DaveFlater

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by DaveFlater 3y ago
Related work for those who are into this: Álvaro P. Raposo. The Algebraic Structure of Quantity Calculus II: Dimensional Analysis and Differential and Integral Calculus. Measurement Science Review, 2019. doi:10.2478/msr-2019-0012
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It's not really a competition. Ramping up nuclear will not make fossil fuel burning go away. You just have two sets of problems. Both industries have a track record of allowing "can't happen" events to happen. Oil &am
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I participated in several standards organizations that used Robert's Rules. They were FAR more effective at getting stuff done than the other organizations I've been involved with. The key contribution of Robert's Rules is r
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"The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay." — Tony Hoare It is impossible in practice to persuade people to pay the same amount for a simple, reliab
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by DaveFlater 3y ago
Like many others, I have looked at the subproblem of whole-life scheduling and concluded that it can't be done well. On the one hand, a scheduling system has to implement a simple model or the overhead of working with it makes its net
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by DaveFlater 3y ago
We can make it America All Caps, Bolivia Bold, Italy Roman
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Sweden Sans logically implies America Bold and Italy Italic
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My current burb has been fighting "cut through" traffic since before phone navigation was a thing. They do it with "traffic calming" (filling streets with obstacles to through-traffic) and designs that give people no al
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Deja vu, I have been in this place before. Prior art: John Aycock and Mike Zastre. An Exceptional Programming Language. Proceedings of the 2005 International Conference on Programming Languages and Compilers. https://pages.c
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Feedback systems often fail to distinguish constructive critique from random opinion-having and assertions of personal taste. A kneejerk reaction based on nothing but gutfeel carries the same weight as a careful and well-informed evaluatio
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DEC's documentation for VAX/VMS and related apps. The great orange/gray wall of heavy-duty binders. What wowed me: whatever I needed to know, it was in there, I could find it, and the software behaved as the documentation
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AFAIK, the optimization undermined the only use case that -fno-omit-frame-pointer actually had on x86_64. Is there a real use case that benefitted from allowing the frame pointer push to wander? Why why why
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Uh... [Begin flashback] 2012: A change made in GCC 4.7 allowed optimization to reschedule and defer the push of the frame pointer that previously occurred in the function prologue whenever frame pointers were enabled. When binaries are pro