tjalfi

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   by tjalfi 9y ago

   Here is one that deserves to be more popular. "Solving operating systems problems with hardware interrupts is a lot like solving your own personal problems with heroin - at first it sorta works, but after a while things just get out of
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   by tjalfi 9y ago

   ARMv6 added unaligned support[0]. [0] http://infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/com.arm.doc....
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   Multiple Byte Processing with Full-Word Instructions (1975) [pdf](microsoft.com)

   31 points by tjalfi 9y ago|3 comments
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   Rocking Drones with Intentional Sound Noise on Gyroscopic Sensors (2015) [pdf](usenix.org)

   1 points by tjalfi 9y ago|0 comments
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   by tjalfi 9y ago

   TypeMock Isolator[0] and JustMock[1] can mock nonvirtual methods and static methods. Fody Ionad[2] is a free tool that can replace static methods. The reason that most mocking framework don't support this is that the implementation is
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   Glicbawls – Grey Level Image Compr. By Adaptive Weighted Least Squares (2001) [pdf](pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

   1 points by tjalfi 9y ago|0 comments
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   by tjalfi 9y ago

   V10 has a man page. Extract v10src.tar and look at man/adm/man4/tcp.4.
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   Redundant Bit Vectors for Quickly Searching High-Dimensional Regions (2005) [pdf](microsoft.com)

   2 points by tjalfi 9y ago|0 comments
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   by tjalfi 9y ago

   V8 doesn't have a /dev/tcp man page but the interface is documented at /usr/include/sys/inet/tcp_user.h[0]. Here are the commands I used to identify the right file. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 g
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    The code in Research Unix V8, V9, and V10 is available. Alcaltel-Lucent made them public a couple months ago[0]. Here are the relevant URLs and file paths within the archives. I already had them on my hard drive and it was easy to grep them
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Profession: Third Tier Technical Support, full time, 200+ employees This is a typical day although I have omitted the constant stream of distractions at 2 to 5 minute intervals. [07:00] alarm goes off [07:30] stagger out of bed and browse t
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Force.com doesn't allow you to deploy code to production unless at least 75% of the statements are executed[0]. I wish my employer had a similar requirement. [0] https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/atlas.en-us.ap
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    IntelliTest[0] is the productized version of PEX. The first release was in Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise edition. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2015/09/30/int...
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    There were several implementations of that idea in the early 1980s. The following paper describes one of them. More Taste: Less Greed? or Sending UNIX to the Fat Farm[0] describes a V7 derivative that had /dev/deuna, /dev&#x2
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    Linear Predictor of Marital Happiness (1976) [pdf](web-beta.archive.org)

    1 points by tjalfi 9y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    99.8% of residents voted to remain a UK Overseas Territory in 2013[0]. If that's an occupation then it has pretty overwhelming popular support. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falkland_Islands_sovereignty_r...
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Here are the two studies that are quoted by most of the articles on this topic. The first is Does social desirability bias favor humans? Explicit–implicit evaluations of synthesized speech support a new HCI model of impression management [
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    The cited paper is available at [0]. The discussions of reasons for divorce begins on page 4. Edited for formatting. [0] https://web.stanford.edu/~mrosenfe/Rosenfeld_gender_of_break...
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Microsort has taken a similar approach for adding long filename support to Windows 10[0]. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jeremykuhne/2016/07/30/net-...
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    The primary source seems to be Political Orientations Are Correlated with Brain Structure in Young Adults[0]. [0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092984/
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    An-Arrgh-chy: The Law and Economics of Pirate Organization (2007) [pdf](peterleeson.com)

    1 points by tjalfi 9y ago|0 comments
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    A History of CLU – Barbara Liskov (1992) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

    75 points by tjalfi 9y ago|8 comments
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Regional inequality is pretty bad in the US[0]. The following paragraph is an excerpt from the linked article. Yet starting in the early 1980s, the long trend toward regional equality abruptly switched. ... In 1980, the per capita income of
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    previously - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13934576
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Forth Inc[0] might qualify. The company was founded by Chuck Moore and Elizabeth Rather in 1971. Chuck invented Forth and Elizabeth was the second person to learn it. [0] https://www.forth.com/software-development-company&#x
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    https://www.python.org/download/releases/early/ has a tarball of Python 0.9.1. Andrew Dalke got it to compile on OS X and documented his changes in README.reconstructed. The following is an excerpt from READM
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    The presence of Cesium–137 and Strontium–90 can also be used to identify art forgeries[0]. [0] http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2008/jul/04/nuclear...
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    I used to read about 400 books per year but have cut back a lot. I have read less than 20 books this year. I now spend most of my time programing and learning how to become a better programmer. Reading fiction may help me to become well-rou
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    Were you thinking of Terahertz time-gated spectral imaging for content extraction through layered structures[0]? [0] https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms12665
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    by tjalfi 9y ago

    APL.Swift[0] is a Swift 1 library that adds APL operators. It probably wouldn't be that hard to port it to Swift 3. [0] https://github.com/CodaFi/APL.swift/blob/master/APL/Operator...