nickzoic

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by nickzoic 4y ago
I don't suppose anyone noticed what hash they were using?
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by nickzoic 4y ago
G'day all! That's me ... as you can tell, it's been on the back-burner for a while due to work and so on but I'll get back to it at some point and at least get our goose walking around. @deater those look great, I'
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by nickzoic 10y ago
Also pathology samples, although I believe there's now some interest in robots doing similar things.
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by nickzoic 10y ago
In the olden days of x86: "REPNZ SCASB" to get the length of a zero-terminated string and "REP MOVSB" to copy bytes from place to place. But I think more modern CPUs actually work faster with the RISCier equivalents.
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by nickzoic 10y ago
Yep, a pretty serious piece of kit, although you really needed a monochrome monitor for it to work properly ... regular TVs didn't have the horizontal bandwidth.
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by nickzoic 10y ago
Sydney's works fine. London's too, not the special one the regular tube one. Also Tokyo Narita and Schipol. What they've all got in common is that they're well connected to a good public transport system.
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by nickzoic 11y ago
Well, sure, and theoretically a success gets you 2xx and a failure gets you 4xx/5xx. But there's a layer beneath HTTP as well. If all you get back is a TCP RST, did the request succeed or fail? How about if you get an ICMP unrea
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by nickzoic 11y ago
There was a good talk about these at LinuxConf AU: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2016/05_Friday/Wool... ... they're a very exciting device and incredibly cheap, and the supplied SDK libs look
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by nickzoic 11y ago
What I'm a bit puzzled by here is that if I'm reading the X-axis right the rot sets in at 3 weeks ... I mean, that's not very far in. It seems odd that the graphs are both otherwise so linear. I just EOLed a project which st
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by nickzoic 11y ago
I think also, a really top notch expert makes what they're doing seem so effortless that you do think "yeah, that's just what I would have done". And probably you would have, at least eventually, although maybe with a co
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by nickzoic 11y ago
The climb up from Whittlesea is impressively direct in places on a pushie. I've seen plenty of people do it, but it is a different kind of ride and I'm not going to try it any time soon ... I like his GIS work, but there is no co
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by nickzoic 11y ago
Really? Why? I mean, Kindles are pretty cheap, but sticky shipping labels are a few bucks for rolls of 500, and very hard to damage in transit.
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by nickzoic 11y ago
The negotiation process worked successfully. OP didn't want to work for less than $X, and he isn't!
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by nickzoic 11y ago
> But I don't know what academic activity students would want to engage in when they are not being forced to do so. Plagiarism, mostly :-/.
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by nickzoic 11y ago
I don't know if RPF himself had anything much to do with it, but the typesetting of the /The Feynman Lectures on Physics/ is beautiful. It features the main column / side column design as discussed, with notes, diagrams
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by nickzoic 11y ago
I think you mean static const int days_per_week = 8; :-).
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by nickzoic 12y ago
Ha, I made a thing like this back in 1994 or so out of an old monochrome 640x480 laptop screen, a couple of those plastic fresnel lenses and a whole bunch of glue and cardboard. It worked about as well as you'd expect. I was totally i
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by nickzoic 12y ago
Imagine! http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/the_character_of_physical... OK, so that's not quite everything but it is a pretty good start, and there&#x
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Agreed, this is a case where a small number of test cases would have been sufficient to cover the critical parts of the code and avoid this particular error and many like it.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
It's a very useful feature, which can feed a cache layer, act as a kind of trigger mechanism or give you a (very limited) kind of transaction.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
More like Taipei, I think ... which also has vast electronic doodad markets. Well worth a poke around, even if you don't have a use-case for a snake or an SCR the size of a beer can :-)
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by nickzoic 13y ago
On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ... until you link your Google+ and 23andMe accounts. (there's already a link there between YouTube comments and flecks of spittle ...)
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by nickzoic 13y ago
You could absolutely do the same thing with Postgres (or SQL Server) and computed indexes over JSON (or XML) blobs. Of course, then you'd have exactly the same schema migration issues. My point was more that a lot of the time, if you
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by nickzoic 13y ago
MongoDB doesn't forbid you from having entities and relations. It just doesn't support them in the same way that SQL databases do. Ditto for CouchDB, etc. You end up having to do some joins yourself still, but this is often ap
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Finally, something with better bandwidth and worse latency than Andy Tanenbaum's station wagon. > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum, Computer Network
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by nickzoic 13y ago
For some perverse reason, I've found clients get less uppity about a day rate than an hourly rate. Plus that way your timesheets are simpler.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Not my company but check out Kounta http://www.kounta.com/
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by nickzoic 13y ago
Hexapodia as the key insight!
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by nickzoic 13y ago
... and a bit of LaTeX mixed in for good measure. It'll never catch on.
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by nickzoic 13y ago
It occurs to me that (per the second argument) these have Schläfli symbol {s,m} = {6,3}, {3,6} and {4,4} ... for each of these, working out 1/s + 1/m - 1/2 = 1/E gives 1/E = 0 ... which makes sense

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