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by jpitz 3y ago
That was strongly true for a long time through Windows 9*, but with Windows NT/2000 much less so as the core was primarily influenced by David Cutler's experiences with VMS.
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by jpitz 3y ago
Or discovered
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by jpitz 3y ago
Looking at the kind of APIs they are supporting, this appears to be aiming at filesystem-like behavior. If I was building such a thing, I would leave SQL out of scope as well.
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by jpitz 3y ago
Seldon was a villain?
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by jpitz 3y ago
"It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway" - Raymond Chen
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by jpitz 3y ago
There's often a pair of pins on the internal board that you can attach a relay to. Shorting the pins causes the door to close.
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by jpitz 3y ago
As does ack
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by jpitz 3y ago
Recently, it has come to light that the relative rotational speed of Earth's core seems to have a decades long cycle of leading and lagging the surface. https://www.space.com/earth-inner-core-slowing-study
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by jpitz 3y ago
Metric makes the math easier, but it is much easier for me to relate to 40 board-feet of lumber than to 0.0944 cubic-meters.
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by jpitz 3y ago
The misuse of that particular term of art should probably be pointed out to the author.
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by jpitz 3y ago
Anyone else think this is a consequence of households converging on dual-income due to flat earnings vs cost of living?
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Why is my dryer radioactive?(physics.stackexchange.com)
674 points by jpitz 3y ago|159 comments
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by jpitz 3y ago
Prize is an accepted alternative spelling of prise, which makes it likely to me that the error here is simply a typo s/if/it/
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by jpitz 4y ago
tl;dr it wasn't before, but now it is. It is true that there once was a disclaimer on the compose homepage that stated that the product was not recommended for production workloads. Given that disclaimer no longer exists, along with th
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by jpitz 4y ago
I am cursing you right now because it is occurred to me that I have to go home and install starcraft and play. There goes my weekend.
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by jpitz 4y ago
The Algorithm Design Manual, which maybe should have been named The Algorithm Selection Manual. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/425208.The_Algorithm_Des...
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by jpitz 4y ago
Reminds me of the Stone Soup story from the original creators of Fractint.
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by jpitz 4y ago
I started using ack about 14 years ago, so theres a lot of inertia there. It is slower than the others, but it was so much faster at the time for searching through source trees than grep. For log colorizing, I make use of the --color-match
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by jpitz 4y ago
I use ack for this purpose, because the color filtering options are so good. https://beyondgrep.com/
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by jpitz 4y ago
From TFA: "A gentle introduction to Haskell for beginners. The prerequisite for this series of tutorials is some knowledge of imperative programming, whether C++, Java, Pascal, you name it. If you have some familiarity with functional
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by jpitz 4y ago
I think I might argue that the "Maxwell's Equations of Software" could be a set of things that proscribe and constrain...whose consequences are pervasive throughout. For example: Turing Machines and the Halting Problem Queuei
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by jpitz 4y ago
I see this argument a great deal here on hacker news. I think it's more important that the scripter understands their use case and develop accordingly. Posix portability is almost never a factor or the things that I develop, because we
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by jpitz 4y ago
It does not address timestamps, but set -x does this seamlessly without cluttering up your script. You can even run your script with sh -x script If you didn't always want the logging output.
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by jpitz 4y ago
I switched from the sculpt to the Logitech and I'm pretty happy with that choice. It helps that I also have the ergo max trackball and they both run on the same transceiver.
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by jpitz 4y ago
That caveat covers a very large number of scenarios that are in need of performance enhancement.
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by jpitz 4y ago
Obligatory Raymond Chen reference: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180521-00/?p=98...
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by jpitz 4y ago
Chesterson's fence is about understanding: tradition may be smarter than you, maybe not, but it would serve well to understand the reasons why it's a tradition before disposing with it.
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by jpitz 4y ago
By default it will download wheels for the system it is running on, but there are knobs to tweak that. https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/cli/pip_download/#cmdoption-pl... https://peps.python.org&#
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by jpitz 4y ago
I have experience hiring people.
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by jpitz 4y ago
That's frankly a fascinating response. I have certs because my boss asked me to get them, as they play a part in his business' ability to obtain partner status with the various cloud vendors. It is confusing to me that this chain

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