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Some countries selectively put some people in the "you have a very long notice period" and "you will not be working for us, but still be paid, during your notice period" (so-called…

In Sweden, at many places that do a materials science engineering degree, it is historically under "Mining engineering" rather than "machine engineering".

The speed of light in vacuum is a hard upper limit. Most signal paths will be dominated by fibre optics (about 70% of C) and switching (adding more delay). But, yes TrueTime will n…

My take-away from interviewing is that as a candidate, getting a "you did not get the job" doesn't change anything. Since I've had the privilege of mostly being employed while inte…

I am cusrious what you mean by "LeetCode-style". My understanding is "present a problem, only take the resulting code, judge that". I did a fair number of coding interviews (for SR…

Even so, it's probably not going to be super-effective, unless each workplace is willing to have enough useful small things that do not require knowing substantial chunks of the ex…

In an ideal situation, you'd get all "planned maintenance" emails for things you care about and no emails for the rest of them. That (probably) means that the system for dealing wi…

If you aim to be "human-friendly" (and that is, as I understand, the raison d'etre for YAML), there is a subtle semantic difference between "true" and "on" (and "false" and "off") …

How many seconds in an hour? Most of the time, 3600, occasionally 3601, and very rarely 3599. Hours in a day? Mostly 24, but 23 once a year ad 25 once a year. These all seem like g…

Same thing for the ZX-80 and ZX-81. If you were careful with your text prompts, you could save several bytes by injecting a keyword instead of typing it out, but anything that was …

Werrrrlllllll... It all depends on what yo umean by "type". In physics problems, I find taht quantities may be measured in "floats", but have the types "mass", "amperage", "distanc…

There is a whole lot of pesky athmospheric interference limiting how much detail you can actually resolve.

These days, my main use of dd is to get a specific amount of data from a file, where both "bs" and "count" are useful (no, "bs" does not only set the buffer, it also sets the chunk…

ON the international currency market, one traditional role of the US dollar is exactly "store value". You trade your currencies on the FX market during your day, and comes close to…

If you are selling A as A-prime, you can be a snake-oil salesman even if you are supremely skilled at A. In Lars' case, he is from what I can see a supremely skilled instinctive ar…

That'd depend on if they're the same entity as "The Billing Project LLC", that seems to own the "KILL BILL" mark for downloadable software. I hope they are the same.

Oh, boy, on the "never log expected failures as errors" front, I once worked with a database system that used opportunistic transactions. Basically, each modification to a row carr…

Then there's the delightful (no, I actually mean the opposite) errors that g++ emitted (back when I last wrote C++ and compiled using g++), where I basically could go "OK, there is…

Likewise Digital, all VMS error codes are "SUB-S-NAME" (so a permissions error when dealing with a file woule be something like "%RMS-E-NOPERM" (I think that's "rotating mass stora…

My (very rough) estimate is that somewhere between 1% and 5% of those who enthuse about crypto-currencies are actually interested in the underlying tech. The rest being in it for o…

What would be the use of closing over the value rather than the variable? That would stop a lot of interesting use of closed-over variables (like persisting values from call to cal…

In the "the variable lives in the function scope", the answer is unequivocally "it should be bound once and updated", if it only exists in the scope of the loop function, both "it …

I woudl say taht Python has scoping, yes, but it does not have lexical scoping in any sense of "lexical scoping" that I am aware of. If it did, the code below would not actually wo…

In the "Swedish 7-bit ASCII", the C code "a || b" would look like "a öö b". The same character mappings were used in Finland, and that's why IRC count the characters {|}[\] as lett…

Unless you anticipate wanting to check and re-check the contents. On a shelf right beside me (as opposed to the plethora of shelves in the room we call "The Library") is a copy of …