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by knome 6y ago
>I thought git was named by Linus Yes, I included that one as a joke. "git" is a British slang term. Linus once quipped that he names all his projects after himself.
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by knome 6y ago
Tim Sort, Hamming Codes, Huffman Coding, RSA keys, LZW encoding, Duff's Device, Bloom Filter, Carmack's Reverse, awk, linux, git. We have a lot of things named after those that discovered, invented or popularized a structure or t
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by knome 6y ago
>That's self destructive behavior on a planetary scale. No species that has an instinct or culture to consume all available resources will survive long enough to do it on a galactic scale. Have you ever read Issac Asimov's stor
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by knome 6y ago
>jq's special snowflake language If you'll bother condescending to such, you'll find one of the most interesting languages I've encountered in years. jq's syntax and execution model is beautiful. It has some roug
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by knome 6y ago
No. The pathway is named after the character. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonic_hedgehog
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by knome 6y ago
> syntax was highly unlikely to ever graduate from nightly to stable Rust, despite being one of the most requested features. I think it's safe to infer from this line that there was not yet a guarantee of stability in the interface,
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by knome 6y ago
I dislike javascript for much the reason you love it. Promises just mean having to manually build and manipulate cooperatively multitasking green-threaded call-stacks. It was a dirty necessity following the inability of the earlier callback
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by knome 7y ago
That seems pretty ridiculous coming from Linux, where the vast majority of software will be installed via a package manager, making clean removal trivial. Under windows, I would consider any software that requires a separate removal tool to
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by knome 7y ago
This introduction to io_uring has some history of the interface that may answer your question. https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf
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by knome 7y ago
> to see no contributions from Apple to the Linux kernel anyway There is one person submitting patches to the linux kernel under an @apple.com address and a few more listed as having reported them. That's as of the last time I pulle
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by knome 7y ago
erlang is typed like python is typed. dynamic strong types. it has a static analyzer that will catch mistakes if you add the appropriate type annotations, however.
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by knome 7y ago
The book really is a fantastic read. If you've any curiosity on the matter, I would suggest picking up a copy. The premise is that it is not organisms, but genes themselves which are the primary target of evolution. All but the gene is
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by knome 7y ago
As I remember it, it was stated in "The Selfish Gene" that the vast bulk of genetic code served only a single purpose: ensuring it itself was replicated. It had no known function for the organism, it simply was copied from generat
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by knome 7y ago
madvise( start, size, MADV_DONTNEED ); start must be page-aligned. size is in bytes, but if you take one byte of a page, you take the whole thing, so clip as appropriate. this informs the kernel you're done with some part of
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by knome 7y ago
Rightly punishing the connection for having the trappings of security when it actually lacks it doesn't mean we need to punish openly insecure traffic. End users have been told time and again that http is insecure, and so it's fin
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by knome 7y ago
The same document defines `in-addr.arpa` domains that have numeric labels. The mandate of a starting letter was for backwards compatibility, and mentions it in light of keeping names compatible with email servers and HOSTS files it was repl
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by knome 7y ago
If you take on the perspective of holding the world as temporary ward, preserving it for the use and pleasure of future generations, then that easily dismissed single person missing experiencing something becomes an uncountable number of hu
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by knome 7y ago
You may want to check the BIOS for your laptop. It often has the ability to swap the `ctrl` and `fn` keys, which is nice for those of us that find their choice to put them on backwards from how they ought to have annoying.
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by knome 7y ago
>g++ clones What does this mean? Something like certified forks of g++?
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by knome 7y ago
"resistance-to-change for-no-reason" vs "resistance-to change-for-no-reason" :)
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by knome 7y ago
While I've vaguely known it was around for a while, I recently had the pleasure of using `jq`. It has a genuinely different and extremely useful set of semantics. It allows you to easily define transformations over json object streams,
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by knome 7y ago
It really was fantastic. I taught myself QBasic out of the help screen when I was a teen. I spent many afternoons flicking through the extensive documentation and finding functions with interesting sounding names to read about and try as I
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by knome 7y ago
This is an excellent question with a generally fun answer, at least in python 2. https://kate.io/blog/2017/08/22/weird-python-integers/ http://hforsten.com/redefining-the-number-2-in
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by knome 7y ago
>This is exactly why signals are process-global instead of thread-local. Signals can be sent either to a process or to a specific thread under linux. Signals sent to the process are handled by an arbitrary thread. There's a bunch of
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by knome 8y ago
Sounds a lot like the gods in "Origin of Consciousness". Occurs as well, that for those that have seen the MBTI and Jungian stuff, that the introvert/extrovert duality they posit could be described as a tortoise/talker-a
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by knome 8y ago
As a mere reader, if non-US-flagged ships aren't allowed to stop at two consecutive US ports, then it seems likely they'd head to California instead of Hawaii, since it is the larger market, leaving Hawaii, which would otherwise r
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by knome 8y ago
I believe it was Belgium that banned unboxing as a form of gambling, leading to it being disabled across Valve games, afaik.
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by knome 8y ago
SSL certificates have to be signed by a vendor ( authority ) your browser trusts or the certificates are considered invalid ( hence the hoo-ha when firefox or chrome occasionally stop trusting some vendor for bad practices ). Your workplace
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by knome 8y ago
I wonder if they could deploy something like the airbags they had on the mars rover that bounced down, perhaps with vents allowing air to squeeze out on impact like a crumple zone and cushion a blow if it were to land on someone.
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by knome 8y ago
Didn't most perl5 OOP move to the Moose library, that set a bunch of standard method names and hid all the bless'ing stuff in its internals?

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