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541.
by m3047 3y ago
And why is "big endian vs little endian" a thing in computers and networking? Because it's homage to Jonathan Swift. It references an apocryphal war about which end of a hard-boiled egg to lop off; no doubt a much more viciou
542.
by m3047 3y ago
(Proven) correlation is not causation. It's correlation, meaning things are related. Causation would mean that something causes something else. Correlation, meaning things are related, means that one of them might be the cause of anoth
543.
by m3047 3y ago
> his father started working with programmable logic controllers (PLCs), and his interest in these controllers led him to purchase a Z80 processor board and start programming on it In the PLC world there is a notion of "tags".
544.
by m3047 3y ago
Let me continue your mangled analogy of the connected car and ask: should a braking profile be auto updated while the car is hurtling down the road in traffic at 60 miles per hour in a torrential downpour? Should the cloud make that determi
545.
by m3047 3y ago
I think it's strongly indicative of ritual when people greet others with "hi, how are you?" and are annoyed with any answer other than "fine, and you?".
546.
by m3047 3y ago
> Do you happen to have a blog No I do not. I've got an unindexed web server where I post random stuff from time to time, and occasionally I write articles on LinkedIn. I'm heartened you care. I care about quality, what gets me
547.
by m3047 3y ago
Good questions! > instead of ... asynchronously Yes. > What was the process if the artifact was "rejected" We only did it once a week and all code was not reviewed. Well, I should say not all code was formally reviewed. And
548.
by m3047 3y ago
I once encountered a postscript file which computed and printed a Mandelbrot fractal (as you call it). It came over the transom as DOS / possible malware. We let it run over the weekend on an HPLJ4 and by Monday it had spit a piece of
549.
by m3047 3y ago
I've been in the IT racket for over 30 years, so maybe I have an unfair advantage in terms of candidates. I helped rewrite FIS (RSTS) as XENTIS (VMS) for Park Software in the early 1980s and worked on it for over a decade. It lasted as
550.
by m3047 3y ago
Best code reviews I've participated in were in a CMM 3 shop which was a division of a large corp. There was overarching method to the madness, but as a lowly engineer serving our manufacturing customer it looked more or less like: 1) p
551.
by m3047 3y ago
Code review works. Ok, yeah I'd say that is the one practice which I've seen consistently tied to high(er) quality work. Article is pretty handwavy about epistemology and just things generally. But I'd say not all code review
552.
by m3047 3y ago
Time for a 'bot motel. The simplest way to do that is to salt your site with links which 404 and rewrite the 404 handler to serve garbage pages with more links which also 404. It can be the simplest way to solve compute resource proble
553.
by m3047 4y ago
I've seen the output where ChatGPT misrepresented its own TOS... unless the person who publicly posted it on LinkedIn was lying about asking ChatGPT...
554.
by m3047 4y ago
My 1960s cafe racer (years ago!) had oil injection. Some engines do have oil injection and just inject it into the inlet port, but in this engine it was delivered directly to the crank bearings. From there it was flung all over and ultimate
555.
by m3047 4y ago
2 stroke has poor unburned emissions because of mix flow-through when ports are open. If air charge / purge is completed before fuel is injected then that doesn't occur; whether that's diesel or something else is irrelevant.
556.
by m3047 4y ago
A lot of negative comments on this and there are no references provided, however some human traits are well-understood: * people irrationally tend to add rather than remove complexity to solve problems * experts' decision accuracy impr
557.
by m3047 4y ago
NSAID: Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drug Tylenol: * Non steroidal? Check. * Anti inflammatory? Hrmmm... not so much. So what are you taking it for again? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsteroidal_anti-inflammatory..
558.
by m3047 4y ago
"Healthcare in the US" is the endstate of this: Enabled to make purchase decisions, but not on price or quality.
559.
by m3047 4y ago
Use something suffering from acropalypse and claim plausible deniability.
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by m3047 4y ago
Fond memories of the club where I was well enough known and respected as to be allowed to bring a violet wand into the premises and turn it on: human chains, human beer sign, other sideshowesque scenes.
561.
by m3047 4y ago
ChatGPT declaring someone dead and making up a legitimate-looking URL to a nonexistent obituary: https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/02/chatgpt_considered_ha... ChatGPT also misrepresented its own terms and c
562.
by m3047 4y ago
But I didn't type import antigravity I typed pydoc3 antigravity (Cue clip of industrial disaster in background.)
563.
by m3047 4y ago
The fun thing about lichens is that they can carry multiple copies of DNA and switch between them at pivotal moments. I dunno how. My mother's PhD was in this many many years ago.
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by m3047 4y ago
All your counters, sets and lists you've got in Redis, with the equivalent of a WAF: https://github.com/m3047/rkvdns
565.
by m3047 4y ago
I've got to say, I've never actually noticed a problem with "fire and forget" although I use it for more or less disposable tasks to begin with. However, I've spent some more time looking through asyncio.base_events
566.
by m3047 4y ago
Early in the internet SPAWAR ran a web site named Planet Earth. Always the best place to get international news, first. Not kidding.
567.
by m3047 4y ago
I hearken back before dot-bomb and occasionally people would ask me to work on "web sites" which they'd built with desktop publishing software (e.g. ColdFusion). They'd hand me the code that somebody would've alread
568.
by m3047 4y ago
Some of us have been writing python since 2.x, and quite unsurprisingly wrote asyncio code at 3.6, and still happily support it. Some of us have even asked on HN about maintaining compatibility backwards and forwards between 3.6 and 3.11. T
569.
by m3047 4y ago
Hrmmmm. > But who reads all the docs? asyncio.create_task() doesn't exist in 3.6, and I can't find the string "to avoid a task disappearing" in the doc, so I'll go out on a limb: there is no such doc. However I s
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by m3047 4y ago
def greet(bow=None): ... if bow: bow() def elsewhere(gesture): def bow(): print(gesture) greet(bow) Wrap that.

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