sandbox features. I do have a coworker who got N
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by wscott 3y ago
There are so many complaints here about how simplistic this is and how it is nowhere near what a "good" malloc does. That's kind of the point. Let's implement the most brain-dead version of this code. This is code you ca
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by wscott 3y ago
[ time to re-share my Dr. Nicely story ] Dr. Nicely caused quite a bit of excitement at Intel. I was on the p6 architecture team when he discovered the FDIV bug. Our FPU was formally verified and didn't have the same bug. To be nice to
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by wscott 3y ago
The splitting of "store address" and "store data" is an intentional performance feature and not a "quirk" of the implementation. If you had a single store uop then the memory system couldn't start doing a
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by wscott 4y ago
I am kinda shocked no one has posted this yet: https://xkcd.com/1179/
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by wscott 4y ago
Many of the comments say that trucks should have a tax premium. In my state (and a lot of others) only two types of cars are explicitly called out to have an extra charge in the yearly property tax. Hybrids like a Prius are +$50 and electr
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by wscott 4y ago
I was expecting the article to get to the end and have him invent an massive type system that allows you to pass any two types as long as your can add them together. Which, of course, is what it did at the beginning.
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by wscott 4y ago
You are tying your shoes wrong: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/theres-a-better-way-to-tie-... (tie the bow reversed from the square knot and it will last much longer) But then trying to come up with a good link I hit
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by wscott 4y ago
That is exactly the thought it my head. Linuxbrew just barely works and breaks frequently. I wonder if this would be more reliable. So you can run current tool versions of tools on an older machine.
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by wscott 4y ago
So should I assume this didn't get fixed in Ventura? I have a new MacBook and have been wondering if I should turn off location services or if Apple fixed this.
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by wscott 4y ago
Looks at the blog posts from "Drew Gallatin" on serving 100 Gbps (or more) from a single server. This is the server and that is no small task.
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by wscott 4y ago
I ended up paying $20 for the 'working copy' git iOS app and then setup an iOS shortcut to sync my repository to a private github repo. So everything is manual when I click the button for the shortcut it syncs. On the desktop the
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by wscott 4y ago
So Lua is the new Tcl. A lightweight scripting language designed to be embedded in other programs. Then I went and looked at http://tcl.tk and it appears the current maintainers of Tcl forgot why it exists as well. ;-) Everyone
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by wscott 4y ago
I build my own HVAC system for a guest house last summer and I got to be really impressed with supplyhouse.com. You can find all the part you need very easily and they shipped quickly. Some of these specialized store websites are WAY nicer
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by wscott 4y ago
This thing looks a whole lot like the HP Prime[0] calculator. From the icons to select the "applications" (aka modes) and the pop up menus. That said the HP has a color screen and from the looks of it better buttons. Too bad HP di
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by wscott 4y ago
This is what perl was made for and it is good at it. I was going to be very suspicious if Python or Ruby ended up faster. On this chart it it the fact that the simple C++ is so slow that is interesting.
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by wscott 4y ago
Zulip is great. One thing that I don't see mentioned that is a huge deal that you don't realize at first. The topic for a message can be changed after the fact and by anyone. So you are having a big discussion and at some point it
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by wscott 4y ago
Yes we have all done or used something similar when we were younger, but really, should this be on the front page of HN? This is abuse of a popular service and if it becomes popular it will only make YouTube worse and YouTube is getting wor
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by wscott 4y ago
Funny he defines Chimera as the mythical beast right at the start. I was sure he was thinking of the alternative definition: > a thing that is hoped or wished for but in fact is illusory or impossible to achieve. "the economic sover
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by wscott 4y ago
BitKeeper used a seekable compressed file format for revision control data. It allowed a data-structure to be dynamically loaded on demand without needed to uncompress the whole file. A large empty memory buffer was allocated and then read
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by wscott 5y ago
I love build systems and have tried many of them. Redo is fun to play with. It is really easy to understand. There is some messy reality that causes redo the struggle. For instance it doesn't natively support a single command that prod
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by wscott 5y ago
https://obsidian.md/ can also render Mermaid diagrams
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by wscott 5y ago
A little more than that: http://randomcat.org/cpp_initialization/initialization.png
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by wscott 5y ago
Ok HN I am proud of you. I read the article and had a sinking feeling that the top comment would be: "Well actually... you should really be using string_view instead of..." Perhaps that is true but that would be intentionally miss
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by wscott 5y ago
Wow. Everything wrong with tech and America all rolled up together.
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by wscott 5y ago
long ago I submitted code to perl to help it run nicely on AIX workstations that were at use at Intel at the time: https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/3e25f6d2dce9289bf3894d673... Then in 1999, Red Hat files a
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by wscott 5y ago
Yes, you would have to been pretty obscure to not be supported. https://rclone.org/s3/
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by wscott 5y ago
Yes he ends up with a cute toy that flings a marble but sounds like a rifle. But in the video he explains the engineering process to start with the desired goal and then optimized and derive the parameters he needed to achieve that result.
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by wscott 5y ago
Telegram always uses GIFs very effectively for explaining new features. The animations are always kinda cutesy, but still very good at demonstrating the feature. https://telegram.org/blog/shared-media-scrolling-calendar

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