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721.
by bjackman 7y ago
Yeah although we would probably have said "two eight zillion" not "twenty eight zillion", and in the kind of conversations we'd have, it wouldn't really matter. "Where is the stack base supposed to be?&quo
722.
by bjackman 7y ago
Much less interesting but I've worked in teams where "zillion" is a shorthand for "followed by all the zeroes that fit in a word of the size we're talking about". So 8 zillion is 0x80000000 if we're talkin
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by bjackman 7y ago
I actually recommended this to her already - the book (The Elements of Computing Systems) of the same course was the first programming text I ever read. Really enthralling!
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Ask HN: What book to read to get a footing in CS theory?
306 points by bjackman 7y ago|82 comments
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by bjackman 7y ago
I saw a quote I liked recently (on a different topic but applies here too): We don't need a few hundred thousand perfect vegetarians, we need billions of imperfect ones.
726.
by bjackman 7y ago
As someone who currently works in wireless comms I think we can say "5G" is a pretty meaningless term. I presume, as you suggest, it originally referred to the new LTE but honestly the definition "literally any wireless tech
727.
by bjackman 7y ago
I think the fact that the crossbar is not connected directly to the headtube (part where the fork & handlebar assemblies pivot) would also cause a problem!
728.
by bjackman 7y ago
Oh that's great, my mistake!
729.
by bjackman 7y ago
The board doesn't have upstream kernel support (like almost all SBCs unfortunately) so unless a) the Mali on the ODroid is included in this support (Different Mali generations have quite different interfaces) and b) the Mali support wa
730.
by bjackman 7y ago
I don't agree with your first point, but it sounds like the basis for a coherent argument. However I think your second point is arguing against a statement the article doesn't make at all. The article is really arguing about makin
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by bjackman 7y ago
But your council tax bill has your real name on it, right?
732.
by bjackman 7y ago
In Vietnamese there are at least 4 different relationships that we call "uncle" (father's/mother's older/younger brother) in English! I have no idea how you refer to cousins. My teacher told me when he visits f
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by bjackman 7y ago
I also couldn't highlight text in Firefox for Android
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by bjackman 7y ago
This is only a problem with the cheaper Zuul-style units, which use disposable parts with vendor lock-in. Even with those, I'd not automatically believe that they are more polluting than cigarette butts.
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by bjackman 7y ago
Warming up the page cache is in fact already done on modern systems: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man8/ureadahead.8... I'd agree that making ureadahead more aggressive would indeed make mor
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by bjackman 7y ago
Yeah I wondered if instead of maintaining a global ordering of all requests, it wouldn't be better to just require timestamps in requests that will need to be ordered. Then you only need partial orderings, which you can resolve when ma
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by bjackman 7y ago
I wonder if part of what makes it work is luck of the draw wrt. the microbial life that was present at the start. You need stuff that will break down the dead plants at a good enough rate but nothing that competes for resources or produces
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by bjackman 7y ago
To this day in Chinese and related cuisines there is a technique for chemically preserving eggs: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg They're quite odd!
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by bjackman 8y ago
Yes, I recently switched my org to using Zuul for this purpose; by having an internal speculative queue of future states for master you can have multiple pending changes tested at once, while also ensuring that the tested code is exactly wh
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by bjackman 8y ago
Nokia (recent, it's really a Chinese company). Also I'm in Vietnam.
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by bjackman 8y ago
Have just tested. I get "Failed to send tweet" if sending from Android client, and I leave in the page preview when composing the tweet. - It works fine from web interface, problem is specific to Android - The problem doesn't
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by bjackman 8y ago
I think the thing that the article is trying to communicate is that people misrepresent whom a VPN protects you from, and how. It protects you in many ways from your ISP and your government. It does not really protect you from Facebook or G
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by bjackman 8y ago
Just as a data point: I tried vertical display but didn't like it because I like to have two panels of code open next to each other on the same monitor a lot of the time. E.g. if I'm calling a function I love to be able to have it
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by bjackman 8y ago
I'm lucky enough never to have been in hospital myself, but FWIW: I was recently on the jury in a coroner's inquest. A patient had died suddenly in his sleep in hospital. The solicitor whose agenda was to make the hospital look ba
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by bjackman 8y ago
The actual CPU core designs are licensed from Arm (another commenter said they're Cortex A72s).
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by bjackman 8y ago
Related: I've explained the difference between "damp" and "humid" to bemused Italians on a couple of occasions.
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by bjackman 8y ago
I have been using a bike sharing service for a couple of months. I'm a cyclist anyway but am temporarily without a bike of my own. It's very convenient. > There's a pretty narrow window between a distance that's too f
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by bjackman 8y ago
This is wonderful. By "S.W. Foss" as well...
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by bjackman 8y ago
I don't think either of those companies have their own CPU cores though (they use Cortex).
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by bjackman 8y ago
If you have a flip-flop atom then you can do some meaningful stuff; IIRC the gate-level circuit simulator that the Nand To Tetris course uses can't handle this stuff, and you can still build a CPU. I guess it just depends at what level

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