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by blippage 5y ago
I think that programming is the most confused discipline there is. I've mentioned this in previous posts. In any other field there is usually an established body of knowledge, either in science of professions like accountancy. In progr
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by blippage 5y ago
Linux user here, not NetBSD. My exposure to NetBSD is infinitesimal. But ... I saw a video on "rump" kernels awhile back. I also heard that Andrew Tanenbaum ported/is porting Minix to NetBSD. NetBSD has an "anykernel&quo
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by blippage 5y ago
I saw the Robocop (2014) remake on telly the other day. I couldn't help but wonder why the movie even existed. Its production values were vastly higher than the original, but it was just a completely boring movie. It's like the To
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by blippage 5y ago
My mum kept trying to foist a wireless telephone on me, because then I could use the telephone in bed, or whatever. So this goes on for awhile, but the rechargeable batteries never seem to recharge properly, so the phone goes dead a short w
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by blippage 5y ago
An apparently true story: a Brit interviews for a job with an Australian employer. The employer asks "have you got a criminal record?", to which the Brit responds "I didn't know you still needed one."
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by blippage 5y ago
"Is the world getting better or worse? A look at the numbers | Steven Pinker" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCm9Ng0bbEQ tl;dr: it's getting better. We're living longer, homicides are down, fewer wars a
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by blippage 5y ago
I sold my Amiga 600 in late 90's. I bought it in 1993. My previous computer was an Acorn Electron, which had, like 32k of usable RAM. I didn't get much use out of it. A friend said he has an Amiga, and it had 1M of RAM. I was asto
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by blippage 5y ago
> Programming the AVR-8 Arduino it's hard to miss the conclusion that "C sucks" but anything really better (say Supercharged Pascal or a Miracle Macro Assembler) I did see an Ada compiler for the AVR recently (I'm not
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by blippage 5y ago
One commentator remarked, looking back, that the sign that the bull market is at the top is when deals happen that are outrageous even by the standards of the time. The AOL/Time Warner merger is one example, although there would have b
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by blippage 5y ago
A few years ago I tried out VC++ version 4 (??) for a bit of a laugh. And I felt no wonder as to why C++ got such a bad wrap. The MFC classes seemed to have suffered from gold-plating the specifications, and there was all sorts of casting s
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by blippage 5y ago
> I feel like these dangerous aspects of sex work are often ignored in the current zeitgeist of de-stigmatizing, I agree entirely. I heard of one young lady who started an OnlyFans, apparently did quite well, but decided to stop it becau
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by blippage 5y ago
I'm not a Rust programmer, so be gentle with me. What worries me is that when it comes to safety, surely the chain is as strong as the weakest link? You declare one thing unsafe, and then suddenly all bets are off. And maybe you don&#x
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by blippage 5y ago
Looks interesting! I've been interested in audio. I have no electronics background, so I am overwhelmed by the topic. I find there's a lot I don't understand, and a lot of tutorials online don't quite give me an understa
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by blippage 5y ago
Have they tried using money? That can be quite persuasive.
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by blippage 5y ago
In the UK, there's Unfair Contracts.The US is the same, I would imagine. Here's what https://www.lawdepot.co.uk/contracts/non-compete-agreement/ says: "Employers can create a Non-Compete Agreement
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by blippage 5y ago
"So what would this new Pascal like version bring to the table? " The kind of thing I had in mind is for creating Domain Specific Languages - more toy systems than any new earth-shattering paradigm. It's up to the tinkerer. L
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by blippage 5y ago
"but inelegantly." Yes. Bjarne an co. are reluctant, with good reason, to prefer to extend C++ with objects rather than syntax. The reason being: if you've goofed with your object design, everyone can simply ignore the object
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by blippage 5y ago
Talking to myself, but ... I poked around with Logo a couple of years ago. It was invented in 1967. It is a dynamic language, and actually pretty good. I remember thinking that there didn't appear to be any obvious deficiencies in the
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by blippage 5y ago
I used to be excited about learning new languages, but a few years ago I lost interest and decided to consolidate on just one language. That language was C++. C++ gets you most of the way to Python, which is as high as you can go (cue Smug
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by blippage 5y ago
> Could you explain why this is sub-optimal? It's sub-optimal because of the added risk? Suppose my cost of capital is 5%. My current business (selling widget A) is returning 20%. Great, my ROCE is 20%. Now let's say I can&#x27
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by blippage 5y ago
Warren Buffett bought IBM shares in 2011 at $170, and sold them in 2018 at $145. Oops. When he bought, he marvelled at how the CEO was targetting 20% returns on capital. When I heard this, I realised that Buffett had forgotten one of his le
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by blippage 5y ago
Looks like the design was inspired by the old TimeCube site.
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by blippage 5y ago
> Torvalds seems to have done OK for himself, for reasonable values of "rich". My guess: VHNWI (very high net worth individual), defined by Investopedia https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hnwi.asp a
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by blippage 5y ago
No silver bullet. No silver bullet. No silver bullet. As Alan Kay said, programming is a "pop culture", more interested in the latest fads. the fact that we have so many programming languages, many of them relatively recent, prove
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by blippage 5y ago
Undoubtedly I am in the minority here, but I think it's less a question of ethics, and more a question of bad judgement. You just don't submit vulnerabilities into the kernel and then say "hey, I just deliberately submitted a
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by blippage 5y ago
> What's preventing those bad actors from not using a UMN email address? Technically none, but by banning UMN submissions, the kernel team have sent an unambiguous message that their original behaviour is not cool. UMN's name h
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by blippage 5y ago
> S&P 2021 paper did not introduce any bugs into Linux kernel. I used to work as an auditor. We were expected to conduct our audits to neither expect nor not expect instances of impropriety to exist. However, once we had grounds to s
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by blippage 6y ago
Seems to me that the flaw with WebAssembly is that it tries to fix the symptom, not the cause. As such, it's doomed to failure. Just stop festooning a site with pop-ups, trackers, geolocation, subscriptions and all the countless other
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by blippage 6y ago
> So why are economists so much worse than the layman? Part of it might be due to "insider" (not in the illegal sense) knowledge (aka "expert" knowledge) vs "outside" knowledge. In other words, economists ap
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by blippage 6y ago
I can't find it now, but Nassim Taleb gave some interesting stats showing that inflation figures can be low for a long time, but inexplicably explodes. As he said: "Inflation Is Like Ketchup in the Bottle. Nothing Comes out and Th

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