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I don't suppose anyone noticed what hash they were using?

G'day all! That's me ... as you can tell, it's been on the back-burner for a while due to work and so on but I'll get back to it at some point and at least get our goose walking ar…

Also pathology samples, although I believe there's now some interest in robots doing similar things.

In the olden days of x86: "REPNZ SCASB" to get the length of a zero-terminated string and "REP MOVSB" to copy bytes from place to place. But I think more modern CPUs actually work …

Yep, a pretty serious piece of kit, although you really needed a monochrome monitor for it to work properly ... regular TVs didn't have the horizontal bandwidth.

Sydney's works fine. London's too, not the special one the regular tube one. Also Tokyo Narita and Schipol. What they've all got in common is that they're well connected to a good …

Well, sure, and theoretically a success gets you 2xx and a failure gets you 4xx/5xx. But there's a layer beneath HTTP as well. If all you get back is a TCP RST, did the request suc…

There was a good talk about these at LinuxConf AU: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2016/05_Friday/Wool... ... they're a very exciting device and incredibly cheap, and the …

What I'm a bit puzzled by here is that if I'm reading the X-axis right the rot sets in at 3 weeks ... I mean, that's not very far in. It seems odd that the graphs are both otherwis…

I think also, a really top notch expert makes what they're doing seem so effortless that you do think "yeah, that's just what I would have done". And probably you would have, at le…

The climb up from Whittlesea is impressively direct in places on a pushie. I've seen plenty of people do it, but it is a different kind of ride and I'm not going to try it any time…

Really? Why? I mean, Kindles are pretty cheap, but sticky shipping labels are a few bucks for rolls of 500, and very hard to damage in transit.

The negotiation process worked successfully. OP didn't want to work for less than $X, and he isn't!

> But I don't know what academic activity students would want to engage in when they are not being forced to do so. Plagiarism, mostly :-/.

I don't know if RPF himself had anything much to do with it, but the typesetting of the /The Feynman Lectures on Physics/ is beautiful. It features the main column / side column de…

I think you mean static const int days_per_week = 8; :-).

Ha, I made a thing like this back in 1994 or so out of an old monochrome 640x480 laptop screen, a couple of those plastic fresnel lenses and a whole bunch of glue and cardboard. It…

Imagine! http://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/ http://www.openculture.com/2012/08/the_character_of_physical... OK, so that's not quite everything but it is a pretty good start, a…

Agreed, this is a case where a small number of test cases would have been sufficient to cover the critical parts of the code and avoid this particular error and many like it.

It's a very useful feature, which can feed a cache layer, act as a kind of trigger mechanism or give you a (very limited) kind of transaction.

More like Taipei, I think ... which also has vast electronic doodad markets. Well worth a poke around, even if you don't have a use-case for a snake or an SCR the size of a beer ca…

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog ... until you link your Google+ and 23andMe accounts. (there's already a link there between YouTube comments and flecks of spittle ...)

You could absolutely do the same thing with Postgres (or SQL Server) and computed indexes over JSON (or XML) blobs. Of course, then you'd have exactly the same schema migration iss…

MongoDB doesn't forbid you from having entities and relations. It just doesn't support them in the same way that SQL databases do. Ditto for CouchDB, etc. You end up having to do s…

Finally, something with better bandwidth and worse latency than Andy Tanenbaum's station wagon. > Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down t…