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by markrages 5y ago
It is a special case of Morningstar's law, you can't tell people anything. http://habitatchronicles.com/2004/04/you-cant-tell-people-an...
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by markrages 5y ago
> Why does the linter rule not, instead, check if the while loop is unbounded and warn the user of that? Indeed, the linter only needs to incorporate of the many known solutions to the halting problem.
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by markrages 5y ago
I learned Python around that time, when the docs said that `open()` is deprecated and to use `file()` as a constructor instead. Still unlearning that habit.
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by markrages 5y ago
I think that's brain damage from years of embedded C.
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by markrages 5y ago
Poe's law demonstrated.
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by markrages 5y ago
Python doesn't have a do..while loop, so when you want to do a thing at least once, the simplest replacement is starting the loop with "while 1:" and ending the loop with "if ... break". I disapprove of any linter t
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by markrages 5y ago
"The difference between underengineering and overengineering is that underengineering can be fixed."
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by markrages 5y ago
I was actually looking into that this week due to chip shortages... it is not cost effective, but if the alternative is sitting and waiting a year for the specialized switch controller to become available again, that NRE doesn't look t
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by markrages 5y ago
Does "-5e4" really evaluate to "-5000" in this language?
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by markrages 5y ago
I notice you consistently spell it "enineering", without the first "g" that everybody else uses. Is there a reason for this?
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by markrages 5y ago
Parent comment is evergreen. It could have been written in 1996. I feel the same way. But as we curmudgeons stand athwart history, the whole of software development is moving toward the largest sizes the technology will allow.
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by markrages 5y ago
I can't find any definition of inheritent . What do you mean by this word?
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by markrages 5y ago
Controversy: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/10/the-many...
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by markrages 5y ago
I'd much rather watch Uncle Doug resurrect old guitar amps.
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by markrages 5y ago
I wish he would do more troubleshooting. He replaces all the tubes, all the caps, all the resistors, and now the radio magically works!
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by markrages 5y ago
Carbon brushes are normal motor design. Replacements are available at real hardware stores that haven't completely devolved to housewares.
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by markrages 5y ago
> At one point I was interested to know if there were versions of the paging technology (for some critical application?) that tried to solve this by issuing multiple redundant messages over some amount of time, and the pager ignoring the
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by markrages 6y ago
NAPA filters are rebranded Wix filters. Quite good, actually.
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by markrages 6y ago
That's technician stuff and won't be taught as engineering. Maybe a BSEET degree would cover it.
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by markrages 6y ago
Same with Firefox on Ubuntu 18.04. Completely different tech stack, same result. Must be standards-compliant jittering!
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by markrages 6y ago
My mouse has no scroll wheel (it's a trackball) and there are some websites that I basically cannot use.
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by markrages 6y ago
What does "serie" mean? It's not an English word.
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by markrages 6y ago
Monks copying texts would be a lot more interruptible than the kind of creative intellectual work that programmers do.
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by markrages 6y ago
It is a funny spin on that aphorism.
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by markrages 6y ago
Consistency doesn't always serve readability. In written English, you can convey the same basic facts with a hundred different sentences. A good author will choose the one that best conveys emphasis and subtle gradations of meaning to
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by markrages 6y ago
> As an aside, who exactly was the target viewing demographic for Garfield? Garfield was never funny for me as a kid. Never. Garfield is Jay Leno in comics form. More about good cheer than actual humor.
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by markrages 6y ago
It's easier to follow a program's execution when you can be sure the whitespace will never lie to you. You can never have a "goto fail" kind of bug.
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by markrages 6y ago
For the sealed-bottle experience, you can buy the commercially supported Black Magic Probe hardware. Still open-source and better integrated into gdb than Segger etc.
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by markrages 6y ago
If you're strapped for cash you can run Blackmagic Probe firmware on a $2 bluepill board for JTAG with a fully open-soure tool set. (I run it on a $2 esp8266 for wireless JTAG. Open-source gives many options!) Free as in speech, almos
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by markrages 6y ago
Why are comments enabled on that web page? What possible good could come from it?

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