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by qntty 4y ago
Unix Network Programming by W. Richard Stevens and parts of The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk
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by qntty 4y ago
Oops, sorry!
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by qntty 4y ago
See also, Marc Levey (CS professor at Stanford specializing in computational photography) gave some good lectures at Google a few years ago on digital photography: https://sites.google.com/site/marclevoylectures/ho
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by qntty 4y ago
Natural frequencies of mechanical systems are eigenvalues of it’s equation of motion.
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by qntty 4y ago
Sounds like you could be looking for something like VMware vSphere if primary-backup replication is what you want
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by qntty 4y ago
> We submit that all leaders should be aware of the ratio of positive and negative comments made by their colleagues in leadership team meetings, and endeavor to move the proportion closer to the ideal of 5.6 to 1—by their own example. W
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by qntty 4y ago
> For example, I know things like (ab)^c = abc Is the formatting wrong on this? Because this isn't an identity.
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by qntty 4y ago
Interesting to note that the forward was written in 1994 by Donald Norman (author of The Design of Everyday Things) who was ironically an Apple Fellow at the time.
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by qntty 4y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roseto_effect
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by qntty 4y ago
You're moving the goalposts here.
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by qntty 4y ago
Choosing to use your limited recruiting resources wisely is one thing. Saying that most schools outside the top 4-5 are diploma mills where students hire people to do their classwork is straight up lying, and deserves to be called out.
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by qntty 4y ago
This has got to be satire. You don't trust schools outside the top 4-5? Harvard is 16. Dartmouth is 49. Maybe if you had said the top 50 or 100 but this is so out of touch lol.
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by qntty 4y ago
see also: https://github.com/theanalyst/awesome-distributed-systems
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by qntty 4y ago
> At least 40,000 borrowers will receive immediate debt cancellation under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) Program. How is this news?
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by qntty 5y ago
I didn't know that there were video lectures on youtube by Richard Hamming: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2FF649D0C4407B30
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by qntty 5y ago
I guess like most companies, return to office means show your hand see if you have enough power to convince them otherwise.
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by qntty 5y ago
Interesting, I didn't know that there were cloistered Carmelites. I thought that mendicant == itinerant. According to this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discalced_Carmelites it's mostly nuns that are cl
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by qntty 5y ago
The Art of Computer Programming itself is a yak shave. Knuth was originally going to write a book on compilers, but he realized that he needed to cover some prerequisites first, and that became TAOCP.
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Beej's Guide to Unix IPC (2015)(beej.us)
220 points by qntty 5y ago|54 comments
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by qntty 5y ago
This isn't aimed at all of his followers (monastic and lay), just at the monks. Here's the quote from Brahmajāla Sutta: > “Or he might say: “Whereas some honourable recluses and brahmins, while living on food offered by the fai
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by qntty 5y ago
I've heard a couple different stories about trying drugs like heroin. Some say that they felt addicted immediately, some say it takes a while. Then there's Carl Hart who says that he has occasionally done heroin for years without
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by qntty 5y ago
I'm not usually a Joe Rogan listener, but I keep thinking about the interview he did with Carl Hart: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4xMbq7gLEjFioOQ5gpSw2l Hart claims that the inherent addictiveness of even the
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by qntty 5y ago
"[The successful scientist] is sometimes driven, I will dare to suggest, by a passive-aggressive nature, and sometimes an anger against some part of society or problem in the world. There is also an introversion in the innovator that k
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by qntty 5y ago
Is this guy trying to convert me to Christianity? Am I misunderstanding his final statement where he seems to say that the only solution to subversion is faith in God?
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Pointer Swizzling(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by qntty 5y ago|0 comments
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by qntty 5y ago
The title is clickbait. This isn't "reading thoughts", it's reading motor movements, which is a different part of the brain than cognition. Most people will assume thoughts = cognition reading the title.
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by qntty 5y ago
Git isn't perfect but for me it was a huge improvement over SVN. The complexity was worth the ability to do stuff I never did with SVN.
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by qntty 5y ago
Does anybody know if the notch is an obstacle for the cursor? Does the mouse pass through the notch or does it need to go around?
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by qntty 5y ago
This is interesting. It reminds me both of a common piece of advice for meditating ("If you feel overwhelmed by the task of paying attention to your breath for X minutes, just ask yourself if you can pay attention to just one breath, t
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by qntty 5y ago
Tomato has always been my favorite router firmware. It's a shame it hasn't been continuously maintained. I never donated to it but in retrospect I would pay for it. Last time I updated my router I used another fork called Advanced

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