Pete_D

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by Pete_D 7y ago
It's not NN-based, but you might be interested in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superoptimization .
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I remember (but can no longer find) an article on the history of mince pies, which claimed that since foods were exempt from prohibition, people were making mince pies that were so soaked with brandy that they were around 14% ABV.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
My non-technical parents have been Mint for years with minimal problems. One thing that makes life easier is that they were okay with me enabling sshd for the cases when they want me to investigate something for them. (An incidental benefit
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by Pete_D 7y ago
The User-Agent header was a mistake. Servers shouldn't care what my client is, only that it speaks well-formed HTTP.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Mazes for Programmers http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I would suggest sinit for init / supervisor: https://core.suckless.org/sinit/
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by Pete_D 7y ago
They offer data for direct download in finer resolution[0], here are the relevant figures from HS6 rev. 2007 (2008 - 2017) - Product Trade by Year and Country (6 digit depth): $ awk 'NR == 1 || ($1 == 2017 && $2 == "
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Partly firewalls and proxies. If you've not read it already you might be interested in https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3205.txt ("On the use of HTTP as a Substrate"). I wish we still built protocols too.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> By policing who can use software, the author's of this letter are very much going against the spirit of open source. I'd be inclined to agree, but it's a little weird in this case because GitHub itself is proprietary sof
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I don't think trying to solve it materialistically will work, because the moment we come up with an empirical measurement of consciousness, David Chalmers will crash in through a window and say "ah, now consider a hypothetical cla
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by Pete_D 7y ago
The change in dev culture worries me more than the change in technology. At least Flash sites used to be considered bad taste. Dare to grumble about something unnecessarily requiring gratuitous JS now, and you'll get berated as an out-
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by Pete_D 7y ago
This looks fun. I'm stuck on the first one though. "Verify" says my solution works, but when I submit, it says my code failed a test case. Is this intentional, and I failed some hidden test that isn't given in the exampl
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Penicillin and Antibiotics(thoughtco.com)
2 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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Monads, or Programmable Semicolons (2014)(zacharyvoase.com)
75 points by Pete_D 7y ago|71 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
If MS-DOS had enjoyed as much developer attention as the *nix command line experience has over the past couple of decades, that might not be so bad a prospect.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
units, too: $ units -t "sqrt(3^2 + 4^2)" 5 $ units -t "forty rods per hogshead" "miles per usgallon" 0.0019825576 $ units -t "32GB / (1MB/s)" "hours; minutes"
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by Pete_D 7y ago
In this case, RabbitMQ doesn't trust user input - the maximum frame size is negotiated as part of the AMQP protocol. The affected code did have a check that the frame wasn't bigger than the agreed limit, but there was a chance to
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by Pete_D 7y ago
"In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells." https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/...
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The Next Ten Billion Years (2013)(resilience.org)
2 points by Pete_D 7y ago|1 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I figured it was from case + -ette, like a small case.
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That dd trick and the ballad of SIGINFO (2016)(stuff-things.net)
3 points by Pete_D 7y ago|1 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
One example: Arimaa was designed to be hard for computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I'd agree in general, but why think that the Arcan dev doesn't understand Unix? There's nothing in the Unix philosophy that says we have to wed ourselves to the specific weirdnesses of old DEC terminals forever.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Huh, neat. Though I wonder why they didn't just use $PAGER.
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Using Ed (2012)(sanctum.geek.nz)
3 points by Pete_D 7y ago|0 comments
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> A fundamental principle of the Web is that site-specific clients or apps shouldn't be necessary. I think this ship, if it hasn't sailed already, is at least starting its engines and getting ready to leave the harbour. User ag
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by Pete_D 7y ago
I hope chunky bevelled edges come back into fashion soon. The UI in these screenshots looks reassuringly solid somehow, like how you'd expect a tool to feel. Not to mention proper scrollbars.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Goodhart's Corollary to Hanlon's Razor: When an exculpatory heuristic becomes well known, it ceases to be a good heuristic.
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by Pete_D 7y ago
> Some fridges have heaters in the door. It's true. Wow. I had to search this to be sure you weren't kidding: > In ‘single circuit appliances’ and appliances with a 4-star freezer compartment, temperatures are usually regula
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by Pete_D 7y ago
Another way, with target-specific variables (might be a GNUism): special.o: CFLAGS += -Wno-blah %.o: %.c echo $(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $<

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