nice2meetu

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by nice2meetu 3y ago
There is a quirk (almost a bug?) in FreeBSD's qsort where it will switch to insertsort for the whole array under certain conditions, which we hit in production given how our data was arranged. (I think this was the check) https:/
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
Now that they are at school, there is always an emphasis on us as parents taking an active role in reading with them and encouraging them at home. I can see now how this was taken given the way I wrote it.. I believe the intention was more
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
Reading back what I wrote, yes, we never took this as a warning not to let them learn at all! I think the intention was more that there is less incentive to actively push or pressure kids in to reading before school, and that actively tryin
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
That time my daughter proudly announced “look Daddy, I can read this book with my eyes closed”
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage. That being said our eldest went to school at 4 1/2 in Australia and they had to learn 100 words in their first year (phonics), and we
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
I feel there was a missed chance to make it “by A, W and K”
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
Maybe Ascii art simplified things :-). I think what tends to trip people up are things like - Where do the pedals actually live in relation to the rest of the frame? How/where does the seat attach? The front wheel? Most people know the
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by nice2meetu 3y ago
I like to think of the bike problem. Sit down and draw a picture of a bike from memory in as much detail as you can in 2 minutes. Easy right? But it is surprisingly hard.
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
I think it comes more from the thought that human text readable format is usually more verbose than binary representations.
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
So not like my take when I see a pack of Tim Tams with a half-star health rating.. "Hey these things are a little healthy, looks like you need to eat a lot to get any benefit though"
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
I joined a big tech co and dove in to a huge unwieldy code base that had gone through the process you described above. I did a lot of reading of the code, and soon became the only one that understood it and could make big architectural chan
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
I knew the name sounded familiar, that was it
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
Ours has been out for about 5 hours now. Also South Bay. :-(
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
This was my first thought. I just have a * rule on my domain hosting account to send all email to my gmail, but can’t actually send from any of those addresses. I’ll usually sign up with website@mydomain.com
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
Deformed corner here too! it was sitting precariously on a pile of papers on top of a set of plastic drawers on top of a standup desk which was half raised (where the printer lives, was silly I know). My daughter came in and bumped the tabl
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
Ah, I remember it is the non-intuitive one, but then when I use it a while, I keep double-guessing which one is the intuitive one. Kind of like when my wife tells me I'm doing something wrong and she wants it to be the other way.. I kn
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
Very similar to me! Double degree in EE/IT, my first job out of uni was with a small company building gps chips. I actually spent a lot of time writing testing software. A couple of years in it went down the drain and I just naturally
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
There is even a Wikipedia page for going through all of the common misconceptions. It seems to have grown since the last time I visited it years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
I once had to change my mental model for how fast some of these things were. I was using `seq` as an input for something else, and my thinking was along the lines that it is a small generator program running hot in the cpu and would be supe
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by nice2meetu 4y ago
Ditto on the "certain female family member who insists that she remembers things word-for-word". When she recounts her meeting with a friend it is needlessly tedious (I try to be a good listener of course). Complains that my recol
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
I did something similar for tanh once, though I found I could get to 1 ulp. Part of the motivation was that I could get 10x faster than libc. However, I then tried on my FreeBSD and could only get 4x faster. After a lot of head scratching a
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
My life goals didn’t change much but past 30 there was marriage and kids, which kinda put a dampener on doing anything towards achieving them. I also have to accept the reality that my wife’s goals are pretty opposed to what I hope to achie
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
My wife hit this the other day. She entered her info on a website, gave up, and then got a polite email from them, something like: "Hey, we noticed you started filling in our form but didn't complete it, are you sure you don'
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
There is always another side to the story. I was friends once with someone who I later found out had schizophrenia. She used to say horrible stuff about what other people had done to her. Then came the couple of times some raging hot-headed
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
In our case async replication was acceptable, so we had a failover solution available.
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
We had a replication HA solution, but it was "warm", and customers didn't really want to run another server doing nothing. I think we also charged a lot for it. The area we were in, customers could tolerate some outage. Resto
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by nice2meetu 5y ago
This reminds me of my previous job where we had an optimized single-server solution, whereas the competition scaled horizontally. They couldn't out-scale us at what we did until they got to 20 servers or so, which only the biggest cust
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by nice2meetu 6y ago
CROSS JOIN in sqlite3 is used to force the order of the tables in the join. Note the query has a WHERE condition so is the same as an INNER JOIN https://www.sqlite.org/optoverview.html#manual_control_of_qu...
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by nice2meetu 6y ago
We never had much money growing up, but in Australia it was never a problem. Sort of the opposite - with tall poppy syndrome, you sort of looked down on those too well off and out of touch or stuck up. Rather, I had 100% confidence I could
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by nice2meetu 6y ago
I had a similar, though certainly not as bad experience. I was sitting with friends at a lookout and I wandered off to take a leak. I jumped over a side fence to give some distance, not realizing that there was nothing on the other side. I

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