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You might find embedded systems development more up your alley. The hardware is always broken in some way and you often have to get very creative to work around those deficiencies.…

It means you read it on your computer. You don't need to go find the hardcopy.

None of these things is of any importance to me. I would not consider them when applying for a job.

> Any realistic alternative to C must understand interrupts, memory mapped registers etc.. In what way does C understand interrupts?

Department of redundancy department.

I use KUL Se-87. I forget which keys are in it, but I wish the springs were a little heavier. Maybe I just need to learn to type more gently. I use it on mac, windows, and linux al…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language

Suspicious that everything has approximately the same number of votes.

> A decent full frame 35mm digital will probably beat a film medium format comfortably on colour reproduction, resolution and clarity. But Damnit, film just looks "real" And what o…

I got custom progressive lenses made with a 'computer' prescription. This has my eyes relaxed when looking at my normal screen viewing distance (approximately arm's length) but giv…

> I want things I can use in Makefiles and properly script, that are available in my distro of choice and that generally work in the same fashion as the tool chains I’m used to. Yo…

1. One of scheme / common lisp / clojure 2. One of C++ / Java 3. Javascript 4. One of Python / Perl 5. Bash

Doesn't that result in them being written down? How do you remember fifty or so randomly generated passwords?

Sorry I can't provide links. But I work for a large tech company, currently qualifying SSDs for a new project. We ran into serious bugs with drives from a particular well-known SSD…

I had it done about 3 years ago so I could drive or use a camera without glasses. It lets me buy el-cheapo reading glasses & sunglasses (previously needed prescription), so I can h…

You can already do this with ch http://www.softintegration.com/

I didn't even notice it was ps until your post. I just clicked the link, and it showed up in the browser. Is your browser broken?

I put zero effort into making code compile right the first time. The compiler (gcc) is much faster at finding errors than I am. Where I do put effort is into making sure the algori…

Is there some tendency for people to falsely claim they have Asperger's disorder?

How do they explain why depression comes back when the meds are withdrawn?

"A testament of how effective aggregate operations is demonstrated by the success of the array-oriented languages APL, J, and K. " This must be some new usage of the word "success"…

I used Aquamacs for a while, but reverted to Carbon emacs, because it was easier to make similar to emacs on Linux that I also use regularly. If you don't use emacs anywhere else, …

Alcohol generally worsens RLS. It also makes apnea much worse. Most sleeping pills also make apnea worse. The one I've found that doesn't is Trazadone, and it seems to keep working…

Why do you think of parentheses as something about LISP that needs to be fixed? What exactly is the problem?