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841.
by pacaro 10y ago
While PM at Microsoft is a slightly (or extremely YMMV) different rôle, a lot of people who are GMa (General Manager) and higher used to be PMs
842.
by pacaro 10y ago
Obviously N and f are independent (although they might not be, your N may dictate how often a cache miss occurs). Right, so now let's assume that our O(N^3) algorithm is simply a triple nested loop. And that we have an expensive operat
843.
by pacaro 10y ago
With Brexit, my brother and one of my cousins have both taken this path.
844.
by pacaro 10y ago
No I'm saying that a poor choice of data structure will have an amplified impact on an O(N^3) algorithm. Giving it as an example of where you could have the different implementations of the same algorithm have massively different runti
845.
by pacaro 10y ago
Write a simplistic O(N^3) algortihm When N is 100, all fixed costs in the inner loop are multiplied by 1,000,000. So a nanosecond difference is now a millisecond. It's pretty easy to get worse than that by boneheaded data layout (row-m
846.
by pacaro 10y ago
Independent of this fork of discussion, all pet dogs would benefit from being kept fit and at an appropriate weight (a good proxy for healthy) As a dog owner I take this as part of my responsibility towards my dog. I control both his opport
847.
by pacaro 10y ago
I would rephrase this. The concern as an apartment dweller is less one of size, and more one of energy. I have a Bernese Mountain Dog (currently 110lbs/50kg) he's a great apartment dog, because he's low energy. Other resident
848.
Stanford students recreated a 5,000-year-old Chinese beer(engadget.com)
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849.
by pacaro 10y ago
See also FreshPaint on any version of windows > 7
850.
by pacaro 10y ago
In old school windows development, the mistake was normally to draw directly to the window's DC.
851.
by pacaro 10y ago
These apps are getting more wrong than rendering too much on a single character change if there is visible flicker. I wrote software that rendered its entire UI on any change into a DIB and blitted to the DC twenty years ago with no flicker
852.
by pacaro 10y ago
My recollection is that I took it immediately after a delicious lunch
853.
by pacaro 10y ago
I didn't give it a second chance! Most of these things only have an impact over the longer term. Next time I have a blood panel done I'll reconsider supplements
854.
by pacaro 10y ago
Anecdote: be careful with metal supplements. A doctor suggested that I try a larger than usual dose of Zinc (with Copper) to see if it would help with my psoriasis. Worst headache of my life, metallic taste in my mouth, felt like death for
855.
by pacaro 10y ago
FWIW I could successfully configure 2fa on the desktop, which works fine on mobile,
856.
by pacaro 10y ago
I worked on a database whose format was derived from Pick [1], that used 0xFE, 0xFD, 0xFC as record, field, sub-field separators - which was great until we had customers that needed those code-points for their data (i.e. in needing to enter
857.
by pacaro 10y ago
I have to admit to being quite startled. But I just get "Security code was invalid. Please try again". I've tried again several times. I'll see if setting it up on the website works.
858.
by pacaro 10y ago
This is great forward progress, I much prefer U2F where available. I hadn't even realized that FB supported 2fa, so I just tried to set it up on my iPhone, and either automatically or manually cannot get a test code to work. This tends
859.
by pacaro 10y ago
Wait, Boston Globe, for shame. Ana's height, bone structure, and hair are described, but we never get even a cursory description of Ted? When you start looking for this shit, it's everywhere.
860.
by pacaro 10y ago
There's probably some CAP theorem of management
861.
by pacaro 10y ago
And also another source of British vs. American dialect difference/confusion. In my experience, they're known in the U.K. as "woodlice", but in the US it's entirely reasonable for grown adults to refer to them as &q
862.
by pacaro 10y ago
Also, what were the pragmatic trade offs: CapEx vs OpEx; development time vs quality; etc.
863.
by pacaro 10y ago
It's worth noting that the decay process takes about as long as the growth process for some trees. For example, a Douglas Fir might spend 600 years alive, and then be a Nurse Log for another 600 --- see http://www2.kuow.org&
864.
by pacaro 10y ago
I've used a Stokke/Varier Wing Balans for about 15 years on and off. I find that it allows for a variety of sitting positions. If you are experiencing knee pain, you may want to adjust so the top of your shin is against the pad, n
865.
by pacaro 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. All of this not being helped by the weird macros COM headers used to work in both C and C++ I'm not sure whether I have nostalgia for that time or Stockholm syndrome
866.
by pacaro 10y ago
Why no c header files? I was writing against DirectDraw and DirectSound in that time frame using C, so I'm assuming that there were headers. Or did you just not have access to the windows SDK?
867.
by pacaro 10y ago
A little surprised by the downvote. these cognates are how we get dishes like "plum Duff", and "spotted dick". Grocery stores sometimes bowdlerize the latter to "Spotted Richard", but "Spotted Dog" wo
868.
by pacaro 10y ago
It's interesting that Welsh orthography has these sounds, but makes different transliteration choices into the Latin alphabet. For example, dd is used for eth (I once worked with a woman called "Dydd", presumably short for Me
869.
by pacaro 10y ago
Also dough, duff, dog, and dick, are all the same word (when used in traditional British cooking)
870.
by pacaro 10y ago
And, to my knowledge, least one specific principal level engineer worked on both systems

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