timClicks

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by timClicks 4y ago
No, it really is wonderful once you make it. Which resources have you used to learn?
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by timClicks 4y ago
Just make sure that it's an internal recruiter seeking to fill an actual position, not someone on contract that's just fishing for applicants.
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by timClicks 4y ago
File systems are also "whole engines". Otherwise we wouldn't have named files or directory structures.
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by timClicks 4y ago
I occasionally wonder what an operating system running below ring 0 would be used for. I haven't thought of anything compelling, apart from being a backdoor.
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by timClicks 4y ago
The description starts with downloading the source code that you'll be expected to modify.
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Seismic Survey Sub(hisutton.com)
1 points by timClicks 4y ago|0 comments
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by timClicks 4y ago
People can become knowledgeable about something without being a participant. Otherwise learning history would be impossible.
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by timClicks 4y ago
You can see this in the blog post. The .webp photos are highly saturated, giving them almost a comic book feel.
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by timClicks 4y ago
Agree that we haven't really progressed past curve fitting. I'm hopeful that we'll see a resurgence in symbolic AI, rather than watching the whole domain freeze up for a few decades.
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by timClicks 5y ago
Thanks for the edits dang. I wasn't too sure whether I should post the full title at submission time.
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by timClicks 5y ago
Scribus uses XML as its native file format. So anything that can produce text can produce a file that can be understood by Scribus.
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VisiCalc Executable for the IBM PC (1999)(bricklin.com)
149 points by timClicks 5y ago|53 comments
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by timClicks 5y ago
Leveling is very new to Canonical. So, SDE 2 is Senior there.
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by timClicks 5y ago
Bananas are worse. All of the world's commercial plants are Cavendish bananas, and they are all clones.
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by timClicks 5y ago
I'm sort of the opposite. I'm attracted to Twitter because a) I get to learn the whole person and b) even "heroes" are very accessible. We're all humans trying to figure it out.
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by timClicks 5y ago
It seems like many central banks are investigating this space. Here is a similar paper from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand https://www.rbnz.govt.nz/news/2022/02/innovation-key-to-the-...
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by timClicks 5y ago
The team hasn't verified that claim https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/ssd9vv/comment/hxn... > We did not build a family scale prototype, such as 10 sq ft. It would be some efforts fo
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by timClicks 5y ago
Author here, I hope that you have fun along your journey of learning Rust and systems programming. I recommend reading the free chapter to get a feel for Rust in Action. It's intentionally different than most other text books. That mea
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by timClicks 5y ago
They're rare. Therefore their runtime costs have little impact on the overall running time. At least that's my understanding of the argument.
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by timClicks 5y ago
IIRC UNIX was supported by Bell Labs because of troff. They needed a type setting system.
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by timClicks 5y ago
What's the state of the art in terms of "distributed cron" these days?
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by timClicks 5y ago
The risks are highest when learners are at a beginner to intermediate stage. They know the basics, and have gained some confidence, but don't know enough to get themselves out of trouble. This is called Stage 1 in the Gordon Model of l
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by timClicks 5y ago
I'm curious which other obscure books people recommend in technical non-fiction. What has added to your career and/or personal outlook?
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by timClicks 5y ago
I think of this whenever I see coat hooks with dual hooks, the top one extending further. I've always assumed that they were designed when people regularly wore hats.
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by timClicks 5y ago
I wince a little whenever I see an introductory tutorial for Postgres extensions using C. pgx allows you to write Rust, and has lots of features to make your code type safe https://github.com/zombodb/pgx
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by timClicks 5y ago
Your memory is of TempleOS https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/TempleOS
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by timClicks 5y ago
It's worth looking into. That period is why the American military is constitutionally dependent on the legislature. If you will forgive me omitting many important details, Cromwell replaced a monarch and became a military dictator. Mil
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by timClicks 5y ago
> It seems astounding that other species have not evolved this adaptation to outcompete for light, space, and water by starting at the top. I'm surprised by this sentence. At least Northern Rātā, and I'm sure other epiphyte spe
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by timClicks 5y ago
That is useful for current salaries, but new hires are likely to start much higher than the median because labor supply is constrained.
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by timClicks 5y ago
SeL4 is now mostly defunct. The whole team was laid off during a pivot towards AI and blockchain.

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