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by sevensor 6y ago
That's been my impression of Vermont -- everywhere you turn, farmhouses with caved-in roofs, pastureland gone back to forest, shuttered country churches, forested hillsides where you can just make out what used to be a ski slope by the
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by sevensor 6y ago
I downvote very sparingly. I try to upvote points of view I disagree with, especially when they are in response to my own comments. I believe this policy encourages interesting discussion. I reserve the downvote for comments that are mean
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by sevensor 6y ago
You'll find that nobody advertises for your skillset, because statistically speaking you don't exist. I wound up in my current, quite unique, position, by putting in for a position writing firmware. I wasn't deeply qualif
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by sevensor 6y ago
You got about a dozen :) Don't be swayed by the naysayers who tell you not to learn C no matter what. You already know it's a dangerous language. Approach it from the perspective that this is your opportunity to learn what kind
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by sevensor 6y ago
Don't lump C in with C++. They're very different languages. If anything, I'd lump C++ in with Rust. They're both big, complicated languages. If you're just looking to understand the C model of computing that und
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by sevensor 6y ago
Neat! Thanks for posting this. I bumped into Genetic Programming a few times when I was studying evolutionary algorithms. Program induction seems bigger, more modern, and more sophisticated.
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by sevensor 6y ago
> When the US was in a college-building phase ... all these posts were new and empty, waiting to be filled. So it enabled a generation of new professors to fill those ranks. Funny story about that. Shortly after the war, my grandfather
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by sevensor 6y ago
Euler's formula got me through a bunch of EE classes back when I was a student. I was pathologically unable to commit trig identities to memory, possibly due to laziness. So instead I learned Euler's formula and worked everythin
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by sevensor 6y ago
Back in grad school, I had the pleasure of working with some very old FORTRAN. Written conservatively using a few bits of FORTRAN 77, but mainly in a FORTRAN 66 style. The control structures I found in there would make you go crosseyed.
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by sevensor 6y ago
Agreed. I've been studying Racket lately. Historically I've mainly worked in C and Python, although I've scratched the surface with lisps before. One of the things that strikes me about Racket is that every new special form
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by sevensor 6y ago
Many a year ago, in college, I was helping a friend move. He had a giant 21" CRT, which seemed like it weighed eighty pounds. It was the dead of night, in the middle of winter. We were walking on ice, carrying it together. (We both
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by sevensor 6y ago
The author of the page we're discussing recommends un productive side projects and presents us with one. This is worth emulating. Productive side projects are just more work, and sometimes you're tired of work. A good unproduc
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by sevensor 6y ago
I'd just like to add that if you want to do regex-based search and replace like in Vim, it's super easy to pipe your selection through sed. The way Kakoune implements pipes is just amazingly good. I love that if you have multi
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by sevensor 6y ago
If you miss out on Kakoune because you don't like the name of the license, that's a shame. It's really good. Neither am I a huge fan of Unlicense, nor do I think C++ is all that great, but Kakoune is nevertheless excellen
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by sevensor 6y ago
> I think the general summary of what you're pointing out is that in industry it's easy to do things that the company wants to do (make money, make your boss look good, make life easier for the execs), and hard to do things th
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by sevensor 6y ago
I'll say. I've got stories from my time at Big State U that would make your blood run cold.
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by sevensor 6y ago
While I love that Python bolted on a type system, I wish it could do this. I need recursive types about twice a month, and Python just isn't doing it for me. (And while I'm complaining, the replace function for dataclasses is to
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by sevensor 6y ago
The author seems to like Julia for numerics -- have the language and community improved since Dan Luu's damning review six years ago? https://danluu.com/julialang/ I use Python / numpy heavily, and the giant
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by sevensor 6y ago
> the shift away from X11 means no more remote applications This is a long, gentle transition. Although I believe it to be possible, I still haven't ever run a pure-Wayland system. Most graphical applications for Linux still need
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by sevensor 6y ago
Between the htop author's gracious response to his project having been forked, and now this, the internet has made me feel better about humanity twice in one week. That cover of Jolene is magnificent. This is how you keep old music a
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by sevensor 6y ago
Doctors? Let's talk about bankers, accountants, and real estate agents. They must get paid a lot of money to turn off the part of the brain that's screaming about how dishonest this whole chain of transactions is, how much it lo
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by sevensor 6y ago
I'd be really interested to hear more about the literature of ancient Kush or Timbuktu -- what language it was written in, what kind of scholarly tradition it had. My education covered (at least superficially) Europe, Egypt, the Levan
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by sevensor 6y ago
You assume correctly. Although I do use Windows for my day job, my expectations for that OS are so low that I ascribed its performance shortcomings to incompetence. I'm not tremendously surprised to learn that self-sabotage was invol
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by sevensor 6y ago
Hold on a minute -- MacOS phones home every single time you launch an application? As a non-user of MacOS, this strikes me as utterly bonkers. You'd have to place a massive level of trust in the developers of your OS to accept this
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by sevensor 6y ago
Last I heard, HN itself runs on Arc. From what I can see, Bel is more a kind of art project than a language for writing other things in. PG evidently has some ideas about what the most timeless, eternal version of Lisp would look like. B
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by sevensor 6y ago
Today I learned about Volatility. I've never really looked into forensics before; it's interesting that there's an entirely separate set of tools for determining the state a system was in when the memory was dumped, defined
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by sevensor 6y ago
I had the opportunity to be an outside examiner for an honors exam at a private college. It was a fun experience for me; I got to ask probing questions and have them answered by a brilliant young person. I don't know if this was infl
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by sevensor 6y ago
For my money, the year of the Linux Desktop was 2008. It's just that nobody noticed. Since 2008, Linux has had the best combination of performance and hardware support on older machines, and the advantage has only grown since then. W
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by sevensor 6y ago
You want to encourage thorough and up to date documentation? Don't allow code to be merged without docs. Review documentation at least as stringently as code. Insist on clear exposition, good grammar, and accuracy. If you're n
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by sevensor 6y ago
This blog post could have been replaced in its entirety with a link to the Arch Wiki.

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