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by zwkrt 8y ago
I once owned an EAV DB for storing small config values. Someone wrote a great wrapper around it that made it seem like a proper DB with many tables. Since it was for storing configs this library cached the whole thing in memory on startup.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The dwarves should be thankful. Many people would have this moment and not realize it has passed them by.
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Especially considering the syntax of this language is kind of strange. Seeing a hello world without context would put me off I think.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I think the point was that the x-ray 'colors' do not have 1:1 mapping with the colors that our eyes see. So the color is useful to discern different tissues and bones and stuff, but the colors won't look like the colors of th
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The PS4 by default puts ads alongside your purchased games, but at least you can turn that off (for now)
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I've seen a prototype IoT thing (let's say a lightbulb) that paired with its peers by transmitting a public key through a flashing LED. Never became a product, but made me realize how easy such a thing is.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Doesn't this approach have the same issue as trying to correlate violent video games with actual violence?
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by zwkrt 8y ago
Can you elaborate on the phrase "carving wooden headphones"? I haven't heard of that term before.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The article was very interesting, but as a nit the best fit curves in the graphs were questionable. "everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker"
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There are many places one can be tolerant without having to contribute to the US government.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
doesn't it seem like hubris to assume that philosophy has stopped producing "successful" fields? Computer science broke off less than 100 years ago...
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by zwkrt 8y ago
"Consume" and "Content" are the two most disgusting words I can think of in the context of art and more generally entertainment. They are words invented by advertisers to reduce artistic works into commodities and people
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by zwkrt 8y ago
A sign of a good manager/exec is their reaction to a demo. If they say "I don't believe you, this looks magical", they might actually be thinking about what it would take to bring your demo to production. If they say &qu
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I only have moderate experience in other languages, but I would suspect that there are other ways of achieving the same effect. My aunt is a professor of Spanish, and in her words English is adjective-heavy, while Spanish is verb-heavy whic
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from my perspective, as soon as my todo list is digitized it is hidden from me. And as soon as it is hidden I forget to maintain it.
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by zwkrt 8y ago
I wonder if there are any 3d space-filling curves that "make sense" for this type of analysis. You somehow have to wrap points around (0,0,0) in a way that has nice properties like the spiral. For instance, zig-zagging around a 3d
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by zwkrt 8y ago
The prisoners in the game can collude before the game begins, so they can create their own ordering on the fly. This cannot be overcome by the warden.
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by zwkrt 9y ago
I recently moved email out of Google and it was surprisingly easy to migrate most services to the new address. The tricky ones are the email-as-username services.
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by zwkrt 9y ago
Is that true? I would have guessed it was 3 based on the expected level of responsibility of the respective roles. As an engineer I felt like L5 was a position that meant I could trust the coworker to be effective, but I would be wary of jo