SloopJon

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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is what I'm referring to: > A lot will be from before 2000, before we had things like "Agile" and "unit tests" and "widespread version control", so you can't extrapolate any of their conclusio
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by SloopJon 5y ago
One of the most recent citations (Shull et al. 2002) is freely downloadable: https://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings-article/metrics/20... Its own citations may not be satisfying, but I find it nevertheless
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I don't recall encountering this specific 100x claim, but I do recall Steve McConnell making a similar case early in Code Complete . In chapter three, he has a chart showing that the average cost of fixing defects post-release is 10-
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by SloopJon 5y ago
You're right. I didn't see that text anywhere on the page, but it indeed comes from the title element. It doesn't fit in the tab, but I see it now in the tooltip when I hover over the tab in Firefox.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The current title is "Our lawsuit against ChessBase – Stockfish – open-source Chess Engine", which I found confusing. Is Stockfish being sued? Does it belong to ChessBase? I suggest sticking with the simpler title from the blog
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by SloopJon 5y ago
How does Markdown fill the niche of TeX or Scientific Word? Is there a mathematically oriented fork? You mentioned R Markdown in another comment, but I don't see anything in the gallery that looks germane.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I said that they should. I don't know whether they do. A March 2021 tweet indicated that beta access will be as simple as pressing a "Download Beta" button in the car. A subsequent tweet said that the program had 2,000 owne
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The Twitter thread is lacking in attributions, but I saw most of these some months back after a post about scary FSD behavior. I watched with morbid curiosity, and a rising level of anger. The guy with the white ball cap repeatedly attempt
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I wrote some Unicode generators for RapidCheck that worked perfectly well with GCC and Clang on Unix, but not at all with Visual C++ on Windows. The idea was to generate arbitrary code points within various ranges (ASCII, Latin-1, BMP, etc
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I bought some Corel stock back then, thinking that the company would somehow leverage its stewardship of WordPerfect to Linux dominance. This was back in the days when lawyers didn't trust Microsoft Word to count words reliably. I eve
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I'll give my SSN to a healthcare provider, and maybe a bank. Random vendor using Stripe? Probably not. Edit: to be a little less flippant, what is an example of a Stripe user to whom you would be comfortable giving your SSN?
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is primarily about movies, with music handled by iCloud Music Library. Several years ago, I ripped my CD collection to whole-album FLAC files with CUE sheets using XLD. This works reasonably well in VOX for Mac and foobar2000 for Win
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Although Richard wrote crunch in 2009, he didn't publish it until 2011. Therefore, it doesn't serve as prior art to invalidate the patent. Richard didn't apply for a patent himself, so first-to-invent is not applicable eithe
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by SloopJon 5y ago
This is from 2018, with an update from 2019. It primarily focuses on the Wooting one, which is "sold out forever." The key touted advantage of the Wooting one keyboard seems to be optical switches with an adjustable actuation poi
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by SloopJon 5y ago
A fully split Advantage is a really interesting prospect. I have a Freestyle Edge RGB at home that I really like, and an Advantage at work that I haven't used in over a year. My biggest complaint about the Advantage is the placement o
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I don't have a sense of how big a deal this is, but I had a totally random thought I after I read this: > FDA currently recognizes the high danger of this compound and lists it as a "Class 1 solvent" that "should not
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by SloopJon 5y ago
iStat Menus: > You can tell, since the screenshot of the power draw monitoring utility (iStat Menus) is twice as sharp in the second example.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I got a 16" MBP last year in order to WFH. I could not get it to work with an old 1920x1200 Dell monitor using DVI adapters. Months later I bought a 1440 monitor that works over HDMI and DisplayPort, but the display is fuzzy. I foun
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The types of surprises that I've seen have to do with inferences that the compiler draws: this program would be undefined if foo was negative, therefore foo is not negative, therefore I can optimize away this condition.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
Probably because "+" is a special character in most shells. You'd have to quote the filename every time you did anything with it. Edit: morning brain fart. Actually, I guess "+" is not all that special.
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I thought for sure that someone would have posted a link to that xkcd comic by now. I only dabble with higher-level APIs, so I can't judge this on the merits. If NVIDIA really continues to back this, and follows through on wrapping o
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I've always found the idea of master recordings curious. Once a song becomes a hit, the band may perform it almost every day for the rest of their career, but what we listen to through our headphones or speakers is this one particular
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by SloopJon 5y ago
I've never heard of Cherry switches on a laptop. Apparently this is the first model with Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile switches: https://www.cherrymx.de/en/blog/cherry-mx-ultra-low-profile....
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The paper is here (referenced in the Loom docs.): http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/publications/c11modelcheck.pdf This page describes how to get the code (linked from the paper): http://plrg.ics.uci.edu/softw
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by SloopJon 5y ago
The Github README shows that the public API uses types from Abseil, a library that "promises no ABI stability, even from one day to the next." That seems problematic.
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> You know there are issues, so that is a good thing. That was my thought too. Programming is kind of like American Idol--a lot of programmers don't know how bad they are. The submitter said they failed to accomplish a medium comp
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by SloopJon 6y ago
Interesting coincidence that the earlier submission has 340 points. I'm upvoting this submission for the link to AZdecrypt: https://www.zodiackillersite.com/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3198 Although it's a Windows e
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by SloopJon 6y ago
I haven't seen any pricing on the CMP cards yet. Are you sure they're more expensive?
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by SloopJon 6y ago
It is a sad reflection of 2020 that the Ars Technica system guide is a review of three mainstream prebuilt systems. I looked into the Lenovo, HP, and Dell systems, each of which have showed up on deal sites recently with an RTX 3070, 3080,
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by SloopJon 6y ago
> We are speaking about languages, not which implementations are available. When it comes to adoption, an area where Eiffel has clearly lagged, the availability of implementations can't be an afterthought; not when you have good, fr

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