zackangelo

Tesla obtained a patent for something similar for use on their windshields: https://electrek.co/2021/09/08/tesla-patent-laser-windshield...

I helped build and worked on a similar vessel, the VB10K [0]. We originally built it just for this purpose (decommissioning) after a bunch of hurricanes toppled oil rigs between 2005-2008.

[0] https://gcaptain.com/interesting-ship-versbar-heavy-lift-ves...

open sourced as diffy i believe: https://github.com/opendiffy/diffy

Slight tangent, but: I first encountered a function named BitBlt when using the Win32 C API a long time ago. I had no idea that it originated in Smalltalk-72 in 1975 and the function name was just carried forward into the Windows API.

I know it seems ridiculous to spend $50-100 on a piece of injection molded plastic, but this thing[0] has been the best I've found for getting deep enough into my abdomen to loosen my psoas.

[0] https://pso-rite.com/

The researcher that authored the paper answered a few questions on Reddit last year [0]. She explained that the color chart isn’t necessary for every photo.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/dvts2j/this_researc...

I've also found it uncomfortable to sleep with an Apple Watch on.

I started using a Whoop band a couple of months ago for mostly that purpose and I often forget that I'm wearing it.

If you tap the icon with the horizontal lines on the left side of the address bar, it'll activate reader view.

I don't know if this implements the javax.script API, but it does allow you to embed V8 in Java programs: https://github.com/eclipsesource/J2V8

You should treat them just as containers for data to be serialized. If you require fields to be set on an object, you’re going to want to create a set of classes that enforce those constraints.

If you’re thinking about switching to Scala, the gRPC support in the scalapb library is mature and easy to use.

You can check out the slides from my gRPC+Scala talk here: https://github.com/zackangelo/grpc-intro-scala

> - most importantly, Elon has moved his desk to the giga factory as that is where the largest bottleneck is.

apparently he sleeps there sometimes too:

https://www.gearbrain.com/elon-musk-sleep-tesla-factory-2502...

I learned Tcl back in the day just so I could customize Eggdrop [1].

[1] https://www.eggheads.org/

The article mentions that async/await functionality hasn't landed in Javascript yet. I wonder if you can get the same functionality today using scala.js [0] and the scala/async [1] library.

I believe it should work. The scala/async library is just a set of macros that transform blocks of code using async/await into for comprehensions.

[0] http://www.scala-js.org [1] https://github.com/scala/async

No one uses the built-in Scala JSON parser. Checkout jawn[0] or spray-json[1].

[0] https://github.com/non/jawn [1] https://github.com/spray/spray-json

Take a look at GRPC (http://grpc.io). It addresses a lot of the long-standing complaints about using Protobuf as an RPC solution.

Aside from personal discipline and experience, I’ve found that using strongly typed and compiled languages combined with good tools are the best way to accomplish this.

Being able to search for and manipulate symbols at the AST level goes a long way towards eliminating any resistance to refactoring.

Indeed, the Akka team published an blog post [1] a while back that demonstrates superior performance versus a traditional thread pool. The actor model seems to be a very favorable use case for F/J though.

[1] http://letitcrash.com/post/17607272336/scalability-of-fork-j...

Vice did a great segment on Ibogaine in their first season on HBO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkkMhKEfOqw#t=919

This is a great idea and something I've searched for in the past when looking for a way to authenticate our own internal apps using Google Apps credentials.

IntelliJ's Scala support has improved leaps and bounds the past 6 months. I'd give it another try if you have the opportunity.

Discretizing your domain into a grid doesn't necessarily imply you're solving the problem in question using cellular automata. I'm not familiar with the specifics of GFS, but it's common to model physical phenomena using the finite difference method.

It's newsworthy and interesting because they're running the same exact model on two different computers and it's yielding wildly divergent results. It'd be as if you took the same CA rules with the same initial state and it ran differently on two different computers.

It's tricky because these discrepancies are probably due to subtle differences like the way the new CPUs are handling the floating point calculations.

I was able to get the Scala version down to within ~100ms of the Java version while still using case classes.

I've found developing OpsWorks recipes directly on the instance to be the best remedy for the slow feedback cycle.

Your cookbook is located /opt/aws/opsworks/current/site-cookbooks. If you run a command from the web console, you can repeat the command with a tailed log output using "opsworks-agent-cli run_command".

Am I missing something or is this benchmark indicating that VB.NET has superior floating point performance to C?

I didn't see any reference to it in the documentation, but I wonder if they'll provide an HTTP API for authenticating against these directories (or providing delegated auth services when connected to an on-premise AD instance).

For the record, Siri also does location-based reminders and they sync across all of your devices (e.g. "When I get home, remind me to take fish oil").

They're using it on the watch.

>On most Apple Watch models, the display is laminated to a machined and polished single crystal of sapphire.

http://www.apple.com/watch/technology/

Not according to the article:

> In fact the String Deduplication is almost like interning with the exception that interning reuses the whole String instance, not just the char array.

Read down a little further:

> But, as with anything, the specifics are somewhat irrelevant—consistency is key.

I had the expired certificate. I've never installed Steam, but I have installed VMWare Fusion.