Erwin

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by Erwin 6y ago
Yes, check this, with f.txt containing 99999 numbers: $ seq 1 99999 > f.txt $ cat < f.txt | tee f.txt > /dev/null $ wc -l f.txt 23696 f.tx
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by Erwin 6y ago
I use Google Pay for my personal account, and a normal VISA/Dankort for my shared account. It's convenient to easily find the right payment method. If Danske Bank would only issue cards with different textures! With Google Pay I j
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by Erwin 6y ago
Found another example of bad RNG: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Klein_Blue#/medi...
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by Erwin 6y ago
Just a month after the App Store launched, someone sold a $999 "I am Rich" app: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Am_Rich
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by Erwin 6y ago
He toured with live performances very frequently, only retiring from live music last year, at age of 90. I saw him twice and both were filled with really serious fans of all ages. While he was prolific (350+ movie scores credits on imdb), I
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by Erwin 6y ago
I switched to TW for journalling, but it's still not perfect. Before that I had just a text file I could press a button to insert a date and add some text in at the end. I switched to monthly journals rather than daily as with daily t
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by Erwin 6y ago
According to levels.fyi, an "Amazon Distinguished Engineer" (L10) is making $960,000/year. The GDP per capita in Central African Republic is $681/year. Should someone that is basically a typist, earn 10,000 as much as an
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by Erwin 6y ago
I run this code in Python: for i in range(20): print ''.join(unichr(random.randrange(20000, 25000)) for x in range(4)) to generate some random text; one string like 劓惂儶宓 turns up this bizarre output: > Honeybees ( Api
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by Erwin 6y ago
One thing the segment registers are still used for are thread local storage (on Linux). So you read data from FS (different per thread) segment but same address, if you've prefixed your variable with __thread. (Having said that, I reme
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by Erwin 6y ago
URLs too, though Chrome makes them canonical: http://0xacd91124/ -- Google I did a quick search for whether "fun" Hex strings are reachable, but didn't find any (e.g. the canonical http://0xcafebab
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by Erwin 6y ago
The only car salesman with nuclear capability: https://www.lingscars.com/missile-truck
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by Erwin 6y ago
Saul Pawnson would be a cute hacker alias, however.
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by Erwin 6y ago
The author's biography is quite fascinating. If there's a museum of visualization, it'd be an exhibit: https://www.saul.pw/biograph/
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by Erwin 6y ago
Turbo Pascal had a system like that called "Overlays" back in the 640 kB memory days. If you had multiple code modules of which just one was in place at a time, you could overlay them so just one got loaded at a time. While that&#
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by Erwin 6y ago
This is often called "strategic incompetence" (or feigned incompetence).
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by Erwin 6y ago
If this is sort thing looks fun, but you would want more of a game then one unique gaming company builds games where you create "fantasy circuits". In TIS-100 you write assembly code for an unusual 12-node interconnected machine.
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by Erwin 6y ago
BTW, if you are using strace for this, check out the -y option recently added to strace. It will print the filename next to each file descriptor like this: read(3</proc/filesystems>, "", 1024) = 0 Anot
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by Erwin 6y ago
That database has existed for ages: https://www.shodan.io/
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by Erwin 6y ago
SOLID was a set of principles for OO design introduced in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID In 1983, a database was named SolidDB: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolidDB etc. etc.
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by Erwin 6y ago
These guys create a supplement based off your DNA: https://www.nutrahacker.com/ https://ginihealth.com/ These let you create the vitamin/supplement mix you want: https://getvitaminlab.com&#x
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by Erwin 6y ago
This is the episode I could find: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morinaga_Milk_arsenic_poisonin... Which was inadverted addition of arsenic specific to Morinaga in Japan, and not Nestle. However, the committe which mana
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by Erwin 6y ago
Same debate happens here in Europe for Just-Eat (originally Danish), and Wolt (bike courier, originally Finnish). There's a cut taken from the restaurant separate from the delivery fee visible.
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by Erwin 6y ago
I played and enjoyed both casually (40hish hours); in addition Satisfactory is also fun, as it has a more immersive 3D view: imagine a giant tower of stacked factories with belts and elevators rushing resource in and out. Dedicated SF playe
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by Erwin 6y ago
Very impressive. It was reminiscent of the Polish sci-fi writer, Stanislaw Lem who invented more words than Shakespeare. That made for some tricky translations. Here's a list of new words in just one of the books alone: https:/&#
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by Erwin 6y ago
12 Angry Men. My Dinner with Andre. Steve Jobs (a stretch, but much more a play than a movie). There's some play adaptations which have few characters and mostly dialogue: Carnage, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Glengarry Glen Ro
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by Erwin 6y ago
Having moved from Perl to Python many years ago, this is one of those things that Perl has magic to handle, for example: perl -lne '$sum += $_ if /start:/ .. /end:/; END{print $sum}' file.txt With the
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by Erwin 6y ago
Give Google Earth VR a try, on a recent headset. Where Google has captured data by flying over the terrain in aircraft, the effect is astonishing. It's as if Google swept a giant LIDAR over everything, mapping every nook and cranny. I
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by Erwin 6y ago
According to https://www.iatatravelcentre.com/international-travel-docume... New Zealand has a 14 day isolation in a government facility if you enter it.
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by Erwin 6y ago
I'd want the Sculpt (short-travel keyboard) in the split configuration though -- the split, wired seems to have big keys. I'm not sure I understand people that want heavy mechanical keyboards, which for me feels like a throwback t
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by Erwin 6y ago
There have been some weird legal discussions about whether turning on a computer breaks the copyright depending on who does it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAI_Systems_Corp._v._Peak_Comp... .

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