rleigh

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by rleigh 6y ago
This simply isn't true. When you plot the infection and death rates of the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated population, the rates in the vaccinated group drop like a stone. The effect is highly significant. The vaccination strategy is h
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by rleigh 6y ago
Depends on the company. Some certainly do.
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by rleigh 6y ago
That's what all the compressor stages are for. There's a pressure differential so the combustion pushes against that and exits in one direction, turning the lower pressure discs on its way out.
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by rleigh 6y ago
This part is dead simple and quite clever. It's on the animated diagram in dark blue, and you can also see one port on the cutaway engine block photo (I've been to see this in real life; the engineering is phenomenal). On the bl
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by rleigh 6y ago
And in "full screen" mode, it auto-hides the menu bar. Unusable for serious work. No way to show it by default, either. Absolutely obnoxious. All of these design affordances point to one single driving usecase: media consumptio
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by rleigh 6y ago
Or DataGrip if you already have a JetBrains licence.
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by rleigh 6y ago
This depends entirely on how you want to set up and run the system. For packaged versions running as a system service with a dedicated service user, this is absolutely correct. And I would argue, it's a pretty sensible default arrang
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by rleigh 6y ago
They are not complex, and they are entirely optional. They are just a namespace. You are free to never, ever use them. For a company the size of Uber, I don't think spending five minutes reading the documentation for createuser is a
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by rleigh 6y ago
For nsswitch, yes it should be a daemon. The current design maps in all sorts of unrelated (and potentially incompatible) junk into you process' address space. Far cleaner just to query over a socket. Doesn't need to be a syste
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by rleigh 6y ago
My experience here was 22 years ago, so I'm sure the state of the art and the instrumentation has advanced significantly since then. They were evaluating FT-NIR spectroscopy when I was there, and undoubtedly they have gone much furthe
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by rleigh 6y ago
> Very true, however there's a great deal of pretentious BS in the wine-tasting game. Absolutely agreed 100%. I've been to a few organised tasting events, and I think at that level it's pretty much all pretension and styl
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by rleigh 6y ago
The first part of my reply could have been better. I should have said "unbiased" rather than "accurate". The training part is very much about learning to identify specific chemicals, or groups of chemicals. That absolu
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by rleigh 6y ago
That's not what they are concluding. If they are tasting it blind (with no preconception), their taste is accurate. It becomes inaccurate when there is external bias (like cost or a particular label). Note that the actual article
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by rleigh 6y ago
I stuck it out in academia for (if I total it up completely), 15 years, before getting out and into industry. My experience matches yours--there's just so much interesting scientific work out there, and while some might argue that it&
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by rleigh 6y ago
I joined a couple of years back, but came away disappointed. All the groups I followed 20 years back are pale shadows of their former selves, filled with spam. And most of those were big in the day and included the comp.lang.c|c++ and a f
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by rleigh 6y ago
As much as I like the concept, am I the only one to find the current design aesthetic boring and infantile? Compared the the really detailed and beautiful vector art people were making with vector editors in the '90s, I find little he
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by rleigh 6y ago
As you say, it can't be understated just how much of a conceptual leap git was. It wasn't developed in a vacuum. And there were several interesting distributed open source version control systems around at the time. After moving
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by rleigh 6y ago
That was one of the notional reasons, but I (and others) haven't noticed much of a speedup. If anything, it's slightly slower in my experience (though this obviously depends upon the specific configuration). It was also not uniqu
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by rleigh 6y ago
I found it confusing in 1999/2000 when I first autotooled a project and read it for the first time. If others find it confusing, maybe it needs clarifying or changing to make the example clearer.
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by rleigh 6y ago
Libtool attempted (badly) to solve portability problems between the diverse range of linkers on 90s Unix platforms. Its versioning scheme is utterly insane. It made a slightly difficult problem incredibly complex, and for no good reason.
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by rleigh 6y ago
Do you have any concrete examples? I see it stated as a use case, but I've never seen it in the wild. Personally speaking, I cross-compile daily using CMake with toolchain files. Some modern RTOSes use CMake exclusively e.g. Zephyr o
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by rleigh 6y ago
Depends on the system. If it was old, or the release date was a while back, you might need to do it anyway. Many Linux distributions do it as a matter of course to ensure it's actually possible to regenerate and that it's up to d
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by rleigh 6y ago
This is a complete mischaracterisation of CMake usage. Today, it's better at portability than most Autotools builds I've used. In projects which maintain both systems side-by-side, I've had Autotools fail on Solaris, MinGW a
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by rleigh 6y ago
I'm currently just using a single-user Bronze subscription for consulting work. I was previously thinking of adding customers and other end users to the plan, but it already gets far too expensive. None of these users would be develo
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by rleigh 6y ago
In small doses, perhaps. After having to maintain some larger M4 macro collections (for Autoconf and the Autoconf Archive), as well as using it in some work projects for code generation, I'd have to say that maintenance and testing are
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by rleigh 6y ago
Can't disagree with most of the points made here, except for a handful. Firstly, that the "Autotools are not obsolete". Sorry, but they are. They have been for well over a decade. They don't serve today's needs e
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by rleigh 6y ago
Absolutely similar, but don't underestimate the friction this introduces, and the number of potential contributors you cut off by doing this. Getting corporate sign-off for such things can take months while it wends its way through leg
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by rleigh 6y ago
Yes. You have to assign copyright to the FSF in order to contribute anything. This is one reason for its demise. I've done the copyright assignment for both Autoconf and Automake. It's one reason why there are external macro ar
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by rleigh 6y ago
Don't forget about native dependencies. Any Python module that embeds native libraries needs to remain binary compatible with the host system. And because Python doesn't control this in anyway whatsoever, it's a lottery if
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by rleigh 6y ago
2to3 does 95% of the job. The other 5% requires manually fixing up all the bits it missed, and until you do that, your codebase will be subtly (not not so subtly) broken. The most common problem I saw was relating to iterating over dictio

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