tjalfi

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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   Peopleware calls this the Spanish Theory of Management[0]. Historians long ago formed an abstraction about different theories of value: The Spanish Theory, for one, held that only a fixed amount of value existed on earth, and therefore the
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   Architectural Considerations for a New Generation of Protocols (1990) [pdf](groups.csail.mit.edu)

   4 points by tjalfi 5y ago|0 comments
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   The weirdest bug I've ever encountered(mental-reverb.com)

   133 points by tjalfi 5y ago|36 comments
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   > Basically all of these things are teething problems. The early adopters have problems, the problems get solved, then they're solved for everybody It's not just teething problems. Using OpenOffice and Linux means that you&#x27
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   > Pretty sure you can edit most office documents in google docs via the browser without issue. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Using Google Docs means that you're opting out of the substantial ecosystem of legal-specific Wo
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   go-sumtype[0] has completeness checking for sealed interfaces. [0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/go-sumtype
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   A tutorial on the principles of fault tolerance (1987) [pdf](ias.ac.in)

   47 points by tjalfi 5y ago|1 comments
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   The Stratus recommendations for structure marking would be a bit harder to defeat. Here's an excerpt from an old Stratus presentation[0] on writing robust software. Add TYPE, SIZE, VERSION, and OWNER to data structure TYPE: Unique numb
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   by tjalfi 5y ago

   Organized stay-behind[0] operations such as Operation Gladio[1] were common in western Europe during the Cold War. The Taiwanese military has had decades to prepare for a Chinese invasion; it would be surprising if they didn't have a
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Multics and Stratus VOS are two operating systems that use structure marking[0]. [0] https://multicians.org/thvv/marking.html
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    Chemical Properties of Dioxygen Difluoride (1962) [pdf](andrew.cmu.edu)

    4 points by tjalfi 5y ago|1 comments
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    Fast Convolution Using Packed Lookup Tables (1994) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

    1 points by tjalfi 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Screen reader support[0] may have a noticeable performance cost. [0] https://github.com/microsoft/terminal/issues/10528#issuecomm...
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Here's the abstract. We develop succinct data structures to represent (i) a sequence of values to support partial sum and select queries and update (changing values) and (ii) a dynamic array consisting of a sequence of elements which s
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    Succinct Dynamic Data Structures (2001) [pdf](imsc.res.in)

    26 points by tjalfi 5y ago|7 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Dealer's Choice[0] explains why these laws were originally passed; Ford and GM forced dealerships to accept new cars during the 1920 depression and the Great Depression. The laws persist because car dealerships are well-connected polit
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Here is a Thread Reader view of these tweets. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1437441118745071617.html
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    Here's the abstract. This paper describes a new basis for the implementation of the shifter functional unit in microprocessors that can implement new advanced bit manipulations as well as standard shifter operations. Our design is base
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    A New Basis for Shifters for Existing and Advanced Bit Manipulations (2009) [pdf](palms.princeton.edu)

    16 points by tjalfi 5y ago|5 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    > More of a magnet than a dumping ground, it’s not like the homeless were sent to California. Local incentives are more likely to blame. Nevada used to give homeless mental patients bus tickets to California [0][1]. [0] http:/&#x2F
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    San Francisco and other west coast cities are in the 9th circuit where the Martin v. Boise[0] decision prevents criminalizing public camping unless there's shelter space for everyone. [0] https://nlchp.org/supreme-court
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    This reminded me of the old lisp2cobol[0] joke script. [0] https://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/lisp2cobol/l2...
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    This reminded me of an old quip. “The doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.”[0] [0] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/03/architect-vines/
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    My Ugliest Bug (2013)(web.archive.org)

    2 points by tjalfi 5y ago|0 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    > How much of this is because nobody puts effort into these optimizations? restrict is rare in C and C++ but common in Fortran; array parameters in Fortran aren't allowed to alias. Intel and IBM both have great Fortran compilers so
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    (submitter) Here’s the abstract. The ISO C standard C99 has added a special keyword, named restrict to allow the programmer to specify non-aliasing as an aid to the compiler’s optimizer and to thereby possibly improve performance. However,
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    Why Programmer-Specified Aliasing Is a Bad Idea (2004) [pdf](citeseerx.ist.psu.edu)

    39 points by tjalfi 5y ago|26 comments
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    The paper Why Programmer-specified Aliasing is a Bad Idea[0] evaluated the effectiveness of restrict in 2004. They found that adding optimal restrict annotations provided only a minor performance improvement, on average less than 1% across
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    by tjalfi 5y ago

    The closest equivalent for macro processors is probably ML/I[0]. It’s implemented in macros[1]; you port it by defining macros that map it to a high level language or assembly language. William Waite’s Stage2[2], Robert Dewar’s Macro S
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    Current Stimulation of the Midbrain Nucleus in Pigeons for Avian Flight Control(mdpi.com)

    22 points by tjalfi 5y ago|10 comments