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by tfigment 10y ago
I found this to be fairly interesting content. I knew most of it so useful as a refresher and one can really argue not game specific in many ways though certainly slanted in that direction. Anything with real-time performance consideratio
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by tfigment 10y ago
Careful. There are many people over 60 that would like to work though maybe not full time. Personally I know my father would love to work but really can/should not as he has dementia. My mother wouldn't but volunteers as a danc
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by tfigment 10y ago
I've had 2 reporting to me. I am not naturally one myself. Its a trait that has to be monitored and kept in check to certain degree but is I think a very good trait when properly focused on work (while at work). I've had VPs ask
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by tfigment 10y ago
Windows Embedded has the Enhanced Write Filter can be enabled to redirect all writes to a disk to memory. You optionally use an admin tool to commit changes on a clean reboot. Many years ago one of our embedded PCs got Conficker from a Ser
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by tfigment 11y ago
It exempts prior work from this clause though it says it encourages vendors to adhere to it. I have a hard time seeing that anything really interesting will be ever released because it will likely have national security exemptions in it an
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by tfigment 11y ago
You can get zigbee ones from Omega [1] for around $200. Still kinda pricey but they are battery powered and optionally come with nema enclosures so you can stick them nearly anywhere. But having said that they were are not the most reliabl
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by tfigment 11y ago
At least they used to. I got a notice last year that the concierge service and some other access program were dropped and things like late fees were increased. At one point, it had a rewards program that they also discontinued and frankly
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by tfigment 11y ago
You give him any code. Its not like he is going to use it. If there is a pattern like ChuckMcM's where its +1 then give then give that one. Of course in all probability this scenario will never happen and the xkcd wrench is used i
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by tfigment 11y ago
While waiting for part 2, I'm wondering if this is not a very dangerous thing to be investigating. Working in a foreign country with criminal organizations (though maybe less in tourist parts of Cancun) and actively and personally int
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by tfigment 11y ago
I hate to be one of those that complain about the website itself and not the content but this one annoyed me greatly. This site is another one that requires javascript to see any content for no apparent reason. Worse when scrolling on a na
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by tfigment 11y ago
Don't want to write a real post but my most memorable simple story was with a C optimizing compiler. I was using a something like struct Item { char name[12]; int flag; } with code that would would use this in a btree and use memcmp(x
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by tfigment 11y ago
I try to be nice but people will take advantage even if they don't think they are. They will say that they are getting the work done so those 5 hour days are justified. I don't always agree and as a working manager I'm workin
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by tfigment 11y ago
Genuine question: What are the equivalent easy to use development tools that map to sysinternals tools such as procexp, procmon, tcpview, ....? If it is just lsof, ps, top, netstat then I'm seriously missing some thing. It is one o
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by tfigment 11y ago
Yep currently got that. HR: You may only put up one person for promotion per year Me: But I have 5 people in the team. Its unfair. HR: Sorry. Only one.
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by tfigment 11y ago
I believe 1914 was when Martin Gardner was born not the date of publication which I think was 1992. Discussion of hypercards in 1914 would have been very interesting to say the least.
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by tfigment 11y ago
I've done something like this on a production data base server before. Maybe not the same thing but I allocated a really big file because mysql would occasionally grow its ibdata file to full the disk before we could handle the alert.
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by tfigment 11y ago
My preferred solution currently is to use try to use encrypted strings in config files that are not stored in VCS. The host machine encrypts and decrypts using host specific keys so if the file is copied off-server, it is not fully comprom
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by tfigment 11y ago
My favorite is the Flettner aeroplane since it uses the Magnus effect [1][2] as it generates lift without a wing. Screenshot linked in the original post [3]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_effect [2] https:
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by tfigment 11y ago
As always Fresh Air's Terry Gross on NPR did an outstanding interview with the Director several weeks ago. They go fairly deep into the trade offs of making a movie and getting the science right or at least right enough to be entertai
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by tfigment 11y ago
The only class I ever used flash cards was in Organic Chemistry. I do not think they helped long term memory at all as I recall next to nothing from that. If anything the act of creating the cards helped more than anything. I think this
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by tfigment 11y ago
I would think that waveform capture on the electric grid would be impacted when doing timeseries data logging and use in subsequent analysis. Frequently these will be relative time snapshots or using a different time basis so not sure if t
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by tfigment 11y ago
I looked at that but have you seen the permissions required. Wow. Change my contact list? I'm sure they have good reasons but I'm struggling with that for something I'm going to use for copying files. While I've gotte
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by tfigment 12y ago
Rent control is in play here I believe to prevent price gouging. Some companies are not very moral/ethical when it comes to tenants. I would argue that the fairer thing (when Rent Control is in place) for owners might be that they ca
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by tfigment 12y ago
I have similar experiences and generally like it. We had to fix one ways in Java at one point (now fixed properly) and not all languages have equal support. We wanted SSL support on a .NET service but nothing official there last I checked.
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by tfigment 12y ago
Not sure if its what you had in mind for Windows and tabs but I've found ConsoleZ [1] quite nice and allows powershell, cmd and others to have tabs. [1] https://github.com/cbucher/console
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by tfigment 12y ago
I found this particularly amusing: "I'm working at an Internet startup called Google. We're looking for really good programmers, so if you're considering getting out of the games business and going into the Internet busi
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by tfigment 12y ago
Regarding ship times, it seems to depend on the industry as well as commercial vs enterprise software as well. New products and old products make a difference as well. On new products, I think you are generally correct but on established
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by tfigment 12y ago
While thechaosengine.com might be a nice site as I cannot judge it from out here. I can understand not allowing posting privileges without some vetting but it looks like they are closing themselves off entirely. Of course they can do what
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by tfigment 12y ago
If you have not read, Modern C++ Design by Andrei Alexandrescu then you are doing your self a disfavor if you are interested in performance. While its a bit old I guess, the Loki library is/was a wonderful C++ library with very intere
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by tfigment 12y ago
He did indicate he is a security researcher and this technique would allow bypassing certain checks. No alphanumerics but then I would guess it would be easy to detect these scripts as malicious anyway if someone wanted to since most of th

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