tjalfi

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by tjalfi 2mo ago
This one doesn't need xargs. find . -name '*.log' -delete
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by tjalfi 10mo ago
You might try emailing them, they've renamed other accounts before.
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by tjalfi 1y ago
Facebook acquired Monoidics in 2013; they were the startup that created Infer[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infer_Static_Analyzer
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by tjalfi 1y ago
That reminds me of Isaac Asimov's[0] story in Asimov Laughs Again about being confused with Arthur C. Clarke[1]. They had similar writing styles, so it was quite common for Isaac's books to be attributed to Arthur and vice versa
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by tjalfi 1y ago
Kaze Emanuar[0] is the YouTuber you're thinking of. [0] https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64
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by tjalfi 2y ago
Are you referring to Jevon's Paradox[0]? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
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by tjalfi 2y ago
You're thinking of Stefan Mandel's International Lotto Fund[0]. They tried to buy every ticket in the Virginia state lottery in 1992. They won the money, but IIRC there were years of litigation. [0] http://investpost.or
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by tjalfi 2y ago
(submitter) Here's the abstract. Stefan Mandel is the man who won the lottery 14 times. He never disclosed the recipe he called combinatorial condensation, which enabled him to hit the Romanian lottery jackpot in the early phase of his
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The Lottery Problem: Tracing Stefan Mandel's Combinatorial Condensation(arxiv.org)
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by tjalfi 2y ago
These days, we have many better options, but back in the day, Fortran was also used for compilers (e.g., IBM's Fortran H), operating systems (such as PRIMOS[0] and LTSS[1]), symbolic computation (e.g., early Prolog implementations), an
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by tjalfi 2y ago
It's a short story and not a novel, but there's the short story August Heat[0]; it's available at [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August_Heat_(short_story) [1] https://www.scaryforkids.
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by tjalfi 2y ago
Esperanto is probably the most widely spoken international auxiliary language[0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_auxiliary_langua...
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by tjalfi 2y ago
TypeScript definitely won't add checked exceptions, because Anders Hejlsberg considers them a mistake[0]. [0] https://www.artima.com/articles/the-trouble-with-checked-exc...
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by tjalfi 2y ago
> That's why Uncle Sam is nice to have on your side. A libertarian utopia or corporate controlled trading zone doesn't stand a chance without the backing of a sovereign with a military. The Republic of Minerva[0] is a good exam
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by tjalfi 2y ago
C++20 added designated initializers, so they're also an option. my_func({.arg1 = val1, .arg2 = val2});
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by tjalfi 2y ago
clang has the __builtin_unpredictable() intrinsic[0] for this purpose. [0] https://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#builtin-...
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by tjalfi 2y ago
My guess is it was stored in a document management system[0] and then checked out locally to that path. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_management_system
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by tjalfi 2y ago
Jeremy Allison tracked down why POSIX standardized this behavior[0]. The reason is historical and reflects a flaw in the POSIX standards process, in my opinion, one that hopefully won't be repeated in the future. I finally tracked dow
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by tjalfi 2y ago
BCPL[0], BLISS[1], and Forth[2] are all untyped. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPL [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLISS [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forth_(progra
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by tjalfi 2y ago
If you're interested in prior art, Ian Currie's NewSpeak was an attempt at a non-Turing complete language for safety critical systems. Most of the search results are for a different language with the same name, but "RSRE cu
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by tjalfi 2y ago
As a concrete example, Carlos Bueno's Mature Optimization Handbook[0] describes how the HHVM team got substantial performance wins by reducing instruction cache misses in rarely executed code. [0] https://carlos.bueno.org&#
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by tjalfi 2y ago
At my last job, I had to patch a binary for one of our internal .NET applications. The application was hardcoded to connect to a specific database, but we needed it to work with a different one. Since the original developer was unavailable,
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by tjalfi 2y ago
GCC will generate the shlx instruction if you add the -mbmi2 flag to your build options. For example, you can see this in action here: https://godbolt.org/z/asb1fxos5 .
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by tjalfi 2y ago
We had a similar rule for application support at my last job. Anyone who introduced an application was assigned as the support lead.
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by tjalfi 2y ago
Julia Evans has a Ninja introduction[0] with simple examples. I tried it for awhile, but ended up going back to GNU Make. [0] https://jvns.ca/blog/2020/10/26/ninja--a-simple-way-to-do-bu...
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by tjalfi 2y ago
That reminds me of a great Dara Ó Briain routine[0] about pseudoscience. [0] https://youtu.be/YKZN-hBTBUE
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by tjalfi 2y ago
> I was going to say that maybe the initial lack of generics helped keep compile times low for go, but OCaml manages to have good compile times and generics, so maybe that depends on the implementation of generics (would love to hear fro
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by tjalfi 2y ago
I wish I didn't know this, but it could be SunOS4[0] which went out of support in 2003. It's probably the most well-known OS where free(NULL) wasn't supported. I would like to think that people aren't writing new code fo
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by tjalfi 2y ago
I usually see a control flow graph with blocks of three-address code instructions.
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by tjalfi 2y ago
The memoir Where Did You Go? Out. What Did You Do? Nothing describes using a heated icepick. You take a chestnut, and you hook the ice pick. You wait until nobody is in the kitchen, and then one kid presses down on the pilot-light button

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