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by wpollock 1y ago
Is rapidhash cache-friendly?
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by wpollock 1y ago
You've made your point, but note the built-in HTTPS server only supports TLS 1.2, so don't use that for production code. (For testing it's probably fine.)
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by wpollock 1y ago
I would assume that blood vessels contract to preserve heat, not to provide a better grip when swimming.
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by wpollock 1y ago
Diets not working for you? Try the new Hawking radiation weigh loss plan! Guaranteed to lose half your mass in only 10^45 years!
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by wpollock 1y ago
In Java 24, new features support educational and demonstration use. You don't need a class to wrap your main method, which also has a simpler signature. To compare JavaScript with Java examples, one should make use of these features.
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by wpollock 1y ago
In my experience, many software projects become abandoned and no notice is given. I don't see how this standard helps in such cases.
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by wpollock 1y ago
All the comments and suggestions for improving rust dependency handling seem useful to me. To deal with dependency sprawl now, until the situation changes, I use a number of tools. To avoid having to set this up for each new project, I&#x
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by wpollock 1y ago
So true. It was in March that I saw on HN an advertisement for a vibe coder with 3 years experience. I believe the term "vibe coding" was invented a month before! Buzzword hiring is as bad as resume driven development.
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by wpollock 1y ago
You are correct. It's just that I am loquacious by nature and often use a plethora of words when a paucity would better and more succinctly convey meaning precisely. My bad!
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by wpollock 1y ago
I meant the web server, not in the end user's browser! (So by backend, I meant the application and data layers.)
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by wpollock 1y ago
Best advice I've heard is to never use the character type in your programming language. Instead, store characters in strings. An array of strings can be used as a string of characters. In this approach, characters become opaque blo
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by wpollock 1y ago
Why would strace cat be useful here? By the time cat runs, it was obviously already found. It is basic knowledge that PATH is used by a command interpreter to locate the pathname of binaries. This is true for Window's cmd.exe as well
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by wpollock 1y ago
I was actually thinking of sinks, shower heads, door knobs, stuff like that.
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by wpollock 1y ago
Could this material be a cost-effective replacement for stainless steel? I'm thinking of applications where the antimicrobial properties of copper would be beneficial.
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by wpollock 1y ago
The guy also had explosive and a triggering device in his car! It's a good thing for him police didn't seize his air-bag as evidence. (Being sarcastic.)
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by wpollock 1y ago
Nice to know, although I was taught that the magic word is "please".
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by wpollock 1y ago
Have you noticed that at the bottom of every HN comment page is an ad for AI Startup School?
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by wpollock 1y ago
< https://www.angelfire.com/va3/timshenk/codes/meihem.html >
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by wpollock 2y ago
Very nice, but instead of an owl, shouldn't the cover illustration be a pirate?
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by wpollock 2y ago
Counting on the order of files to support multiple versions of jars was never a good idea. Java does have multiple version ("release") jar files for your use case since java 9. See < https://docs.oracle.com/en&#
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by wpollock 2y ago
The advertisers don't need billboards anymore. My car has a display for the radio (and other uses) and it displays ads that cannot be turned off.
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by wpollock 2y ago
A wonderful project! After reading this comment I couldn't help but picture medieval monks, toiling away copying old manuscripts into "modern" English. Normally a thankless task, so thank you!
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by wpollock 2y ago
I love reading literate-programming software! The problem is that very few programmers are as skilled at writing clearly as are Knuth and Dijkstra. I think I read somewhere that book publishers receive thousands of manuscripts for each o
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by wpollock 2y ago
I was a summer intern at IBM Kinston NY, where the PC hardware was being developed. I remember being told by one of the engineers that IBM had decided to use standard components for the PC, except for the keyboard. The original keyboard wa
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by wpollock 2y ago
Nice report! You might want to reconsider using crontab and @reboot though. @reboot can fail for a variety of reasons. You should probably use your OS's init system instead to start daemons.
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by wpollock 2y ago
I had some correspondence saved from him, but all it says is "Nyuk-nyuk-nyuk!"
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by wpollock 2y ago
Bad news, men. The captain says we're behind schedule so beans for supper again!
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The Origins of the "++" and "--" Operators
45 points by wpollock 2y ago|4 comments
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by wpollock 2y ago
TIL you cannot post retraction on a 4 month old comment on HN. I posted an upvoted comment about how these operators were invented in C due to the addressing modes available on PDP-11 computers. Wrong! Turns out they predate both C and P
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by wpollock 2y ago
I agree, and I think the OP does as well. Really, the Executor framework used here was to blame by not setting the uncaught exception handler to catch and propagate those exceptions by default. But having shared, mutable state without loc

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