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Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
on Thursday March 21, 2024 @02:38PM (#39782620)
I've used WinMerge, its very different from the above tool because its still a text diff. It often gets the diffs wrong when multiple lines are involved. Take this trivial C# example: https://www.diffchecker.com/gr0H7qA1/
Most diff tools throw out something that is quite difficult to parse, but difftastic gave me the most concise diff so far.
Re:Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax
on Thursday March 21, 2024 @12:36PM (#39780875)
What an amazing tool, wish it had a GUI version as well.
Re:Top Chess Engine Championship
on Thursday February 03, 2022 @09:26AM (#30192764)
Leela Chess Zero is the open source successor of Alpha Zero, and has been the second strongest engine (except a few times where it bested stockfish) for the last few years.
Re:Common Causes of Bad Decisions
on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:21PM (#24731450)
While I agree with the point you made, I want to point out that the fatality rate for driving an automobile is much lower than 1 in a 1000. In the United States, the number of fatalities per vehicle-mile driven is approximately 1.5e-8[1]. On your average errand run, you have about a one in a hundred million chance of being killed/killing someone.
[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation_safety_in_the_U...
Re:Google Just Gave 2B Chrome Users a Reason to Switch to Firefox
on Sunday June 02, 2019 @08:15AM (#20074993)
Not the original commenter, but Firefox has noticeably poorer performance on my MacBook pro 2018, especially on react-heavy sites like the AWS Console or Twitch.tv
Re:We Can Do Better Than SQL
on Thursday May 09, 2019 @08:08PM (#19873802)
Having worked with databases for a while, SQL seems to be useful because it forces you to think about how your data is structured. To me SQL is a thin wrapper around the relational algebra notation. The biggest problem I run into with SQL is that it is hard to tell how performant a complex query is before actually running it.
Re:Migrating 23TB from S3 to B2 in 7 hours
on Friday April 12, 2019 @07:14PM (#19649888)
Great writeup on data migrations. I was wondering whether you did a comparison for this method vs using AWS snowball[1] to export S3 Data and B2 Fireball[2] to ingest it.
[1] - https://docs.aws.amazon.com/snowball/latest/ug/create-export...
[2] - https://help.backblaze.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001918654
Re:The Efficiency Is Everything Cookbook [pdf]
on Saturday April 06, 2019 @07:38PM (#19593724)
Skimming through the recipes, it seems to be mostly meat-based dishes. I would like to see a similar cookbook with plant based alternatives.
Re:“Lambda and serverless is one of the worst forms of proprietary loc...
on Monday February 04, 2019 @08:34PM (#19082405)
You can definitely build a fully functional web app using just serverless. For an example, take a look at https://acloud.guru . Where I work, we almost exclusively use serverless, and I have found it to be incredibly reliable, and way more hands-off than a docker deployment.
Re:If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?
on Saturday January 12, 2019 @12:34PM (#18892224)
You're not alone. I forced myself to read through half the book before asking myself what was the point of solving essentially leetcode style problems using only tail-end recursion and glorified linked lists. At no point did I ever feel that the scheme language had any practical applications.
Re:Serverless Computing: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
on Saturday December 15, 2018 @02:15PM (#18689846)
Running functions in a VPC cause them to have cold starts of ~5 seconds. Connection pools need to be centralized to be of any use, since lambdas scale automatically.
Re:Is the Bitcoin network an oligarchy?
on Friday July 06, 2018 @09:00PM (#17476244)
Pardon my ignorance, but how is it possible to track Bitcoin holders? I thought that it was really easy to create multiple Bitcoin addresses, so if a rich miner wanted to hide his holdings he could create a separate address for each transaction and he would in effect be untraceable right?