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by zokier 2y ago
My hot take is that lock files and nested dependencies induce fragility. If packages were required to work with wide range of dependencies then that would force the ecosystem to build the packages in more robust way. Basically I think the d
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by zokier 2y ago
I see lot of hype around ClickHouse these days. Few years ago I remember TimescaleDB making the rounds, arguably being predecessor for this sort of "observability on SQL" thinking. The article has short paragraph mentioning Timesc
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by zokier 2y ago
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42152928 M4 MacBook Pros use a quantum dot (QD) film rather than a red KSF phosphor film (twitter.com/dsccross) 147 points by zdw 2 days ago | flag | hide | past | favor
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by zokier 2y ago
Aren't all modern (>xp) windowses just NT6 under the hood? Is there such clear delineation between 7 and 10 for example?
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by zokier 2y ago
> 2. Help a repo owner confirm that a new PR author is human and legit. For example, when a PR author submits their first PR to a repo, can the repo automatically do some kind of challenge such as a captcha prompt, or email confirmation,
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by zokier 2y ago
There is lot of talk here about imaging, but it takes lot of work to turn bunch of random images into useful map. How are they doing that part?
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by zokier 2y ago
I don't think Raku is intended for "the industry".
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by zokier 2y ago
KVM is just kernel side of things, it's not full vmm by itself, you always need some userspace application too. Firecracker, Qemu, Cloud-Hypervisor are some vmms built on top of kvm. While qemu is common way of using kvm, but running q
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by zokier 2y ago
Isn't merging gyro data with accelerometer data pretty standard approach?
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by zokier 2y ago
General dead reckoning is hard. But dead reckoning for train travel should be massively easier. Train movement is constrained to tracks so you only need to resolve how far along track train has moved + possible junctions, which should alrea
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by zokier 2y ago
Arguably workstations as a meaningful category largely died out when wintel took over the world. So Sun Ultras, SGI MIPS, HP PA-RISC, DEC Alphas, and IBM POWER belong to workstations. Wintel PCs are, well, PCs. It is notable how for almost
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by zokier 2y ago
note that if you want to play with writing your own network stack on linux, you can use `socket(AF_PACKET, SOCK_RAW, htons(ETH_P_ALL))` and operate on not too dissimilar level of abstraction as this is. SOCK_RAW packets are passed
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by zokier 2y ago
In many cases the "960 fps" slow motion is actually software interpolated, which makes it less useful for measurement purposes. It can be annoyingly difficult to figure out what the true frame rate of a phone camera is. For exampl
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by zokier 2y ago
At this point the memory:vcpu ratio is the defining characteristic of main general purpose C/M/R series, I'd think it would be pretty disrupting to change that significantly anymore. And they got also the special extra-high m
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by zokier 2y ago
Gold rating is down to 20%, Titanium is to 10% https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/80_Plus#Efficiency_level_certi...
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by zokier 2y ago
Discrete gpu can easily add 20-40w of idle power draw, so that's something to keep in mind. I believe that 60ish watts is pretty typical idle consumption for desktop system, Ryzens typically having 10w higher idle draw than Intel. Some
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by zokier 2y ago
While I do have some reservations about Unicode I think its important to note that nobody forces you to deal with all of it. I think programmers should embrace the idea of picking subsets of Unicode that they know how to handle correctly,
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by zokier 2y ago
Seems like lot of these would be taken care by normalization though? Pre-composed characters are bit of a mess. I do feel it is a error that unit/math symbols get changed, imho they should stay as-is through case conversions.
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by zokier 2y ago
> It's similar to people mentioning ordering PCBs instead of making your own: sure, making a thousand copies of a PCB is now cheap enough on the margin to be accessible. But what about making five? Or just one? For example JLCPCB is
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by zokier 2y ago
(postgre)sql has lots of quirky stuff that kinda qualifies. For example substring ( string text [ FROM start integer ] [ FOR count integer ] ) → text at a glance you might think that as just a normal function call, but the argumen
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by zokier 2y ago
> If my assumption is true, how is this better than FPGAs? For starters, you can make analog/mixed-signal chips
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by zokier 2y ago
> The response of plants to microgravity on the International Space Station is known, but “we know … almost nothing about how they and other organisms respond to partial gravity,” she says. > How they will respond to intense lunar rad
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by zokier 2y ago
> Most of the job is thinking which tooling doesn’t necessarily improve yet you use paper and calculator.
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by zokier 2y ago
While I do understand conceptually that GPU is basically its own computer, I struggle to understand how this works in terms of operating systems and multitasking. Fundamentally managing resources between tasks is one of the core functions o
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by zokier 2y ago
ZLUDA exists. I hasn't received any legal challenges from nvidia, even when it was sponsored by AMD.
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by zokier 2y ago
It has single USB2/3 port, but the SSUSB pins are shared with PCIe port, so you can't get USB3 and PCIe at the same time (if I'm reading the datasheet right).
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by zokier 2y ago
I think you could save one round-trip if you included the resource size in OPEN response. It could be optional if you want to support streaming responses.
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by zokier 2y ago
> I don't think Ghost is providing any new solutions here—they've just gotten lucky / been small enough to not be out-competed in their hosting niche yet. While I agree with most of your comment, I do want to point out tha
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by zokier 2y ago
notably in modern use the phrase "aesthetic" also has associations with vaporwave movement. and late-90s design fits very well with that.
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by zokier 2y ago
Both forms are widely used and accepted. Wikipedia has whole section about that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Terminolo...

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