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There is a quirk (almost a bug?) in FreeBSD's qsort where it will switch to insertsort for the whole array under certain conditions, which we hit in production given how our data w…

Now that they are at school, there is always an emphasis on us as parents taking an active role in reading with them and encouraging them at home. I can see now how this was taken …

Reading back what I wrote, yes, we never took this as a warning not to let them learn at all! I think the intention was more that there is less incentive to actively push or pressu…

That time my daughter proudly announced “look Daddy, I can read this book with my eyes closed”

We were told it was better to let the teachers teach otherwise kids learn bad habits or don’t engage. That being said our eldest went to school at 4 1/2 in Australia and they had t…

I feel there was a missed chance to make it “by A, W and K”

Maybe Ascii art simplified things :-). I think what tends to trip people up are things like - Where do the pedals actually live in relation to the rest of the frame? How/where does…

I like to think of the bike problem. Sit down and draw a picture of a bike from memory in as much detail as you can in 2 minutes. Easy right? But it is surprisingly hard.

I think it comes more from the thought that human text readable format is usually more verbose than binary representations.

So not like my take when I see a pack of Tim Tams with a half-star health rating.. "Hey these things are a little healthy, looks like you need to eat a lot to get any benefit thoug…

I joined a big tech co and dove in to a huge unwieldy code base that had gone through the process you described above. I did a lot of reading of the code, and soon became the only …

I knew the name sounded familiar, that was it

Ours has been out for about 5 hours now. Also South Bay. :-(

This was my first thought. I just have a * rule on my domain hosting account to send all email to my gmail, but can’t actually send from any of those addresses. I’ll usually sign u…

Deformed corner here too! it was sitting precariously on a pile of papers on top of a set of plastic drawers on top of a standup desk which was half raised (where the printer lives…

Ah, I remember it is the non-intuitive one, but then when I use it a while, I keep double-guessing which one is the intuitive one. Kind of like when my wife tells me I'm doing some…

Very similar to me! Double degree in EE/IT, my first job out of uni was with a small company building gps chips. I actually spent a lot of time writing testing software. A couple o…

There is even a Wikipedia page for going through all of the common misconceptions. It seems to have grown since the last time I visited it years ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…

I once had to change my mental model for how fast some of these things were. I was using `seq` as an input for something else, and my thinking was along the lines that it is a smal…

Ditto on the "certain female family member who insists that she remembers things word-for-word". When she recounts her meeting with a friend it is needlessly tedious (I try to be a…

I did something similar for tanh once, though I found I could get to 1 ulp. Part of the motivation was that I could get 10x faster than libc. However, I then tried on my FreeBSD an…

My life goals didn’t change much but past 30 there was marriage and kids, which kinda put a dampener on doing anything towards achieving them. I also have to accept the reality tha…

My wife hit this the other day. She entered her info on a website, gave up, and then got a polite email from them, something like: "Hey, we noticed you started filling in our form …