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TylerE

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TylerE··on Stop Making TUIs
Not fast.
TylerE··on Stop Making TUIs
How so? The idea is you build all the OS specific stuff into the terminal, not into the programs running INSIDE the terminal. Think Infocom Z-Machine, at the ultimate level, although obviously emulating a full on virtual CPU is overkill.

In any case we can surely do better than emulating DEC hardware from 50 years ago.

TylerE··on OTel isn’t going well
At some point your monitoring is burning 10x as much CPU as the actual task...
TylerE··on OTel isn’t going well
At that point you almost might as well just log everything. The decision logic is likely about as complex as just doing it. Then I suppose you have a watchdog task that fires off every, say, 15 minutes or an hour or something, looks at the collected data, and either decides to keep it or trash it while recording a tiny "nothing interesting" datapoint.
TylerE··on There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
A lot of that is ultimately ping time, too though. Like making a naive number of round trips to a database not on the same machine.
TylerE··on Show HN: We chased a weather balloon across Montana and never found it
What's expensive? You can buy a medium sized cooler for $5 at Walmart. That's a fair bit of foam.
TylerE··on Casio F-B100W-1A
Not really. XZ1000 $300-600. DX7 $700-1000.
TylerE··on Casio F-B100W-1A
> I don't think I buy that argument (that there aren't enough people interested in it).

That you can buy them on ebay all day long for less than most cheap synths costs new argues against it being viable.

TylerE··on Gardner police discontinue Flock cameras as license plate readers face scrutiny
VCs are cancer. YC is one of the biggest VCs. What do you expect?
TylerE··on Police officer used Flock cameras to track estranged wife 717 times
If ever there was a corporation that deserved the death penatly, it's Flock.
TylerE··on A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
For reasonable definitions of "in space" doesn't really cut it. Balloons top out at around 120,000ft unless you're getting super exotic, and that'll only get you another 20k ft or so. Not even out of the stratosphere. Not space by any reasonable definition.

About the lowest thing that could reasonably be called space is the Karmin line, and that's at 100km, or 330,000ft.

TylerE··on Sticky wage norms and the real wage cost of unexpected inflation
Local IT with 15 years of experience and a masters degree?
TylerE··on Quake Shareware, a CD-ROM just a little too full
For very small values of newer. There have been two remakes of Myst since then.
TylerE··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
No one:

Again, from your OP: "so unless people naturally shrink 2" with age"

Are you denying basic science here, or what? Like, what is your deal?

TylerE··on An update on leaving Gmail for Fastmail
Not to mention all the sites where the email address IS the account, and often don't have good procedures to change it.
TylerE··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
Even the low end of 3.6cm is 1.4 inches. Feels like you're being rather...goal post movey.
TylerE··on Abdominal fat predicts heart disease risk better than BMI
People do tend to shrink in height quite a bit at advanced age.

https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003998.htm

"People typically lose almost one-half inch (about 1 centimeter) every 10 years after age 40. Height loss is even more rapid after age 70. You may lose a total of 1 to 3 inches (2.5 to 7.5 centimeters) in height as you age."

So people DO in fact tend to lose about 2 inches at age 80 versus their younger selves.

TylerE··on Asus Bike Booster
So can a non-ebike. A couple of hundred pounds hitting you at 15-20mph is gonna suck no matter how it's powered.
TylerE··on Asus Bike Booster
It went on sale in the US before the EU. Did you even skim the wiki page you linked?
TylerE··on Introducing Toast 1
The problem is Gemini is actually kinda dumb. I've had it's answer be sourced from pages that were a decade old on a topic that changes practically by the month.
TylerE··on Single log line is 49KB+ (ext4) / 110KB+ (btrfs) of systemd-journald disk writes
WHen I provisioned a mid-range dedicated box recently, I went FreeBSD almost entirely so as to not have to touch or deal with anything related to systemd, the worst the thing to ever happen to linux.
TylerE··on Mojo 1.0
"They will probably be releasing it coincident with their August 18 conference."

Edit to your edit: You asked a question, I answered it. Why be a rude about it, "genius"?

TylerE··on Mojo 1.0
So why not either delay the 1.0 release by a week or move the open sourcing up by a week? This "strategy" makes absolutely no sense.
TylerE··on Mojo 1.0
Because they promised 1.0 would be 100% FOSS. That has proven to be a lie.
TylerE··on Confessions of a Long-Distance Sailor
Even the longest ranged helicopters are WELL short of "middle of the ocean" range. The longest top out around 600 miles, and that's straight line, not out and back, and certainly not with any loiter time in the middle.
TylerE··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
At the current retail price, a half pound of beef is just shy of $5.
TylerE··on Mars Bar from 1991 found – and it's 20g bigger than today's
The bigger difference, imo, is that Coke just tastes better out of a glass bottle. Orifice size and shape makes a big difference in taste and mouthfeel.
TylerE··on Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
I'm a big fan of the Zowie EC mice. Basically (egonomically) a clone of ye old Microsoft Intellimouse (From the late 90s/early 2000s when MS actually made good hardware), except with modern guts and available in 3 sizes. For my hand the most comfortable mice every created.
TylerE··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
What an ironic username
TylerE··on As a Windows user, it's a surreal way to install a program
What part of " doesn't run the software I need it to run" are you struggling to understand?
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