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cellularmitosis··on Ask HN: What is going on with Apple Weather?
Same thing in the Austin area.
cellularmitosis··on React, but in Python
> I'll discuss facts

> the insanity of

welp, so much for that.

cellularmitosis··on Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps
Or maybe just a non-venture-backed, privately owned company who isn’t beholden to shareholders and isn’t greedy? A “man and pop shop” but as a social media company.
cellularmitosis··on How Reddit became the enemy [video]
> disinformation, bigotry and cats

If you want to find the gold, you need to get off of default reddit and onto niche interest reddit.

cellularmitosis··on How Reddit became the enemy [video]
I’ve been surprised by the bugginess. I open up a thread and as I scroll, some of the comments are already collapsed, despite having 50 or more upvotes. I can only assume this is a cell reuse bug. If that’s true, that is seriously amateur hour.

Edit: and their video playback has been notorious for years now

cellularmitosis··on What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)
> the Racket fork if you’ve got an ARM Max

Or if you have a PowerPC Mac! https://leopard.sh/leopardsh/scripts/install-chezscheme-9.5....

cellularmitosis··on What are the enduring innovations of Lisp? (2022)
Janet might be a good contender for games. It is very easy to write C modules for the performance-critical bits.
cellularmitosis··on Why is Swift so slow (timeout) in compiling this code? (2022)
At what sort of combinatorial size are you encountering this?
cellularmitosis··on The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos
Action Button’s 3.5 hour review of Doom is a classic in this space. https://youtu.be/38zduHkwGcc
cellularmitosis··on The odd appeal of absurdly long YouTube videos
The deep frequency of large prop-driven planes is my favorite brown noise https://youtu.be/TAJqoJHRkpY
cellularmitosis··on YouTube removed dislike counts, so this guy made Rotten Tomatoes for YouTube
Counting them positively results in the problems which tiktok is currently facing with “rage bait” content.
cellularmitosis··on Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift
I don’t see a lot of utility in policing an overly narrow definition of what constitutes garbage collection.
cellularmitosis··on Apple is rewriting Foundation in Swift
> without a big performance hit.

You might be surprised (I was). Most of the benchmarks I’ve seen place it more in the neighborhood of golang and v8, rather than the C, C++, rust neighborhood you might expect.

Another commenter in this thread highlighted that the ref-counting GC is what keeps it out of the C / Rust performance neighborhood.

cellularmitosis··on WinLinux 2000
I’m guessing this post was inspired by my comment from the other day. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35993918

Glad to see this is still available! I’ll definitely be taking a trip down nostalgia lane tomorrow, this was the first distro I used.

cellularmitosis··on Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd
This is also handy when using socat to pipe across a network. You can use pv on both ends, one looking at compressed and the other looking at uncompressed data, in order to observe the real-time compression ratio.

tar c foo | pv | gzip | socat - tcp-listen:9999

socat tcp:bar:9999 - | pv > foo.tar.gz

If pv shows that you aren’t saturating your network and are cpu limited, replace gzip with lzop. If vice versa, replace gzip with something more aggressive.

cellularmitosis··on Windows XP Activation: Game Over
I actually just ran into this the other weekend. After a certain amount of time (30 days?), Windows will prompt you to activate, and if you don't, it kicks you to the login screen.
cellularmitosis··on Windows XP Activation: Game Over
WinLinux 2000 (the first distro I ever installed) was a pretty painless experience. It installed as a Windows "app" which rebooted into Linux, and used UMSDOS to share a single filesystem.
cellularmitosis··on Agrivoltaics: A Sustainable Synergy Between Agriculture and Solar Energy
Unfortunately the article just hand-waves on this point, leaving it at "certain crops":

> However, certain crops are better suited for this system due to their ability to thrive under partial shade.

cellularmitosis··on Rails Cheat Sheet
When you lack a type system which catches certain errors at compile-time, you need some other way of catching them. Unit tests are the typical solution.

Give this a watch: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/ideology

cellularmitosis··on Rails Cheat Sheet
I'm not sure why you are getting downvoted. The first Rails entry in the Techempower benchmarks achieves 1.6% the throughput of the fastest option. https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r21
cellularmitosis··on Doug Rushkoff is ready to renounce the digital revolution
It is a shame there isn't more creative discussion around ideas for regulation. Perhaps something as simple as "corporate tax rate should scale with revenue" might have prevented the walmarts of the world from eating the mom-and-pops.
cellularmitosis··on One Day You'll Find Yourself
Nice book, but I can't stand this sort of presentation. One tiny morsel per page, with hundreds of clicks to get through it all. A lot of people who make online FAQs are also guilty of this.
cellularmitosis··on Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
they also typically have some sort of serial output, which opens up a whole world of data logging.
cellularmitosis··on Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases?
I love that supporting left recursion allows you to avoid contorting what would otherwise be the most obvious grammar definition.
cellularmitosis··on Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases?
Swift applies this across language versions as well. You'll see error messages like "fooWithBar() has been renamed to foo(withBar:)".
cellularmitosis··on Why split lexing and parsing into two separate phases?
If you have half an hour, this is worth a watch as well: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/a-com...
cellularmitosis··on FET: The Friendly Efficient Transistor
> Speaking of the Pinecil, it uses an unorthodox driving circuit – it has an NPN transistor, but its base driven through a capacitor, so that only the AC component of the driving signal gets through. As a result, if the main MCU hangs and the control GPIO is stuck high, the FET won’t stay enabled!

Clever!

cellularmitosis··on Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy
what?
cellularmitosis··on A bacterial culprit for rheumatoid arthritis?
That’s probably Humira, so RA, Crohn’s or UC. Many of the immunomodulator drugs are in a similar price range.
cellularmitosis··on Datomic is Free
Even as a Clojure hobbyist I feel like all of these points are off? Between 4clojure, clojuredocs and the slack channel and the surprising number of books available, the onboarding and docs are great. And when I think of my favorite lang evangelists, hickey and nolen are absolutely #1 and #2, and have influenced me heavily, despite my day job not involving Clojure at all.
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