atribecalledqst

6 ms·

1.
by atribecalledqst 4mo ago
Thank you! I knew that existed, but now that I read the synopsis I'm thinking that the C++20/23 material makes sense in this "tour" book... the C++11 (and earlier) material in The C++ Programming Language is like the bas
2.
by atribecalledqst 4mo ago
In college we had Mojo for downloading tracks out of other people's iTunes, for a precious little amount of time (maybe just a year or year and a half before they released an update that killed the actual filesharing). It was always fu
3.
by atribecalledqst 4mo ago
I've cracked into quite a few programming books over the years and it's pretty crazy how much of an advantage it's given me. I'm a lowly systems engineer, not even a real programmer, but I definitely understand networkin
4.
by atribecalledqst 4mo ago
I still find myself hoping (probably futilely) that Bjarne Stroustrop will come out with a new edition of The C++ Programming Language, to help me understand all the features that have been added to it since C++14...
5.
by atribecalledqst 1y ago
There's a hip-hop song I like that uses the dial-up sound as a motif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhOWslHDSs The dial-up sound just evokes that early Internet feel so perfectly...
6.
by atribecalledqst 1y ago
Before I RTFA, I was wondering if this would be about trying to find a way to include Wayback Machine results in search. Searching the Wayback Machine is always such a nightmare, and wouldn't it be nice if your search turned up that lo
7.
by atribecalledqst 1y ago
My girlfriend has been getting into crocheting recently, and I've been learning a lot about it and craft stuff in general. I've always been a computer guy... I'm bad with my hands. Could never do origami. Part of the reason I
8.
by atribecalledqst 1y ago
I am definitely interested in how things look for STEM majors on average, and whether they've seen a similar decline. Although the article has a quote from a math professor, and that's certainly not a degree you get into without s
9.
by atribecalledqst 1y ago
When I was an undergrad (2008-2012) I don't think I even had any classes that were given as PowerPoint slides. If they had been though, I don't think I would have felt bad asking for them - they definitely could have helped jog my
10.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Years ago (like 2013), I had an actual use case for lynx, which was that I was staying at a hotel long-term and I couldn't access the Wi-Fi landing page from my browser for some reason. But I could hit it from lynx, so I'd just lo
11.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Have to say, it bothers me a little bit that they named it Carbon. I associate that term strongly with the old Carbon API from Apple. Carbon was officially removed with 10.15 Catalina in 2019 - what's the statute of limitations on reus
12.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I saw a Discord server use this but it never actually caught anything. Turns out all the spammers were just human idiots!
13.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I get the week between Christmas and New Year's off and then I take a bunch of my PTO in December. It's not an official break or anything.
14.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Last year I got stuck on Day 12 for a full week, and thinking about how to solve it consumed my every waking moment. I think this year, I'm going to be kind to myself and not participate so I can really enjoy the winter break from work
15.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Last year I read How to Solve It and the first half of one of Polya's other books - Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. I certainly didn't commit them to memory, and I never systematically tried to apply them during self-study, b
16.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I used to judge myself for not understanding everything in math articles on Wikipedia, but as time has gone on I've realized that their purpose isn't really to be an introduction , but a reference . Especially as the topics beco
17.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I definitely brute-forced my way through significant portions of Obra Dinn, but the fact that you can do that at all (and it's not TOO onerous) is nice.
18.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Thank you! I tried looking for a link in the HTML source for the archive.is page but couldn't find it. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough...
19.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Is it possible to view the music clip from this? Am I missing something?
20.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I read Cuckoo's Egg when I was in 6th grade. It didn't immediately turn me into a CLI junkie (we likely didn't have a computer with a terminal until upgrading to Mac OS X a year or two later anyway), but I do credit it for no
21.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Reading this thread is bumming me out because it's made me realized my company USED TO have a good fusion between 'waterfall' and 'agile'. The requirements development phase, development, and testing phases were all
22.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I have a Framework 16, but I installed Arch on it a couple months ago as a dual boot to play around with. Process was largely painless but I did end up disabling secure boot. (actually I partially started the process of getting secure boot
23.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
It's so sad to see how miserable ICDs have gotten. Some of them are just REST APIs and you are on your own to figure out what everything means, it's pathetic. The old ones, you can (and I have) interfaced with stuff from the 80s w
24.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I reported a bug that occurs in a specific configuration of the Music app (trying to use Home Sharing + using bluetooth headphones), never heard anything back. I wonder if it's been fixed in the latest version of the OS, I still haven&
25.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
On the subject of more context in math, I've always wondered if having a grasp of the history of math would be helpful in getting better at solving mathematical problems. i.e. would learning more about how math developed over time, and
26.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to make money) but the
27.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
I was reading the book "JavaScript, the Definitive Guide" (latest edition is from 2020) and it had a great section on regexes. Actually that book is also what helped demystify async programming for me.
28.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
> (also, the values for "met online" on that graph seem to be small but non-zero in the 1980s! I'd like to hear the stories of some of those couples...) IIRC Jason Scott's BBS documentary mentions this a bit. There&#x
29.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
On an old Macbook I keep around for various rare offline tasks, I actually did go back to MacPorts from Homebrew. Chief reason being: Homebrew doesn't support old versions of the OS so I was SOL trying to install a new package on it. T
30.
by atribecalledqst 2y ago
> Failing tests indicate the presence of bugs, but passing tests do not promise their absence. As somebody who primarily lives on the testing side of the house, I've definitely run into cases where the developer promises that their

More ›