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by acuozzo 3y ago
No RAII means that allowing early returns in C can increase the likelihood of not performing cleanup along error paths. Consider writing a function called connect() which opens a socket and, if successful, calls setsockopt, bind, and friend
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Anodized Aluminum
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Meh, I imagine there are many "devout" Catholic families like mine that go through all of the motions, but never even think of religion outside of the periodic rituals.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I’ve never heard of anyone on their deathbed wishing they’d spent less time with family and friends, and more time grinding away at work Sampling bias? Those wishing to have spent more time with family & friends likely have family
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> It is literally wasting her time if she didn't enjoy learning it. I didn't enjoy several classes which were prerequisites for my career which I enjoy very much.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
In many American schools Mathematics is taught as if it were composed solely of magic recipes. Students need only to memorize the patterns described in the red boxes in the textbook to pass.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Which is why the words "proof" and "fact" have no place in science. Science is built upon a foundation of falsifiability. The pinnacle of understanding in science is an accepted theory which can, of course, be discarded
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Given the state of the world today, the quote seems almost prescient when you realize that no horse has ever the option to become the coachman no matter how hard he tries.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
An optimistic take: (Paper → … → Scientific Consensus) → Discourse → Popular Media → Management → Improvement?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
I worked many different blue collar jobs in New Jersey as a teenager¹ in the early 2000s and I learned that every blue collar workplace has one or more of these "go-to" persons. They're always there early AND late. They never
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Thank you for naming names. Seriously, thank you. I'm sick of shit-people being shielded by the name(s) of the institution(s) they haunt.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
No, the worst part is the propaganda which forced the medical community to hastily construct a counter-propaganda campaign. The "trust the science" messaging emerged only in response to a tidal wave of nonsense. Do you really thin
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by acuozzo 3y ago
This has existed for years. The programming language is called Employee and it comes stock with a natural language compiler. Fred Brooks wrote a good book on how to hook several Employee installations together to act as a distributed code g
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> time has somehow shrunk to the point of near disappearance "The Magnificence of the Ambersons began in 1873. Their splendor lasted throughout all the years that saw their Midland town spread and darken into a city. In those days,
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Barbara Ehrenreich did that: https://a.co/d/esYwAgq
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by acuozzo 3y ago
How do you scroll to the middle or end of an incredibly-long document? e.g., 200+ pages, if printed.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Brazil exists under the ever-watchful eyes of the United Fruit Company.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> as it is in the US Which is only the case because the then-nascent car industry worked hard to make it so. There's no conspiracy theory here. Lobbying to remove city trolley systems; propaganda to establish and spread the idea of
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Sweden?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Is your inter-machine messaging asynchronous and is it possible for one of your machines to crash?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Nasa does not get more money by having better engineering. But several catastrophic failures in a short timeframe can ensure it gets no money at all!
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> except for what they worked for (or get given from parents) Why should they be entitled to this if it's the law of the jungle? Beavers building a dam aren't entitled to the fruits of their labor. Being entitled to what you wo
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Security is the operating system's job Considering the enormous feature-set of 1981's Intel iAPX 432, perhaps in 2023+ it should be the job of the hardware instead. Lisp Machine 2.0?
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Perhaps OP had a rental with an in-unit AC unit which is pretty common here in the US.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
What kind of distributed systems work? Usenet (servers) are as much of a distributed system as a Hadoop cluster. The same can be said for e.g., DNS vs. Spark.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Software developers tend to like their new toy This depends on the industry, I suppose. Out here on the east coast in the defense industry it's a badge of honor to have a stickered-up 12 year old ThinkPad running a BSD.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Are you the Overcast guy? If so, thank you for keeping the web app up!
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by acuozzo 3y ago
This depends on the industry. It's paid just as well as the others in defense, for instance.
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I see that your parents did a good job by raising enough children who would replace them and keep working Are you a cartoon oligarch or something? We're in overshoot pretending that infinite growth is possible on a planet with fin
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by acuozzo 3y ago
It seems like apathy and, for some, I'm sure it is, but I'd wager that for most it's just a matter of making lemonade. Many Baby Boomers went through something similar in the 1970s when the last of the radical political movem

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