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by randrus 3y ago
There’s a name collision with “Python Remote Objects”. Which I have to see as unfortunate, given my scars from that other pyro.
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by randrus 3y ago
Hah! I had a similarly visceral reaction to Fountainhead - I finished reading while pacing angrily, and afterward threw it as far as I could. The only book I intentionally destroyed though was Kaplan’s Advanced Calculus, but that was just t
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by randrus 3y ago
So ... the satisfied drop out of the gene pool and we're sampling from the lineage of the unsatisfied. Survivorship bias?
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by randrus 4y ago
Read GR yonks ago, and it nearly killed me, but I still remember laughing til I cried at his description of being fed candies by the roommate of the woman he was pursuing. And growing bananas. I have no plans to read it again. OTOH I re-rea
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by randrus 4y ago
It’s not the language, it’s the leverage. I came to python in the 90s because of the white space (I was young and impressionable) and stayed for the flexibility and wealth of packages and projects out there.
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by randrus 4y ago
I used to monitor multiple long running tests that way with “& banner done”
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by randrus 4y ago
Ages ago I was testing firmware that implemented RAID data handling for a DLT tape array. I constructed a test data set containing every four byte value - and found one value that exposed a bizarre bug that would reliably trigger over-temp
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by randrus 4y ago
Not quite ambient, and (I presume) not aleatory, but Sleep by Max Richter has a kind of ambient feel - like Music for 18 Musicians it evolves slowly but intentionally, and draws me along with it.
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by randrus 5y ago
A friend passed this along and I really like it.
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Tracking the Changing Climate with Earth Observations(climate.metoffice.cloud)
1 points by randrus 5y ago|1 comments
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by randrus 5y ago
I’m too drive to drunk.
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by randrus 5y ago
Also a big fan of FMC for architecture diagrams - in bigger systems, being able to easily distinguish "action" vs "state" nodes has been useful in reasoning about behaviors. Pity it never took off, and there doesn't
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by randrus 6y ago
Semi related - my wife and I taught our kids to call us by our names in public to avoid confusion with all the other Dads and Moms.
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by randrus 6y ago
Pay attention.
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by randrus 7y ago
Might be interesting/useful to aim for zfs send/receive compatibility :) And thanks for the Borges callout.