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by anthomtb 3y ago
My mother-in-law once attempted to turn on the ignition while my father-in-law was pumping gas. She was hot and wanted the A/C back on. My wife and I were in the back seat and not pleased by that action. I would think a modern car can
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by anthomtb 3y ago
> Nope, I'm just a skilled fool. Probably learned my skill in the most inefficient way possible You're saying it yourself right here. Just going out and "doing the thing" is not a time-effective way to learn. Nor, on
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by anthomtb 3y ago
> It had opcodes to reverse bits in a bitstring Bit reversal is used in Fast Fourier Transforms. Its not entirely surprising to me that you'd have specialized hardware for that operation. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2
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by anthomtb 3y ago
My phone doesn’t render that corr…oh
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by anthomtb 3y ago
Fort Collins is not near a San Jose or Seattle level of tech employment but then, neither is anywhere else in the USA. Any tech worker who ends up there won't be hurting for employment opportunities, especially if they are willing to c
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by anthomtb 3y ago
Might I ask what scripting-like language does have good support for compiled extensions? Such that you can easily develop on Mac and deploy on Linux? Because it seems to me that once you compile something you are in the awkward world of A
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by anthomtb 3y ago
I very rarely use dd. And thank $DEITY for that, because my typical use case is creating a USB boot drive and then backing up or recovering what I can from a failing disk.
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by anthomtb 3y ago
I was at a motocross place a few years ago when a guy who was doing laps around the pro track came off and pulled up to his truck. Seeing him ride, I would have guessed he was in his 20's. After his helmet came off, he looked about 60.
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by anthomtb 3y ago
What type of racing are you doing? I am stating the obvious here but there is more than one discipline of MTB and switching could give you a jolt of motivation (if you want that jolt).
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by anthomtb 3y ago
> I have now come down to a topic which is very distasteful; it is not sufficient to do a job, you have to sell it. `Selling' to a scientist is an awkward thing to do. It's very ugly; you shouldn't have to do it. The worl
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by anthomtb 3y ago
So there are ways to vet tenants (credit/background checks) and ways to vet landlords (sites like TFA). They are not ideal but they exist. Now what is the best way to vet a property management firm? For background, I own a townhome tha
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by anthomtb 3y ago
TSMC is getting help from customer Nvidia in lithography. The “cuLitho” software and hardware is moving expensive operations to Nvidia GPUs, which will help TSMC deploy inverse lithography and deeper learning, according to C.C. Wei. This
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by anthomtb 3y ago
Maybe its just me but the only way I can make "serious work" interesting is by gameifying it in some way. Eg, can I get this code to compile and pass the test case on the first shot (less of thing with the quality of developer too
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by anthomtb 3y ago
> The entire promise of Uber and Lyft was profitability through scale. > But now, they all want to scale down to be profitable. I am a bit confused by these two statements. In the first, it sounds like you are using "scale"
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by anthomtb 3y ago
I am childfree and 15 years into my career. Over that time span almost everyone I worked with closely has had children. And for the life of me, I cannot think of one instance where it affected their overall productivity. If anything, kids t
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by anthomtb 3y ago
The only reason I have friends as a mid 30's is because of mountain biking. At least where I am, the advocacy groups schedule lots of group activities - rides for all skill levels, trail building days, bi-annual meetups. And folks you
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by anthomtb 3y ago
> and stick with it I think this is the key here. You're going to be the FNG (<expletive> New Guy) for a while. So choose your sport and level wisely. Most leagues that I have come across have at least two, if not three or fou
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by anthomtb 3y ago
I agree, I was just trying to think of how the word "register" comes up in casual conversation. I cannot think of a way that "semaphore" would come up in non-nerd conversation at all.
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by anthomtb 3y ago
I am a native English speaker and never heard the word "semaphore" until taking CS classes in college. I cannot think of a common use for the term, unlike flag (see them all the time), register (do that with cars and schools) or s
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I think you're making a joke. But moving goalposts is an integral part of all professional sports. The 3 point line in basketball and engine size and aspiration in motorsports are obvious examples. I don't see how adjusting chess
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by anthomtb 4y ago
Look at the declarations: char *strcpy(char *dest, const char *src); char *strncpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t n); size_t strlcpy(char *dest, const char *src, size_t size); From that, how do you know that strncpy expects
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by anthomtb 4y ago
> 1. How expensive would these perennial rice strains be (patents)? The cost would have to be ridiculously low by western standards for rural Thai farmers to afford this. The perennial rice strain in question is developed by a non-profit
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I think that's why they used "fallow". Tropical climates do not have cold winters but may have dry seasons where, I would assume, a plant would enter a dormant state.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
None of strlcpy, strncpy, and strcpy will know that you have not provided a string. They will assume the source pointer is a string and as such, will read (and write, in the case of strcpy) bytes until they find that NUL. This is the upside
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I was 30s before I could let myself swear in front of my parents. Who did I learn curse words from? My father, of course. This was more of an individual thing than cultural though. My family is stereotypical North American Protestant, of No
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by anthomtb 4y ago
strlcpy is nice due to the guaranteed NUL termination. strlcpy is not so nice due to the strange (IMO) return value of the number of characters in the source string . Which could be the number of characters copied or much, much larger than
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by anthomtb 4y ago
$25 for 10/10Gbps is crazy cheap. If I were to get 10/10Gbps it would be $250/month. This is using a municipal-run service provider (not particularly common here in the USA) that offers their 1/1Gbps for the relatively f
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I worked with a guy who was reputed as a 10x engineer. After about 6 months on his team it became apparent that he was very good at communicating to his management, very good at writing excess complexity into his code, and very good at prev
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I'm sure there are 10 more articles that, shrunken and laid out in a grid, would look very similar to TFA.
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by anthomtb 4y ago
I'm no expert but sewage seems rather simple in a tall building. You have gravity on your side so you "just" need longer pipes. Its getting the fresh water up that should get exponentially more difficult as building height in

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