sbf501

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1. 211.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   > fighting the Twitter moral police. There are no twitter moral police, there are just opinions you don't like.
2. 212.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   Thanks. I've learned more about pthread just from this HN post than I've learned anywhere else online in the past few years. Makes me worried about some of my earlier code now. O_o
3. 213.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   Because they aren't always sterile, thats yet ANOTHER trope about reddit: I've learned quite a bit when a historian enters the chat. And, TBH, sometimes I like a good ol' internet fight when someone spouts some dumb shit (esp
4. 214.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   I think this "reddit is full of teenagers" statement is a trope for two reaspons. First, my partner is a highschool math teacher and in his casual surveys and discussions, most students don't use reddit: tiktok still dominate
5. 215.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   It's a state machine, so it is probably easier for programmers to solve than non-programmers. It's basically a debugging puzzle. :) How about a bigger one? Or a random generator?
6. 216.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   I was referring to the table on their original web page. The last two rows are a 1.5% performance difference.
7. 217.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   What bothers me is that the OCaml code looks so harmless: static void st_masterlock_acquire(st_masterlock * m) { pthread_mutex_lock(&m->lock); while (m->busy) { m->waiters ++; custom_condva
8. 218.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   All I see is 1% performance improvement for 1,000% complexity increase.
9. 219.▲
   by sbf501 4y ago

   I used CoolRetroTerm a few times during Zoom screen shares and people thought it was hilarious. It's such a fun nonsense app!
10. 220.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    I wrote almost exactly this on C64 in the early 80's. The problem was that you couldn't see the ball moving very well because the pokes happened so rapidly compared to the rest of the code that it was a quick blink of the ball. It
11. 221.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    You're getting downvoted but I agree with you. I've referred to Trump as the ultimate pen-tester of the US political system.
12. 222.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    On every term that supports 256-bit color I've mapped this to `dodgerblue` for at least two decades.
13. 223.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    Why would you pick out voting when our entire political system is complicated and has a direct impact on people's lives? Look at the electoral college. My 80-year-old parents still have no idea how it works, and IMHO it is just as impo
14. 224.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    That's a really cool store. I'm surprised they went all in on SAM MCUs for lots of their stuff, as I don't think the Atmel SAM product line has much of a future since being purchased my Microchip (although that was 6 years
15. 225.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    The magnetic stripe is just data. NFC is a handshake: the chip is a tiny MCU. There is still a root of trust required to prevent MITM, but the device would need to be compromised. This is why keys and certificate chains are stored in secure
16. 226.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    /record scratch/ First, why is this on HN? And second, WTF?!?!?
17. 227.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    Ah, good point. I didn't know the joke kept running. I've never seen the US version. I'll give it a go.
18. 228.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    That was funny, but then I was disappointed they needed an aside to explain it. Seemed unnecessary IMHO.
19. 229.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    I know it is OK. I prefer not to. And don't need your permission.
20. 230.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    > but really took off over the last few years with "step sibling" porn. Even one of the Mortys in R&M made a wish that "inc*st porn have more a mainstream appeal." My partner both winced at that and said to each o
21. 231.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    You're defending billionaires who don't give a crap about you except as someone to exploit. This is called "being complicit in your own oppression."
22. 232.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    That's the dumbest argument ever. If we all have food-, housing-, and medical-security, then we all are doing great.
23. 233.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    i forgot what side of this issue i'm on.
24. 234.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    Whoa. That's a lot of examples.
25. 235.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    There aren't enough examples for this to be considered a meaningful progression. Even the wikipedia page is struggling to prove its worth.
26. 236.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    Here's a SO discussion: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/15282/quantum-en... "Collapsing an entangled pair occurs instantaneously but can never be used to transmit information faster than ligh
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    by sbf501 4y ago

    Nice. But that's a BJT in saturation or cutoff. Which is only part of the story. The magic of a BJT is in quiescent region, which is like using a crowbar to lift something really heavy: the lever amplifies your force the same way a lit
28. 238.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    Ah. That's a good point. No pun intended. I forgot how powerful being able to address raw memory is with a non-asm language.
29. 239.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    It's hard to get my head around what it would be like seeing C-like patterns for the first time if I was someone that already had a background in COBOL and Pascal. At my university, CS101 was taught with both COBOL and Pascal, but I ha
30. 240.▲
    by sbf501 4y ago

    30+ years in software engineering, ~20 in management, and I've never had difficulty keeping track of what people are doing. Can you elaborate your experience of environments where this isn't possible? It sounds like just the clust