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by thequux 6y ago
In the info box photo on that page, only the box at the bottom (with the red and purple switches) is the processor; above it are two blanking plates and a TU-56 tape drive. I suspect that KPS considers the machine to just be the processor,
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by thequux 6y ago
I faced this decision about 2.5 years ago; I had a remote job for which I could work anywhere, and I had just separated from my wife so I needed to move. I chose Gent, Belgium, and I haven't regretted that decision for a moment. The ci
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by thequux 6y ago
If you install the "linux" package using nix on Debian, you get a directory in your nix store (the collection of "installed" packages) containing a bzImage, a System.map, and a `lib` directory containing all of the kerne
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by thequux 6y ago
I have a ST3000DM001 and a ST3000NV000 (and some random WD disk) that, together, make a btrfs filesystem. It's been working perfectly fine for the last four years, and the only problem reported by SMART is on the WD disk. It's alw
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by thequux 7y ago
I look to Belgium as an example of the ideal world government. Trying to explain Belgium's government would require a wall covered in newspaper clippings and string, but the short form is that there are 6 independent governments with t
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by thequux 7y ago
The annoying part about all this is that I want to buy some SMR disks (HM ideally, but HA will do) to experiment with storage tech. I know that there are lots of devices out there that are SMR internally, but because of vendors hiding the
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by thequux 7y ago
I bought a pair of Etymotic Research ER4p IEMs in 2011, and was not even remotely gentle with them. They worked fantastically until 2017, at which point one of the cables came loose, and while I could have replaced the cable for $50 (Alas,
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by thequux 7y ago
In this category, I strongly recommend Art of the Meta-Object Protocol. I've been through it 5 times now, and each time it bends my brain in a completely new way.
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by thequux 7y ago
I'll admit to not being an expert in databases, but I can't figure out why the order of columns in a database would be relevant, unless you're doing `select *` and indexing the resulting columns by number rather than name, wh
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by thequux 7y ago
Ungar's thesis is one of the most magnificent tours de force it's ever been my pleasure to read. It's mostly a series of "Here's why this technique is impossible to implement efficiently, but never mind that; here&#
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by thequux 7y ago
Duvel triple hop is, indeed, vile, but there are other Belgian breweries that are taking on the IPA and doing an outstanding job of it; Brussels Beer project comes to mind immediately, but I'm sure that there are others. I'd take
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by thequux 7y ago
My LG is a little over 4 years old (an LG 27MU67, sadly no longer produced), and the only complaint I have with it is that the capacitive buttons are difficult to use by feel. If I could get another monitor that's exactly the same, I&#
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by thequux 7y ago
That's really a shame. Of all the colleagues I've had over the years, you still stand out as a beacon of competence, and I learned a ton from both working with you and reading your blog in the years since. Your haters have no id
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by thequux 7y ago
From HAKMEM, Item 172: CONS: EXCH A,[EXCH A,[...[PUSHJ P,GC]]] EXCH A,CONS This allocates a cons cell for Lisp on PDP-10, by using the first instruction in the routine as the head pointer of the free list. The first instructi
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by thequux 7y ago
Interesting; I made the same attempt, but based it off of italics and then got sloppy so that it would look like cursive to a teacher that refused to accept printed homework. All of my lines start from the top, my descenders and ascenders a
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by thequux 7y ago
I have liked the idea of NeWS for a very long time. Sadly NeWS was born and died long before it was viable: postscript has always been difficult to write a VM for and unfriendly to application programmers, machines were significantly slower
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by thequux 7y ago
I handled the prototype at FOSDEM this year. This may or may not have been the final case, but it felt as solid as a macbook air; it had no discernable flex even while holding it by a corner (better than my T460!). It did feel disconcerting
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by thequux 7y ago
I also recommend reading http://www.mirandabanda.org/bluebook/bluebook_imp_toc.html once you're done with the blue book; the VM is a two weekend project in any compiled high-level language (I used Rust) and it&#x2
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by thequux 7y ago
Beancount really is wonderful. I use it for my personal finances, but I also moved my local hackerspace (Hackerspace.Gent) to use it to keep track of everybody's bar accounts. The backend uses beancount as a library to manage stock and
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by thequux 8y ago
Langsec as in "the root of (many) vulnerabilities is bad input handling, leading to parse tree differentials" started in ~2007 with Meredith Patterson's Dejector. This research led to using actual parsing frameworks everywher
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by thequux 8y ago
Years ago, I was told by a drunk* ex-Digital engineer at a lisp meetup that one of the big reasons that Alpha died was that y'all were getting yields of something like 6 wafers/chip, vs. Intel's 97% for the Pentium. Given tha
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by thequux 11y ago
Neat! I did something similar as a patch to PostgreSQL proper in May of this year and gave a talk on it at BerlinSides[1]. I like the fact that your solution is implemented as an extension rather than as a patch to the core, but I worry abo
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by thequux 11y ago
Part of the problem is there most groups can be divided into those who share a common purpose and those who share common beliefs. Most social groups fall into the latter category, whereas most project groups fall into the former. (There are
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by thequux 12y ago
> Just being interested in and doing nerdy/geeky things does not place you in that group (unfortunately the terminology we have does a poor job of distinguishing this). The two groups are not identical, but the probability of being
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by thequux 15y ago
There's a simple solution to that: don't give a stream of location data. Chop it up into 5-second fragments, and fuzz the data by a meter or so to prevent re-assembly. That would still be a very valuable dataset (for me at least), and almos
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by thequux 15y ago
Quicksort is a wonderful example of an algorithm that's really simple, but that gets mired up in implementation details to the point of being unrecognizable. The fundamental insight of quick sort is that you partition the list into items sm
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by thequux 15y ago
> By the way, at it's core Emacs is an emacs lisp interpreter, not a text editor (despite misconceptions). While this is very true, it should also be mentioned that Elisp is a lisp designed for writing text editing tools. (Die-hard lisp
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by thequux 15y ago
Eclipse is not fundamentally less productive than vim; it's just productive along a different axis. Eclipse can sling around Java syntax like no other, but it's no better than notepad at editing text. On the other hand, vim has a very curso
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by thequux 15y ago
Those size constraints are based on the concept of storing every password and its hash in the table. However, that gives a reverse lookup table, not a rainbow table. The key to a rainbow table is that you look at an initial password, hash i
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by thequux 15y ago
However, "contained in" is transitive. It must know that the Nile is in Egypt, which is in Africa. I suppose the question is whether Mathematica knows about that transitivity; my bet is that it should; after all it is mathematical software.

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