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by alblue 6y ago
He would probably say “you are right; the Heisenberg uncertainty principle means that you cannot know both the electrons position and momentum exactly due to quantum uncertainty”
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The LinkedIn Clipboard Bug Was a Bug(infoq.com)
2 points by alblue 6y ago|0 comments
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Disabling Google 2FA doesn't need 2FA(infoq.com)
1 points by alblue 6y ago|0 comments
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by alblue 6y ago
One of the biggest limitations of the RaspberryPi is that it’s only got one network port, so that rules out running it as an OpenWRT router for practical reasons. Does anyone know of a similar miniature board with multiple network ports tha
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by alblue 6y ago
Actually the JIT compiler often outperforms native code when hot because the latter doesn’t typically get compiled with PGO and the JIT is effectively PGO at runtime. In addition, the JIT can perform optimisations that a native compiler can
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by alblue 6y ago
The UK has recently ended its coal-free streak for power generation; up until a few days ago we had been coal free for 67 days, the longest time since the start of the industrial revolution. https://twitter.com/alblue/s
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by alblue 6y ago
I wrote a series of blog posts covering how the intervals of git works; I posted a summary here for reference: https://alblue.bandlem.com/2011/12/git-tip-of-week-finale.ht... If you’re interested in how commits, t
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by alblue 6y ago
Does Amplifi require some cloud login before you can use it? One of my annoyances recently is that the WiFi providers have an iOS app but require you to log into their servers to configure the thing on your local network.
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by alblue 6y ago
I don’t have a particularly common surname but used to get emails from a teacher in Alabama about her vacation days. In the end I managed to track her down at the school from google and asked her to update her email address on file, and hav
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by alblue 6y ago
Specifically in this case, he is creating a set of constant pool entries in the class, which are indexed from 1..n rather than 0..n-1, so if you have a constant pool that needs to hold 10 items, you have to declare 11 in the count of the co
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by alblue 7y ago
My kids are really into Weird Al and we have almost all of his tracks on CD or iTunes. I’ve even taken them to see him live in London. They may not appreciate the references to the original songs but they can still enjoy the songs for what
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by alblue 7y ago
The slides are at https://speakerdeck.com/alblue/understanding-cpu-microarchit... if you prefer to read through that way. Happy to answer any questions here.
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Understanding CPU Microarchitecture to Increase Performance(infoq.com)
3 points by alblue 7y ago|1 comments
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by alblue 7y ago
While there’s nothing technically stopping them from being able to work remotely, in practice there are local regulations in place which means traders can only operate from the business location itself, using phone lines with recorded featu
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by alblue 7y ago
The BBC are re-releasing the episodes as from tonight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000g55m/episodes/guide
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by alblue 7y ago
This is just one of the many things wrong with the Java Date API: https://stackoverflow.com/a/1969651/130659
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by alblue 9y ago
Yes, they are still there and running the demos - I watched them there on Saturday.
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Remembering Shawn Pierce, Prolific Git Contributor(sfconservancy.org)
3 points by alblue 9y ago|0 comments
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Oracle Extends Java SE Public Updates and Java Web Start Support(blogs.oracle.com)
5 points by alblue 9y ago|0 comments
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by alblue 9y ago
In most languages, the name of the meat is the same (or similar to) the animal it comes from. In English, the name of the meat was derived from the French aristocrats who were running the country hundreds of years ago, and while peasants re
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by alblue 9y ago
Source? The Swift project's initial commit[1] was 6 months before Kotlin's initial commit[2], so I fail to see how something started six months earlier could have taken its early inspiration from a language that didn't exist
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by alblue 9y ago
I've been a First Aider (on and off) since University days. I've been a First Aider at Work for quite a lot of the time as well. Never had to treat anything too serious but it's a good skill to have. The change to my life cam
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by alblue 9y ago
Several years ago I answered a question on StackOverflow "what's wrong with the date and time api in Java" http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1969442/whats-wrong-with-... Considering how long ago it
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by alblue 9y ago
Bollocks. The UK has a live feed of the makeup of the power plants that is updated on this website every 15 minutes. http://www.gridwatch.templar.co.uk/
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by alblue 10y ago
They have since been published at the above link: https://swift.org/builds/swift-3.1-release/ubuntu1610/swift-... https://swift.org/builds/swift-3.1-release/ubuntu1604/swift-...
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by alblue 10y ago
There is a tag for the release, called swift-3.1-RELEASE: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/swift-3.1-RELEASE It's not showing up on GitHub's UI nor search for me at present, which may be why it s
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by alblue 10y ago
You might also like my presentation on the history of Unicode, explaining where it (and other codes like it) came from. https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history
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by alblue 10y ago
I gave a talk on the origins of Unicode a while ago (now published on InfoQ at https://www.infoq.com/presentations/unicode-history if you're interested) where I talked about ASCII, and where that came from in the
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by alblue 10y ago
There's an Enigma Machine on display in the centre of Milton Keynes this weekend https://twitter.com/alblue/status/823105879847370752 , as part of the celebrations of MK's 50th anniversary. Bletchley is a
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by alblue 10y ago
Yup, I talked about this (and the origins of ASCII and why Ctrl+M is new line etc) in a talk I gave at the end of last year entitled "A brief history of Unicode". The video recording has just been published on InfoQ: https:/

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