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by smingo 5d ago
Google's code of conduct used to be Don't be evil . It was there in Google's IPO prospectus, but dropped subsequently. pparently there have been lawsuits by former employees against Google over thie mott. https:/&#x2F
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by smingo 8mo ago
https://www.anquotes.com/charles-bukowski-quotes/ has some similar themes. “Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”
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by smingo 10mo ago
I got on very well with Van der Linden's Deep C Secrets . It's from 1994, so misses out on the newer versions, but aside from that it's aged well, IMHO. And good news: it's been open sourced: https://freecom
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by smingo 1y ago
The entire device is tiny: 20mm x 5mm x 5mm approx. It looks to work using a small laser and a lens which focuses the beam about 5mm above the device. The sensor unit contains a photodiode(s), and algorithms count the particulates. It lo
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by smingo 1y ago
There are quite a few examples of very misguided educational strategies. Whole Language [1] failed so many students, but had significant funding and guru-level support for decades. Brain Gym [2] is regarded as pseudoscience. Even Disco
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Commodore 64 Ultimate gets released(tomshardware.com)
3 points by smingo 1y ago|1 comments
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by smingo 1y ago
Commodore release a new variant of their C64 computer, with a '99%' faithful recreation of the original hardware on an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, along with some more up-to-date specifications. Suitable for retro gaming.
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by smingo 1y ago
Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February. This would be somewhere between week 3 and week 8. Some ISO 8601 week numbers for CNY: 2022 CNY fell on Feb 1 , which is Week 5 2023 CNY fell on Jan 22, which is Week 3 2024 CNY fe
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Martin Skirrow, campylobacter researcher, obituary(theguardian.com)
2 points by smingo 1y ago|1 comments
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by smingo 1y ago
Skirrow was significant in the Nobel-winning discovery of H. Pylori, has an Agar gel named after him, and championed public health.
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New export controls curb China's AI chips(wired.com)
3 points by smingo 2y ago|1 comments
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by smingo 2y ago
USA has increased its export controls on advanced process node chips, with an act that comes in to effect today, and will get published in a few days' time. The preview is available at https://www.federalregister.gov/p
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by smingo 3y ago
Barber's Adagio for strings , although it gets referenced enough; Khachaturian's Spartacus and Phrygia , especially the brass version; Holst's planets , esp Uranus; Beethoven's 7th; Gorecki's 3rd.
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by smingo 3y ago
indeed, with an incoming Teams meeting invite, it should be determinable from the sender's context which account should work on the meeting. Instead there is 2 minutes of waiting, and what seems like pot luck with the account.
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by smingo 3y ago
Not so sure that's fair. There are papers cited from 2016 that are from other authors.
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by smingo 3y ago
The dystopia in the film version of Ready Player One clearly borrows from this.
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by smingo 3y ago
Putting the WiFi SSID and password on the side of the energy monitor sensor box allowed for this: > The whole thing was quite dissapointing. However, I do have a few Raspberry Pico microcontrollers lying around at home. If I could connec
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by smingo 3y ago
Regulating here is necessary, but the challenge is steep! IoT devices may include a complex bill of materials (BoM) including software (SBoM). Vulnerabilities can appear in any of those components. On the one hand, CVE and vulnerability d
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by smingo 3y ago
Totally valid point. Escrow then open sourced, or perhaps even some insurance policy so that the future patching and vulnerability remediation is guaranteed. There's a bunch of stuff consequential to EO 14028 which could allow for som
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by smingo 4y ago
As a tool for quantifying the number of civilisations, agree, the Drake Equation is not so useful given the known unknowables. But as a tool for stimulating discussion, creating engagement for SETI, or as an exemplar for Fermi Estimation, i
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by smingo 4y ago
Someone must have felt very clever when they concluded Erlang would be dimensionless. Calls per second X seconds per call = no unit. But that's wrong. Clearly the number of calls ongoing maps on to lines being used for a circui
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by smingo 4y ago
Do you have an opinion on Carbon?
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by smingo 4y ago
Not for big arrays. Radix sort is O[n] . (or [n * number of bytes in Int] or whatever is being compared). It's omitted from the comparisons, I see. Radix sort can also have predictable memory overhead.
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by smingo 4y ago
Philosophers may consider this a "performative utterance".
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by smingo 4y ago
Do we have an opinion on Threema ?
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by smingo 4y ago
Link without Google amp: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/give-and-take/201309...
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by smingo 4y ago
Likely a reference to the sit-com Silicon Valley .
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by smingo 4y ago
Elegant.
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by smingo 4y ago
> there's little coherence to the way the language has grown in the last decade. IMHO it's been incoherent from the earliest times. The lame exceptions without 'finally', and no consistency in exception types. Then t
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by smingo 4y ago
"Subitizing" ?

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