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by dwheeler 5y ago
I would add, why do certain particles decay into other particles? For example, the tau particle contains nothing else, as far as we can tell, yet it decays into certain other particles (and not the same ones every time). More generally, the
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by dwheeler 5y ago
"May" is pretty specious. Is there any evidence of something likely to work? I would love to see practical fusion, but I see no reason to believe it will exist soon. Someone has to figure out how to actually make it practical fir
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Use this instead: https://lithub.com/before-oxfords-library-was-the-finest-ins...
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by dwheeler 5y ago
On POSIX systems file names are not strings, they are sequences of bytes. They might not be UTF-8 or have any meaning. Python3 had to hack around this, they thought they could force everything to Unicode and discovered that doesn't wo
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by dwheeler 5y ago
This just highlights difference between a student project proof-of-concept and a product... and thus, you need to know what kind of software you're developing. Monitoring the clipboard periodically, determining if there's a URL, a
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by dwheeler 5y ago
That often fails. E.g., Vim has line wrap on by default so you would still see the text.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
I know of no requirement in the US Constitution that the US government fund the US Post Office. The US Constitution grants Congress the authority to do so if it chooses to, and historically it has chosen to. Article I, Section 8, Clause 7 o
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by dwheeler 5y ago
You are not a slave. You can always leave your job, anyone can. It is appropriate to give them warning and a little time to prepare for that transition and start getting someone else. Where I live, the usual time is 2 weeks notice, though s
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by dwheeler 5y ago
One partial solution: if the paper is academic research primarily funded by the government, it must be posted to the internet and available at no charge to the public. The nih already does something like this. A variant would be to eliminat
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by dwheeler 5y ago
As I previously noted on a related post: Interesting paper. Note, however, that the general problem is already known and there are a number of pre-existing works that discuss it. This is typically called "underhanded code" or some
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Interesting paper. Note, however, that the general problem is already known and there are a number of pre-existing works that discuss it. This is typically called "underhanded code" or sometimes "maliciously misleading code&q
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by dwheeler 5y ago
A great thing about the POSIX standard is that it's publicly available. See: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799.2018edition... You can see more about "command" here: https://pubs
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by dwheeler 5y ago
They did do that. It's "command -v".
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by dwheeler 5y ago
ISO doesn't pay to develop standards, they assume others will develop the standards. Historically, the purpose was to pay for printing & distribution. That makes no sense today , but that was its historical justification.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
The YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBVLf3yfMs8 ... note some other optimizations that they plan to implement that should improve both the JIT and non-JIT performance. Performance improvements are always welc
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by dwheeler 5y ago
The problem isn't that you need a majority; in many such situations you need a supermajority. It's usually not okay if your website can't be safely used by 49% of your users. In particular, Apple is notoriously slow at improv
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by dwheeler 5y ago
"Monolith" is not a problem. It's just a description of an architectural approach. Often switching to alternatives, like microservices, is a terrible idea: https://medium.com/swlh/stop-you-dont-need-micro
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by dwheeler 5y ago
If you truly want to look at Math Foundations "from scratch", you might check out the Metamath Proof Explorer: http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/mmset.html This starts from axioms of logic & set theory, &
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Bad idea. Relying on any single technology creates a nasty single point of failure. GPS signals are weak signals from satellites & obviously can be jammed.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Depending on what you're doing, ctags can also be a big help.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Technically this isn't quite compatible, because it uses a different hash algorithm. git as of v2.13.0 uses a hardened sha-1 algorithm to counter the shattered attack. In normal Cases you won't see the difference.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
POSIX allows implementations to have extensions, and almost all implementations have extensions. There are good reasons for many of those extensions. Many options implement capabilities that probably should be in the standard, but currentl
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by dwheeler 5y ago
> Engagement on Twitter > Official Discord chat room No. Not at all. Many very popular OSS projects don't use Twitter or Discord. Any time you say "all OSS projects use technology X", be it GitHub or Twitter or whatever
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by dwheeler 5y ago
I've used zenity to do the same kind of thing. If you're writing a simple shell script & need some simplistic local GUI interaction, zenity is great; it's easy to create / read / modify the code.
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Look, developers who cared enough to write some documentation. In 1971. With a highly constrained environment. They documented more than some developers do today :-).
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Cool! An alternative OSS 3D engine is Open 3D Engine (O3DE), more here: https://o3de.org/ This is a new Linux Foundation project. (Full disclosure: I work for the LF, though I don't have any connection to O3DE.)
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by dwheeler 5y ago
> It would be great if you could install Qt 5.9, 5.12, 1.14 in parallel and have apps use the latest version (except for that one app that triggers a bug where you fix it to 5.9). The underlying library-loading system on Linux handles th
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by dwheeler 5y ago
I agree, interactive fiction != MUDs. Thanks. It's a little sad that this has to be explained today :-).
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by dwheeler 5y ago
History is complicated. Scepter of Goth (SoG) preceded MUD commercially as the first commercial multi-player role playing game. But Scepter of Goth disappeared while MUD continued to be around for longer, so SoG is not as well remembered. B
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by dwheeler 5y ago
Yes. That first paper is Boehm, Barry W., "Software Engineering", IEEE Transactions on Computers, December 1976, pp. 1226-1241, vol. 25 DOI Bookmark: 10.1109/TC.1976.1674590, https://www.computer.org/csdl&#x2

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