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by wscott 6y ago
the author's blog post on Croc credits magic-wormhole: magic-wormhole has most everything (currently its missing capabilities for multiple file transfers and file resuming), but it requires installing lots of the Python ecosystem w
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by wscott 6y ago
croc's author leads with that in the real description for this program: https://schollz.com/blog/croc6/
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by wscott 6y ago
Several influential members of our team have nohello.com as their status message in Teams that prints as soon as you start typing a message to them.
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by wscott 6y ago
This graph of software dependencies from various sources is fragile but exactly the sort of issue IPFS was designed to solve. If something like node.js stored all sources in IPFS then the data would remain as long as someone builds the soft
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Triso particles have safety features that may power a new generation of reactors(wired.com)
100 points by wscott 6y ago|69 comments
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by wscott 6y ago
The article reminds me of a story from a friend that was an engineer at a major water heater company. Modern electric water heaters are already fairly efficient, but every model gets tested by the government to be given an efficiency rating
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by wscott 6y ago
A discussion of the Haskell type system is not what I expected when clicking that link.
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by wscott 6y ago
Looks interesting. My use case for systems like this is a little different. I am often on a work machine with a 10+-year-old Linux distribution and I have to rebuild a totally separate userland in order to be able to use modern tools. This
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by wscott 6y ago
Keybase has end-to-end encryption and you can connect to people without publishing the fact. But unfortunately, it was recently purchased by Zoom and probably won't be headed in a good direction in the future. Of course, Keybase'
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by wscott 6y ago
Yes I can add new features to some files or I can compile with c++17 and link to an old C library. What I can't do is remove features or change the default calling conventions/ABI and still link with old code. If you declare in t
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by wscott 6y ago
C++ needs to just steal the idea of Epochs from Rust https://vittorioromeo.info/index/blog/fixing_cpp_with_epochs... By default, everything is backward compatible, but to use new features you need to declare this
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by wscott 6y ago
yeah because after my 4s sprint it will take me 20s to walk back to my desk.
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by wscott 6y ago
The is a chat-like client builtin to Photos now. It is actually pretty nice to easily send pictures to my mother with the ability to answer questions about them. Unlike other chats no need to download and reupload the pictures. When that c
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by wscott 6y ago
My account still says "Your account only lets you join meetings". This change was the obvious thing to do, but they should have done it years ago when they announced that hangouts was dead. It was very strange, no one used hangou
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by wscott 6y ago
From the article, it is pretty clear that the resulting code is not as optimized as the LLVM backend. I didn't see any claims of how much slower it would be, but clearly that will vary greatly. Fast to compile is still really handy wh
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by wscott 7y ago
Sorry, I am going to be the insensitive sleazeball here. The point of staying at home is not that if you get this disease you are going to die. The issue is that if we ALL get it then a larger proportion of people are going to die because w
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by wscott 7y ago
He is building a couple of things here. One is a way to package a C++ library and encode the dependencies. It is a subset of other similar tools and can be used as a bridge. So rather than have CMake load special code to talk to Conan, you
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by wscott 7y ago
The post mentions merge.conflictStyle but one thing I would like to see git steal from BitKeeper is the unified diff conflict style. See the first example in this manpage: https://www.bitkeeper.org/man/smerge.html But
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by wscott 7y ago
In order to build this from source, yes.
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by wscott 7y ago
This is typical for the Rust infrastructure. It just continues to delight you.
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by wscott 7y ago
The author has renamed this project to 'bandwhich'.
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by wscott 7y ago
It requires a very recent version of rust. Do a 'rustup update' to get the latest stable release. You can't use the distribution's packages for rust and cargo if you want to play new rust programs.
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by wscott 7y ago
As much as I love ZT they actually dropped the GPL license a couple months ago, but they do publish source.
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by wscott 7y ago
I just want to say that this guy is brilliant and deserves to get a couple of dates from this.
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by wscott 7y ago
I hate videos for technical documentation, but I watched this one to the end. It was actually a very good way to demonstrate the thought process of why this method is useful and how to use it. Of course it is a video explained how to avoid
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by wscott 7y ago
Wow, I totally misread that.
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by wscott 7y ago
I am surprised he didn't benchmark the C++ program with Clang to give a closer comparison to rust. In my experience, despite all its other advantages, Clang still lags GCC a bit in raw performance. Still a really useful set of comparis
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by wscott 7y ago
Well, they understood the significance of the year.
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by wscott 7y ago
I read 'perambulators' and was very confused for a while.
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by wscott 7y ago
1999 in Pentium Pro. As the other guy says the real special part is that writes zero to ax without reading ax. So it breaks a dependency chain if you do this in a loop. The important tuning piece for OOO processors is removing dependencies

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