dcuthbertson

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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
Ah, to dream of electric sheep.
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
A long time ago I found the chicken and egg problem to be more general than TDD. It was more along the lines of, "how do you write a program when you don't have the code (subroutines, other functions) it needs to run?" Where
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
Oh good! Colossus vs Guardian[0], but less capable of causing WWIII. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus:_The_Forbin_Project
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
The first thing I thought of was the old simile widgets[0]. There is still a timeline demo online[1]. I think they're fascinating, but they are a bit of a challenge (for me at least) to understand how they work - I don't know Java
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
I recently discovered the joy of abstracting away time. I write a lot of software in Go for work. This library, https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock , provides a Clock interface that can be used for creating either cloc
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
FYI: axiom-developer.org/ seems to be down
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
Aw. The Gloucestershire Old Spot looks kind of like a floppy-eared puppy. Very cute.
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
I haven't used it, but I've heard 4coder [0] is very good. Edit: That points to the handmade network, where I first heard of 4Coder. The actual site is [1]. [0]: https://4coder.handmade.network/ [1]: https:/
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
When they are described like that, they are ridiculous. That description of what to do lacks the context of why you might want to take notes at all. The OP put it best with, "Your zettelkasten should be made up of your ideas about the
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
Aren't these hacks the act of adapting our tools to us (at least in an experimental sense)? Actually, I'm not clear on the context of your complaint. If it's about Word and LibreOffice not playing well with text-based diff ty
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by dcuthbertson 4y ago
I think big-endian naming was useful for programming with editors that supported tab completion. At one point, the suggestions were only displayed alphabetically. Nowadays, editors use a more sophisticated algorithm (is there a name for it?
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
As rakoo said, exponential backoff mitigates the thundering herd. I was going to say add some jitter to the time before reconnecting, then I realized rakoo already said "after a random short time", which is exactly what jitter is.
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
I wonder if that happens because an entrepreneur may be caught up in a feeling of what needs to be done, but has yet to clearly articulate the pain/joy/humor driving the work. It wasn't until the OP really pushed himself that
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Perhaps you were drawing with the "Select All" checkbox checked. I got stuck with no animation until I clicked "Clear Frames" with "Select All" checked and then unchecked it before drawing again. It's kind
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Yes! We could consider JavaScript, HTML, and CSS as the set of instruments. Then by creating the Conductor framework the author has not only "practiced his instruments", but shown proficiency and created a nice performance. As for
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Really? I hope not. Just because it compiles, doesn't mean it won't panic because of some weird state caused by a race condition buried deep in the code where a lock wasn't held when it was so desperately needed
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Okay, then give it more powerful engines, and weapons in the place of arms, and you have the beginnings of one of Keith Laumer's Bolos.
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
From a layperson's perspective (I am not an astronomer at all), it sounds like they found 2 Saturn-like planets in the making. They're still forming from their dust disks. That in itself is cool.
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Well, I, for one, don't plan on being there when it happens!
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
This kind of thing has been going on for a long time. In the late 80s I worked for an engineering consulting firm that contracted out engineers to the US armed forces. I was between tasks, and my boss pulled me into a contract w/Air Fo
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Google retired Picasa. From the site[0]: Moving on from Picasa We’ve decided to retire Picasa in order to focus on a single photo service in Google Photos – a new, smarter photo app that works seamlessly across mobile and the we
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by dcuthbertson 5y ago
Do you mean equate instead of equivocate?
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
This is a nice first cut at a curriculum in that it captures a lot of important topics, but it's far too blocky. For example, I'm glad they put computer architecture in the first year, but I don't think there's any reaso
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CMU Advanced Database Systems (Spring 2020)(youtube.com)
2 points by dcuthbertson 6y ago|0 comments
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Best 2020 PC Games: No High Power GPU Needed(reviewgeek.com)
1 points by dcuthbertson 6y ago|0 comments
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
In the US, if the lottery ticket is signed it then belongs to the signer
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
Well, Msft attempts to use HCK/HLK to help ensure that the drivers out there are more stable. Once upon a time, there was no signing and some drivers caused the very unfriendly BSOD and Msft got the blame. There are a lot fewer of thos
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
I've run the HCK test suite (haven't tried the HLK, yet, bu from what I recall reading, the setup is similar). Basically, you need 2 servers, one to run HLK Studio and the Controller, and the other to run the HLK Client where the
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
> You can still update compliant drivers If your customers aren't willing to install unsigned drivers (and none of mine are), then the new driver will have to be put through the HLK tests and submitted to Msft for signing. My issue
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by dcuthbertson 6y ago
I have at least one customer who is stuck on Server 2012 (not even R2). I hope they will be able to upgrade their servers soon. In the meantime, if I need to update my driver, I'll have to replace my HCK test suite with the HLK test su

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