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by gbacon 8mo ago
https://man.openbsd.org/flock.2 https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/flock.2.html
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by gbacon 9mo ago
Jokesters quip “If a program was hard to write, it should be hard to read.”
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by gbacon 9mo ago
Fascinating material. L∃∀ℝ together, amirite?
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by gbacon 9mo ago
Do you believe that wealth was cash sitting in a bank account?
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by gbacon 9mo ago
If he built his life around greed, you must have numerous examples, so give specific instances to support this charge. No handwaving.
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by gbacon 9mo ago
Why do you read it as a demand and not just good sense?
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by gbacon 9mo ago
Which “opulent mansions”?
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by gbacon 10mo ago
> … but it’s not like you can wait around to find that perfect opportunity forever, right? > Some times you have to find something and work … Rather than waiting for a perfect choice, I read Hamming as reminding us that are making cho
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by gbacon 10mo ago
Had to be expected. Buffett was a once in several generations talent.
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by gbacon 10mo ago
This is HN. We understood exactly what “exposed … confidential files” meant before reading your overly dramatic scenario. As overdone as it is, it’s not even realistic. A likely single mother is likely tiny potatoes in comparison to deep-po
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by gbacon 10mo ago
> As COVID-19 sent the world indoors, Ann Bedsole found herself in a position like the rest of us — holed up inside with no idea how long she would be there. Not one for inactivity (or squandered time), she decided to use the opportunity
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Ann Bedsole, founder of the Alabama School of Math and Science, dies at 95(yellowhammernews.com)
2 points by gbacon 10mo ago|2 comments
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by gbacon 10mo ago
Verbing weirds language.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Rather than an absolute lie, I’m more inclined to characterize it as naïve or black-and-white thinking, outside of CRUD apps and undergraduate intro projects.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
> Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen: Redet man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie es in ihre Sprache, und alsbald ist es etwas ganz anderes. (Goethe)
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by gbacon 11mo ago
All over this discussion, the big negative has nothing to do with missing out on stellar education, skill development, or expert teachers. Instead, it’s the perpetual handwringing that homeschooled kids won’t be Properly Socialized, i.e. ,
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Perhaps unlike in some ways, but some aspects of school life persist in so-called adult life, e.g. , jocks, nerds, freaks, party animals, slackers, and teacher’s pets are all still around — now with zeros on the end.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Very close, as in one step of arithmetic.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
If the pro-regulation side refuses to admit that cookie banners are bad regulation, then engaging with these True Believers is a complete waste of time.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Regional and commercial jets cost tens and hundreds of millions of USD. The greediest caricature capitalist will want to protect this investment. Their insurers will demand certain terms to accept the risk of having to replace such a costly
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by gbacon 11mo ago
This is the Schoolhouse Rock version that ignores the real phenomenon of regulatory capture, formalized by Stigler way back in 1971. “We propose the general hypothesis: every industry or occupation that has enough political power to utilize
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Which purpose do you mean? Stated purpose? Intended purpose? Regulators’ purpose? Legislators’ purpose? Donors’ and other special interests’ purpose? Harm as defined by whom? The field of public-choice economics rests on the insight that em
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by gbacon 11mo ago
A giant helping of hubris may be a factor in this tendency. ‘Programming a computer is thrilling enough; imagine programming an entire country of people!’ Those who think this way need to read Bastiat: “Oh, sublime writers! Please remember
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by gbacon 11mo ago
See also the perlrun documentation[0]. This example works on many platforms that have a shell compatible with Bourne shell: #!/usr/bin/perl eval 'exec /usr/bin/perl -wS $0 ${1+"$@"}&#x2
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by gbacon 11mo ago
We care about Z3 because it is a Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver. Satisfiability: In 1971, Stephen A. Cook established that Boolean satisfiability, given an arbitrary Boolean formula whether an assignment to its variables exis
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by gbacon 11mo ago
> These new findings might sound confusing, as if one stated that a kind of cake may exist but that no recipe exists to create it. > “We would say that it is not the recipe that is the problem. Instead, it is the tools you have to
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by gbacon 11mo ago
Behaving like docile, compliant cattle benefits only the farmer.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
The screenshots bring back memories of keying in BASIC on an Apple ][ monochrome green screen. With that intro, the first time I used QBasic, I remember marveling at not having to use line numbers.
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by gbacon 11mo ago
> While it’s easy to get a map with satellite imagery, naturally one would also want the FAA VFR sectional charts as a layer on the map as well. This turned out to be fairly easy to get a proof of concept for, but much more tedious to ge
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Generating map tiles for FAA sectional charts with GDAL(ephemeral.cx)
1 points by gbacon 11mo ago|1 comments

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