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In the 80's, I put a Z80 card in my Apple 2, just so I could run CP/M and Turbo Pascal. This.. wasn't that unusual.

Raw threads are really hard to program correctly, however sinking parallel code into an executor or queuing framework tends to really reduce complexity and in a lot of cases get all the cores working.

Non-paywalled link?

Khan Academy, not Institute.

Topical because a big push of academic libraries lately is information literacy.

Pets can get treatments that aren't yet approved for humans - if you've got the budget, there are vets who can do.. whatever.

On the other hand, I had a vet tech friend who said that most people would opt out of treatments that cost more than $200-$300. That's how much they value their pet.

A powered-off Apple 2 or C64 could be operational in seconds. We're nowhere close to that now.

Nope.

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1856...

That does it, I'll bring my own toilet to work.

Well, more to the point - bugs / LOC is remarkably constant in real code across coding languages, so one of the best things you can do is reduce LOC.

Regular checkups and lab work at a minimum. It doesn't nullify, but it mitigates and it can give an early warning when one's habits are becoming a health problem.

This should be available to everyone and it's a tragedy it isn't.

Autonomous vehicles in cities aren't even close. And if they exist, then all the capital and operational expenses of ownership - which they've been fooling drivers into paying -- are theirs.

Visit a lawyer. It'll be a couple hundred $. Ask them to explain what your rights are - it's not just what's in the contract, it's how it'd be interpreted under applicable law, and you have to do a cost/benefit in terms of cost of exercising your rights vs. how valuable it is.

If a couple hundred is too much, you just did the cost/benefit and decided it's not worth it.

If I believed in god, I'd say that mathematics is indeed a gift from the all-powerful.

Good applications tend to get the database right first - since you can always re-write the mid-tier code relatively easily. It's pretty much essential to any developer.

Further it's a ridiculous superpower if you're not a developer - it's so empowering for anyone on the business side with questions to just go look in the db.

Probably want to add 2001 to the title.

Yeah log(n) would be the space to hold the digits of the counter. Presumably (unless things got super-silly), this would be dominated by the buffer size for the line being read.

My understanding of Google is that they're ok with false negatives because they consider false positives to be far far worse.

Trader proverb: "Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent"

Everything is a string including the comments -- commenting code actually degrades performance!

That's how child support works: completely independently of marital status.

This is something I'd pursue once I hit my retirement targets.

Perl has a well-deserved reputation as a "write-only language".

Clearly the university business is ripe for disruption.

With driverless cars (if it happens) they're suddenly in the business of massive capex.

Seems reasonable you could devolve Uber and Lyft into

1) Market makers matching drivers and riders with an open API 2) Multiple apps for drivers and riders which handle maps and payments

There's almost no barrier to entry to become a recruiter.

At a certain level, having the returns be uncorrelated is a lot more valuable than total returns.

I never see it as thinly-veiled. Just-world fallacy is pervasive.

Having gone through an eviction in SF, it's not rich residents, but residents who don't want to risk a 5-figure judgement against them and an adversarial relationship with a landlord.

If I didn't mind the financial outcome (because I didn't have the money in the first place) I'd have hung on for dear life.. instead I took the settlement and found another living situation.

RMS has all the resources he needs to get an Asperger's diagnosis and appropriate therapy.