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by pm215 4y ago
Interesting. In the QEMU community I've never been asked for this kind of perf-feedback (with one exception in the last decade, which was related to a promotion case), and I don't think my fellow-developers would appreciate it if
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by pm215 4y ago
On the other hand that caveman wasn't doing the the same thing at the same pace of work every day of the year, and they had a much clearer idea of why the things they were doing were worth the effort they were putting in...
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by pm215 4y ago
The item that I thought was interesting was this one from level 5: "Organizations shall actively seek out community member feedback as a factor in official performance reviews." Is the kernel dev community really volunteering itse
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by pm215 4y ago
Yes, but it's not as useful as it is to a modern person, because if you're the only person who owns a clock then your life will have very few situations where knowing the time exactly and reliably matters -- so you only own one if
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by pm215 4y ago
The problem is that in general "code" can't do that because the code that's switching stack doesn't necessarily conceptually control the stack it's switching to/from. One SS:SP might point to a userspace p
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by pm215 4y ago
If you have the time/effort (which I appreciate you may well not -- there's a limit to how much it feels worth trying to tilt against megacorp windmills) it would be better to return them to Amazon, because otherwise it looks to A
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by pm215 4y ago
Dunno whether you'll read this, but as a fellow 3a owner I just discovered that there is a September update image on the google website: https://developers.google.com/android/ota#sargo -- I guess maybe this will a
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by pm215 4y ago
He was, for the first few years of the war. His wikipedia article has the details of his wartime career. You're probably thinking of "A Piece of Cake", which was his first published story and based on a plane crash he'd
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by pm215 4y ago
I don't know, but 'swap' seems to have become the standard term for the operation, used in places like the C bswap family of functions and the x86 'bswap' instruction. My (totally unsupported and unresearched) guess
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by pm215 4y ago
I find it depends a lot on the static analyzer. (My experience is largely with C code.) In particular, if the analyzer produces a lot of false positives it is dumping a pile of work onto the developers to work through each report and satisf
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by pm215 4y ago
Was being particular about education a widespread thing back at that time, or is it just that Bertrand Russell was a serious philosopher and intellectual and so rather more invested than average in the fine details of his childrens' ed
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by pm215 4y ago
Great point -- if you work for a large company, an internal transfer can be a great way to switch career specialties. Because the company already knows you well they're often willing to consider you even if you don't yet have much
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by pm215 4y ago
Right, and even if you're not ready to apply yet you can look at the job ad's requirements and nice-to-haves (for instance for a job working on llvm or gcc you're going to need C/C++) and see how well you fit them.
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by pm215 4y ago
Because writing documentation isn't easy, and a lot of people who like writing code don't much like writing docs. So for an open source project "the documentation matters" has to be a conscious choice (a cultural value,
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by pm215 4y ago
I think that's an important part of it. I'd add another factor: the global economy and financial system is an impossibly complex construct that nobody understands in its totality and which as a result is very difficult to control
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by pm215 4y ago
On a similar note, last year the UK's Marine Accident Investigation Branch published a safety study on electronic chart system use: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/application-and-u... It's ba
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by pm215 4y ago
A 2 bed flat for 400K is definitely what I would call expensive housing! It may not be central-London prices but it's certainly high, and unaffordable for many people.
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by pm215 4y ago
There's a thread on the user forums with an example of doing that, with some images from various of these AI image generators. I think the most obvious flaw with the idea is that you can feed in a prompt like "a prawn and a horse
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by pm215 4y ago
Most places close enough for "take the train for a night out in London" will (practically by definition) be "you can commute into London for work from here" places, though, with correspondingly high house prices. Certain
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by pm215 4y ago
The usual way it works is that you grew up speaking it but everybody else who grew up with you speaking it as a first language died before you did...
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by pm215 4y ago
Oops, yes. I couldn't quite remember the title (my copy of the book is at home), and googling found people claiming both Refired and Refined, so I made my best guess...
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by pm215 4y ago
Brooks wrote a retrospective on it 9 years later, _"No Silver Bullet" Refired_, which appears as a chapter in the 20th anniversary edition of _The Mythical Man-Month_. Of course that is still 25 years ago now, so perhaps we should
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by pm215 4y ago
Yeah, MA is very keen on the separation between brain (what he calls the "directing mind") and body, to the extent that he thinks it's possible for the brain to ignore pain because that's the body's problem, and it&
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by pm215 4y ago
Also, for some things there is no retention policy configurable at all -- eg pipelines and their associated stdout logs appear to not be auto-cleaned-up at any expiry date (no default, nothing configurable). If you want to get rid of those
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by pm215 4y ago
You can board the sleeper in Glasgow any time starting 2200, with the expected departure time 2340, and arrival in Euston 0707, last vacate-the-train time 0730. If you are used to using the service and want to get a reasonable 8 hours sleep
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by pm215 4y ago
There are also plenty of older houses that are built very cheaply and not much good in heat or cold either (eg single-brick-skin Victorian terraces)...
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by pm215 4y ago
"Make 'git checkout' of the top level repo also set the submodules to the contents they should have for that top level commit hash" is probably the main change I'd want. The current setup means that checking out a b
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by pm215 4y ago
Wikipedia's article on B says that BCPL used := for assignment and = for equality tests, whereas B used = for assignment and == for equality. Assuming that's correct, this must be B code.
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by pm215 4y ago
Hmm, when I asked for 'replay -e' I thought it would be faster than 'type run and wait' -- is it not?
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by pm215 4y ago
rr numbers each 'event' it records, and you can pass an event number to the gdb 'run' command to tell it to start from that event. Recent 'rr' now also supports the -e option to replay meaning 'start the d

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