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by randomswede 3y ago
Some countries selectively put some people in the "you have a very long notice period" and "you will not be working for us, but still be paid, during your notice period" (so-called gardening leave). Not unusual in the fi
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by randomswede 3y ago
In Sweden, at many places that do a materials science engineering degree, it is historically under "Mining engineering" rather than "machine engineering".
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by randomswede 4y ago
The speed of light in vacuum is a hard upper limit. Most signal paths will be dominated by fibre optics (about 70% of C) and switching (adding more delay). But, yes TrueTime will not magically allow data to propagate at faster-than-light sp
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by randomswede 4y ago
My take-away from interviewing is that as a candidate, getting a "you did not get the job" doesn't change anything. Since I've had the privilege of mostly being employed while interviewing for new jobs, this is a "m
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by randomswede 4y ago
I am cusrious what you mean by "LeetCode-style". My understanding is "present a problem, only take the resulting code, judge that". I did a fair number of coding interviews (for SRE positions) at Google (I don't act
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by randomswede 4y ago
Even so, it's probably not going to be super-effective, unless each workplace is willing to have enough useful small things that do not require knowing substantial chunks of the existing code base. It is probably realistic to expect so
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by randomswede 4y ago
In an ideal situation, you'd get all "planned maintenance" emails for things you care about and no emails for the rest of them. That (probably) means that the system for dealing with planning maintenances (well, usually, &quo
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by randomswede 4y ago
If you aim to be "human-friendly" (and that is, as I understand, the raison d'etre for YAML), there is a subtle semantic difference between "true" and "on" (and "false" and "off") and a
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by randomswede 4y ago
How many seconds in an hour? Most of the time, 3600, occasionally 3601, and very rarely 3599. Hours in a day? Mostly 24, but 23 once a year ad 25 once a year. These all seem like good reasons to make then functions (taking a timestamp as a
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by randomswede 4y ago
Same thing for the ZX-80 and ZX-81. If you were careful with your text prompts, you could save several bytes by injecting a keyword instead of typing it out, but anything that was a "start of line only" could be tricky injecting i
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by randomswede 4y ago
Werrrrlllllll... It all depends on what yo umean by "type". In physics problems, I find taht quantities may be measured in "floats", but have the types "mass", "amperage", "distance per second pe
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by randomswede 4y ago
There is a whole lot of pesky athmospheric interference limiting how much detail you can actually resolve.
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by randomswede 4y ago
These days, my main use of dd is to get a specific amount of data from a file, where both "bs" and "count" are useful (no, "bs" does not only set the buffer, it also sets the chunk size for reads and writes, th
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by randomswede 4y ago
ON the international currency market, one traditional role of the US dollar is exactly "store value". You trade your currencies on the FX market during your day, and comes close to "close of your trading", you exchange a
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by randomswede 4y ago
If you are selling A as A-prime, you can be a snake-oil salesman even if you are supremely skilled at A. In Lars' case, he is from what I can see a supremely skilled instinctive archer. There are some historical documentation, from som
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by randomswede 4y ago
That'd depend on if they're the same entity as "The Billing Project LLC", that seems to own the "KILL BILL" mark for downloadable software. I hope they are the same.
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by randomswede 4y ago
Oh, boy, on the "never log expected failures as errors" front, I once worked with a database system that used opportunistic transactions. Basically, each modification to a row carried effectively the original value of that trow wi
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by randomswede 4y ago
Then there's the delightful (no, I actually mean the opposite) errors that g++ emitted (back when I last wrote C++ and compiled using g++), where I basically could go "OK, there is an error that was detected at line L, in file F;
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by randomswede 4y ago
Likewise Digital, all VMS error codes are "SUB-S-NAME" (so a permissions error when dealing with a file woule be something like "%RMS-E-NOPERM" (I think that's "rotating mass storage" rather than "Ric
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by randomswede 4y ago
My (very rough) estimate is that somewhere between 1% and 5% of those who enthuse about crypto-currencies are actually interested in the underlying tech. The rest being in it for one of "it's a safe way to do nefarious economy&quo
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by randomswede 4y ago
What would be the use of closing over the value rather than the variable? That would stop a lot of interesting use of closed-over variables (like persisting values from call to call).
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by randomswede 4y ago
In the "the variable lives in the function scope", the answer is unequivocally "it should be bound once and updated", if it only exists in the scope of the loop function, both "it is bound on each iteration" (a
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by randomswede 4y ago
I woudl say taht Python has scoping, yes, but it does not have lexical scoping in any sense of "lexical scoping" that I am aware of. If it did, the code below would not actually work ,as the outside-the-loop print would be trying
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by randomswede 4y ago
In the "Swedish 7-bit ASCII", the C code "a || b" would look like "a öö b". The same character mappings were used in Finland, and that's why IRC count the characters {|}[\] as letters (that would typically
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by randomswede 4y ago
Unless you anticipate wanting to check and re-check the contents. On a shelf right beside me (as opposed to the plethora of shelves in the room we call "The Library") is a copy of "Concrete Mathematics" by Graham/Kn
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by randomswede 4y ago
There's also Strix[1], a self-guiding anti-armor mortar round. Not actually sure when it was taken into use, I recall hearing rumours about it being in development in the late 80s, and the Swedish model designation (m/94) indicate
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by randomswede 4y ago
If your question is "does Gödel Incompleteness have practical applications", my answer is "probably". Not necessarily directly, but indirectly it has inspired much other work. One of the things it inspired was Turing&#x2
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by randomswede 4y ago
So if I understand this correctly, "a + b" is syntactic sugar for "a.+(b)" (modulo the exact name of the method)?
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by randomswede 4y ago
The best (FSVO "best") on-call compensation I had was a fixed sum per standby week, for simply carrying the pager. Then, on top of that, overtime at the going rate (150%, 200%, or 300% of hourly rate) depending on when teh call-ou
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by randomswede 4y ago
Not sure if it was still doing it in 2001, but in the 1997-1998 time-frame Purify also ran on HP-UX. The company I was working for at the time used it and we ended up finding a two-byte (IIRC) leak in the HP gethostbyname() library call (we

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