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Senator Whitehouse speaking on the Rachel Maddow show last week.
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Senator Whitehouse explained why Mitch could control the GOP. Mitch has 10 rich backers who will fund election campaigns for (or against) any Senator Mitch endorses (or not). So if you vote against Mitch then your next campaign will fund a
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I have SSH disabled.
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Persistant SSH Threats?
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Latex and Literate Programs.
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Latex.
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I've been programming for 50 years. Nothing fundamental has changed. Computers are "intellectual mirrors". What you get reflects what you think you want. Which is almost never what you actually want. Wrapping "tools&quot
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My research involves reading "big, difficult books" all the time. It usually takes me 5 books on the same subject to get a firm grip on the subject. The first book gives me the important words. The second book gives me the paragra
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The Open Access idea has been around for years. ACM has had all of those years to "create a sustainable model". Science is a community. Publications are the means of communication in that community. Up-to-the-minute access is nece
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Trust “Down to the Metal”
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Thinking of Buying a Microsoft Surface Device?
4 points by daly 7y ago|3 comments
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Latex for PDFs
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BALL-PITS and CLOWN NOSES I worked with a guy, Bob, in our college computer room. Bob had returned to get his BS after many years in industry. He had great stories. He also had great advice. He taught me that you can learn a lot about how a
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Which is why I code in Common Lisp. My code from the 80s compiles and runs without errors. On the other project, which compiled to C, apparently some bright spot decided to change the standard C library so my code no longer compiles. And do
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Formal Methods in Mathematics / Lean Together 2020 Conference(andrew.cmu.edu)
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Forget the grade. Impress your profs. Let them learn from you. For example, you could work on analog computers (look it up). The early AI systems were all analog, using motors on "volume knobs" to adjust the weights. Analog is MUC
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Are you in EECS? Most big data centers use FPGAs "on the wire" to do things like encryption on the fly or compression so that they get "wire speedups" without burning CPU cycles. So FPGA solutions that "live on the
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BPF link: http://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2019-12-02/bpf-a-new-type-o...
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There were only 10 students allowed in the class. So you got picked about every 3rd class (sometimes more than once per class).
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I got into "computer science" before there was a CS degree. Our CS classes were taught in the math dept (fortran), business dept (cobol), or engineering (assembler). The profs were literally 1 chapter ahead of the students. I, how
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I took a class from John White at UCONN. He gave us a couple dozen CS papers at the start of the year. Every class had 3 paper presentations, 20 minutes each. A random student was picked for each presentation. So you had to read and underst
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Of course there is something absurd about such instant assessments - or, in this case, pre-assessments. At such moments, accomplished elder statesmen invariably quote Zhou Enlai's answer when he was asked for his view of the significan
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ROS as a Pearl Causal Model
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27. Real Programmers(TM) use neon-green on black terminals. This caused a guffaw... because I have a large screen which has a full-screen emacs session... using green on black :-)
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There are suggestions presented about "how to address the problem"... I have programmed for 50 years. Here's one opinion on this post, based on my experience and preferences. I enjoy working with women and I have not been afr
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I practice what I preach. Axiom is a 1.2 million line computer algebra program, in literate programming form. Look at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom_(computer_algebra_system... And, if you want to see a "gol
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A modular world "A successful, modern incarnation of literate programming is going to have to fully support our current module-based world." Have you heard of "Volumes"? That is, multiple, self-contained books?
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The demise of program design The argument is that programmers immediately start coding. I've worked in many shops that developed products. Nobody does that. You can't code what you don't understand. After all, you have to &qu
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Agility When you check in a piece of code, it should NOT pass code review without at least a paragraph or two about why this code exists and what it is intended to do. It makes no sense to drag 6 people into a code review without them knowi
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Speed of change What? You can add spiffy new features to your code so quickly that you can't even explain that they are there, let alone how to use them?

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