PeterWhittaker

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by PeterWhittaker 6mo ago
Looks pretty good, but would love to know this compares to bottom (btm), featurewise. Thanks!
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Especially when you drizzle them with balsamic vinegar!
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Fascinating. Anecdata, sample size 1. If it works for OP, fantastic. Definitely does NOT work for me. My recipe, such as it is: 1. Be gentle with myself every morning. I may wake vaguely human, but consciousness and acuity require coffee, w
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
This comment <s>, maybe? I guess, then, that one of the big benefits of my daily is that we don't swing wildly between WFH and RTO with whatever trend/fashion/panic/wind/fart is in the zeitgeist/ether&#x2
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Like I said to a friend, I know just enough category theory to know that I do not understand. Perhaps upon Nth reading.
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
My guess is that no one ever bothered to define hash(nan), which should, IMHO, be nan. nan isn't anything. It's an early attempt at None when no/few (common) languages had that concept. That python allows nan as an index is j
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Interesting article, but it compares apples to a fruit stand: The approach could be improved by comparing Capsicum to using seccomp in the same way. Sometime ago I wrote a library for a customer that did exactly that: Open a number of resou
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
The actual title of the short uses the word "automate", French for "automaton"; I suspect NPR simply used the more familiar word in their headline for clarity.
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
> Sorry, we don't accept code contributions and direct you to the original libxml2 project. This has me puzzled to the point of being dumbfounded: If libxml2-ee has fixed many security and other flaws in libxml2, then what's th
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
> formulas. We aren't speaking latin here. Define "here", please! Perhaps your "here" and mine differ, but the view from my here is that while all three plurals are generally acceptable, formulae is the correcter
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Re determinism: that's what we'd like to believe, but it's true only if we redefine input to include overall build and execution context, and the latter is generally unreproducible. Over the last few years I've seen plen
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Thoroughly insightful take!
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
I enjoyed the article, though I do have to pick nits with: > Software used to be deterministic Ah, someone fortunate enough to have never coded a heisenbug or trip over UB of various causes. I've written plenty of well structured, w
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
One important and often overlooked democratization is spreadsheet formulas: non-programmers began programming without knowing they were, and without concern for error and edge cases. I cannot find the reference right now, but I recall seein
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by PeterWhittaker 7mo ago
Interesting. I built a sort-of-similar system for executing a series of linked, serially-dependent system commands from the TUI used to manage some of our secure appliances. It made writing and debugging such sequences much easier: each com
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by PeterWhittaker 8mo ago
Huh. Commented upon echo chambers and cults and was told "Request failed: fetch failed". Tried a private session as well, just in case my previous UBI comments had polluted things, but no love. Was it the length? FWIW, here's
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by PeterWhittaker 8mo ago
There are some applications/systems for which certifying bodies forbid the use of web management because of vulnerabilities in both the protocols and the clients and servers. For example, in my daily, several national cyber organizatio
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
While I still struggle to think in Rust after years of thinking in C, it is NEVER the borrow checker or lifetimes that trip me, it's the level of abstraction, in that C forced me low level, building my own abstractions, while Rust allo
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
Actual title: You Have to Know How to Drive the Car. Actual theme: LARGE tech companies suck. Declared subject: you have to know how tech companies work Actually subject: you have to know how large-and-or-disfunctional-and-or-sales-or-finan
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
Perhaps I am too much of a curmudgeon, but the example first sentence made me not care at all - not about Venice, but about the writer's approach, which seems to want to conjure breathless mystery about something I could easily look up
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
Definitely false, at least historically. The original FIPS only required HW at levels 3 and 4, "required" in the sense that levels 1 and 2 were quite doable in software (level was/is no authentication to the CM, letting it be
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
Exactly! Another, semi-related difference between the cultures: When Alexander chooseEitherOrBothOf(provided instructions, gave orders) during the Sicilian campaign, American generals took them as orders and did them, sometimes to their det
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
The article and the comments herein remind me a conversation a few years ago with an ex RAF pilot who had done a few exchanges with the USAF. Among other things, pilot/personnel evaluations in the two organizations were worlds apart. I
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
I'd argue that Coe is more than competent, just, you know, detached most of the time. Lamb always knows what needs be done, just never shares, and often lets things happen until what needs be done happens on its own or is inevitable. C
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
As a math loving programmer who acts, I can assert with confidence that both programmers and mathematicians are downright hoarders compared to theatre people. If you are lucky enough to enter that world, be prepared to be overwhelmed.
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
How is that dissonance? The best you can hope for, in order, are: 1) not having to work, for whatever reason, and having personally meaningful interests with which to fill your time; (two-way-tie) 2a) not having to work, 2b) having to work
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About time: Setting up ctags for Vim and Git(peter-whittaker.com)
2 points by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago|1 comments
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
I've been a vim user for decades, a git user for years, but somehow I never got around to setting up ctags - watching my colleagues jump from function call to function definition was one of the few things that made me envious about VSC
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by PeterWhittaker 9mo ago
I left my then-spouse at 51. I had no expectations for any future relationships, I just needed to protect myself by getting out of that one. (I'm skipping details as a) they are not germane to this post and b) there is no way I could p
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by PeterWhittaker 10mo ago
Cross-domain systems programming, mostly C, moving everything in the transfer path to Rust. Unidirectional gateways with OEO diodes and complete protocol breaks, working on FPGA diodes with embedded filtering. Guards, high assurance filters

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