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by cesaref 5y ago
I think the correct response to the question is 'till they are done'. I hate it when recipes have timing directions like this, as everyone's equipment is so very different. If an onion is larger, it'll take more time to
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by cesaref 5y ago
It would make learning to be an engineer pretty difficult, if you can't talk about stuff until you are qualified!
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by cesaref 5y ago
To generalise, the attempt to move the discussion from negative to a positive spin is really an attempt to harness the wisdom of crowds. In my experience, subtle changes to working practice, team behaviour, meetings and discussions seem to
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by cesaref 5y ago
I think it's pretty unusual to have photos of photographers at this point in time. Noone was interested in knowing how photos were taken, the subject wasn't the photographer. Photographer as personality happened in the 60s. Saying
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by cesaref 5y ago
Nope, you sit 3 or 4 feet from the soundboard in a piano, so the latency is around 3 or 4ms.
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by cesaref 5y ago
The OS appears to partition the processors, like linux cpuset stuff, with low priority threads getting given to the efficiency cores, so you basically keep the low priority background stuff off the performant cores. How many is optimum is a
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by cesaref 5y ago
Sheep farmers in Wales were still being affected by this in 2012, with testing performed on lambs and restrictions on which could be sold and which land they could be raised on due to radioactivity in the soil and hence grass. https:/
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by cesaref 5y ago
That's not what is being discussed. The interesting question is what would the world look like today if different policies had been implemented. Of course we can't know, so it is to a certain extent speculation. However, we can ce
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by cesaref 5y ago
Absolutely. I think the players are behaving differently. My thought is that the games will appear to be more similar to training ground practices where the opposition are your own teammates, so the sorts of tackles and behaviour the player
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by cesaref 5y ago
The nicknames for the Daily Mail are quite illuminating: The Daily Lie, The Daily Hate-Mail, The Daily Heil Of course these could all have been generated by the left wing liberal elites who have an issue with straight forward honest reporti
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by cesaref 5y ago
I assembled an LSI-11 from bits from various university departments back in the late 80s with the intention of getting RSTS running, but struggled to find everything I needed (I was short of an RL01 I seem to remember). I had lots of fun th
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by cesaref 6y ago
Yes, I noticed this omission. It would be helpful to at least discuss the performance implications of this. I imagine the target audience are compiling for limited memory embedded devices where reducing the memory pressure could allow a che
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by cesaref 6y ago
Agreed. It's not easy to accidentally wipe your entire home directory in the GUI, but it's just 9 keystrokes away on the CLI
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by cesaref 6y ago
And how quickly do compiler/language bugs get fixed...
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by cesaref 6y ago
Just found reference to it on David May's page, which is suitably retro html for the Inmos architect who created occam and did all sorts of interesting things like formally prove their FPU implementation (before formal proofs for that
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by cesaref 6y ago
I attended Bristol Uni's Computer Science department in the late 80s. They had a room of Sun 3s which had transputer cards, which were programmed in occam in a weird folding editor. It was clearly the future, and all programming would
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by cesaref 6y ago
When you are in a position to pay someone full time to look after the web infrastructure of your project, that's when you should think this stuff through. Before that, don't worry about the tech, go for what you know, and expect i
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by cesaref 6y ago
I ditched almost all my old computers as I upgraded, but i've still got my ZX-81 with a dk'tronics graphics rom, that was a killer combination in 1982 or whenever! The ones that have left the building include C64, C128D, Amiga 100
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by cesaref 6y ago
I think the key is to understand the historical context of C, what it was competing with, and what concerns people writing C had. Compared to the alternative (straight assembler) at the time as a systems programming language, C is a massive
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by cesaref 6y ago
Having had a quick look, I don't think the original document is particularly offensive, or particularly funny. It's a bit meh to me, and I think either deleting it, or re-writing it to be funny was the right thing to do, and obvio
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by cesaref 6y ago
if you live 35mm film you'll love medium format. It's much more forgiving due to less enlargement when printing, the trade off is that the equipment is large (although some of the fuji rangefinders aren't that much bigger tha
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by cesaref 6y ago
Agreed, the Kiev 88 isn't reliable. A number of years back I ordered a Hartblei - they take new Kiev 88s and fix the obvious shortcomings, before applying any modifications you require. My Hartblei is configured for Hasselblad backs an
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by cesaref 6y ago
I interpret this as meaning if you take a native compiling project (say a C/C++ project) and benchmark this, then compile it to target wasm instead, it runs 1/12th of the speed of the native build.
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by cesaref 6y ago
Right, and the lenders are typically institutions who are holding the stock for reasons other than speculation (e.g as part of a tracker fund for clients) and are simply attempting to extract more value from their holding. No point it sitti
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by cesaref 6y ago
Yes, it's misleading. I wrote a stock borrowing system for an investment bank 10 years ago or so, and there is a fair bit of complexity around registrars, collateral, dividends etc. The 'A shorts to B who shorts to C' type ar
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by cesaref 6y ago
Don't be - be excited for whatever projects they turn to next.
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by cesaref 6y ago
> Nature is probabilistic, and seems to work. I think what you mean is that the currently most successful model of the physical world is probabilistic, but this doesn't mean that nature is.
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by cesaref 6y ago
Well, not electrostatic, as that requires static charge, stators, and rather high voltages (10s of kv) which is unlikely to happen in a piece of paper. The basic approach reminds me of the flat panel speakers that came out of QinetiQ I thin
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by cesaref 6y ago
now we see the violence inherent in the system. Sorry, had to get that out.
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by cesaref 6y ago
`So you are saying if you do open source you must be fine with being exploited?` And how is a company using open source software exploitative? I mean, isn't that the point of releasing open source software, that companies use it? And a

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