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by raddan 3y ago
> any message you send will be marked as spam This is not true. I run a mail server for myself and some friends. It started as an old desktop running under the desk at a university, transitioned to the back corner of a server room when I
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by raddan 3y ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/medieval-s...
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by raddan 3y ago
Excellent, thanks!
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by raddan 3y ago
Wow. This is great. Is there API documentation? I'd love to be able to center the map at a GPS location instead of a city/town name. If I use my city's name, I find that it uses the city center, which is a reasonable defa
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by raddan 3y ago
Annoyingly, SmallTalk actually does this, so they got there first. The reason is that operators are just methods (and numbers are objects) and so arithmetic dispatches left to right unless parens are used, ala (1.+(2)).*(3)
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by raddan 3y ago
Here’s another make alternative. You do not need to specify dependencies at all. https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc22/presentation/curtsin... (full disclosure: I am one of the authors)
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by raddan 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenstrat
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by raddan 3y ago
It clearly depends on your perspective. I found the quantity of ads on Google to be a genuine impediment and happily switched to being a paying user of Neeva. For the vast majority of searches, Neeva was better for me. Most pointedly, Neeva
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by raddan 3y ago
I agree that it is a cultural issue. When cheating is rampant in a class, it is often because an instructor either does not properly motivate the work, or assigns too much work, or both. I work hard to motivate my students. The first point,
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by raddan 3y ago
My experience (I am a CS professor) is that, even when you attempt to provide partial credit for programs that do not compile (as I do), the code is almost always seriously flawed. We all know that attempting to write an entire program in o
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by raddan 4y ago
> Because Apple will forcibly kill it after that with incompatible software updates. Windows machines keep going until they physically break. This is demonstrably false. My wife continues to use my hand-me-down MacBook Air I bought in 20
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by raddan 4y ago
Agreed, and more generally, I would love to know what life was like for these people. We have an advanced civilization that was almost totally wiped out. Millions of people living their lives independently of western civilization. I’ve toy
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by raddan 4y ago
I’m sure this is not what the poster meant, but in fact most EVs and hybrids use multiple battery technologies in parallel. For example, a Chevy Bolt has a lithium ion battery to power the drivetrain and a conventional lead-acid battery for
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by raddan 4y ago
Spoken like someone who clearly has never used OpenBSD at all.
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by raddan 4y ago
You really don’t want to consume any quantity of radium.
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by raddan 4y ago
Why not?
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by raddan 4y ago
There's an important distinction that your explanation glosses over, which is that MergeSort is an out-of-place sort while QuickSort is in-place. As a practical matter, this distinction is important and it makes the two algorithms not
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by raddan 4y ago
The garbage situation in Manhattan is ridiculous. Mountains of garbage appear every night. It’s not surprising that they have a rat problem. Plenty of other cities have addressed this problem directly. As far as I can tell, NYC simply does
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by raddan 4y ago
The focus of a good presentation is the presenter, not what’s on the screen. Bad talks make the audience divide their attention between what is being said and what is being shown. What would be shown on a scrolling display? Probably text. T
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by raddan 4y ago
The author has stated that the end was inspired by The Turn of the Screw ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turn_of_the_Screw ) so my feeling is: you’re not really supposed to know. I’ve always interpreted the ending
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by raddan 4y ago
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I picked it up for the first time in the 7th grade and have reread it about a dozen times since. The book is deeply thought provoking about what constitutes knowledge and served as a light introduc
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by raddan 4y ago
I am surprised to see nobody mention Practical C Programming ( https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Programming-Does-Nutshell-H... ) by Steve Oualline. Before I studied computer science in school, I read this book and successfull
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by raddan 4y ago
I don’t know if people still use Meetup, but back around 2013 when I was living in California, Meetup events were popular with people who wanted a way to socialize and improve their language skills. I was a part of a Meetup that went on hik
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by raddan 4y ago
Tracy Kidder is a wonderful writer. If you liked “The Soul of a New Machine” you might also like “House” which is on a totally different subject. Is it technical? Sort of. I think about it every time I work on my own house. It’s my favorite
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by raddan 4y ago
I’ve read K&R and it failed to resonate with me. The problems have always seemed like the type you’d run into if you were the kind of person writing an operating system… in the 70’s… on a minicomputer. I learned C from “Practical C Prog
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by raddan 4y ago
This is my favorite CS paper. The writing is clear (almost “simple”), the idea is brilliant, and the entire thing is beautifully presented. https://m-cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/6/228044-coz/fulltext Ful
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by raddan 4y ago
Sure, do that. But also: > The power analysis used a power criterion of (1 − β) = 0.80, which indicated that a mean cell size of n = 54 was sufficient to replicate significant effects of acetaminophen. The question is not whether n=114
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by raddan 4y ago
I also went to night school to earn a bachelor’s degree in CS. It was hard. And to compound the hardness, I started a PhD program the year I turned 30. Definitely a late bloomer. But I am now a professor of CS, and I am satisfied with the c
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by raddan 5y ago
In the interest of starting a proper flamewar, I propose that we also discuss the pronunciation of 'sudo' and 'sysctl'.
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by raddan 5y ago
No, but Bosnia is. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omarska_camp

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