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> DISCLOSURES ... Scorpion Capital LLC is short Lasertec Corporation I have no information about either company and take no position on whether the allegations are true. But note that what Scorpion Capital is doing here is a classic play
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I don’t know the reason for this glitch, but from prior knowledge: - BRK.A has an extremely high share price, in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for a single share, which causes issues - NYSE has a very complicated trading system, beca
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> Instructions are also available to build TDE for FreeBSD from source. Thank goodness we still have instructions for patching KDE under FreeBSD. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/how-does-one-patch-kde2-under...
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I guess is comforting that we have them as a fallback if the firstline antibiotics stop working.
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My run with 100x the iterations in the given source: test absolute additions ratio with number time per second test0 0 6.55sec 763.64M 1.00 1 6.63sec 754.20M
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I couldn't find an exact date for when this was published. I found a Usenet reference to it from 1995 so that's what I went with. The STL was published in 1994.
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Stepanov Benchmark (1995)(open-std.org)
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I currently use this one for iOS which handles both epub and pdf pretty well: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voice-aloud-reader/id144687636... I've switched a few times, and anything on an Apple platform
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> Screen readers usually do a poor job of handling code and diagrams that are crucial for understanding something. That's fair. This is definitely the main reason why my comprehension is lower and I have no solution for it.
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This is unrelated to the book club topic, but have you considered reading dense technical books as audio books? I often do this and I find that I absorb them maybe 50% as well as if I sit down and read them, but that I read 500% more. As a
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by senkora 2y ago
Here's the page about his current book club. There's a Google Form link to sign up, which hopefully I'm not too late for since I just filled it out! https://eatonphil.com/2024-understanding-software-dynamics.h
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+1. If I go with the comment option, then I'll sometimes write a comment like "If you change this here, then you must change it everywhere with this tag: UNIQUE-TAG". This way, the reader can just do a global grep to find all
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I especially like it for reading the slides without the video. Oftentimes, the slides for a presentation will be available but a video recording will not be, and having all the information on the slides makes it easier to learn from those
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This is very cool. The article is worth a read, but the TL;DR is that a high cosmic ray event left a mark in a specific growth ring on trees, and so it is possible to 1) loosely date a piece of wood used in a building to within a few decade
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It typically means "something like vi", where there are "modes" like insert, normal, command, replace, visual, etc. that completely change the keybindings and are switched between by pressing certain keys in certain mode
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What's the current state of automatic enforcement of these? I know that Microsoft has built tooling to enforce a subset of them, but I'm not aware of anything for Linux that specifically targets these. https://learn.mi
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> There are probably more languages compiled to Wasm than to RISC V. Especially for higher level languages, which is attractive for scripting. To expand on this, this is especially useful for modding. The original developers should proba
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SVG animations are a lot of fun. I really like this puzzlehunt puzzle that makes use of them: https://2021.teammatehunt.com/puzzles/time-of-your-life (fair warning: puzzlehunt puzzles tend to be essentially unsolvable
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> multiprocessing with shared memory if you need to use CPU resources in parallel This is actually pretty powerful. I personally prefer it for most purposes, because it restricts the possibility of data races to only the shared memory re
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They’re using the right pieces to build something like this. And there’s a lot of energy right now around Lisp-ing all of things, largely driven by the Guix people. You should think of this as the sequel to optimizing your Emacs configurati
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I knew someone who decorated their apartment with Panera artwork after the location that they worked at closed down. They told me that it otherwise would’ve been thrown away. Pretty nice artwork all in all.
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> The debuggabilty of those classes is kinda nasty tho. It’s not too bad as long as you have the gdb pretty-printers installed, and explicitly instantiate each of the member functions for each of the template specializations that you use
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I haven’t used it before, but based on the website it also looks promising.
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> LyX During college, I time-tracked how long I spent on each homework for each class. I can confidently say that using LyX instead of LaTeX for my math assignments resulted in me finishing them 50% faster. I think that most of the impro
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This is easily the best overview of unity builds in C/C++ that I've seen. I'll definitely save and reference it in the future.
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I came across this video the other day about another interesting NYPD toy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQIlrfrysEg > Officers used a vehicle called the "bear" to get inside Hamilton Hall [at Columbia Univer
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> “As we allege, the defendants’ scheme calls the very integrity of the blockchain into question,” US Attorney Damian Williams said. I’m impressed that he could say this with a straight face.
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Thank you for putting the idea of the mind’s tongue into my nightmares.
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I sometimes listen to (parts of) the All-In podcast because I think it is useful to understand what powerful people in our industry think. The four of them are really quite unlikable, and I can confidently say that if any of them happen to
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I had a poor experience with an ASUS laptop several years ago. Several of my college friends also had issues with their laptops around the same time. I would recommend avoiding them entirely.

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