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Never expected this from my hometown to hit hackernews. For some context, here's the lock in streetview: https://www.google.com/maps/@52.0974077,5.1152216,3a,75y,277...

If it can be performant depends on the tasks it need to full fill. The Switch uses the X1. A chip from 2015. The CPU has a clock rate of 1GZ, the GPU 307-768 MHz. [1] [1] https://e…

Ah, Chrome and slow spinners. Python tests were taking ages on VSCode due to an SVG spinner: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=103626... https://github.com/micr…

There's a GIL presentation [1] from 2010 which shows Python 3.2 on a 1 CPU machine was faster than on a dual core. In all, there might be reason to expect GILless python to be fast…

I'm working on a project to revive old QTVR movies[1]. After writing a couple of python decoders [2] for movie encodings from the 90's it got old quickly. As luck would have it, FF…

Here's Arjen Lubach, the Dutch Jon Stewart, about phones in classrooms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cclEuSxFd_M Note: The autogenerated (english) subtitles are a pretty decent.…

Recently had 28GB json of IOT data with no guarantees on the data structure inside. Used simdjson [1] together with python bindings [2]. Achieved massive speedups for analyzing the…

While I agree with the sentiment, in practice I haven't seen it go over well. I find the tooling around SQL to be severely lacking.

SEEKING WORK | Europe | Remote preferred ======================================== Get projects unstuck Roland van Laar is an independent IT consultant who helps businesses use IT. …

Thanks for sharing. That was a fun game.

Thanks for the responses, much appreciated.

A top developer leaving also functions as a signal to others in the company. I once left a company quickly after a senior leader had left. That proved to be a good move since the c…

What an interesting story. It made me look up how medal of honor started. Could you clarify a few things? I don't think the story adds up. Wikipedia has the followin information. M…

Secret History of silicon valley, more a presentation. It gave insight into the collaboration of astrophysics and the military. Shoah: An documentary about the holocaust 11 hours l…

I've read the paper. What got my senses tingling, is that: - there has been no investigation on which strains were in the lab - if the data is to be trusted, given it's in China. T…

This brings back nice memories.

It will catch random webmasters. In short, Dutch hoster TransIP had to pause their scanning service. They got hashes that included default images from WordPress. "Waar het misging,…

Re: Altered Carbon. How come the first season was awesome and got me to read the books. The second season was so bad I stopped watching it after a few episodes. And yes, I just che…

X1 owner checking in. I use it and I'm happy with it. It hit the sweet spot when I bought it a couple of years ago. I don't recommend it for the given price point. I included all e…

The link https://frame.work/marketplace/mainboards seems broken. It redirects me to https://frame.work/nl/en

It what happens when people see the media and their government lying. They start asking, what else have they been hiding and lying about. After that it's hard to keep it grounded i…

The case with Mauride de Hond is different. His expertise is statistics. He is well known in the Netherlands for gathering election polling data. He really looked at a few superspr…

Respectfully disagree. A lot of people who looked into COVID were saying this doesn't add up. They were were framed to be in the 'small vocal minorities that say all sorts of crap'…

I'm not OP. To me, it's the tooling around it. Everything is done in R-studio and it's focus is to generate statistical documents. The result is a sub optimum solution. It lacks go…

I don't think it's really necessary. $ 4000 is relatively cheap. The review in the verge hits this point. The verge previously bought a $16,599 model from apple, which performs wor…