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by necheffa 5y ago
I do a lot of floating point math at work and constantly run into problems either from someone else's misunderstanding, my own misunderstanding, or we just moved to a new microarchitecture and CPU dispatch hits a little different manif
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by necheffa 5y ago
I graduated highschool in the U.S. in 2009. Was forced to memorize times tables, long division, random formulas. Rarely was proof based instruction provided. Some teachers encouraged creative thought, others would mark a correct answer wron
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by necheffa 5y ago
As a user of btrfs myself, btrfs is not a great option for single disk workstations. If you look at who is funding development, where they are using btrfs, and the bugs and features getting deferred - its clear the direction of btrfs is not
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by necheffa 5y ago
Your argument is fundamentally wrong in that it assumes age is a good approximation of wisdom. Just because someone is N years old does not necessarily mean they have N years of experience from which to derive wisdom. They could very well h
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by necheffa 5y ago
I got a ring with a different stone.
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by necheffa 6y ago
How so? This is almost certainly what the internals of a packaged event wait would look like.
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by necheffa 6y ago
In a similar vain of logic, 34% is a non-trivial portion. Why should a non-trivial portion be forced to work in an office just because another non-trivial portion wants to?
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by necheffa 6y ago
The only problem is that the rest of the language is developer unfriendly, plus you have old school FORTRAN programmers who think it is perfectly acceptable and modern to use statically allocated arrays on the stack just because they aren&#
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by necheffa 6y ago
That will depend on if they'll include a cell modem in the SoC or still rely on Qualcomm for that.
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by necheffa 6y ago
With a nice pair of coated binocs you can see some of the closer star clusters. Of course Andromeda is always a good view. And the occasional bright comet too. The nice thing about binocs is they are easier to bring out than the scope. Plus
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by necheffa 6y ago
I agree you need to temper your expectations. But, something I don't think comes up often enough is that as you get older, your eyes not only have focus problems, you have less color receptors too. That means galaxies and nebulae are j
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by necheffa 6y ago
These low value articles about such-and-such security vulnerability that provide zero technical information allowing me to identify signs of impact or remediation steps really piss me off. Do enough people have their heads firmly planted in
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by necheffa 6y ago
Could a fourier transform be used to try and remove enough of the copyrighted audio without making the voices of those in the video unintelligible?
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by necheffa 6y ago
It is xor'd because all entropy sources are xor'd. That's just the design of /dev/random. And because of this, Intel or whoever would need to have weakened each and every entropy source you use to make anything of i
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by necheffa 6y ago
It really doesn't. Proof by contradiction only goes so far on this topic. Particularly when you lean on anecdotes from your personal bubble. If we want to play that game, I can refute the refutal with my own anecdote. I grew up very po
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by necheffa 6y ago
Probably the thinly veiles "all it takes is a little hard work and grit, don't know why all these peasants complain about being poor" attitude.
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by necheffa 6y ago
> I tend to prefer hiring people with more experience, in their 30s, 40s, and 50s > I particularly like those who've worked for a variety of different companies during their careers I hope you see how these are two very conflicti
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by necheffa 6y ago
In order to revoke a certificate, you first must at least suspect it has been compromised. An expiration date can help limit the impact of compromises you don't suspect.
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by necheffa 6y ago
I mean, when you have to go, you have to go. If you have to travel to an entirely different floor to find an open shitter, that makes for a poor experience.
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by necheffa 6y ago
I use most of my CS skills almost daily. I may not be writing compilers professionally, but on the surface, understanding parsing has gotten me out of more than a few tight corners. More abstractly, there are lessens to be learned in design
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by necheffa 6y ago
So you'd write a new application using win32? There is a lot of inertia driving maintenance on some of these large products but there is also a ton of deprecation taking place internally relative to them.
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by necheffa 6y ago
I was forced to take a COBAL & z/OS course during college. And I was pretty good at it. Local bank wanted to make sure it had a steady supply of COBAL programmers. I hate COBAL a lot, and incidentally for many of the same reasons I
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by necheffa 6y ago
Repeat after me: RAID is not a backup solution, its an uptime solution.
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by necheffa 6y ago
When you register a domain name you have to provide an email and street address. Failure to respond to communication at either of these and you risk the loss of your domain.
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by necheffa 6y ago
Just about every sales rep I've interacted with couldn't solve their way out of a wet cardboard box. Instead, they'll sing whatever lie they think will get you to buy a product, up to and including promising functionality tha
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by necheffa 6y ago
Native ZFS encryption make pool management easier. Less bookkeeping to import/export a pool. And the file system can make better decisions about performance and recovery.
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by necheffa 6y ago
I often find myself working with Fortran, you know, back when punch cards only had 80 columns. Let me tell you my friend, nothing about it is "more readable". In fact, you are likely to find lots of dirty tricks to make the code f
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by necheffa 6y ago
It is not at all remotely "antifragile". It's extremely brittle and after so many years you just know the happy path through the code. Any deviation results in spectacular failure and bug reports get closed as "wontfix&q
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by necheffa 6y ago
Automation for starters.
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by necheffa 6y ago
Nope. I fat fingered "colloquialism" and then fat fingered the spell check suggests on my mobile keyboard.

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