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by scrapheap 2y ago
If someone found a way to easily factorize large integers easily on consumer grade hardware then it would be very painful as RSA is one of the big public key algorithms. Before you start worrying about it though consider that RSA has held u
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by scrapheap 2y ago
If you're looking at learning Perl then you'll find the https://perldoc.perl.org/ site very useful (you'll probably also have its content available on the command line via the perldoc command). If you want mo
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by scrapheap 2y ago
I'd hope so as sometimes it can take me more than 90 seconds to put an entry in my calendar, which would result in me putting and entry in my calendar for putting and entry in my calendar :)
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by scrapheap 3y ago
The "right way" isn't always the same way - in fact I'd go as far as saying that you should beware of anyone who tells you there is only one "right way". There's no point committing the effort and resource
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Decision making and arguing are two very different tasks. For decision making I find that asking questions around the subject helps clarify what you're actually trying to achieve with the decision, gives you additional information to w
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by scrapheap 3y ago
I know some people really work well when pair programming, but I find that I either slip into Student Mode or Teacher Mode when I try it. Either the other person knows the environment we're working in (architecture, codebase, etc) a l
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by scrapheap 3y ago
In theory, but what if we did see a difference :)
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by scrapheap 3y ago
It doesn't stop us checking daily though does it :)
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by scrapheap 3y ago
What would be really interesting would be to repeated attempt to get get ChatGPT to solve the problems. By that I mean try to solve the Day 1 problem at the point of release, then try to solve it in a fresh ChatGPT session the next day, and
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by scrapheap 3y ago
There are protocols for Interplanetary Internets - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Internet The way we interact with the Internet would have to change though due the extra delays involved in communication
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by scrapheap 3y ago
The microprocessor certainly delivered on the hype it got in the late 70's and early 80's.
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by scrapheap 3y ago
As others have said, get some lessons. An instructor will really help you to know which of your habits are ones that will help you pass your test and which will cause you to fail (hint: encourage the former and avoid the latter). Also remem
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by scrapheap 3y ago
> The overall architecture defines the limit of the solution's scope. Agreed, but the micro-level decisions will impact how much effort is required to work within that scope. Just because your architecture supports something doesn&
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Ah, the old "in case we need to do X in the future" line. It's a tricky one as it will always sound like a valid comment, but I've seen so many junior developers take it a face value and feel they have to implement ever
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by scrapheap 3y ago
This is an assumption, so may not be how they do it - but I'd assume you'd push it client side and the client doesn't have the hardware or power to do an option then you don't give it to them on that device.
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by scrapheap 3y ago
I'd say no, at least not on modern computers. When I learned to code you had the manual for the computer and it contained so much information that was alien to you - but then you'd start with BASIC and learn to use that to do a fe
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Personally I find the Kanban "walking the board" approach very effective for keeping up to date with what the rest of the team is working on. Most mornings it takes less than 10 minutes to do. Also, as we're focusing on the
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by scrapheap 3y ago
> The majority of them said that they were able to reduce the time required for building. Imagine a project that used to take three days, is now wrapped up in just one and a half days! Thanks to AI, we're talking about a 50% reducti
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by scrapheap 3y ago
In order of priority: 1 - whatever they say in the manual 2 - if you'll be needing to use the device for a long period of time without the ability to recharge it, then charge it up to 100% 3 - otherwise, topping it up to 80% when it re
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by scrapheap 3y ago
In my view people should certainly stop using these LLMs as a source of truth. What worries is that they're often so close to the truth that people start taking what it tells them at face value without stopping and thinking to double c
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Quite often the person believes they are helping with their suggestions (or at least that's what I believe when I'm the one doing the suggesting). But there is certainly better and worse ways to make those sort of suggestions. On
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Boots into Windows 7 (a 2009 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows XP (a 2001 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows 98 (a 1998 OS) ... No shudder Boots into Windows 95 (a 1995 OS) ... No shudder Fires up the old Amiga 1200 and boots into Wo
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by scrapheap 3y ago
But you could do a heck of a lot with a small program on those machines. I still find it amazing that we have a lot more processing performance, RAM and disk space these days, and yet every new commercial Operating System version that comes
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by scrapheap 3y ago
I've grown accustomed to compact fluorescent bulbs these days - mainly to having been given a lot of them for free about 10 years ago. I suspect that I shall be using them for a while yet as my stock pile of them is still filling a she
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by scrapheap 3y ago
I'm currently reading Sun Tzu's The Art Of War, it's the nice little penguin pocket hardback edition. The translation is good and the compilation of different commentaries that accompanies it really helps you to understand i
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Fully agree - Vim is my editor, but Bash is my IDE!
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by scrapheap 3y ago
> But maintaining an up-to-date (n)vim setup seems like a huge time sink. In my experience, plugins are constantly deprecated and forked, or have breaking changes that need to be debugged. I think it's worth putting the effort in to
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by scrapheap 3y ago
If you're not going to review the code before merge, then you certainly aren't going to review it after it's been merged. It's one of the reasons that I write my tests before the code, I know that if I write the code fir
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by scrapheap 3y ago
Don't throw it all at them at once. Work out a suitable order for bringing in certain approaches and then tackle it one change at a time. Start out with the changes that bring them noticeable benefits and you'll have a better ch
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by scrapheap 3y ago
There will be better sources of how you want to be positioned when you sit and sleep than this - but in general you want to be thinking of the positions of your hips, pelvis and spine. Good positions tend to keep your hips aligned and pelv

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