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by mprovost 5y ago
I read somewhere (that I can't find now) that the quality of teachers has gone down as the workforce has opened up opportunities for women. Jobs like teaching and nursing used to be some of the only socially acceptable professions for
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Sorted: 49344 libc.so.6 29942 libpthread.so.0 27555 libdl.so.2 22664 libm.so.6 19510 librt.so.1 17287 libz.so.1 16112 libgcc_s.so.1 13296 libffi.so.8 13015 liblzma.so.5 11362 libzstd.so.1 11352 libglib-2.0.so.0 113
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by mprovost 5y ago
Seeing all of those "first name" usernames (eric, matt, greg, justin, ...) reminds me of when my first email address at my university was "matt" because it was on a VAX and almost nobody had accounts. It would be interes
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Presumably Glassdoor started as a place to leave honest feedback about companies. But they had to make money somehow, and individuals aren't going to pay to access those reviews. So their customers are now the companies themselves, who
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My new metric for whether it’s too soon to discuss something: can you uproot a vineyard, plant new vines, wait 5 years for them to grow and then harvest.
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Compare it to investing. Do you wait for the stock to go down and then sell, or do you sell when it's high and take your profit elsewhere? Even if you invest it in something that then goes down, you still made your profit. If you move
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The takeaway here is to leave before you're frustrated. While things are still good. That is when you are in the best position and frame of mind to make a change. Because you can walk away from any offer that isn't better. If you
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by mprovost 5y ago
Check out notcurses: https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses
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This sounds like embracing Conway's Law [0] instead of observing it as emergent behaviour. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law
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Using an insulated bottle kind of defeats the purpose which is to transfer heat from the water to yourself. You'll wake up in the morning with a bottle full of hot water but you'll still be cold.
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Modern Nalgenes are BPA free and don't contain plasticisers.
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I feel like this is a reenactment of how MSG got a bad name in the first place. Someone mistook it for a different compound and here we are decades later.
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"A language is a dialect with an army and navy" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_language_is_a_dialect_with_a...
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When Sesame Street was first popular in the 1970s my great aunt in Massachusetts famously forbade her grandchildren from watching it because she didn't want them to learn how to speak like New Yorkers.
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Python comes with Tk
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I worked on a search engine at a startup that did exactly this, you could up and downvote each result. The main feature was that we essentially "sharded" the search engine so it could be embedded on different sites and give differ
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by mprovost 5y ago
Encryption is CPU-heavy and CPUs weren't nearly as fast then as they are now. Unix was developed on systems like a VAX which could do 1 MIPS (millions of instructions per second). For comparison an M1 chip can do about 10 trillion inst
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Here's the commit from 1978: https://github.com/dspinellis/unix-history-repo/blob/Bell-32... The comments refer to an "old 127 paste command" but I have no idea what that is.
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The "peak" in London last week (if it really was the peak) had 1 in 10 people infected. Those are huge numbers, even if most people don't need hospitalisation.
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I got frustrated with terrible knives in a variety of Airbnbs but instead of bringing my own, I bought a portable sharpener. It generally makes even a pretty bad knife into something not so terrible to use for a couple days. And airport sec
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by mprovost 5y ago
I’ve written a book “Rust From the Ground Up” which teaches you to write a real Rust program from scratch in each chapter. I used the BSD sources to rewrite classic Unix utilities (head, wc, cat, etc) from C into idiomatic Rust. Rust has an
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I have terrible handwriting and have had the idea in the past to try and relearn with a new style. Like maybe the way they teach French children in school! But when I looked online for a book on how to learn handwriting as an adult they wer
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I remember seeing photos of people in Brooklyn charging phones with Biolite camping stoves after hurricane Sandy: https://gothamist.com/news/oh-just-brooklyn-survivalists-cha...
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Yes I’m posting updates here: https://mobile.twitter.com/rustftgu Thanks for the interest!
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When I saw the URL I assumed the article was going to reveal that modern submarines are still running VMS on DEC Alphas (or a VAX!). Honestly I was surprised when that wasn't the case.
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Thanks! I've written the whole book - now I'm going through and editing and typesetting each chapter and trying to publish one a month.
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In that case since it's not routable from the outside world it seems like it would be easier to mandate that the folk using this address space all migrate to IPv6 and give back all the v4 addresses, than it's going to be to convin
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More interesting than rewriting the GNU coreutils are the projects that are reinventing them. Like ripgrep (which built on the example of ack) is a better grep, by discarding backwards compatibility. Or fd, which abandons find's arcane
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I'm writing a book "Rust From the Ground Up" which teaches Rust by rewriting a coreutil per chapter, from the original BSD sources. The first 3 chapters (true/false, yes, and head) are released. wc is next, then cat, cut
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The nice thing about NFS (v3) is that it's stateless, so you can just keep doing the same thing over and over. Messing around with metadata sucks but once you get the filehandle of the file that you want to read or write then you don&#

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