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by jbn 4mo ago
same here wrt recovering files from dying disks, it's a lifesaver.
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by jbn 5mo ago
Tom DeMarco wrote a book "Slack" about precisely this.
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by jbn 5mo ago
after the freeze lifts, you also have multiple contributors dumping large PRs at the same time, missing out on the progressive integration that happens otherwise. This makes it difficult to figure out the cause of regression (think bisect b
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by jbn 8mo ago
my anecdata is that I have always filed manually by myself, but every time had a small adjustment made by the IRS... indeed filing a correct return the 1st time seems close to impossible.
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by jbn 8mo ago
is there a reference for the USSR shooting an SR-71 down?
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by jbn 8mo ago
this is a beautiful zeugma you have here.
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by jbn 9mo ago
This is a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Allen 's work, everything old is new again!
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by jbn 9mo ago
This topic definately resonates with Thomas Allen's Managing the flow of technology (he was a great prof and all-around nice human being).
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by jbn 10mo ago
which new feature are not supported?
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by jbn 10mo ago
it's funny because I have seen the opposite. Engineer: "it crashed because it dereferenced a null pointer" boss: "add null pointer checks everywhere!" ... and because it used "if" instead of "assert&q
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by jbn 10mo ago
This is right on point. I read this book recently, by coincidence, and it's funny and fascinating at the same time (at least for someone who speaks both English and French).
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by jbn 11mo ago
This whole topic seems to be a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics with non-linearities and saturation. In the same vein,
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by jbn 11mo ago
Funny you mention shearing in the last paragraph. Transvection were such a revelation to me in undergrad math.
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by jbn 1y ago
My daily driver in 1998-1999 was a 43P (see http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/rs6000type7043150.htm ), an earlier model of this. With AIX, it was slowish, swapping to disk very easily (i.e. not enough RAM). I don't mi
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by jbn 1y ago
CATIA is what's showing (supposedly) on the screen in the picture of such a system..
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by jbn 1y ago
This uses the Most Significant Bits to pack some bits into pointers.. Another technique is to use the Least Significant Bits: indeed since pointers are 64 bit aligned, the lowest 3 bits are always zero, therefore it is possible to pack 3 bi
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by jbn 1y ago
my go-to tool for this is pdftk. See https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/
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by jbn 1y ago
or a port of the lock-free hash map from https://preshing.com/20130605/the-worlds-simplest-lock-free-... But really, the premise of using a shared map with concurrent readers and writers seems like a good generator of
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by jbn 2y ago
indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query got this right, as in fact you do need to see the from clause first for the IDE to be able to suggest what to put in the from clause...
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by jbn 2y ago
Same here. I have never unlocked the macbook successfully the 1st time around (for a good 10 years), I always get a "wrong password" and have to re-enter. My initial guess is that the text edit control has "select all content
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by jbn 2y ago
see https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-... income tax is progressive but tends to become regressive at the very top when individuals have control over what counts as "realiz
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by jbn 2y ago
thanks for the correction! TIL
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by jbn 2y ago
Leaving these here: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia and https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools as they are relevant to this topic.
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by jbn 2y ago
how about a first name with a dash in it (compound first names are very very common in France... Jean-Pierre, Jean-Bernard, Pierre-Alexandre, etc...) ?
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by jbn 2y ago
US citizen here. I have a special situation which I think will be only of interest to me... My wife (a green card holder) and I have moved abroad and her travel document is expiring soon (in July). We have no returned to the US in the past
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by jbn 2y ago
tar is just an archive format, you can have any type of file in a tar file.
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by jbn 3y ago
this makes me thing of the "baby shoes, never worn" short story by Hemingway.
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by jbn 3y ago
Here's another one such assignment https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-172-performance-engineering-of... (I didn't take that class, but have reviewed students' code for this assignment several times)
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by jbn 3y ago
and that's only one issue. Paris is the only place where the taxi driver picks the passenger (and not the other way around)... if he doesn't want to go to your destination, he will refuse to pick you up :) Agreed, this market is r
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by jbn 3y ago
heh, memories of debugging CATIA running on a 43p!

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