andrewf

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by andrewf 4y ago
I don't think it's a coincidence that software lifetime has converged to the time it takes an initial stock grant to vest.
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by andrewf 4y ago
Are there consultancies that specialize in this kind of thing? "Help us kick this legacy can down the road the bit, nobody here understands it and it's not worth hiring for." Asking because I enjoy this sort of work :)
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by andrewf 4y ago
The bitstream format for Gzip files (PKZIP's "deflate") was established in 1993. In comparison, the much newer Zstd doesn't represent a different tradeoff between compression time / decompression time / size; i
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by andrewf 4y ago
I use ziplock bags and boxes. I try to distinguish between stuff that's "in use" and "in storage". For your needs I'd add a DYMO label maker and a spreadsheet. Future preservationists will probably thank you fo
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by andrewf 4y ago
Yeah a delete checkbox would make sense. I've seen that in the past, and evidently forgot about it. A specific horror show I remember was a Netflix-like DVD shipping service, where you maintained an ordered list of DVDs you'd like
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by andrewf 4y ago
The speed of light isn't getting any faster. Examples: https://www.cloudping.co/grid I'd be wary of taking asynchronous actions and making them synchronous. For instance, if you had a list of items each with a del
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by andrewf 4y ago
Nice :) It's really slow but it'd be neat to see GEM come up.
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by andrewf 4y ago
Not for the last time :) https://go.googlesource.com/go/+/refs/tags/go1.19.4/src/runt...
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by andrewf 4y ago
I suspect this might be path dependency / "we're just teaching these courses the way we always have." In the US there has been a push towards teaching using modern, practical languages. It was previously more common for
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by andrewf 4y ago
What made it click for me is "Python packaging" means "how to install everything that I want to use from Python." I wouldn't have considered "how to get BLAS onto a system" to be a "Python packaging&q
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by andrewf 4y ago
I feel the title buries the lede here - they forked DOSBox-X and implemented support for remote debugging the virtual machine with GDB!
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by andrewf 4y ago
Is it Elijah Miller's https://www.homebrew8088.com/home/raspberry-pi-second-projec... or something else? I ask because I'm interested (for no good reason :P) in automating 808x bus traces like http:/&#x
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by andrewf 4y ago
I thought The Goal was more generally applicable. Its core idea ("theory of constraints") is described in terms of a factory floor where different workstations have different throughputs/latencies/reliability; you could
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by andrewf 4y ago
Looking through https://www.acgov.org/rovresults/rcv/248/ the largest RCV race was for Oakland mayor, with ~125k votes. Most races had <20k votes. An Australian lower house district averages ~105k votes, t
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by andrewf 4y ago
How many people vote in Alameda county? Was building software to automate the counting really more efficient than doing it by hand with piles of ballots? In Australia RCV for a single electorate is done by hand. Each candidate can nominate
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by andrewf 4y ago
Some people have been maintaining a GCC with 16-bit DOS support for a few years now. It started as near pointer only (so only tiny/small memory models) but now has far pointers and some memory model support. I haven't really used
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by andrewf 4y ago
You need the 32 bit libraries, but it all runs under a 64-bit kernel alongside 64-bit processes on the same system, right? EDIT: More details at https://www.codeweavers.com/support/wiki/Diag/BrokenLDT16 . I s
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by andrewf 4y ago
The Empire Strikes Back was the biggest-budget indie movie ever. Lucas didn't want to be beholden to the studios so he didn't take their money.
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by andrewf 4y ago
Are you running any virtual machines on your desktop? Because "My machine is 10.0.0.2 but there's something on the same physical host communicating as 10.0.0.3" is what it'd look like if a virtual machine with a "br
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by andrewf 4y ago
You might be interested in this Computer History Museum oral history of Gary Davidian, who among other things (1) worked on the "rival project" from Soul (2) was hired by NEC to bolster their lawsuit defense by writing microcode
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by andrewf 4y ago
Soul , Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and Masters of Doom are my three favorite "computer product development heroics" narratives and I think they all describe toxic workplaces by the standards of 202
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by andrewf 4y ago
Neat, thanks!
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by andrewf 4y ago
I'd be interested in reading the source, but links to the source code seem to be dead (domains bought up by dodgy parking page types)
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by andrewf 4y ago
What are they trying to improve? Stability? Time from change request to change appearing in production? Developer velocity over time? Sometimes you'll hear things like "this will cost an extra $1000/month but make hiring and
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by andrewf 4y ago
There's 4DOS descendent Take Command: https://jpsoft.com/
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by andrewf 4y ago
So we can give them each their own /64 is what I'm hearing
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by andrewf 4y ago
But what about folks who want to give their 386DX system a speed boost with RapidCAD? Will they have to re-install their OS? :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM4NPh5qg8Y But seriously this stuff is very subtle. An issue (
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by andrewf 4y ago
EVGA is not obligated to allow the retailer to sell using EVGA's trademark I'm not an expert, but I imagine nominative use would be ok? i.e. you'd be able to run an ad saying "EVGA RTX-3080-DSFHDSFG - $999" or sho
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by andrewf 4y ago
Having thought about it a bit more - I'm not sure what motivation I'd have to sell then immediately DCA back in, my position would end up in the same place! If at the beginning of 2022, I'd had a crystal ball saying "sto
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by andrewf 4y ago
If you liquidate your portfolio you're going to have to recognize (pay tax on) capital gains.

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