gchpaco

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by gchpaco 15y ago
Here are some of the situations I run into on a regular basis at my current company, which is Perforce based, where I wish we were git based instead. This would be as true in Subversion. They might be maybe less true in Mercurial or Bzr,
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by gchpaco 15y ago
I put a bunch of time in recently in getting decent at pyro and the main thing that pisses me off about the game as it is now is that there are a number of hard counters designed into the game system that are hard to overcome. For example,
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Ah! Well, that certainly improves things; either I misread the draft or that language wasn't there when I looked.
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by gchpaco 15y ago
The problem, I think, is that he wants a low level tool for generating disjoint types ( not satisfied by define-record-type, which is not required to be disjoint from vectors or conses or what have you). This would give you the ability to
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by gchpaco 15y ago
True, but that could be argued to be Emacs-as-IDE. Cscope enables a better solution to this problem (with a clumsy interface) but solving it for good would require solving the structured-data-on-the-Unix-streams-model problem and I've yet
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Yes, this is true, modern Unix isn't remotely pure. When I think of where it could be for these discussions, I think of Plan 9. But even on Unix, syntax aware tools like cscope and ctags are fairly well integrated. The real weakness is the
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by gchpaco 15y ago
"Leak" may be the right word for some configurations with conservative GC. A "leak-free" GC would presumably guarantee eventual collection of all dead objects, which is impossible with a conservative GC in theory, and in practice it's not
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Storing binary data in memory and not explaining what it is to the Boehm GC with one of the macros they supply is the easiest way to fall down. Since "fairly arbitrary" binary data can be encoded as UTF-8 strings (many 32-bit binary codes
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by gchpaco 15y ago
That's not dissimilar from the way RightScale, for example, uses chef. You're missing out on the coordination aspects—for example, having your DNS monitor just know every node that has "dns::slave" in it's run list—but it can work.
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Because those companies generally already pay the $$$ for Perforce (which has any number of deeply terrifying, shiny red candylike self destruct buttons and makes git's user interface look kind) which for all its other faults handles this s
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by gchpaco 15y ago
It should be noted that in bread, sugar is mostly food for the yeast (and anyway there's very little of it; my bread recipes call for an oz of honey to two pounds of bread flour and a pound and a half of water). This is why using sugar sub
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by gchpaco 15y ago
The conventional end-of-line hotkey for Windows applications is the End key, which on a fairly traditional keyboard like the one I am typing this on requires that my right hand move several inches to the right and find that key on the islan
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by gchpaco 15y ago
The central thing about all these conventions is they developed in the absence of good union mounts. In Plan 9 there is no $PATH: all such things are bound into /bin. This works both because Plan 9 has very good union mounts, but also becau
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Conventional (that is, without capabilities) traceroute and ping were setuid root because it there was no provision for emitting ICMP packets in the network APIs and only root could assemble raw packets.
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Oh, no question that you have a better MTF from an Alpa than you would from an 8x10 at f32 (a perfectly reasonable working aperture for 8x10). I think the 8x10 can still out resolve the Alpa but you're getting into that ugly 20% part of the
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Kodak emulsions are fantastic, I will agree with you there. I happen to actually quite like NPH and NPS (or whatever the hell they're called now) and can put in a solid recommendation for Reala, which is available in 120. I'm much more fa
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Just 'cuz I can't let this pass without comment, same as you can: let's take a nice color film and compare this. Say, Ektar 100; in the past I might have used Ektar 25 for this but 100 is a nice speed good for outdoors shooting or controll
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Actually one of the cameras I was sort of thinking of when I wrote that was Nikon's D1H, which was very low resolution and not great at controlling sensor noise but was very popular among sports photojournalists because it was very very fas
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by gchpaco 15y ago
There's been a lot of wink-wink nudge-nudge over the years to the effect that Fujifilm was subsidized by the Japanese government; to what extent this was the favorable tax deals Kodak also got and to what extent it was real was and is hard
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by gchpaco 15y ago
In my fantasy world where we did this, it would be hacking apart VLC or something similar (which already, sensibly, ignores this dross); not so much the physical hardware (fingers wanted to type harmware, huh) because of the problems you ci
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by gchpaco 15y ago
I don't own a Das; instead I have two of Unicomp's ( http://pckeyboard.com ) keyboards. Either one is miles more comfortable to type on than anything else I've ever used, most certainly including the Microsoft ergo keyboards. That said I
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by gchpaco 15y ago
I cannot deal with the action on the "new" Apple keyboards. It's like typing on a pane of glass, it hurts like hell because you have to press the key to nearly its fullest extension to actuate it, and then your finger comes to an abrupt ha
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Silver is a fantastic conductor, better than copper, but tarnishes far too quickly for contacts that are expected to actuate consistently over a prolonged period of time. This is a problem because silver oxides are poor conductors (as are
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by gchpaco 15y ago
I remember discussing with friends of mine whether or not it would be reasonable to have a DVD player that, upon encountering unskippable content, automatically skipped it. None of us could come up with any difficulty there.
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by gchpaco 15y ago
This is not always true on NFS for various reasons too stupid to go into. There are precious few things so stupid that someone has not committed them to an NFS server somewhere, but the retry semantics in the protocol make it generally awk
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by gchpaco 15y ago
The one thing that makes me mildly uncomfortable about pallet is that, in the end, it's just another "run these shell scripts to set up your server" system. I find I prefer tools like puppet or chef and then extending them to deal with AWS
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Lamport's papers are exceptionally readable, I should note. His discussion of e.g. Paxos is still current and interesting and still has implications for distributed databases even though that algorithm is too expensive for frequently (like
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by gchpaco 15y ago
Even though I live in emacs, at a command line my fingers are so used to typing "vi somefile" that they do so before conscious thought occurs. Which is not to say I spend a lot of time setting up my vi.
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by gchpaco 15y ago
It's a quirky mess, but none of the others, to my knowledge (and I've used most of them, which certainly includes Lout) do nearly as good a job typesetting. Lout does a bunch of things subtly wrong that I can't remember right now but that
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by gchpaco 15y ago
It does, that's how LaTeX starts up and why you have to run it as latex instead of tex. Ditto texinfo, and probably ConTeXt. For a variety of reasons the TeX engine still has to reload a lot of stuff because it might possibly have changed

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