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by rwmj 10mo ago
It'd be awkward to ban Vance as he's the Vice President so covered by the Vienna Convention. The others, I'm quite surprised they haven't been banned already, especially after Elon Musk quite literally attempted to inci
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by rwmj 10mo ago
It's essentially Perl for people who don't like punctuation marks.
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by rwmj 10mo ago
We had a lot problems embedding Ruby in a multithreaded C program as the garbage collector tries to scan memory between the threads (more details here: https://gitlab.com/nbdkit/nbdkit/-/commit/7364cbaae8
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Out of interest, was Tcl considered? It's the original embeddable language.
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Indeed you can, but we've found it useful to use MSG_MORE when using state machines, where different states are responsible for different parts of the reply. (Plenty of examples in states*.c here: https://gitlab.com/nb
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by rwmj 10mo ago
I'm surprised the article didn't also mention MSG_MORE. On Linux it hints to the kernel that "more is to follow" (when sending data on a socket) so it shouldn't send it just yet. Maybe you need to send a header fo
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by rwmj 10mo ago
I did a course at university on mathematical stability in floating point algorithms which mainly taught me there's no way I was smart enough to write correct code. Plus then making them work optimally on N different microarchitectures
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Ironically I've only ever heard of him because this blog post was previously on HN.
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by rwmj 10mo ago
Here's an example of a bug that I filed about non-actionable error messages: https://github.com/karmab/kcli/issues/456 The first error message was "No usable public key found, which is required for
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by rwmj 10mo ago
And the second rule is make all your error messages actionable . By that I mean it should tell me what action to take to fix the error (even if that action means hard work, tell me what I have to do).
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by rwmj 11mo ago
After "being warned of the consequences on multiple occasions the Schestowitzes never provided any witness statements" , so that's hardly Matthew's fault.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
I like cooking dinner and dislike work, so that sounds terrible.
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Zero Inflation(thetontineengine.substack.com)
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by rwmj 11mo ago
His final conclusion is terrible and spoils an otherwise excellent article. Unless he has really strong evidence of it, the specialists are very unlikely to be "trolling" the public. They are scientists and conservators doing th
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by rwmj 11mo ago
It's not exactly the same situation, but this happened before AI. At least the clarinet owner didn't get shot & killed like this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Harry_Stanley On 22 Septembe
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Typically in Egyptian tombs, around a doorway the writing faces (literally) the door, so on the left side you read right to left and on the right side you read left to right. I've also seen them written in columns to look like actual
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Certainly good news for mice. I wonder if anyone has tried to engineer a mouse that lives forever by applying all these life enhancing mouse therapies at once.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
No no no .. snails! https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9v1rjlekpeo
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by rwmj 11mo ago
I'd love to know what the "thinking" was behind getting rid of the hardware business. We bought some Penguin Computing servers after VA left the market.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
In the case of London, it was misallocation, not an influx of anything. It would have been better if the programmers had been founding start up companies, and the physicists had been researching science, instead of working for banks.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Amdahl's Law in action.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Some finance is needed and beneficial. The ability to form corporations and raise money through the stock market enhances many other fields of endeavour. But this can go too far. In London during 2000-2008, finance consumed every spare IT
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by rwmj 11mo ago
This video about how to program the ZX81 efficiently is also fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqVfyyZbIvo
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Yes! It always amazes me there seems to be no obvious URL scheme for servicenow.sadcompany.com/<ticket-number> Like, did the developers forget to implement that?
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by rwmj 11mo ago
They've (so far) spent $7,600 per staff member. They could have employed an actual person to sit besides each group of, say, 10 staff to deal with their ERP needs in person.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
ServiceNow is so terrible I genuinely wonder how it is ever deployed anywhere. Seriously, do the purchasers never look at it? Is there no product demo at all during the purchase process? Do the sales people actively hide it or something?
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by rwmj 11mo ago
You had a lucky escape! Workday may be the worst software I've ever been forced to use.
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by rwmj 11mo ago
Be warned that it's not deep philosophy, just a bit of fun! Edit: Reading it again now, I think the story stands up well, aside from its obvious 1970s-isms. If the story has any philosophical value today, it's that pretty soon we
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by rwmj 11mo ago
There's a fun short story about this topic in a book called "The Mind's I" [1] edited by Hofstadter and Dennett. Unfortunately the Internet Archive copy is locked and the cat is sitting on my lap so I can't grab my
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by rwmj 11mo ago
https://archive.ph/zpY3d

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