kevinastone
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 1 year ago
Git and other vcs are generally built on merkle-trees for consistent hashing.
There's a list of other common hashing cases on the Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree#Uses
Comment · 1 year ago
Looks like Fidji is reconstituting her Org from Meta
Comment · 1 year ago
It doesn’t save unnamed files which is mostly how I use this feature in sublime-text (as a scratch pad):
https://github.com/zed-industries/zed/issues/4985
Comment · 2 years ago
The Chandrasekhar limit is the maximum size of a white-dwarf, not a neutron star. It's usually defined as the minimum size of a neutron star (since it has to overcome electron-degeneracy pressure). The TOV limit[0] is the maximum size of a neutron star.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tolman%E2%80%93Oppenheimer%E2%...
Comment · 3 years ago
It probably then deserves a `(2022)` since that announcement was just over a year ago.
Comment · 4 years ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29775298
Comment · 5 years ago
Laboratory[0] comes to mind.
Comment · 5 years ago
It's a satirical comment on Tesla's meteoric stock price growth. The traditional quote is "Buy the rumor, sell the news"[0]. But with $TSLA, there's been nearly unbounded investor optimism.
[0]: https://www.thebalance.com/what-does-buy-the-rumor-sell-the-...
Comment · 6 years ago
Glad to see `Option::zip` stabilized. I tend to write such a helper in many of my projects to collect optional variables together when they're coupled. Really improves the ergonomics doing more railroad-style programming.
Comment · 6 years ago
Can you share your supplier? Everywhere I looked online limited you to quantity 1 at $5.
Comment · 6 years ago
Pi-Zeros are subsidized at $5 for education. It's difficult to get any quantity. They are ~$20 in general quantities.
Comment · 6 years ago
I was an eng manager at Facebook for a number of years and I think you accurately summarized the coding metrics in performance reviews perpetual great debate.
Comment · 6 years ago
The USG is woefully under-powered. I'd wait for the UXG if you can...
https://community.ui.com/questions/Introducing-the-UniFi-Nex...
Unfortunately, this fork has not developed any traction. It's last commit was 4 months ago basically after the initial fork and instantly became dormant.
You can see the list of 'Still alive?' issues: https://github.com/OpenMaxIO/openmaxio-object-browser/issues...