crustycoder

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by crustycoder 4y ago
> It's technically impossible for the foreseeable future to predict how a bell will sound if struck for the first time. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31327966
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Indeed we don't in the same way that beer drinkers don't call themselves biochemists - even though some of them may be. Speaking of beer and bell ringers here's what the Rev H. T Ellacombe had to say about them in 1861: &quot
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by crustycoder 4y ago
I started 38 years ago. If you can remember 38 years ago, you weren't there ;-) No internet. Same problems.
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by crustycoder 4y ago
It's no different to writing any other compiler for Language X in Language X, and that's a really common thing to do. The Java compiler emits files containing Java Bytecode which are subsequently run by a different invocation of t
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Don't what the problem was, I got my free holiday to Orlando out of it, on the day I wanted and from the airport I wanted... ;-) The article missed out one important detail - the deal included very overpriced accommodation, which is
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Yes, indeed that's true. But they get upset if you tell them that their genius new idea is just an old idea they didn't know about ;-)
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by crustycoder 4y ago
No.
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by crustycoder 4y ago
If you don't expect to be learning new stuff every day throughout your entire career, you are in the wrong line of business.
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by crustycoder 4y ago
When you need something done quickly and properly first time, hiring someone who has seen same the same half-assed ideas "reinvented" over and over for the last 30+ years and who won't try to sell them to you as the New Shiny
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by crustycoder 4y ago
60 year old here, still writing code for a company that provides Cloud services, today I'm hacking away on some Scala. My role model and hero is Roger Faulkner, the creator of /proc who died at 76 "with his boots on". An
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Ooh no, don't ever call bellringers that, unless you want to cause grave offence. Campanologist is a name for wussy academics, bellringers ring bells. And drink beer ;-)
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Nah, the mouldings are entirely decorative. And bells are tuned by taking off material on a lathe at various positions on the inside of the bell. https://funwithbells.com/nigel-taylor/ https://www.youtube.co
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Yeah, it's full of geeks :-]
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by crustycoder 4y ago
The bells studied in the PhD thesis are primarily used for English Change Ringing, which started in the early 1600s and the compositions played on them (methods) are based on mathematics, specifically Group Theory, rather than being tunes i
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by crustycoder 4y ago
It's usually one miserable git who complains, most people who buy houses next to big sticky up things at the end of religious building are smart enough to figure out what's in them.
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by crustycoder 4y ago
There's usually two different things going on in UK bell towers - bell ringing which involves ringing the bells full-circle using the internal clappers, and clock chiming which uses external hammers driven my the clock. The clock chimi
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by crustycoder 4y ago
It's been around for a while but he's still active in the field (he recorded & analysed our bells a couple of years ago) and he's revamped the site fairly recently.
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by crustycoder 4y ago
I wouldn't worry, if that was the intent, I think it backfired ;-)
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by crustycoder 4y ago
The UK government did promise to reduce the grounds for noise complaints about church bells, on the grounds that normally they were there before the complainant arrived, and would still be there long after they were gone, but it appears it
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by crustycoder 4y ago
The only remaining dedicated bell foundry in the UK is in Loughborough - https://taylorbells.co.uk/ You can visit :-)
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by crustycoder 4y ago
For literally centuries European bell tuning was all done by rule of thumb, with results varying from to sublime to abysmal. It was all finally figured out by Canon Simpson in 1895/6 who described the relationship between the 5 main co
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by crustycoder 4y ago
In the UK we have 61,626 documented bells (a lower bound) spread across 7,148 towers. https://dove.cccbr.org.uk In the last year unaffected by COVID, there were 10,701 recorded performances and many more unrecorded ones and prac
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by crustycoder 4y ago
Yes, Bill did. He's a really nice guy and the subject of bell tuning has been of academic interest for a very long time, because they don't produce a single note and the note you "hear" isn't produced by the bell at
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by crustycoder 5y ago
I'd rather they fixed the remote development in IntelliJ first. You can sort of (ab)use the remote deployment feature in Ultimate for it, but it's clearly not intended for that. And it's extremely clunky - for example the abi
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by crustycoder 5y ago
I shouldn't have to point out just how broken that is as a way of supporting paying customers. Like the OP I've simply stopped reporting bugs, because they don't get looked at for literally years, let alone fixed. The product
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by crustycoder 6y ago
36 years in and still learning new stuff and hacking.
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by crustycoder 7y ago
Personally I'm not that surprised, criticism of any type is no longer PC. I think you nailed it with "well understood" - exactly so, anyone with an interest in this area knows about this stuff. It would have been fine if the
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by crustycoder 7y ago
The guy is a professional dev working on Linux, are you seriously suggesting he shouldn't know what "man" does? And are you seriously suggesting that searching for "spin" is somehow arcane? https://www.go
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by crustycoder 7y ago
$ man -k spin pthread_spin_destroy (3) - initialize or destroy a spin lock pthread_spin_init (3) - initialize or destroy a spin lock pthread_spin_lock (3) - lock and unlock a spin lock pthread_spin_trylock (3) - lock and unlock
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by crustycoder 7y ago
The sorts of problems inherent in userspace spinlocks are even called out in the Linux manpages, shame the article's author didn't bother to look: http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/pthread_spin_in

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