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by blippage 5y ago
My maths supervisor always had a bunch of papers on his desk. I never figured out how someone with such a logical mind could have so much stuff everywhere. One feature was a huge vertical pile of papers. I always joked that he knew where ev
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by blippage 5y ago
I investigated Gemini a few months back. I had problems either getting the clients to compile or work. dillo-gemini looked cool, but I couldn't get that to work either. After trying a few clients, I eventually gave up.
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by blippage 5y ago
Not only that, but we're now creating devices that depend on remote servers. It's completely obvious what the downsides to this are, yet we embrace it without question. And why are moving to apps that only work online? Networks ar
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by blippage 5y ago
Yes, I'm from UK.
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by blippage 5y ago
When people ask me what I do, I say "computer programmer". I can't be doing with all that job title inflation. Sometimes I just say "programmer", but that seems to confuse people; like I'm the guy who decides a
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by blippage 5y ago
When you go to the doctors, the title "doctor" is a "customary title". They don't hold doctorates. You'll notice that surgeons are usually called "mister". Perhaps it stems from how the two profession
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by blippage 5y ago
TBH, I don't think the annotations add anything. You can simply write " Lap(x | mu, b) = ... where b>0, a scalar parameter. " What is needed is some better way to motivate the concepts behind any maths that is confusing fo
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by blippage 5y ago
This topic has been touched on before, but what I do is use a paper-bound notebook. I number the pages. The topics come in fairly random order. I keep a table of contents at front, and compile an index at the back as I go. After trying this
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by blippage 5y ago
"The Little Book That Beats The Market", by Joel Greenblatt. Why? Because hopefully it will get you interested in saving and investing.
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by blippage 5y ago
Two things I know about bread: Roman soldiers baked bread, using beer as a raising agent instead of yeast, on account of the fast that beer was readily available. A "baker's dozen" is the number 13. This is believed to stem f
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by blippage 5y ago
So, it runs a pretty recent version of NetBSD? That's quite impressive. Isn't that sacrilege, though, not to be running AmigaOS? I did see a YouTube vid last year of an Amiga booting up what I presume to be an old version of Debi
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by blippage 5y ago
> The note-taking apps are good enough. Even pen and paper is good enough. It works for me too! I have a working piece of paper that I jot down notes on, plus whatever I need to do. If the "to do" is "long-term" enoug
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by blippage 5y ago
There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. -- Fred Brooks Sussman summed up
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by blippage 5y ago
I actually enjoyed a maintenance project I was on. There was less time pressure. Finding and fixing a bug is a logic puzzle in its own right. So things can be largely a question of perspective.
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by blippage 5y ago
I heard somewhere that a movie is made three times: once in the writing, once in the filming, and once in the editing.
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by blippage 5y ago
I discovered Zig a few days ago. I'm evaluating it for use with my STM32 microcontroller. A few observations: * it cross-compiles to other architectures without any extra libraries required. The chances are that you've already ins
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by blippage 5y ago
Ubik, by Philip K. Dick. Sirens of Titan, by Kurt Vonnegut.
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by blippage 5y ago
My own suspicions is that we've taken programming as far as it can go. All the big ideas were in invented in 1980 or earlier: subroutines, libraries, functional programming, automatic garbage collection, etc.. We may have refined some
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by blippage 5y ago
"provided that we aren't too dogmatic about how we define 'one thing'" And herein lies the problem. If I define a function that calls two other functions, does the caller do one thing, or is it two? The main() funct
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by blippage 5y ago
This investing tip from UK fund manager Terry Smith: it's easy to beat the market, just buy every company in the index except for the airlines.
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by blippage 5y ago
But if you lower the temperature, the hydrogen increases in density. I haven't read the article, but I presume that the use of hydrogen is a non-starter. No-one wants a flaming fireball raining down on them.
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by blippage 5y ago
Tangentially, libraries for microcontrollers (e.g. nanolib) will typically use sbrk(). To port the library to a new architecture for the memory stuff you usually implement sbrk() yourself, and this will be sufficient for malloc and friends
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by blippage 5y ago
I've never programmed in Ada before, but it seems interesting. Does the Pico version support tasks?
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by blippage 5y ago
So Nerves is an OS written in Elixir designed for applications to be written in Elixir that runs on the Raspberry Pi and microcontrollers? And something something Linux. Can we get an actual description without all the buzzwords like "
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by blippage 5y ago
Yes, I think there are too many. Everyone tends to go for the latest and greatest. The Pi is heading towards becoming a PC replacement, but I'm not sure what advantage that is. Instead of have faster computers, I want a faster OS. Or p
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by blippage 5y ago
I upvoted you, because you know what: you're right. I shake my head at all the tomfoolery that Windows users are expected to go through. Seriously, Microsoft blather on about compelling experience this, rich interface that, but the who
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by blippage 5y ago
I heard an anecdote about when Unix was being written. They decided that they needed an editor, and figured it would take one person a week to do it. Clearly, there was a whole different mindset then than there is now.
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by blippage 5y ago
I'll add that we expect software to work on highly heterogeneous systems, too. If you're working on a bridge, you known exactly the terrain you're required to span. The engineers battle with a lot of integration issues, but a
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by blippage 5y ago
> simpler alternative (Gemini?) I never heard of that before. I'm off to investigate. I've often thought we need to rewind the clock on the internet, as the whole thing has gotten way out of hand. What's to stop feature cr
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by blippage 5y ago
That seems like pure naivete. Two can play that game. A little over a year or so ago I downloaded Firefox. It kept bugging me for updates. But I didn't want these pestering updates. Erstwhile, I could just disable updating with a singl

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