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It's only a very small minority of engineers who do. Unless you're a PE and you get to sign off on large development projects, there's no real accountability. No matter how much te…

Most queries don't require further action. You can glean the information you were looking for from the results themselves. This is particularly true when you use google as a spell …

Thanks!

Very interesting, but every one of these executives I try on my fairly stock Ubuntu system returns 'run-detectors: unable to find an interpreter'. I'm invoking them with 'bash -c'.…

It's disingenuous and factually incorrect to compare WSB with a DDOS takedown crew running a tool against scientology.org. WSB is legally sharing trading information and making inf…

It's not a pump and dump. It's a short squeeze. It's nothing new. It's the plot of the 80s movie "Trading Places." A hedge fund bought short position futures contracts for 120% of …

It leaks memory on every line it evaluates.

Is this really DFA-less? Isn't the look-back table you construct just encoding the DFA?

The optparse-generic library in Haskell generates a CLI directly from a struct.

The part didn't break. Someone who thinks they know better decided to make it not work, and complicated some normal person's life with some security theater. If a manufacture inten…

You're really going to scrap your car from 2015 because the off-brand android doo-hicky they stuck in it hasn't been updated? Even if you're technically inclined, it's not like ins…

Not that much content either at least on the "web".

QuickCheck was probably the thing that stuck the most when delving into Haskell. While, I don't use Haskell daily, using some kind QuickCheck derivative in whatever language I'm wo…

They told people just to make html5 webpages for the first year or so of the iPhone. The first third party native apps were people who managed to get the gcc toolchain to emit a bi…

Win32 API.

I got COVID, and I attribute the fact that I happened to get a fairly mild case of it to the fact I've been taking 10k IU of vitamin D3 since January.

Yes. I got a PCR test that came back positive.

No. I didn't have the taste and smell sensory symptoms either. I did have hive like blistering down my left thigh though.

I wore a mask around other people, and attempted not to cross paths with others.

You have some crusty MATLAB code that does an analysis exactly the way you need it. It was either written by someone who is long gone, or you don't have the resources to rewrite it…

I just recovered from it. I'm pretty sure I got it walking out of a grocery store. I was wearing a mask, and was walking by another older man who was also wearing a mask and standi…

Word's "Reveal Formatting" just shows tabs, spaces, and carriage returns as distinct symbols iirc. Wordperfect's "Show Codes" tells you every attribute and layout change inline. Fo…

Politics is just getting what you want. Software is already political. Commercial software traditionally does this through direct and indirect lobbying efforts. The DMCA didn't jus…

Youtube-dl (2020) would be an easier case to present to the public than DeCSS (2000). Everyone knows what Youtube is. It's easy to understand the utility of being able to download …

If a third party did anything like this, it would be considered malware.