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tl;dr, check these sites: https://www.wikimatrix.org http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb ) Having setup the whole Atlassian on-prem SSO suite of a…

I'm sitting in Paradise, CA right now with only one neighbor's home left visible among dozens. There are about 1/3 as many tall trees (mostly pines 30m/100 ft tall) as before since…

These shouldn't be used either (_s are available in C11, _l tend to be locale-parameter thread-safety, and _r have sizes/state for bounds/thread-safety): - strtok -> strtok_r / str…

No pun intended, I remember IRAM. Then there was Tilera and Tabula (MPPA/MIMD). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massively_parallel_processor_a... .

War is a Racket - Smedley Butler (2x Medal of Honor, Marine General)

TWW is a great book. Another book on the TPS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915299143 I would look beyond books to seek out great organizers, leaders, and organizations in manufacturi…

;) Speaking of history and the Cold War, a worthy docuseries to face some uncomfortable facts of the US' post-WW2 behavior: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Even…

Isn't the biggest problem of HK people vs. PRC central govt is that the primary goal seems to be getting everyone in HK and the mainland to live by the same laws (regardless of tra…

I'd like to know how hard it is for other people starting out these days, what's worked for them. I'm not one to ask as I get hounded by Google/Alphabet recruiters every 3-6 months…

No, that's your opinion, not mine. It's a flaw because it creates escaping magic, delimiters that are in-band (spaces) and every program has to know how to parse the output of ever…

Wow. Impressive usability OOTB. Great job!

I remember having a SS 50, 100 & 200 back in the day. And filling up water balloons the old-fashioned way. Now kids have the automatic water balloon fillers and smart phones. Do mo…

The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipeli…

Basically, every kernel needs an explicit_bzero() system call because it's very difficult to assure data flow properties of de/initialization without something the compiler cannot …

The Democratic party ignored their Primary results. And neither corporate party allows democracy, because they're both behold to billionaires and anoint who they want as POTUS thro…

Yes. We went through this same fight with the Clipper chip already, but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats. It's a solved political, human…

This, 1e6 times. CS/EE here and my father had an electrical automotive shop, and my grandfather and did a HeathKit electronics-by-mail course... and I still didn't have a solid gra…

Is that the notorious and difficult-to-find Presto Hotdogger (snausage/tube-steak electrocutioner apparatus)? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=presto+hotdogger

Big clive on HN. Hurray! He earned my respect from a video on a USB charger with an electrocution risk and why you should never buy cheap USB chargers. https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0…

Yeap. And for average people, that leaves a hollowed-out middle-class and not-yet-automated/underpaid tasks like caregiving, teaching, nursing, police, retail sales, retail foodser…