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by mprovost 5y ago
This reminds me of djb's clockspeed, but with ML. Not a bad idea. https://cr.yp.to/clockspeed.html
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by mprovost 5y ago
The EU probably requires calculating energy in kilojoules (which are 4x calories) and then converting back to calories which results in different rounding.
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by mprovost 5y ago
Bruce Webster named this the "Dead Sea Effect". [0] Imagine your talent evaporating, leaving an increasingly salty residue. [0] http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
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by mprovost 5y ago
also a chat app
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by mprovost 5y ago
They weren’t there on the laserdisc release!
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by mprovost 5y ago
Was it in the shape of a race car?
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by mprovost 5y ago
I had an Apple PowerBook 520c in 1994. The "c" was for "color", they still had a greyscale version! One of the best laptops I've ever owned actually. It was the first laptop (from any manufacturer I think) with a tr
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by mprovost 5y ago
Most of us in the 80s taped Star Wars off network TV (including ads) - they used to show it once a year. And for some reason you could see the masks around the TIE fighters against the star background. When I was visiting my parents for Chr
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by mprovost 5y ago
Yes I could really feel the social anxiety coming through in the article. One thing that someone told me that really helped is that everyone is trying to help you by telling you what you should do. So if they ask to take your coat, say yes.
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by mprovost 5y ago
It's not really about the manager trusting the team, it's the other way around, gaining the trust of your reports. If you don't trust your team to achieve their goals, then yes you do have a problem and you can address that i
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by mprovost 5y ago
One quick observation: you say that your new role focuses on Devops etc... That sounds like a tech lead to me. A manager focuses on their people, not a tech stack. One of the hardest parts of transitioning from an IC to a manager is letting
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by mprovost 5y ago
There's still a lot of opportunity to introduce ML into the classic plain text Unix utilities. Even if you have to retrain, there's still room to improve over existing tools. One example is learned sort, which outperforms radix so
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by mprovost 5y ago
Was the code 00000000? https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/01/21/air-force-swears-our-nu...
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by mprovost 5y ago
There were proposals at the time (1992!) for a backwards compatible version but they were rejected in favour of a clean slate approach. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.17487/RFC1385
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by mprovost 5y ago
C certainly has been battle tested but I wouldn't say that it passed with flying colours. Every one of the examples that you cite has had bugs/crashes/vulnerabilities that would have been avoided with newer languages.
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by mprovost 5y ago
So does that mean we should expect C23 support in ~2033?
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by mprovost 5y ago
Secure mode doesn't really make anything more secure if you're the one using it. It just lets you add it to the list of allowed commands in the sudoers file without giving someone a root shell. We used to do that all the time at o
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by mprovost 5y ago
They've eliminated this deduction in both the UK and NZ in the past couple years, at least for individual landlords. NZ does allow it for new builds to incentivise construction of new housing.
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by mprovost 5y ago
Sure but that means rewriting every application. There was a mind blowing Defcon presentation a few years ago "Bit-squatting: DNS Hijacking Without Exploitation" by Artem Dinaburg where they registered a bunch of domains that were
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by mprovost 5y ago
iSCSI uses a 32 bit CRC. (TCP is 16 bits). There was a draft to use 32 bit TCP checksums but it never got traction: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-tcpm-anumit...
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by mprovost 5y ago
I've played around with jumbo frames in the past. One issue is that none of the checksums at any layer were designed for packets this big. Both the Ethernet and TCP checksums don't have enough bits to reliably detect errors, even
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by mprovost 5y ago
I pretty much always have an open terminal window running dc for doing quick calculations throughout the day. And I do my taxes every year in dc!
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by mprovost 5y ago
Yes the NULL RPC does nothing and should give a baseline for measuring the round trip time. I'm surprised that it doesn't give the expected results. Your test case is going through the kernel, not sending raw RPCs across the wire.
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by mprovost 5y ago
Quick plug for my open source project nfsping for measuring NFS latency: https://github.com/mprovost/NFStash/blob/master/md/nfsping.m...
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by mprovost 5y ago
Omicron will not be the last variant and there's no guarantee that the next one will be less dangerous.
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by mprovost 5y ago
I went down a rabbit hole looking at how they distributed the original sequence for Covid-19 out of Wuhan. Pretty amazing to go back to January 2020 and see the conversations unrolling out in the open.[0] Also, here's the original sequ
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by mprovost 5y ago
"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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by mprovost 5y ago
I rode in a live Peloton class yesterday that had more participants than that.
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by mprovost 5y ago
(Look who you replied to)
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by mprovost 5y ago
The best way is to check the market directly: do some interviews, get offers, compare. It's a lot of work but chances are that you'll come out of it much better off. If you think about it, basically nothing you do at your current

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