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Sorry, that should be els, according to Wikipedia.
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Was any of this necessary for a text-mode editor? I don't care. I love it.
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Personal favourite: the code to estimate a cube root based on the famous fast inverse square root.
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His PyCon talk really changed my view on this technology
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SI - System Integrator
TI - Texas Instruments
UI - User Interface
VI - ???
WI - Women's Institute
... - ???
I feel like I'm missing some.
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I went to central London the other weekend (I live in Yorkshire). Blowing black snot out of my nose was a pretty big shock.
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I should probably just buy some more.
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I'm into the same sort of stuff. I also particularly enjoy Not an Engineer, Flowering Elbow, Inheritance Machining, Marius Hornberger, Uri Tuchman, Tom Stanton, We can do that better, Stefan Gotteswinter.
Free random recommendation from outside this vein: Alex Ball (Mostly reviews of old synths).
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You see both in use, as well as the pendants favourite KiB, the three may mean the same or different things depending on who you're talking to.
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Ah, but here pedantry cancels itself out: the SI says multiplier prefixes should be uppercase (e.g. M, G, T), and divisors lowercase (c, m, n), but k is an exception because capital K is for Kelvin.
But this isn't an SI prefix! They're multiples of 1000, but here we mean multiples of 1024.
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Wait, isn't she right? 16kb is a typo, isn't it? I don't know what you're writing about, but kilobytes (kB or KB) seems more likely than kilobits (kb).
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I think the word is context 😀
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Yes, I think so.
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If Shape were a descriminated union embedding either a Circle or Square, it would be easy, right?
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Is always used to be one of those things where it felt like you had to be really, really careful. 'I can't do it now, it's too noisy here.'
Let's encrypt has made a lot of the stress go away now I don't have to manually provide a correct CSR to a third party.
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I didn't know about toe, thanks! I had to provide the -a flag to get any output.
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Wow, so lucky! I don't think I've ever seen one!
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I dunno, personally I thought they smashed it out of the park in season 2, and never quite matched it subsequently.
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Thanks for responding, and for writing the thing in the first place.
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Thank you for sharing this, I love it.
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And if it does reduce the crud, does it just result in a bigger and bigger state over time?
I agree about the things the government should be willing to pay for now, but won't the problem keep reappearing? What's the next thing, and the thing after that?
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At the end you suggest industrial strategy means (or can mean?) governments being willing to pay for the things we need but aren't getting.
Does that potentially reduce the crud economy by crowding out "bullshit jobs"? Or do we just get what we need as well as what we (appear to) want?
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I think I've read this blogpost a couple of times now, and it definitely has the ring of truth to me (I'm not an economist, just some random Internet guy). I guess the market is good at giving us what we want, but not necessarily what we need?
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Ask a stupid question, get a s... ... a good answer, in this case.
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Was there a bit about a quagmire?
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Naturally, this doesn't just go for this issue. This issue is the least of it. It's everywhere. I'm bored of it and I want to get away from it.
Hi BlueSky, I hope we're going to get along.
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The point is that I'm suspicious of the people who present this as an obvious issue. I tend to think of them as extremists. I particularly don't like the ones who ascribe sinister motivations to people on the other extreme, yet ignore the rest of us entirely.
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Is hybrid the answer? Maybe. It has its own issues, of course. Some sort of compromise seems appropriate. But that's not the point...
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I feel conflicted about it. Don't you?
When I'm working from home there's a lot that's gained, and there's a lot that's lost. There are bits of my job that work as well or better remotely, there are bits that suck when done remotely...
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It's clear that there are groups of people who have strong opinions in one direction or the other. But are they large groups?
I'm almost certain that there are plenty of people who don't care much either way. Of course, we never hear from them.
But I bet the majority, at all levels, are like me...
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Nearly as often, I've seen posts from the other side, extolling the benefits of face to face, and the meme of "If your job can be done from home, it can be done in a different, cheaper, country entirely"...
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I love the piranhas / taxi metaphor.
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On the other-hand, async/await is a replacement for callbacks, and callbacks are about events. Modeling I/O as events might not be the right thing to do, but events are still a useful idea!
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I've thought a lot about this, and in particular the "State of Loom" document which describes what Java is doing about async/await (they're not doing async/await, they're making threads better) cr.openjdk.org/~rpressler/l...