gorn | 4 months ago | on: Poker Tournament for LLMs
Reminds me of the poker scene in Peep Show.
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gorn | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I the longest-serving programmer – 57 years and counting?
I just found this thread and it's so great. You are an inspiration dear sir/madam. Do you still exercise?
gorn | 6 years ago | on: Ask HN: I've been slacking off at Google for 6 years. How can I stop this?
Great read! Thanks.
gorn | 6 years ago | on: Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website
You can try mermaid
https://mermaidjs.github.io/
This was the only tool I could find that would work with version control.
gorn | 6 years ago | on: Intro Guide to Dockerfile Best Practices
Could someone explain why tip#9 is a good idea? To me it makes more sense to build the application in the CI pipeline and use Dockerfile only to package the app.
The post is focused on Java apps but, for example, there is a distinction on runtime and SDK images in .NET Core. If you want to build in Docker, you have to pull the heavier SDK image. If you copy the built binaries to image, you can use the runtime image. I guess there could be similar situations in other platforms too.
Other than that, it looks like a decent guide. Thanks to the author.
gorn | 6 years ago | on: Jepsen: TiDB 2.1.7
Hi @aphyr. I'm a great fan of your work with Jepsen although I know very little about the fault tolerance of distributed systems. Are there any resources you would recommend on the subject? I am an application developer so I don't see myself writing a database in the future. Still it would be great to learn about the concepts.
Cheers!
gorn | 7 years ago | on: Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI
Well, he started the Mono Project :)
gorn | 7 years ago | on: International System of Units overhauled in historic vote
Recently I have been thinking about if any of our units makes sense in cosmic perspective. Let's take speed of light for example. It's approximately 300000 km/s. But then what is a second? It's 1/60 of a minute which is 1/60 of an hour which is 1/24 of a day(and so it goes) and all those numbers are arbitrary. A day doesn't make any sense outside our planet anyway, I doubt that there is another celestial body in the universe that takes the same time to complete a rotation. Period of some natural phenomena (like atomic electron transition) sounds better as a unit but it's a really tiny period of time so we have to scale it to make it practical for us. We will use decimal numeral system to do that, another arbitrary choice. What if we had 12 fingers or 8? This can be extended to all kinds of measurements so I wonder if any of this would make sense to another civilization. What would a cosmic system of units would like? Any reading about this would be greatly appreciated.
gorn | 7 years ago | on: Astronomers discover super-Earth around Barnard's star
I dream to be there during the launch as well. Could you enlighten me on how JWST could find the evidence of life?
gorn | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft has sunk a data centre in the sea to investigate energy efficiency
Never thought of that. Nice point!
gorn | 8 years ago | on: Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase
As a blockchain!
gorn | 8 years ago | on: Firefox 57.0 Released
Is there a way to import bookmarks from Chrome?
gorn | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
It looks very cool. Can you sponsor visas? It's not mentioned in the ads.
gorn | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2015)
From your ad on Stack Overflow careers:
Note: this job is open to US Residents only. Foreign nationals can apply but only if you live within the US.
gorn | 10 years ago | on: Placebo Button
This is a great blog!
gorn | 10 years ago | on: Show HN: Streaks, a todo list that helps you form good habits
Take a look at https://chains.cc/
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