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by jlokier 4y ago
I would love to hear from people who've been using the "git subtree" command instead. Any good experiences? --- My colleagues and myself lost work a few times when working on a project whose top-level Makefile / build s
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by jlokier 4y ago
> A recursive definition is: "natural numbers are 0 or a natural number + 1". Note that this isn't enough by itself to support proof by induction. Consider the definition of a list in Haskell which is analogous to the abov
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by jlokier 4y ago
You may find the Collatz conjecture interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture It's an easy to understand loop, which can be written as a recursive function of one argument. Even though the poss
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by jlokier 4y ago
Rents have increased by a similar factor, as the markets are linked. If you can buy, you can choose between buying and renting, but you can''t choose not to to pay a large increase on a little house one way or another. What's
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by jlokier 4y ago
The Ethereum Foundation takes the view that "client diversity" of proof-of-stake validator implementations is a security requirement: https://ethereum.org/en/developers/docs/nodes-and-clients/cl
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by jlokier 4y ago
I agree, there's bound to be more. Perhaps it's not true, but what I've relayed here is what staff were told at the time and was relayed to me when I joined the day after the move. The staff had to pack up all the furniture a
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by jlokier 4y ago
Often when a business representative says they don't have to honour a contract, they are wrong, or lying to see if they get away with it. If it was a transfer of business ownership, I would expect that you had a contract with the busin
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by jlokier 4y ago
Modern JavaScript also supports ephemerons. There it's the WeakMap type: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... WeakMap prevents observing when the weakly referenced key obj
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by jlokier 4y ago
From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changin... > In the coming months, we will work on expanding the reach of Badger Sett beyond U.S.-centric websites to capture more trackers in our
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by jlokier 4y ago
When I last did some bookkeeping of Amazon expenses, I fetched the detailed purchase history from Amazon (when available) as well as extracting data from the emails received by the person who purchased items. Similarly with some other supp
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by jlokier 4y ago
> to get truly high performance on today's many thread many core machines you need shared memory concurrency more like Java JavaScript supports shared memory concurrency. Shared memory¹ is available in browser WebWorkers these day
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> Home Secretary Priti Patel added: "I am proud to be launching this new and exciting route as part of our points-based immigration system which puts ability and talent first, not where someone comes from." For this visa rout
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by jlokier 4y ago
O_DIRECT doesn't provide power-cut durability on storage devices with write cache. Recently written and acknowledged data can still be lost on a power cut. You still need fsync, fdatasync or equivalent after an O_DIRECT write, to tell
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by jlokier 4y ago
Most people with a browser limitation are using a very old personal computer or device which cannot run the latest browser or OS, or does not have sufficient resources to do so adequately. And yes, much of the modern internet is broken fo
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's a fine algorithm, but in left-right those atomic increments/decrements on read can be costly, up to some 200x slower than the read itself. The "wait until" steps in the writer can also be an issue if the atomic dec
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by jlokier 4y ago
In fact there are standard-ish sorting methods that work fine with mixed text and version numbers such that 1.100 is more than 1.2, and v1.100 is more than v1.2. Git has built in version sort, though it's not the default. GitHub shows
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Environmental toxins are worsening obesity pandemic, say scientists(theguardian.com)
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There are small limits to the amounts and total you can spend by swiping this way, and then you have to authenticate by another method to reset the swipe block, so the possible financial damage is limited.
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The trick was to run many HTTP requests in parallel, using different subdomains so they wouldn't be subject to the browser limit on number of parallel connections to a domain, a dummy first request per subdomain so the interesting mess
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by jlokier 4y ago
I had a problem with a broken phone token recently. My phone screen broke (turned black), so I wasn't able to log in to my business bank account, not even through the web portal on my laptop. Web login on the laptop requires confirmat
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by jlokier 4y ago
It's not begging the question. It is a Gedankenexperiment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_experiment ). By starting with an abstract premise and asking "let's work out what would happen?",
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by jlokier 4y ago
I think a lot of people currently have "the knowledge" to do low level system engineering, but I agree with the comments that the job market drives what people pursue, and the job market isn't particularly favourable to low l
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by jlokier 4y ago
Sibling comments are saying browsers hold the old page until the new one is ready, but it's not true for me. I've just watched a momentary blank page flash up consistently when navigating forward right here on HN, for example from
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by jlokier 4y ago
Perl is a surprisingly Lisp-like language, due to its very consistent approach to closures and statements-as-expressions. Its approach to references, which are reference-counted and have RAII with predictable destructors, is also very clea
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by jlokier 4y ago
Don't matrix organisations put you in the stressful position of having two or more bosses, who may disagree about what they are looking to see from you, especially when it comes to evaluating your performance and promotion/fire re
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I must admit, I am still surprised to see Rust gaining acceptance when the reasons Linus gave in 2010 for rejecting C++ in the kernel appear to apply to Rust equally well. I can't think of any of the pragmatic points which he raised w
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Nowadays some companies have dedicated devops teams who say they don't code. I've been to meetups where I met staff from devops teams who talked about wanting to learn to code in a language like Python someday , to switch into
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by jlokier 5y ago
High-availability database systems go back to 1974 or so, with Tandem Computers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem_Computers "Tandem's NonStop systems use a number of independent identical processors and r
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Ukraine war: Russia to halt gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria(bbc.co.uk)
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I find it hard to believe the statistic in the video that 37% of remote workers are working multiple jobs, with the implication that means full-time workers. Is that statistic actually for full-time workers doing overlapping time, and is th

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