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same here wrt recovering files from dying disks, it's a lifesaver.

Tom DeMarco wrote a book "Slack" about precisely this.

after the freeze lifts, you also have multiple contributors dumping large PRs at the same time, missing out on the progressive integration that happens otherwise. This makes it dif…

my anecdata is that I have always filed manually by myself, but every time had a small adjustment made by the IRS... indeed filing a correct return the 1st time seems close to impo…

is there a reference for the USSR shooting an SR-71 down?

this is a beautiful zeugma you have here.

This is a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Allen 's work, everything old is new again!

This topic definately resonates with Thomas Allen's Managing the flow of technology (he was a great prof and all-around nice human being).

which new feature are not supported?

it's funny because I have seen the opposite. Engineer: "it crashed because it dereferenced a null pointer" boss: "add null pointer checks everywhere!" ... and because it used "if" …

This is right on point. I read this book recently, by coincidence, and it's funny and fascinating at the same time (at least for someone who speaks both English and French).

This whole topic seems to be a re-discovery of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_dynamics with non-linearities and saturation. I…

Funny you mention shearing in the last paragraph. Transvection were such a revelation to me in undergrad math.

My daily driver in 1998-1999 was a 43P (see http://www.ibmfiles.com/pages/rs6000type7043150.htm ), an earlier model of this. With AIX, it was slowish, swapping to disk very easily …

CATIA is what's showing (supposedly) on the screen in the picture of such a system..

This uses the Most Significant Bits to pack some bits into pointers.. Another technique is to use the Least Significant Bits: indeed since pointers are 64 bit aligned, the lowest 3…

my go-to tool for this is pdftk. See https://www.pdflabs.com/docs/pdftk-cli-examples/

or a port of the lock-free hash map from https://preshing.com/20130605/the-worlds-simplest-lock-free-... But really, the premise of using a shared map with concurrent readers and w…

indeed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_Integrated_Query got this right, as in fact you do need to see the from clause first for the IDE to be able to suggest what to put in …

Same here. I have never unlocked the macbook successfully the 1st time around (for a good 10 years), I always get a "wrong password" and have to re-enter. My initial guess is that …

see https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/who-pays-... income tax is progressive but tends to become regressive at the very top when individuals have control over what…

thanks for the correction! TIL

Leaving these here: https://github.com/kanzure/pdfparanoia and https://github.com/firstlookmedia/pdf-redact-tools as they are relevant to this topic.

how about a first name with a dash in it (compound first names are very very common in France... Jean-Pierre, Jean-Bernard, Pierre-Alexandre, etc...) ?

US citizen here. I have a special situation which I think will be only of interest to me... My wife (a green card holder) and I have moved abroad and her travel document is expirin…