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by wwwigham 6y ago
I feel like detecting these environments is directly at odds with user privacy and anti-tracking; but I guess google has never been anti-tracking, so that's not too surprising. Still, I'm incredibly disappointed that they'd e
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by wwwigham 6y ago
There's no common code between the projects; they're not even written in the same language. It's hard to say it's a "fork". They both just use yaml manifest files on GitHub as a registry (which could be good fo
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by wwwigham 6y ago
I feel bad for the OP for getting ghosted by the Microsoft hiring process, I'd at least want a prompt response of _some_ kind; but the package manager features OP says are "copied" are common to cocoapods, homebrew, and other
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by wwwigham 6y ago
To be fair, we had to file for exceptions to the 30 day policy for a lot those. Not that any of them are terribly important to be private; a private GitHub repo is just a convenient discussion form for collaboratively composing blog posts a
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by wwwigham 7y ago
I haven't confirmed it with hard numbers yet, but I think these perf regressions may also be affecting node; node 13.1 executes our test suite in about 5 minutes on my workstation, while a canary build of node running the latest v8 (wh
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by wwwigham 7y ago
If I recall correctly, it's because the proposal[1] was last presented to committee in March 2018[2], and since then it's been essentially deadlocked as the committee members can't agree upon an "f#" style operator
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Index unsafety w.r.t. bounds and `undefined` is something TS would like to fix; but it's not ergonomic to fix until there are, something like automatic refinement range types applied to array length fields. Without it, TS'd get in
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by wwwigham 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the Microsoft authenticator has a backup TOTP token you can have it display if you have issues receiving the notification. It is quite a user friendly auth scheme, at least I've never had to resort to any kind of S
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by wwwigham 7y ago
I love me a good, simple, jokey template language. Reminds me of the one I made a few years back[1]. Everyone should write a small template language of their own - it's a neat parser-writing exercise, and the rendering implementation c
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by wwwigham 7y ago
> The projects should be chosen by controlling their characteristics rather than relying on GitHub “stars” which capture popularity and are unrelated to software development. > “stars” ... are ... unrelated to software development. I
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Monitoring 11000 wells (in the US alone, according to Wikipedia) at that rate is only roughly 1KB/s per well. I'm actually surprised it's so small. Sampling intervals for most sensors must be on the order of multiple seconds
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by wwwigham 7y ago
You could call it Luddite, but I think I'm much more comfortable with human judgement being involved. Especially since that also provides an obvious place for blame to lie, if such preventative enforcement is used extrajudiciously or w
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by wwwigham 7y ago
While the essay's main drive is on climate, can we put that aside for a minute and talk about the orwellian surveillance apparatus talk in the central section of the essay? Or am I supposed to take the lack of comments on that as a com
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Are those releases shipped in stable channels or only to, eg, VS preview users?
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Over at the TypeScript compiler we recently slowed our release cycle from 2 months to 3 months specifically because of an observation noted here: nobody used our beta (or RC) builds. On a 2 month schedule, we had 1-2 prelease builds during
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Javascript formally releases once a year, but individual feature adoption in browsers is totally separate from that, and happens.... whenever they feel like it. v8 (chrome's js engine) doesn't have a set release schedule, but has
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by wwwigham 7y ago
We actually primarily use StackOverflow for this (as it's the first resource many devs go to, as you did, and it's collaborative). We even pre-seed questions and answers for releases, sometimes. If you find an answer on SO is out
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by wwwigham 7y ago
JavaScript itself keeps changing, so we need to keep pace with that, for one. Beyond that, we relentlessly seek to improve how people interact with our editor tools, and make additions to the (type) language and compiler to support that. .d
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by wwwigham 7y ago
In a Tesla, isn't there a camera in the middle between the driver and passenger inside the passenger compartment at the very top of the windshield?
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by wwwigham 7y ago
It's probably worth noting that that the "intellisense that vscode gives out of the box" is _also_ still delivered by TypeScript. Slap a `//@ts-check` into a js file and you'll find just where the typechecker t
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Yeah, inquiring minds want to know.
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Even if you don't opt in to full TypeScript, please do remember that the same engine powering the TypeScript language is also what powers IDE support and completions for JS in vscode and VS, so even if you're not using TypeScript
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by wwwigham 7y ago
The question is posed because according to the article, the verdict is that the border patrol is allowed to perform _manual_ searches of electronic devices, just not forensic searches, even without reasonable suspicion, in pursuit of findin
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by wwwigham 7y ago
If you run out of RAM virtual memory means excess pages will just get written to/read from disk, usually. Which is... Not really different than what it does now, I think?
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by wwwigham 7y ago
I had a period where I _did_ reimage my machine every week. Keeping it running productively wasn't that bad - data was kept on a separate drive from the OS, and a script was used (as a post-reimage step) to reinstall all the apps I use
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by wwwigham 7y ago
Is the variable length regime handling that much easier to deal with (space-wise) than the NaN and subnormal handling needed in IEEE floats? I'd think that the regime scheme would effectively be equivalent to creating a multitude of di
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by wwwigham 7y ago
> I don't think it makes much sense trying to accomplish this on FPGAs; you're better off using CPUs, GPUs, or making something domain-specific like TPUs. I dunno, we have a lot of libraries and frameworks who make it their pur
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by wwwigham 7y ago
The construction is at least at face value a pretty simple ARX cipher - the only real questions being why choose the specific rotation constants they do for each round (ciphers developed in the open usually do things like key off digits of
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by wwwigham 7y ago
The math isn't too suspicious from what I can read, though I'm by no means an expert - it's just set stuff, from what I can tell. I think that Twitter post is just confusing the different fonts for the sets vs the scalars. &q
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by wwwigham 7y ago
I wonder why similarly to the existing `yield` keyword operator in the experimental generators support doesn't rate highly in the decision making here. Maybe they plan to revise generators to `expression.yield`, too? Also `expression.r

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