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901.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Whenever you are about to post something, anywhere in general, ask yourself: Why? What are you trying to get out of that? Are you adding meaningful information? Are you trying to advance a particular cause (which can just be a small persona
902.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That's a good point. Given how many apparent preprints I come across, though, I wish they'd just put a date on the front page, too.
903.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I mentioned that in a sibling comment. Of course, what I actually do is just a web search for the paper’s title.
904.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Yes, absolutely. Even in my example in the sibling comment, when I look at the first citation(s) in that paper with no date, I see: "[Cha82][CAC+81][BCKT89][Ber73]". Great, so I guess I at least know that it must not have been pub
905.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Computer Science/Math. Here's an almost completely random example, I literally searched for "graph coloring paper" just because that was a subject I could think of top of my head, and found this as first hit: https:&#x2
906.
by anyfoo 4y ago
To me it feels like more than "sometimes", because I too have wondered the same things, and often searched for titles of papers that I'm reading on the web just to know when it was published. I assume that's because thos
907.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Ah, I only mentioned the idle thing because you also mentioned folding@home (which at least seems like a good use of the cycles; I remember in the 90s there was a thing where people used their idle cycles to break an RC5 key just as a conte
908.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Heh, that is very true, too. For me it was more Game Boy than the NES, but to the same effect. Only Zelda: Link's Awakening gripped me for so long that I would spend entire days playing, but then there were still the times where we tal
909.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That approach used to work well for the past ~20 years or so on Google, and effectively stopped working recent-ish.
910.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Same. I basically gave it a try, and stayed with it. I sometimes feel I should make more use of the advanced features, like lenses, but I'm pretty happy with just regular searches, too. Reminds me a lot of how Google used to be.
911.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I don't like wasting the energy, so I'm not really running anything while it idles (and goes to sleep), but I really appreciate the power that is available when synthesizing/implementing an FPGA design, or when using MATLAB,
912.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I remember, in the days without Internet, only 5 TV channels which weren't always fun, and sub-freezing temperatures in winter (leading to less desire to go outside with friends then), pass-times like "invent your own language&quo
913.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> I have worked with some fantastic "people managers" in my career who don't write code. But they usually faded into the background most of the time, except for when they needed to communicate something or I needed their h
914.
by anyfoo 4y ago
It's interesting. Feels like an answer that someone who didn't know about, or not understand, the concepts of the story (mostly entropy) would give.
915.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> Many people are intimidated by math, but keep in mind that you don’t need to understand everything to use it. This is key. And then if you're like me, you might after all become interested in actually understanding, and something
916.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Did you read the rest? There are significant differences between the typical downtown area of a US city, and what I was describing. In my experience, downtown is not exactly where children get to play on quiet streets. But it is true that I
917.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That is not universally true.
918.
by anyfoo 4y ago
That's one of the reasons I like my low level system programming job (maybe you could call it "embedded"). Of course it has problems of its own, but this particular area is at least a little bit better.
919.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Right, so I guess your city does not have the zoning laws that I'm lamenting here? I even specifically wrote "I don't blame the US, I just hate zoning laws with a passion".
920.
by anyfoo 4y ago
And I grew up in Germany all my life and live in the US now. Maybe "places like suburbs in the US" do exist, though I doubt they are as restricted as the suburbs I'm seeing here, and that you can recognize their nature from a
921.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> Like cleaner air, safer streets, less traffic and a better place to raise a child and/or dog with backyards and privacy. So, like in European cities.
922.
by anyfoo 4y ago
> Are they? Isn't it possible that people who live in beautiful neighborhoods with mature trees, nice big yards, and low traffic streets that are safe for kids to play around, want to keep them that way for primarily those reasons?
923.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Where do you live?!
924.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Before you leave the field entirely, consider that it's bigger than just web development. A bit over 10 years ago, I took a pivot into web development, since there were a lot of offers in that area. After about 2 years or so, and one t
925.
by anyfoo 4y ago
I wondered the same! Not with NeXTCubes, but I used to have a Sony VAIO N505X at the end of the 90s. A beautiful, tiny laptop in a magnesium case.[1] I vividly remembered all these demonstrations of burning magnesium strips in school, and s
926.
by anyfoo 4y ago
As someone who's been living in the US for a while, but who grew up, lived, and worked in Germany all my life before, I'm not sure what you mean. Me and engineers I knew were humans who liked fun (and especially had curiosity), to
927.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Hah. Did you get the job?
928.
by anyfoo 4y ago
The distinction is that buffers are by no means necessarily in-memory copies of files. When you start up emacs, you will have more buffers active that are not backed by files than buffers that are.
929.
by anyfoo 4y ago
Regardless of whether this specific dinosaur is thought to have feathers or not, I was wondering if feathers would survive the fossilization in the first place? Is there anything intrinsic to feathers that would make them different in that
930.
by anyfoo 4y ago
You get a fun reminder of that if you run MWC's Coherence in a vm today. Coherence's idle loop/task does not issue HLT, so you can happily see the CPU core the vm is running on burning away for no good reason.

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