Agingcoder

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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
I didn’t find that many - you can find graded readers, but very few ‘graded novels’ ( as in a full novel where chapters are progressively harder, not multiple independent tiny stories ) if I may say so
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
For those interested in learning old English, I’ve been going through Oswald Bera by Colin Gorrie - https://colingorrie.com/books/osweald-bera/ Basically it’s a full blown story/graded reader with no modern E
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
À lot
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
It is unfortunately very heavy (2.4kg vs 1.5 for my mb air 15) I take note though that the 13 inches framework is bigger than it seems because of the aspect ratio
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by Agingcoder 5mo ago
This looks suspiciously like something I could buy : a lightweight well made Linux laptop, with long battery life. I currently use a MacBook and won’t get near a windows machine. Two questions 1/ will there be a 15 inches version ? (
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
I understand his frustration : I have a similar issue with video games - Xbox gamepass games sometimes leave the service. So I built an app that takes all my games across the various gaming services ( steam etc ) including the Xbox gamepas
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
You do but you then make a career out of it : you become the fixer ( and it can be a very good career , either technical or managerial)
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
I tried subscribing to pcgamer ( as in, I literally paid for it ) two years ago but this didn’t seem to change structurally the amount of ads i was getting. I also tried to contact them directly but couldn’t find a relevant email address to
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
I work for a mega corp, and our global overlord( who is ex dev) has tried Claude code at home, and figured out that generating large amounts of code comes with its own challenges - they explicitly don’t want this to happen so there’s no suc
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
This is one of the books I recommend to my coworkers who are interested in operating systems - it teaches a surprising amount of things by telling you what an OS will do for you and therefore why you need it, instead of telling you how it
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by Agingcoder 6mo ago
If you don’t mind developing, what made you switch stance ? many people never change their minds even when faced with overwhelming evidence , and based on your prior level of support, I’m quite curious about the actual process .
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
‘In other words: AI is making it possible to detect severe security vulnerabilities at highly accelerated speeds.´ Isn’t it rather : we now have a new family of security flaws detector, which find other issues on top of the ones already fou
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
Same thing here , but triggered by tiredness/stress. If I sleep a lot and well, then it somehow fades until I’m tired again. I assume my brain is somehow able to filter it out, unless it’s too tired/busy.
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
:-) never forget Occam’s razor ! No you were not abrasive at all - I’ve learned to assume good faith in forum conversations. In retrospect I should have started by giving the context ( march of 9s is a good description) actually, which woul
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
We’re in agreement. I think we diverge on ‘making it go away in my book’. When you’re the one having to debug all these bizarre things ( there were real money numbers involved so these things mattered ), over millions of jobs every day , ra
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
Well my admins eventually believed me , so I’m fairly comfortable with what I said. We also had a few thousands of physical servers with about of terabyte of ram each. You are right : we did see repaired errors, but we also saw (indirectly
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
I fully agree with you ! Neither soft nor hard memory errors, nothing… but but flips ,and reproducible at that. We scanned all our machines following this ( a few thousand servers ) and found out that ram issues were actually quite common,
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
It depends on what you bitflip. I once had a bitflip pattern causing lowercase ascii to turn into uppercase ascii in a case insensitive system. Everything was fine until it tried to uppercase numbers and things went wrong The first time I h
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
No it doesn’t :-) I’ve had plenty of servers with faulty ecc dimms that didn’t trigger , and would only show faults when actual memory testing. I had a hard time convincing some of our admins the first time ( ‘no ecc faults you can’t be ri
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
Optane was supposed to fill the gap but Intel never found a market for this. Flash is still extremely slow compared to ram, including modern flash, especially in a world where ram is already very slow and your cpu already keeps waiting for
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
Yes exactly. The kernel tries to guess as well as it can though - many years ago I hit a fun bug in the kernel scheduler that was triggered by numa process migration ie the kernel would move the processes to the core closest to the ram. It
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
Yes there are scheduling issues, Numa problems , etc caused by the cluster in a box form factor. We had a massive performance issue a few years ago that we fixed by mapping our processes to the numa zones topology . The default design of ou
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
My kids make fun of me because I know the shopkeepers around me by first name, along with the details of their businesses , and that shopping takes forever because I talk to everyone, customers included. I just love it, it’s easy and I get
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
This is very different Most random encounters have a pretext, from smoking a cigarette to talking to the shopkeeper, or being in a queue for a long time. Talking to a woman ( esp given that many of them are harassed from what I understand f
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
You virtually never bother them - worst case they’ll turn you down. On the contrary, they’re usually very happy to tell you about what they do.
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
I read the book years ago so might have forgotten - what intergenerational romance ?
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
The intonation is different, there are harsher sounds, but there are diphtongs everywhere in Dutch, and to me thisbis what makes it sound like English. French, Spanish, German etc don’t have diphtongs ( or they’re quite rare )
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by Agingcoder 7mo ago
That’s what they do usually I understand - llm generates proof in lean, and proof checker proves.
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
A couple of days ago a colleague of mine was talking about very old rts games he still liked to play , and mentioned red alert. It turned out he had never heard of dune 2, Warcraft 1 and 2!
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by Agingcoder 8mo ago
It has a very large number of bugs. My favourite one ( still happens ) is having to mute then unmute at the beginning of the conversation otherwise nobody can hear me. It was so common, with people fiddling with their headset, calling again

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