Xophmeister

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by Xophmeister 2y ago
My anecdata shows people who have no/limited experience in software engineering are suddenly able to produce “software”. That is, code of limited engineering value. It technically works, but is a ultimately an unmaintainable, intractab
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
It’s a metaphor.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
But surely B&W TVs only exist with analog tuners?
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Since the switch to digital, presumably there’s no longer and signal for B&W TVs.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
I’m glad the subtitle was included. “Knocker upper” has a very different meaning to me.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
> In Europe, British English is used as a reference point Anecdotal counterpoint, but… I’m a British English speaker, but many of my colleagues are Continental Europeans, for whom English is their second language. Part of my job involves
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
It's a bit like the old saying, "All models are wrong, some models are useful." The concept of a "word" is useful in everyday language, particularly in English -- it's host language, unsurprisingly enough -- an
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
I don't think that's how containerisation works. It uses the host machine's kernel, so unless Docker has been ported to OS2, there's no way to run OS2 inside Docker.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
pkg-config --list-all
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
There’s an issue for this :) https://github.com/tweag/nickel/issues/357
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
This is probably a naive question, but how do two processes share address space? mmap?
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
This can’t be an exhaustive list. A major company (80k+ employees) whom I was recently contracting for was affected and they are not on the list.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
I used to live in an area with a similar system for rubbish (near Wembley Stadium, in north west London). While it worked, it suffered from a number of “quality of life” issues. The chute terminals had quite a small aperture, with a sealed
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
A number of people have commented that they’ve never experienced a filename with `\n`, or other weird characters, in the wild. On the contrary, I’ve seen this many many times, to the point that I’m defensive about how I write scripts, to co
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
It's true on Linux.
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by Xophmeister 2y ago
Karma’s a bitch: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-68...
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
The way my clipboard-clearer worked would have exposed* the plaintext secret if it wasn't hashed. Surely this would be generally true; however, in my case, it would have been particularly trivial to exfiltrate. (* The clipboard exposur
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Presumably the costs for a platform are passed on to the platform's customers from that platform's cloud provider (with profit). When a spike happens due to, say, a DDOS, does the platform first have to negotiate with the cloud pr
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
I wrote a CLI password manager as a personal project a few years ago and it would only clear the clipboard if the hash of the contents matched the hash of what was originally copied. I presume `pass` does something similar.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
> Sounds better than a city full of shops designed to separate people from their money buying stuff they don’t need. London has plenty of those.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
The International Phonetic Alphabet might be a good contender. There’s no periodicity, but the columns for the consonants roughly represent place of articulation. The spacial arrangement of vowels is even closer to where in the mouth the so
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
That’s the spirit! The environment’s not going to destroy itself, dammit!
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CLI user experience case study(tweag.io)
179 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|159 comments
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Chief Justice John Roberts on AI and the Judiciary(matthewbutterick.com)
3 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
This is an IO bound problem. Trying to "go faster" by using multiple threads or vectorisation isn't going to achieve much.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
There’s a link at the top that toggles examples and discussion.
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Isn't this (more-or-less) what happens nowadays: When you die, with no one to inherit your assets, whatever's left is acquired by the government?
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
Time is a dependency like any other, so use dependency inversion. (Which I think is advocated by TFA’s approaches 4 and 5.) Define an interface for timers, which is injected into the object that depends on time. Use a wrapper implementation
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"I slow-cooked the fox overnight"(theguardian.com)
1 points by Xophmeister 3y ago|0 comments
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by Xophmeister 3y ago
I can raise this internally.

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