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by oxymoron 6y ago
Semi-related: I remember a story from HN a few years ago where someone started experiencing crashes and tracked it down to a single flipped bit in memory which went away when he purged his page cache so the binary was reloaded from disk. Do
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I think this explanation of the core ideas in kernel deserves more attention: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26170536
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by oxymoron 6y ago
This is excellent. Thanks for putting in the time of writing it up!
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I was young and dogmatic, so I did admittedly despise Microsoft back then. I can't recall I ever heard of IEDevToolbar, though. Did it really feature the DOM tree view where you could do CSS manipulation? I always had the impression th
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by oxymoron 6y ago
In 2008, when IE7 came out, I cried of joy. I turned 22 that year, so the 7 years with only IE6 and Firefox was a significant chunk of my life. Firefox showed us that the web wasn't finished and could still be improved, and then came F
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by oxymoron 6y ago
My copy has excellent print quality, as far as I can remember.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
It’s a really good biography of a fascinating life. I’m particularly fond of the fact that his _master_ thesis laid the foundation to rigorous circuit design. It’s been described as ”possibly the most important, and also the most famous, ma
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by oxymoron 6y ago
They have hired people who will be working specifically on rust. Just the names listed in the article amounts to millions of dollars invested yearly.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
You claimed that we did that in response to being scared by “the disastrous herd immunity strategy”. Week by week data (reported on in the weekly reports here: https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/folkhalsorapportering-st...
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Anecdotally, we were all scared shitless in March and that’s when there was a drastic change in behavior. People stayed at home and stopped traveling. The period after which you describe is actually the period in which travel restrictions w
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I think there are a few things going on here: a) The spread of contagion before measures where imposed. Sweden was a few days later than the other Nordics in taking action, and may have been in a further advanced state to begin with. b) Saf
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I wrote a game in that style, once: http://emilhernvall.github.io/bubblespinner/bubblespinner.ht... (repo at https://github.com/emilhernvall/bubblespinner ) It’s in Javascript, so not all of it is
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I stuck with Windows 2000 for many years after XP was released. XP brought absolutely nothing I wanted and a lot of things I didn’t want. All the truly interesting stuff, like WinFS, never made it in.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
It’s a good point, except that I have kids in daycare, and I can’t change that schedule. We have to adjust our lives to that. The most depressing time of year is that Monday when it’s all of a sudden dark at 4PM whereas it was daytime on th
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by oxymoron 6y ago
In that style, there is nothing too dramatic. ;)
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Great article. The writing style reminds me of James Mickens. For instance, this classic https://www.usenix.org/system/files/1311_05-08_mickens.pdf
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I liked it a lot, although I’ve later found the depiction of the Eisenhower administration a bit simplistic. Another good and fun read on that is Evans’ _Ike’s bluff_, which paints a more detailed picture on John Foster Dulles in particular
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I’m not sure it’s really a corner stone. Saltsjöbadsavtalen and the Swedish model of collective bargaining came much earlier. Amuingly, LAS was introduced by a liberal goverment against the protests of the social democrats who felt that it
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Which teams were impacted? In particular, is anyone working on rust being let go?
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by oxymoron 6y ago
This article contains a number of factual error and a general lack of insight in the situation. First off, it attaches a special significance to the end of June as a turning point, but Sweden was late in deploying widespread testing of the
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by oxymoron 6y ago
This article claims that they are able to isolate live virus from stool, which seems to contradict the observations here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2196-x
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by oxymoron 6y ago
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/06/22/scie... It’s at least plausible. The traditional definition of herd immunity assumes a homogenous population as the term has mainly been used
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I think it’s an artifact of how widespread the contagion was when restrictions were implemented. Stockholm has about twice the death rate as Västra Götaland, but lower case incidence. This is all plausibly explained by the observation that
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by oxymoron 6y ago
Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle is set in this era. Newton, Hooke, Wren, Leibniz and many others all appear as characters. It’s a 2800 page monster, but a treat if you enjoy historical fiction and the history of ideas.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I had a similar experience. I just accepted an offer for a senior engineering position at a FAANG, and only got a few basic coding questions. Out of eight hours of interviewing, I think they spent six hours on behavioral questions.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
There's a good book that came out earlier this year about the Polynesian expansion called _Sea People_ by Christina Thompson. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
async-std is already using smol.
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by oxymoron 6y ago
The confusing part about the article was that it initially stated that they were very small, and then went on to speak about billiard ball size. Does that mean that the protective coating is very thick, or that there’s a range of sizes for
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by oxymoron 6y ago
1. A cosmic ray storm turned all ASCII charactees into ECBDIC 2. Lightning struck the 12 V feed and upped the voltage to 10 MV, turning all 0 and 1’s into 6’s 3. Someone spilled a New England Pale Ale on the server 4. The process was assina
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by oxymoron 6y ago
I carry a tooth pick for this, but it’s annoying. I’m in the process of switching out my main charging stations for Qi so I don’t have to bother with it...

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