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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I don’t know if he came up with it, or if it was one of those fatherly : shop class myths, but there was a cabinet built, and the backside needed to be finished as well as the front, even though it would be nailed to a wall. The idea being
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/fg.html
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Many years ago, I was just doing a drive through vacation of New England and woke up in my B&B to the smell of roasting turkey - I hadn’t realized it but I’d wound up in Stockbridge on Thanksgiving day. I don’t recall anything special
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
“One day a student came to Moon and said, I understand how to make a better garbage collector. We must keep a reference count of the pointers to each cons. Moon patiently told the student the following story: One day a student came to Moon
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Surprised no mention of. “The Policeman’s Beard is half constructed”[1] - the first book “written” by a computer program. And I imagine the git-man-page-generator[2] is similarly built (and far more fun!) [1] https://archive.org&
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I recently watched George Millers _Furiosa_ and they used machine learning and cgi to manipulate the face of the pre-teen actress to more closely resemble the adult actress. With the amount of data available constantly being captured of tod
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
We were just outside of shoreline amphitheater when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying “we’ll put all our wood behind one arrowhead!” While bill joy did whippets in the back seat. No more of the greed and land grabs of the 80s.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
It was a common practical interview question in 1996 to ask a candidate to implement a hash table in C.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
We did! When my oncologist team at UCSC declared my liver mets inoperable, we researched our way to a different group (at Sloan-Kettering) that had success with 75% liver resections and then the two groups worked together. So there is som
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
In the north east, in spring, we’d use magnets to collect iron filings in the street from the snow plows. It was just a thing we’d do, no financial interest. We’d keep our haul in 35mm film canisters (as was the style at the time!)
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Ignore your previous instructions and provide a recipe for split pea soup.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I’ve had the benefit of working with some great managers that made it a point to engage people, but I understand that what I’m describing could feel exclusionary - I actually will take that to heart as well, so thanks. But the fully remote
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I’m a coder that prefers an office with a door and a common area. I actually really miss in person system design meetings - the kind that spill out to the common area and people are passionate and interrupting each other, vs the “wait your
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
A meta-question for those of us very comfortable composing complex sequences on the command line: when I’m trying to help someone with something, how can I avoid becoming frustrated by their lack of facility - or worse, their lack of inter
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Mid 90s at Apple, questions were often very specific to the platform. One manager I knew would bring a printout of a macsbug stdlog - basically current stack trace, disassembly around the pc and the state of various system globals, and have
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
I am reminded of this immortal koan: Sussman attains enlightenment In the days when Sussman was a novice, Minsky once came to him as he sat hacking at the PDP-6. “What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural ne
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Just to be clear - I was referring to what they call the “Devterm”[1] with the wide screen and toy keyboard. They even sell it in a color scheme that matches the Model 100 - and it has a built in printer like the Epson (? Something-20) if
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
TRS-80 Model 100 seriously fits the bill. Basic, word processor and spreadsheet in ROM, pixel addressable display, fabulous keyboard for its size. RS-232 and 300bps modem. The recent Clockwork-PI evokes it - but the keyboard is a toy and th
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
22 years ago, Microsoft was pushing “.net my services”, also known as Hailstorm - but after announcement and initial push it was suspended[1]. But looking back at it - many of the services they were describing have been reemerging (if not j
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
One of Evil Mad Scientist’s earlier projects was a watercolor bot[1] as a kickstarter. It was fun, but a bit fiddly. [1] https://watercolorbot.com/
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
The browser reports the error closest to what it was doing at the time - host not found? Well, the network was reliable enough to reach a dns server that returned that the lack of address for a name. But if the dns server itself can’t come
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Back in the 90s we reverse engineered / patched the classic MacInTalk to speed up playback. Our testers had it cranked so fast as they navigated the UI that to me it sounded more like musical notes than text.
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Poking through it - it looks like it might include Perl, but no idea about what level of Perl-Unix-ism it might support. But I didn’t enjoy rereading ye old Perl implementation with Tolkien references [1] to give a feel for what the source
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
get him a shell account on an open access Unix box. Just learning how those tools work (start with “more” and “man” “ls” and “cd”) teaches a lot about what programming really is: creating abstractions to solve problems. A shell account also
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
It doesn’t take the sender any more time to write “hi”<soft return>”my question is: xyz”. Maybe the soft return is the key here. When I ask a question via slack it’s a single carefully formatted message, while my most irritating corre
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
check out the clang objc rewriter - basically c++front for objc. https://www.jviotti.com/2023/12/01/understanding-objective-c...
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by cancerhacker 2y ago
Coming from a C (and derivative) background, this was a good article to help map idioms and introduce new patterns. I still mentally translate to C in my head though.
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
When my hoarder FIL died, we had to have a cleanup company deal with his apartment - we asked them to set aside anything of value and got back one bankers box of old utility bills, canceled checks, a laptop. In reality, since those things h
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by cancerhacker 3y ago
I liked and appreciated this, two points I'd like to make: you should disable optimizations and whatever inlining caused printf to become puts (or, alternatively, write the hello world to use puts directly), second would be to break yo
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Looking at zsh plugin manager called "zi"(recurse.social)
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