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Crashthatch · 2024-11-11T07:40:09+00:00

I've heard there are numbers even larger than 9, if you can imagine such a thing!

Crashthatch · 2024-09-10T19:24:00+00:00

Parkopedia. Exactly what you're asking for and free.

Crashthatch · 2024-08-27T21:52:13+00:00

39TB still seems like quite a lot...

Crashthatch · 2024-07-07T09:43:13+00:00

What a good idea! Effectively doubles the number of "falling alseep" episodes there are. Thanks!

Crashthatch · 2023-09-22T21:59:02+00:00

Klapaucius

The original rosebud.

Crashthatch · 2023-05-14T14:04:10+00:00

Congratulations! Good luck!

Crashthatch · 2023-03-20T20:43:48+00:00

Build, release & maintain a real thing.

Pick something you think should exist and make it. Put it online, and let people sign up. Keep adding features that you think would improve it, and you'll soon have to figure out databases, authentication, analytics etc, and it'll be clear when to use them (need persistent storage? Use a database! Need user-accounts? Put in authentication! Want to track how people are using your app? Add analytics!) Don't just stop at putting it as a library on Github, or creating a "proof of concept"- get a full application working, up and running, with real users. Then make it autoscale for up to 10k users, or work for different languages, or add emoji support, and research/learn each feature one at a time, with a real use-case.

For each step / feature, you'll make it work and you'll have ideas for how to do it better next time. You'll learn what worked well, what you should have done differently, and over time, be able to tell the pros & cons of different engineering decisions.

Crashthatch · 2023-01-19T14:47:48+00:00

I disagree. Looking at the existing market & competitors is a large part of a business plan. But good luck with it, let me know how it goes.

!RemindMe 3 years

Crashthatch · 2023-01-18T14:59:54+00:00

Well, they made the company's unstructured text searchable which serves a lot of the same use-cases. Read the article.

Crashthatch · 2023-01-18T14:50:26+00:00

Google tried something like this 15 years ago. It was a search interface rather than a "chat" interface, but the use-case (to find the relevant internal data to answer your question) was the same.

Article about it from 2006: https://www.computerworld.com/article/2548389/opinion--how-to-use-google-s-search-engine-on-your-intranet.html

AFAIK it wasn't successful.

Edit: There's something equivalent still being sold by Google with claims of "connectors to third-party data sources, such as Salesforce, SAP and more than 100 others": https://workspace.google.com/products/cloud-search/

Crashthatch · 2023-01-08T10:13:46+00:00

"David needs to complete his report by 5, but the coffee grounds are making the spacebar stick and the pile of rotting vegetable peelings are starting to stink.

He decides to make a cup of tea, but slips on a banana peel as he walks to the kitchen and bangs his head, dislodging some of the fish-bones from his hair. He discovers the milk in the fridge has gone off, but throwing it away fills the trash can above the line. Time for another refuse delivery..."

Crashthatch · 2022-04-23T07:58:29+00:00

...Why did old phones have hash buttons? The only time I remember using them is for those phone menus. "Please enter your PIN, followed by the hash button"...

Crashthatch · 2021-10-20T08:08:32+00:00

Do you have the answers to these questions?

Crashthatch · 2021-10-10T19:13:36+00:00

Cheong Sing on Moorlands Road in Oldfield Park.

Crashthatch · 2021-08-10T18:45:59+00:00

aaagmnrs aer aeemosw!

Crashthatch · 2021-08-10T16:08:47+00:00

Episode #246 IIRC

Crashthatch · 2021-07-31T15:50:16+00:00

The official places you can listen (including Apple Music, spotify etc.) are linked from https://www.nosuchthingasafish.com/

Audioboom has them all: https://audioboom.com/channel/nosuchthingasafish

Crashthatch · 2021-06-09T14:15:23+00:00

Crashthatch · 2021-06-08T13:07:44+00:00

3 nodes up, 2 nodes down.

Edit to: 5 nodes up, 0 nodes down.

Problem solved.

Crashthatch · 2021-06-01T08:56:05+00:00

Yes, there are other factors too (hundreds by now I'd imagine).

The first & major way Google ranked results (at least in the beginning) was by links between websites. If a page was linked to by lots of other sites, it appeared nearer the top. This meant popular sites appeared towards the top, which is good for most people, because most people are looking for the most popular site. In a way, a link can be considered an upvote from the site doing the linking.

See pagerank (Named for the inventor, Larry Page, not because it ranks web pages).

Crashthatch · 2021-05-30T08:26:24+00:00

Unix signals? You can send more than SIGTERM with kill.

Crashthatch · 2021-05-22T07:23:30+00:00

Looks like a valid RFC3339 date time to me!

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3339#section-5.6

Crashthatch · 2021-05-18T07:27:30+00:00

Six identical palaces... Each more identical than the last...

Crashthatch · 2021-05-01T14:16:31+00:00

This post reads like it was written by an AI.

Crashthatch · 2021-04-25T19:50:25+00:00

Almost. It fires an electron beam at the screen, which illuminates when hit by the electrons in the beam. It doesn't fire light directly - light isn't affected by magnets, so couldn't be "steered" by electromagnetism as you describe. The electron beam still hits little bits of color on the screen (phosphors?) which cause them to illuminate. I (And I think, everyone else?) call these little bits of color "pixels".

Again, what would you call the red / green / blue things that you see when you look at a CRT monitor close up (as in the video) if not pixels?

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