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by j_not_j 4y ago
Initial price is discounted yes. But annual "support" fees are still 20% (or is it 25% now?) of list price.
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by j_not_j 4y ago
..."just to check my hearing" I got a good laugh out of that....
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by j_not_j 4y ago
The extensive use of quotation marks suggests the author (unattributed, huh), editor and presumably their audience is unfamiliar with the concepts. The best line, like all news articles written to a standard style, is the last one: "Th
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by j_not_j 4y ago
It's not about atomicity. Co-Array Fortran is for multiple copies of the same program running on different data -- SPMD. Think MPI but much easier to write for. You start a CAF program with mpirun. Multiple copies on the same machine
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by j_not_j 4y ago
"where institutions can sign up to using a federal DNS service provided through the domain registrar..." The domain registrar is CIRA, and has only one of twelve board members having a federal government affiliation. See cira.ca
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by j_not_j 4y ago
I really like his two rules. They are much simpler than the usual collection of process and product definitions that usually come up. Of course, elaborating in further detail is essential. Of course, the contrarian position includes the fa
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Court action over rejection of baby’s Indigenous name(globalnews.ca)
4 points by j_not_j 4y ago|1 comments
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by j_not_j 4y ago
It seems the province of British Columbia cannot support UTF-8 in birth certificates. The child's name is λugʷaləs K’ala’ask Shaw.
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by j_not_j 4y ago
Beware of silent corruption in your disk arrays. https://www.nsc.liu.se/lcsc2007/presentations/LCSC_2007-kele... Disks didn't always write a block in the correct place. Things are better now, but still not p
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by j_not_j 4y ago
There are a lot of unstated or untested assumptions in the article. There are many categories of drug users, not just "addicts" and "party" people. Some people have chronic pain issues and are subject to medically-impose
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by j_not_j 4y ago
Software Engineering Risk Analysis and Management by Charette. This unlocked the meaning of "risk" for mme and how it applies to engineering and systems. VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures by Kenah. Not that anyone cares
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by j_not_j 4y ago
+1 for Enemy of the State. Gene Hackman, Will Smith, and the incorrigible Jack Black. The scene where Hackman's character wraps a cell phone in the foil from a potato chip bag is hilarious; almost true as well.
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by j_not_j 4y ago
The concept sounds good, but you also need people to review the FUSE implementation as well as muxfs. And test, and so on. One question: do you plan to implement "concatenation" of filesystems, so you can build one very large mux
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by j_not_j 4y ago
"Canadian telecoms resiliency working group" It is ineffective. Their remit includes "architecture" but the Rogers network architecture is a clear failure. There was no political will to evaluate the results of such a g
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by j_not_j 4y ago
A lot of gaps not described in the letter: Lack of independent management plane for core business assets. Driving to the office is not a management plane. No external visibility of Rogers functionalities. The Kentik analysis of BGP and re
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by j_not_j 4y ago
Pall-ette. Palette. Loose. Lose. Programmers who can't spel are allways anoying.
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by j_not_j 4y ago
Some way of automatically applying 'less' to shell commands when the output exceeds a limit (like 40 lines) but is otherwise invisible. (There may be issues with automatically not doing this when piped.)
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by j_not_j 4y ago
> An in-language way to do conditional compilation... Nim has some of this. But of course, it is not C.
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by j_not_j 4y ago
So they are on sale? Time to buy? /s
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by j_not_j 4y ago
echo hw.perfpolicy="auto" >> /etc/sysctl.conf What's the big deal, there are often changes, sometimes inconvenient, sometimes breaking changes, requiring a configuration file change or software update. This i
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by j_not_j 4y ago
For Vancouver, try T-Net https://www.bctechnology.com/jobs/search.cfm
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by j_not_j 4y ago
I rechecked using the UK site at godaddy -- godaddy.com/en-gb and couldn't reproduce it. The steps were: 1. pick a novel domain 2. register and account with name and throwaway email 3. click checkout 4. empty the cart 5. enter a
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by j_not_j 5y ago
Godaddy does keystroke logging (it's their web page, why not). Without your actually clicking "buy" Godaddy knows your domain. Try it! Using a throwaway email, fill in the Godaddy form with a novel domain name, email contact
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by j_not_j 5y ago
> a collection of requirements adds up to a design. No it can't A collection of requirements implies many, many possible designs. Change the team, you get a different design. A good-quality requirement is _testable_, amongst other
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by j_not_j 5y ago
See http://ocaml.github.io/ocamlunix/
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by j_not_j 5y ago
RCMP? They have nothing to do with enforcement in the City of Ottawa (local cops), the brief protest at Quebec City (also local cops), two brief weekend protests in Vancouver (local cops), or the multi-day border closure at Windsor (local
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by j_not_j 5y ago
The OpenMP project provides GPU support for the #pragmas which parallelize both C and Fortran 90 codes on SMP machines. (Note: not OpenMPI). See https://www.openmp.org/blog/openmp-api-speeds-up-autonomous-... for a des
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by j_not_j 5y ago
Trudeau waffled and avoided the press for two weeks. Then Biden called. Something about factory closures. Then Trudeau made a statement threatening the protesters and the cops moved in at the big border crossing. So I conclude that Biden c
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by j_not_j 5y ago
What I would like to see (and haven't found yet), is a bash or python shell that automatically does a "more" when a command exceeds some number of lines. So many times I accidently fill up my scroll buffer with an unintended
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by j_not_j 5y ago
I wonder how the designers "knew" or hoped that the S/360 instruction set was achievable with that hardware/microcode design. Was it sufficient to cover all the instructions? The floating point portion seems like a like

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