bigtrakzapzap

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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
tl;dr, check these sites: https://www.wikimatrix.org http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines <- origin of the word "wiki" ( http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb ) Having setup the whole At
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
I'm sitting in Paradise, CA right now with only one neighbor's home left visible among dozens. There are about 1/3 as many tall trees (mostly pines 30m/100 ft tall) as before since the loggers have monetized them, P&
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
These shouldn't be used either (_s are available in C11, _l tend to be locale-parameter thread-safety, and _r have sizes/state for bounds/thread-safety): - strtok -> strtok_r / strtok_s - asctime -> strtok_r /
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
No pun intended, I remember IRAM. Then there was Tilera and Tabula (MPPA/MIMD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel_processor_a... .
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
War is a Racket - Smedley Butler (2x Medal of Honor, Marine General)
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
TWW is a great book. Another book on the TPS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915299143 I would look beyond books to seek out great organizers, leaders, and organizations in manufacturing. Dell is another good example. Ther
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
;) Speaking of history and the Cold War, a worthy docuseries to face some uncomfortable facts of the US' post-WW2 behavior: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Even Gorbachev wrote an opinion on the subsequently-
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Isn't the biggest problem of HK people vs. PRC central govt is that the primary goal seems to be getting everyone in HK and the mainland to live by the same laws (regardless of transfer of sovereignty agreements between UK & PRC),
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
I'd like to know how hard it is for other people starting out these days, what's worked for them. I'm not one to ask as I get hounded by Google/Alphabet recruiters every 3-6 months to co-design a role in entry-management
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
No, that's your opinion, not mine. It's a flaw because it creates escaping magic, delimiters that are in-band (spaces) and every program has to know how to parse the output of every other program, wasting human time and processing
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Wow. Impressive usability OOTB. Great job!
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
I remember having a SS 50, 100 & 200 back in the day. And filling up water balloons the old-fashioned way. Now kids have the automatic water balloon fillers and smart phones. Do most kids even still have water fights in the summer or do
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages that encapsulate dat
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Basically, every kernel needs an explicit_bzero() system call because it's very difficult to assure data flow properties of de/initialization without something the compiler cannot optimize away.
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Yes. We went through this same fight with the Clipper chip already, but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats. It's a solved political, human-access issue that doesn't need an easily-hackable
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
This, 1e6 times. CS/EE here and my father had an electrical automotive shop, and my grandfather and did a HeathKit electronics-by-mail course... and I still didn't have a solid grasp of practical electronics until the lives of Dav
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Is that the notorious and difficult-to-find Presto Hotdogger (snausage/tube-steak electrocutioner apparatus)? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=presto+hotdogger
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Big clive on HN. Hurray! He earned my respect from a video on a USB charger with an electrocution risk and why you should never buy cheap USB chargers. https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
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by bigtrakzapzap 7y ago
Yeap. And for average people, that leaves a hollowed-out middle-class and not-yet-automated/underpaid tasks like caregiving, teaching, nursing, police, retail sales, retail foodservice, Amazon warehouse stocking, TaskRabbit and Uber dr