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by fargle 3y ago
being peripherally involved with aerospace, I can say that this is, for reasons unknown to me, not the full comprehensive manual. A much, much (2 orders of magnitude) simpler system I'm familiar with has a set of manuals that is far ov
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by fargle 3y ago
that's a very interesting point and example. TCP is normally lossless and byte-for-byte before data is forwarded to the application. I think your example may illustrate a loophole - truncation. It'd only work if, like your example
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by fargle 3y ago
> F is basically 2 random guesses I'll assume good intent. F is definitely not two random guesses. Please read carefully what I posted, F is no more random thah C. It has well defined, but different choices for the two points. The s
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by fargle 3y ago
just look how much got done in the first 7 days alone...
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by fargle 3y ago
EXACTLY! I can't stand the overblown security posturing with regards to things like bash and git, even python. When everyone in the world INCLUDING cyber-security professionals seems to think that it's perfectly OK to download s
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by fargle 3y ago
Pratt parsers are one of the most beautiful ideas and were somewhat forgotten (mislaid?). This is a neat article and has great references but I think he missed Douglas Crockford's great blog post ( https://www.crockford.com&#
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by fargle 3y ago
https://old.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/14n6eio/challenge_c...
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by fargle 3y ago
these aren't random numbers at all. 0 F is the lowest temperature a saturated mixture of water and ammonium chloride salt freezes at. Adding salts to water depresses the freezing point until you can't absorb any more salt. 100 F w
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by fargle 3y ago
The reason it's a useless terrible material for a sub is that until it survives the first dive, you don't know if it has a hidden flaw. And after the first dive, even if it survives, you know that 100% that it does. Weight is not
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by fargle 3y ago
in our area there has been a massive increase in jaywalking. Not jaywalking-per-se like just crossing out of the crosswalk. Like, passed out lying in the road, sitting in the road, stumbling around on-and-off the sideway or shoulder dazed
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by fargle 3y ago
doesn't that go for the "experts" (especially Martin) in this article, too? while unsatisfying, the evidence that i put out is from first-hand experience and is at least better than the hand-waving correlation/causation.
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by fargle 3y ago
exactly. now the university and the insurance companies will spend more on lawyers than purported damages just to find out that they are fault for being just as negligent and that the actual value of the samples was only in $10K - $100K ran
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by fargle 3y ago
We've definitely seen a lot more pedestrian deaths in our area in the last couple years. But it's not the prevalence or size of the cars, SUVs, trucks. What's happening here is that there's an explosion of homeless livin
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by fargle 3y ago
I'll be generous and assume that you simply misunderstand me. I agree, it's not a competition, nor should it be. However, when someone starts engaging with you and then decides they are disadvantaged, and bows out with "agree
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by fargle 3y ago
this is an interesting analysis. at the end of the day, i actually agree mostly with the rankings, but i don't think it's a fair way to arrive there. two thoughts: 1. the column in the table which attempts to normalize suffering.
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by fargle 3y ago
I see several comments focusing on the ridiculous figure of $127. Please don't make arguments based on that. It's off by at least an order of magnitude: https://ustrailerparts.com/icc-bumper-assy-no-s-tubes/
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by fargle 3y ago
choosing to disengage is one thing, but the specific idea of "agree to disagree" is a very passive aggressive way of saying "I want to disengage, but don't want to admit being close-minded and/or having a weaker arg
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by fargle 3y ago
I wholeheartedly agree, but will add the further complication: who is the user anyhow? Is it the downstream packager, or the importer of your library, or the end user of the distro that includes your thing, the unfortunate sysadmin
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by fargle 3y ago
The key to any of embedded, system, or low-level programming is as much about learning how the computer actually works to a reasonable degree. You are not programming to an abstract computation model. You are moving bits and bytes around an
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by fargle 3y ago
It's unusual, outside x86, for these functions to be hardware accelerated. So just about every libm has to do it in software. Nearly all libm implementations around are based off Sun's fdlibm from the 80's-90's, includin
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by fargle 3y ago
how does this fix situations like "Monica"? i'm not normally political, but that situation seemed pretty messed up. it was enough to deter me from participating.
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by fargle 3y ago
seconded. so a lot of people say a lot of things. i like chapters 1-5 just as much as the rest, btw. it's objectively a great book, written by objectively great developers and computer scientists. is it the best to learn from today?
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by fargle 3y ago
Ever since I became aware of the backlash associated with saying "C/C++", I try to use it everywhere . Not because I don't understand the points, nor because I disagree with them. Baiting pedants is fun, basically. They
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by fargle 3y ago
motion seconded! these blogs are undeniably a treasure of the internet. Thanks Eli!
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by fargle 3y ago
there's a hint that you are misunderstanding how things work a bit here. By the time you get to the footnote: "Unless you implement a CPU on top of the FPGA :)" you realize that of course FPGAs can be turing complete, but it&
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by fargle 3y ago
hahahahahaha that is a load of horse shit if I ever heard it you are claiming that the definition of "men" includes transistors? that's a stretch. transistors created by men to string words together in probabilistic ways inte
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by fargle 3y ago
As you imply there are significant ethical questions raised by the highly hypothetical case of a sentient AI, and those are just a few good ones. And there's certainly room for disagreement. But you are not a legitimate whistle-blowe
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by fargle 3y ago
That's an interesting question because I'm not sure whether hiding it or keeping it secret would even be wrong, so blow the whistle on what exactly? Since when can a person or company not develop something and keep it secret? So
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by fargle 3y ago
would it be OK if we didn't interview or provide any reinforcement to the kind of behavior like Lemoine? He's a freakin nutcase, regardless of your or my view on AI.
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by fargle 4y ago
I think you might not have read my bullet point that mentioned rust very carefully.

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