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John Koza has something like three or four books on Genetic Programming. It's all in Lisp and I enjoyed working with different examples from his books. If I ever have enough free t…

Thank you for taking the time to drop this link. I had exactly the question I think you anticipated: "Where can I get a really well-made washer and dryer?"

Here's my take. Asserts are a kind of error handling. They handle situations where the code can tell that it's off the rails. It might be off the rails due to a hardware error or a…

This has been exactly my strategy when writing software for medical devices, in my case, ultrasound systems. You have to help other developers understand how and when to use assert…

Yeah, I was thinking of a different book. Here's the link to the other one: https://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-Programming-COMMON-LI...

I have had this book for many years. I remember the toy expert system ("Otto") and enjoyed learning from the example. If I remember correctly the author makes good use of CLOS in t…

Looks neat and I'd like to try it. I wonder how well it would work from within a GNU Emacs shell buffer (comint based, I think) running bash. Has anyone given this a shot?

Yep. My 2012 Tundra still runs well and looks good. The only issue is that over time the steering wheel has been polished smooth by all my driving over the years. I am at 160,000 m…

> At a large insurance company I worked for, management set a target of 80% test coverage across our entire codebase. So people started writing stupid unit tests for getters and se…

I was somewhat reminded of Larry Wall's newsreader, 'rn', as I read the description of Orange Site Hit. I invested a lot of hours on Nutnews back in the day.

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I hope the following from Wikipedia is helpful: The computer had 2048 words of erasable magnetic-core memory and 36,864 words of read-only core rope memory. Both had cycle times of…

Can you say how your tool compares to Vector PC-Lint in terms of analyzing compliance w/r/t MISRA C and C++?

Wasn't familiar with RACI acronym: RACI is an acronym derived from the four key responsibilities most typically used: responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed. It is used …

Same. I love the idea of ditching the Proton Mail bridge app on my Macs. It's been a frequent source of configuration and update headaches for me.

This has been my take as well. There is a lot of disruption in a company when a key part, like the FPGA that serves as a communications nexus in the product goes EOL and everyone s…

"If you drop your DVM and it still works, it's a Fluke."

Can you say a little bit about the possible risks from hot silicon being in contact with the water? I have not heard of this before.

Perfect. Appreciate the ref.

Please say more!

Will check it out! Ty!

This reminds me of an Alan Watt's talk on alternating levels of order and chaos in nature.