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There are plenty of people panicking about climate change... Perhaps other people are allowed to think about other things. Or would you replace ALL of scientific study with the sin…

You calculate the factorization (QR, LU, or similar), but you never calculate the inverse of the factorization: A x = b A => QR # QR decomposition Q R x = b R x = Q' b # Q is inver…

I really wish Rust was as great as you advocates say, but that has not been my experience. For background: I've been following it for a while now. About a year or so ago, I dove it…

Actually, all of those have something strongly resembling a kernel, and DOS in particular makes a nice distinction between the basic services (BIOS) and whatever userland you choos…

Once upon a time, before RMS re-defined the term for his benefit, the phrase "Operating System" meant what we now call the kernel. You can see the legacy of this in Computer Scienc…

There are plenty of incompetent managers and consultants who justify their existence by demanding pointless changes. If one of your subordinates is putting obvious ducks in the pro…