and if they are being evicted, they better be getting their tuition and fees back
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I used to love #Python, but dealing with the honestly kind of scary #multiprocessing library was a reminder of the #GIL #threading situation really hurts working with #parallelism. 😰🫠
I've started learning #Kotlin after honestly really enjoying the threading library it provides. It's so's easy to work with when you understand it! 😀 (I would prefer to stay away from some of the #Java conventions after working with them for so long. 👍) #JVM #programming
Had quite the time working on a personal project recently. It changed my life forever.
- Learned the hard way that the (default on most POSIX)
forkcontext is bad news.- Wrote a Unix domain datagram based log infrastructure.
- Wrote an algorithm that operates kind of like
concurrent.futures.as_completed(), except it has a priority queue and doesn't eagerly load the list of futures.- Discovered that it's possible to overload
concurrent.futures.ProcessPoolExecutorwith futures, preventing any actual background processing after a point.- Got TONS of practice optimizing stuff for large datasets.
- Learned that taking breaks is important for reasons than most people are aware of.
- My life was permanently altered by this project. I basically nerd-sniped myself.
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When you were born and raised in the United States, but still somehow didn't end up wired for any of:
- Religion
- Enjoyment of watching sports
- Celebrity worship
- Authority worship
- Trend following
- The compulsion to shop
- Envy of others
😛
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public fun getDigest(group: String, file: String): String? {
return executePreparedStatement(SQL_QUERIES.q("get-digest")) { statement ->
statement.setString(1, group)
statement.setString(2, file)
statement.executeQuery().use { resultSet ->
if (!resultSet.next())
throw NoSuchElementException("No digest for group=${group}, file=${file}")
resultSet.getString("digest")
}
}
}
package org.tarcompare
import com.google.common.util.concurrent.ThreadFactoryBuilder
import java.util.concurrent.ThreadFactory
fun buildThreadFactory(
nameFormat: String? = null,
daemon: Boolean? = null,
priority: Int? = null,
): ThreadFactory {
return ThreadFactoryBuilder().apply {
nameFormat?.let { it -> setNameFormat(it) }
daemon?.let { it -> setDaemon(it) }
priority?.let { it -> setPriority(it) }
}.build()
}
Doesn't using an #LLM to create large portions of your codebase mean that you end up with a lot of code that nobody understands unless they put in the time to go through it and learn what it's doing? If so, it's not much different from writing the code from scratch in the long one. :/
(Yes, I know about boilerplate and do think that's a valid use case as long as you know what the boilerplate is doing.)
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10/11/12/13-speed chains last just as long as 7/8/9-speed chains because of the improved metallurgy.
Doesn't that mean that 7/8/9-speed chains could be made with the same "improved metallurgy" to last far longer than chains with more speeds? 🤔
Prices don't seem to be so different anymore, but I just did a very quick search for Shimano at one online shop. So maybe yes?
A doomed breed—the state’s last coal miners
Originally published in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, September 26, 1974A song from the 1950s runs through your head as you turn off the Kent-Kangley Road and head up the hill to the last operating coal mine in the state of Washington. It goes:
“Where the rain never falls, and the sun never shines
“It’s dark as a dungeon, way down in a mine …”
The future for most of the 15 men still mining coal at Palmer Coking Coal Company’s underground operation is darker than the black coal they dig from a thousand feet below the earth’s surface.
The company is phasing out the mining operation. It probably will be closed within a year. An era and a way of life will have passed.
“I don’t know what I’ll do when the mine closes,” Bill McLoughry, a coal miner for 34 of his 54 years, said. “I’ll have to get another job—but it won’t be mining. This is hard, dangerous work.”
The men were at the end of their shift yesterday, having earned a hard $44 to $47 for the day’s efforts. With muscles and drills and back-breaking work they had mined coal from a 17-foot-wide seam deep beneath the hillside on which they stood.
In the changing shack they peeled off dust-encrusted coveralls and shirts. Their long underwear was almost a startling white against the grime of their hands and faces. They put the work clothes on hangers and raised them to the ceiling to dry after a day in the stygian damp.
In the showers they laughed and kidded each other as the grime—and some of the fatigue—was washed from their bodies.
The talk centered on beer, the matter of the moment, and coal mining, a profession with which they have a love-hate relationship.
One time in junior high school PE class, I slipped on a muddle hill and hit my head. It was my first concussion, and for some amount of time after it, I temporarily lost the ability to read analog clocks.
Really glad I got it back that day. 😥
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"Stay #2: Gregg Bicycle Barn"
Our high-tech, composting commode
#mywork #park #photog #photography #rural
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"Wenatchee River Valley"
Taken while we rode rented mountain bikes in the road together.
The rental bikes were okay, but our knees weren't happy and my partner didn't like the shifters nor brakes on them.
#forest #mountain #mywork #photog #photography #rural #water
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