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It takes 40 seconds to precompute the lookup table. Robin released at least 2 faster/improved versions that run in a couple of seconds - less string concatenation which is slow in …

A great version of this and how ex-DEC engineers saved Google and their choice of ECC RAM - inventing MapReduce and BigTable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK0I4f8Rbis

"Recently, yet another category of low-hanging fruit has been identified as within reach of automated tools: problems which, due to a technical flaw in their description, are unexp…

Smalltalk Environment - the dawn of IDEs - "Don't mode me in" "Novices are not the only victims of modes. Experts often type commands used in one mode when they are in another, lea…

It's worth noting that the debunking has been debunked (it's much more nuanced but essentially you can take the quotes, experience of others and the height of the bridges at face v…

Video from 1979 about F International (Dame Shirley's company) - working from home, as a computer a programmer, is the greatest revolution for working women since the pill. https:/…

It's also worth noting, one of the author's of the paper: "Transmission of the bacteria is possible, especially given the highly sociable nature of elephants and the link between t…

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They might be talking about the checkcast operation: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se8/html/jvms-6.ht... This is generated when you do something like: final Main value …

Sweden has achieved about 15% infection rate and has showed no signs of slowing. https://www.smh.com.au/world/asia/new-beijing-outbreak-raise... https://www.worldometers.info/coron…

"It took nine days for the number of infections to grow from 6 million to 7 million, and less than eight days to get to the latest million, so the pandemic is not slowing down." ht…

Or better yet, from the MDL documentation https://mdl-language.readthedocs.io/en/latest/08-truth/#824-...

"indivisible and hence ultimately simple entity, such as an atom or a person."

Yes.

The Semantic Web was not XML but RDF. XML was the serialisation format.

This was covered in a previous post: "Haskell is sandwiched between two layers of C++ in Sigma. At the top, we use the C++ thrift server. In principle, Haskell can act as a thrift …

Sounds like fun https://github.com/newmana/haunted-house

"So you could for example have no poverty and perfect social mobility, and still have great economic inequality." I think this is where the evidence is to the contrary - economic i…

I love this quote from Christopher Alexander, author of Pattern Language on its failure: "So there is the slightly strange paradox that, after all those years of work, the first th…

That study has many flaws especially in self selection: http://othersociologist.com/2015/04/16/myth-about-women-in-s...

I wish Ruby had better support for functions, passing it to a method incurs a 400% performance penalty: https://www.omniref.com/ruby/2.2.0/symbols/Proc/yield#annota...

Constructing a sexist joke is generally seen as a misogynistic thing to do. There are FAQs perhaps the most relevant is: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Misogyny But you can fin…

This has been argument since viruses became well known, they've Turing complete since the beginning: "Much like an infection, a well-intended but badly designed program to stop vir…