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by wglb 2y ago
So curious if this added a trick to your debugging toolbox?
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by wglb 2y ago
This is a very fun post, not only on its own merits, but also how it spurs many other hard-to-debug stories. I like the hard-earned lessons that are often taken away from such sessions. While nowhere on the scale of this story, I helped a f
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by wglb 2y ago
I think it has gotten better of late.
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by wglb 2y ago
Well, if you fall ill, then you might decide that you have too few neighbors.
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by wglb 2y ago
The number might be smaller. If you take the Empire Builder from Chicago towards the northwest, one of the trains goes through North Dakota at night. Every farm in the area has one of those mercury vapor lights in the yard, which are visibl
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by wglb 2y ago
How much easier would all of this be if whoever did CSV first had done the equivalent of "man ascii". There are all these wonderful codes there like FS, GS, RS, US that could have avoided all the hassle that quoting has brought ge
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by wglb 2y ago
Because it is a boring topic. HN like interesting conversations.
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by wglb 2y ago
And another note: Locked reads must be paired with locked writes, and the CPU's bus interface enforces this by forbidding other memory accesses until the corresponding writes occur. As none are forthcoming, after performing these bus
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by wglb 2y ago
When I lived in Ann Arbor, after going to work with a very green sky, I came home to a very weird sound. Quickly figured out that power was out and the weird sound was neighbors sitting on their front stoop talking.
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by wglb 2y ago
From the wikipedia article: Abrash spent hours tracking down exact conditions needed to produce the bug, which would result in parts of a game level appearing unexpectedly when viewed from certain camera angles.
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by wglb 2y ago
The risk is that some divisions will be fully off. If it is a chain of calculations, e.g. some stress analysis, or a spreadsheet involving a chain of calculations for a financial report, it could be bad.
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by wglb 2y ago
So far as I can tell, yes. Plus they do have occasional sponsors, plus a bit of swag. Few of us can replicate their energy and resourcefulness.
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by wglb 2y ago
I believe it was so.
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by wglb 2y ago
However I was quite concerned at the time when they said, quite incorrectly that there was no risk to their users from this bug.
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by wglb 2y ago
Having spent my youth on a dryland wheat farm in Montana, I would just say no. Why does everyone who sits behind a computer long to be out in the fields or workshops? My flip answer to that is that they haven't spent their youth on a
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by wglb 2y ago
The Taylor and Francis Online article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490451.2025.2... The rims of the micro-burrows contain 1 µm wide contours If you are wondering what a terranes is, this
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Desert rocks suggest unknown microorganism uses marble and limestone as a home(phys.org)
6 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
A related article from two years ago that noted the beginning of the investigation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-complex-life.html Article in the journal Cell: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext&#
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A special group of single-celled organisms laid foundation for complex cells(phys.org)
2 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
The article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1 has more detail. The technique involves hidden Markov model (HMM) in a particular model named cobraa.
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Genetic study reveals hidden chapter in human evolution(phys.org)
1 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
There is more detail in Nature Microbiology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-01958-0
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Bacteria developed ability to produce antimicrobials, removing competitors(phys.org)
3 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Published in the journal Phytotaxa: https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.694....
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Long-lived trees in the Tanzanian rainforest are a new species(phys.org)
3 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
The article includes a video. Lacking precise timestamps for detailed analysis, the research team developed an innovative method to synchronize video time using satellite trajectories and star field analysis. This innovative approach allow
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Unveiling the mysterious 'red sprite' lightning strikes over the Himalayas(phys.org)
46 points by wglb 2y ago|6 comments
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by wglb 2y ago
Let's hear more!
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by wglb 2y ago
A referenced article by the amusing Kory: https://korystamper.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/an-introduction... Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSuicGXil4
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Lies Murder Lexicography Dictionary (2012)(nytimes.com)
3 points by wglb 2y ago|1 comments

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