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by bstpierre 4y ago
I’ve worked for various network/telco equipment providers over the course of 20+ years, and there have only been a couple of cartoonishly evil moments that I can recall. Certainly not to the level of thinking that I needed to quit to s
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by bstpierre 4y ago
> One cohesive program designed to all work together sometimes just makes more sense Yes, your example of find|grep is perfect for this. Sometimes (not often) I have a situation where a simple pipe combination doesn’t work and I have to
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by bstpierre 4y ago
At least twice during my career I’ve had to shrink some binary output so it can fit onto a fixed size part in some embedded system. Once it was a FTTX CPE, and it needed to ship but the binary was a couple KB too big. The programmer on the
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Amdahl’s law says we’re only going to get marginal improvements in a lot of cases. But that’s ok because sometimes marginal improvements still pay off. Increasing efficiency doesn’t always mean shorter runtime, sometimes it means more produ
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I suspect this is tongue in cheek, but passing tests aren’t really the computer’s feedback. They’re feedback from Past You, who wrote the tests. The computer is just performing the tests. The tests might be incomplete or even wrong. The cod
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Vermont Public did a story a while back covering the Vermont aspects of this—Space Research Corp and Gerald Bull. Interesting story. https://www.vermontpublic.org/podcast/brave-little-state/202...
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by bstpierre 4y ago
People are asking if this kind of information is useful at all, because it does seem to be stating the obvious. However, as a coach, I’ve found that a lot of kids don’t move well. Probably a third to half of twelve year olds have very eas
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by bstpierre 4y ago
My somewhat limited understanding is that coppicing or especially pollarding requires significantly more labor input. Modern timber harvesting is very highly industrialized. I have never seen any kind of machinery or industrial processes fo
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by bstpierre 4y ago
This paper describes an interesting approach to fixing that failure: https://users.ece.utexas.edu/~gligoric/papers/NieETAL19TrigI... Occasionally I have had luck by embedding assertions in C code that fail when th
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by bstpierre 4y ago
> You could power the earth exclusively on the smug I would like to learn more about smug-powered systems. Do you have some links I should read?
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s a large proportion, but I’ve seen this at multiple companies over the course of 25 years. It manifests in 2-3 different ways that I’ve seen. Sometimes they can code, but slowly and their output is unacceptable. This crea
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Only 2k in donations, but they offer paid support. https://www.openssl.org/support/contracts.html
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by bstpierre 4y ago
If you’ve been asked to help troubleshoot or fix a broken system then it’s not really unsolicited. Often if I’m the person who is stuck I’m totally willing to let a new set of eyes offer all of the “obvious” things that have already tried,
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I had the same reaction while reading it. It would be interesting to know what the abandonment rate is lower in the funnel, maybe after someone creates an account. Because I have also clicked apply on jobs where I have no real interest but
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by bstpierre 4y ago
It often feels like “teams” of 1.5 work really well. Basically this is one person doing the work, with one other person who is very much in the loop but not actually on the hook. The worker is getting the job done, and the consultant is off
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by bstpierre 4y ago
The question in this context is whether it’s an effective public health measure to recommend the procedure to a population : specifically, does it reduce the number of deaths over a given period? Whether it’s effective on an individual bas
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by bstpierre 4y ago
These kinds of calls should really just be emails. Forcing a synchronous meeting to essentially fill in a form is dumb.
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by bstpierre 4y ago
> these are great places to look for high impact opportunities I didn’t read the article so much as saying to grind through the dirty work, but to look at the existence of dirty work as a chance to (a) fix someone’s pain, preferably a lo
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Agree with sibling comments; tags aren’t worth much to me. The best outcome I’ve had for finding stuff in notes related to a particular concept is just by grepping through my notes, which are just plain text (and/or markdown) files, in
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by bstpierre 4y ago
From the faq: Can I post a job ad? Please don't post job ads as submissions to HN. A regular "Who Is Hiring?" thread appears on the first weekday of each month (or Jan 2). Most job ads are welcome there. Only an account calle
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by bstpierre 4y ago
The alternative doesn’t need to be central planning You could even make an argument that some of the current US problems are caused by central planning, for example in the form of tax code based incentives or major spending packages Anoth
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I had a similar experience with “ Modern Compiler Implementation in ML”… but I didn’t slog through it, I switched to ocaml and ported everything as I went. I’m sure an LSP would have been helpful. https://www.cs.princeton.edu&#x2
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I've been on ddg for years, have it defaulted in all my browsers/machines, and I can't remember the last time I used !g. Not sure what you mean about immediate results though... if I search for, say, "10C in F" I ge
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by bstpierre 4y ago
In 1998 I was bringing up a new MIPS-based board that had been designed in-house The CPU booted from an EEPROM and started running code. There was an FPGA on the board that controlled the memory. The FPGA needed to be loaded with a bit-stre
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by bstpierre 4y ago
My CS (or EE?) class did this in 1996 with a Z80 board
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I first learned this from python docstrings, which can include testable examples. I think rust improves on how it’s achieved, but I’m more familiar with how go does it. Whichever language you use I agree that it’s a great way to ensure that
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by bstpierre 4y ago
I had the same reaction, though for me I have a bunch more tshirts, most of which I didn’t pay for. I just keep two piles of shirts on my shelf. In the morning I take the top shirt off the “active” pile. Clean shirts from the laundry go on
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by bstpierre 4y ago
If you really want a deep understanding of git, it's not actually that hard to reimplement a few very basic operations in your language of choice. I'm not saying _everyone_ should do this, but it's a way to level-up your unde
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by bstpierre 4y ago
With S3 you don't even need lambda to do something like this S3 has some setting where you can log activity on a bucket into another bucket But that setting allows you to set the destination bucket to be the same bucket that you'r
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by bstpierre 4y ago
Not a knock against crocodile, which looks like a nice set of improvements over gh, but something I’d like to see done better in any code review system is significantly better code navigation. For any PR that is nontrivial I will pull it lo

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