elteto

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by elteto 7y ago
I want to give Common Lisp a try. My previous experience with Lisp (any variant) is almost nil. Would this be a good book to start with?
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by elteto 7y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the Soviets _did_ suspect it, but finding the bug was non-trivial due to the mechanical complexity of the machines.
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by elteto 7y ago
The Americans, in turn, bugged the Xerox copiers in the Soviet embassy [0]. The copier machines were so complex that even the Soviets bought them from Xerox, instead of trying to make their own clones. Edit: this link [1] has more details a
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by elteto 7y ago
I'm not aware of any, but I don't listen to many audiobooks. It seems like audible doesn't have one, so there's probably not one out there.
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by elteto 7y ago
The Cuckoo’s Egg by Cliff Stoll is a great book... Hackers, Cold War intrigue, the CIA, the KGB, actual shell scripts, it has it all!
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by elteto 7y ago
That’s the individual contributor cap, contributor + company is $57k.
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by elteto 7y ago
Yes! The MCS spinlock, the name eluded me. The paper is actually a pretty good read (it is linked in the lwn article).
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by elteto 7y ago
> checked in a tight loop by all waiters This actually does not have to be this way. You could have a linked list of spinlocks, one for each waiter. Each waiter spins on its own, unique spinlock. When the previous waiter is done it unloc
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by elteto 7y ago
This is also a very popular knot reference, although limited to shoelaces: https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/index.htm
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by elteto 7y ago
I don't know about moving to the web on #2. From what I have seen the web alternatives of those products, if they even exist, are tailored to the hobbyist, semi-professional market. Things like Siemens NX _can't_ move to the web,
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by elteto 7y ago
SpaceX has been conducting parachute tests for as long as I can remember, they are finicky beasts. Besides, there's only a handful (literally) of manufacturers in the world, perhaps one or two in the US. It is no coincidence that both
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by elteto 7y ago
It is not very well known but the Apollo Guidance Computer had this same capability! The famous program alarms (1202 and 1201) during the Apollo 11 descent were caused by low-priority jobs stealing processing power from the high priority on
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by elteto 7y ago
I'd like to point out that basically following this strategy is how you end up being the A-Hole team lead. This could have been the path OP's team lead took at some point in his career because someone else was making his life mise
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by elteto 7y ago
Man, I'm sorry to hear about your experience :( I've used bazel in a different environment (C++) and it has been amazing (compared with other C++ build systems). Another comment below mentioned to stay away from bazel for anything
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by elteto 7y ago
You would never have people around when doing high pressure ops. This might even have been a proof test, where the tank is pressurized to test for leaks so something like this failure is a plausible scenario.
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by elteto 7y ago
To put it into perspective, 8th street is an 8 lane street at that intersection, with cars driving past 50 and 55 mph all the time. Not to mention that there are several on/off ramps for the Florida Turnpike right next to it. I would b
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by elteto 7y ago
Thank you so much for the detailed answer! Such an inspiring story and told with such humbleness. You are inspiring. Your note on "fear" holding you back rings a bell. As I have aged (and I have not aged that much!) I have noticed
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by elteto 7y ago
Wow that is a fantastic story! Kudos for completing your PhD! Would you mind expanding a bit more about your PhD? Which school did you go to? Did you find that your age made it more difficult to get in/stay in once accepted? How did yo
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by elteto 7y ago
"For over 30 years, Stallman has been a tireless advocate of a world that hasn’t mattered for the past 15 years." I think that, if anything, the exact opposite is true after Snowden's revelations.
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by elteto 7y ago
"All we can do is breathe the air of the period we live in, carry with us the special burdens of the time, and grow up within those confines. That’s just how things are." That is such a beautiful quote.
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by elteto 7y ago
What is the extent of this? Dos it apply to every binary I could run on my computer?
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by elteto 7y ago
SpaceX also 3D prints the SuperDracos [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SuperDraco#Manufacturing
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by elteto 7y ago
But it doesn't make sense. OP is saying that there is no absolute measure of time, it depends on the frame of reference of the observer. Therefore there is also no absolute measure of speed.
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by elteto 7y ago
Did you try downloading it by chance? I get 404 on that toolchain link...
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by elteto 7y ago
Maybe at some point macros could not be passed as arguments? I honestly don’t know. Passing it as a parameter avoids all that define/undefine business.
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by elteto 7y ago
It can be very useful! I added a small comment with an example of how I used it once.
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by elteto 7y ago
The preprocessor trick of passing function macros as parameters is not that obscure. I have seen it used and I've used it myself. It is very useful when you have a list of static "things" that you need to operate on. Say I ha
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by elteto 7y ago
For gRPC there is Envoy, but I have not used it so I can’t give you more info on it. However, I think the point in the article is that you need to have well defined schemas for inter-service messaging. Something like protobuf or thrift or f
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by elteto 7y ago
This contains more technical information behind the 1202 alarms [0]. It is an awesome read. [0] https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html
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The Goiânia Nuclear Accident(en.wikipedia.org)
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