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by phaedrus 5y ago
The mandatory-voluntary PTA work reminds me of a college course I had (sociology). The professor was also a Scout mother and told us we'd be doing X hours of "volunteer" work for her son's troop but it would be part of
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I was explaining to one of my coworkers how back in the day with WordPerfect you could click "Show Codes" (or whatever the menu option was called) and view all the embedded formatting tags as text rather than WYSIWYG. This made i
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by phaedrus 5y ago
My experience in corporate IT convinced me that even if an entire release could be automated down to a single press of a giant red button (and even if undoing the release could be another, single button), then culturally our organization wo
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Another SCP-sounding one: noun. endosciller en·dosciller a surgical instrument that conceals the central organs so as to be able to swallow blood "a cardiac endosciller"
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by phaedrus 5y ago
It reminds me of Grandpa Simpson's "Onion on your belt" story.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I got: nonlocentric non·lo·cen·tric (of a material object) having no boundaries "a nonlocentric microscope"
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by phaedrus 5y ago
As someone who has actually written (albeit following a tutorial, for a hobby project) a working non-UEFI bootloader, and having done a lot of experimentation with dual-booting, manipulating disk images, etc.: I find it hard to believe drop
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I turned in a similar algorithm for a college homework assignment, as a practical joke. (I'd been programming for 10 years already before I was able to go to college, so I was extremely bored in my first year Computer Science classes.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
This is similar to the premise behind my "software archeology" tool idea. While working as a lowly developer at a medium-large company, I kept finding case after case where badly coded software was doing dumb/wasteful things
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by phaedrus 5y ago
You have a gross misconception of the relative temperatures of components in internal combustion engines, and you're using a faulty conclusion based on the same misunderstanding as supposed supporting evidence. I assure you an RV or ot
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by phaedrus 5y ago
As far as I know the Epson QX-10 / QX-16 is the only home computer system to have never had a game written for it. I've always intended to rectify that situation, since a QX-10 was my first computer, but my current QX-16 system d
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by phaedrus 5y ago
This is sort of a reply to several of your comments in this thread about how we could still do all the things we do if money didn't exist. Your point reminds me of something a co-worker once said; he pointed out that "profit&quot
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I was in USMC boot camp on 9/11/2001. You don't get much chance to consume media during training, and they put us on lock down and gave us only limited information. We knew kind of serious attack had happened, but not exact
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The part I find most interesting is that (as I understand the article), Freedman's proof relies on a meta-proof that details not worked out in the base proof could be ignored: "But there were places where he couldn’t quite complet
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I maintain a legacy application which was written in a fully event-driven way. As another commenter mentioned, native Windows programs work this way, but it is not just because this is a Win32 program. The original author(s) of this appli
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Before clicking the link, I thought this was going to be a completely different science fiction story about (U.S.) congressmen who leave the business of legislative voting to AI copies (brain scans) of themselves while the original travels
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I tried to back up a 60% full Ubuntu Linux RAID to a 4TB USB3 hard drive. I set the backup going and left it a few hours. I was shocked to come back and find the RAID 100% full and only a few GB copied. It took me a few minutes to figure
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Out of the two ways you arrange one over the other, I suppose only one makes sense.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
No, it can take a few minutes. A big factor is the diameter of the pipes used to carry the hot water. See: This Old House videos on the topic. Bigger is NOT better here; a larger pipe may take several minutes to empty out of cold wate
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by phaedrus 5y ago
My uncle was noticeably not the same person after coming back from general anaesthesia. So I know what you mean, although I can't think how to sufficiently explain this to other readers who may not have experienced it. I wonder if it&
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I have a direct A/B experiment on this: I have one work laptop which is centrally managed by big-corp IT (I'm not the admin), and one laptop which is a project machine which I manage and admin. Guess what? The big-corp IT manage
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Although a late-1970s computer definitely couldn't encompass all of the unconscious parts of a thinking mind, it's interesting to think about whether the surface level, conscious thoughts of one's mind could fit on a small co
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by phaedrus 5y ago
The Parallax Propeller is one microcontroller that could (in theory) work for bitbanging precise timings even when something else controls the timing. Since each task can be put on a dedicated core, you could clock-count your assembly inst
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Using a hole saw and cutting into metal, I'm pretty sure I could spend 8 minutes per hole . Of course I prefer to use the drill press for this, but some projects can't fit and must be done with a hand drill. Then there's th
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Now that's wild.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
Anyone interested in this should also check out SmileBASIC 4 for the Switch.
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I implemented a debugger for an interpreted language (not Python, but similar design problem). I added a C "API" to the interpreter that was designed to be easily callable via GDB. IIRC it consisted of just three functions: &qu
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by phaedrus 5y ago
I remember a true story (forget by whom) where the narrator set up a simple website for some local community activity. A stranger hacked and defaced the website, admitted to doing so without revealing his identity. His position in contact
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by phaedrus 5y ago
It's a numbers game, and you're overlooking the other side of it. The automakers have to engineer to a very low probability of failure because they deal in large numbers. It's true a person in their garage can't match
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by phaedrus 5y ago
What prevents this same line of reasoning from being used to justify that SQL does not need a DATETIME primitive type? Just as you showed how a sum type could be represented with component relations, a similar example could be constructed s

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