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A significant part of my job, unfortunately, is helping people fix their workspaces when Perforce (p4) goes bad, or creating guardrails and wrappers to stop Perforce doing bad thin…

> A writing system that used strict phonetic transcription for everything would be unusably bad. This is, for better or worse, what is being done to incorporate aboriginal names in…

Back in my youth, after the Internet became common but before Wikipedia, I tried to discover the answer to this and came away disappointed again and again. Every article I could fi…

After C:, it really is just allocated in order. Between CD/DVD drives, writers, Zip Drives, and extra hard drives, it wasn't unusual for a workstation to naturally end up with G: o…

> Ansible is a complete mess. You're better off managing things with Puppet or Salt, as that gives you an actual declarative mechanism We thought this, too, when choosing Salt over…

It was "fun" discovering this the hard way a number of years ago when active US Android user count for a game we were supporting dropped 15% essentially overnight. The TCP stack in…

I once attempted to use XSLT to transform SOAP requests generated by our system so the providers' implementation would accept them. This included having to sufficiently grok XSD, W…

Or, at least, not giving a fair take on its particular approach to open source. We both self-host and pay for the service. There is ample engagement from the development team with …

There was a period in World Rally Championship history when the top drivers would manipulate the starting order for the following day's stages by intentionally slowing down before …

Neat! Takes me back to highschool... https://lostmediawiki.com/Minesweeper_Flags_(lost_Windows_Li...

There is a cursor rendering fix in xf86-video-radeonhd (or perhaps -radeon) that flips a single bit. It took the group several years to narrow in on.

uv implements PEP 723. https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/specifications/inline... Especially useful if the script has dependencies on packages in private repos.

Here is a list of all rotations systems known to be in use by various Tetris implementations: http://harddrop.com/wiki/Category:Rotation_Systems

(I'm assuming you are a Canadian student due to referring to the work as "Co-op") In general, Canadian labour laws prohibit what are typically considered unpaid internships, althou…

A nice segue into a key point about Linguistics, and some Japanese facts. The study of Linguistics, explicitly, does not deal with orthography, or the written system of languages. …

An Aeron of the wrong size will definitely kill circulation in your thighs. The difference is surprisingly obvious once you try the various sizes.

Yes. I can't really talk about it, but, yes.

To English speakers, using different counters for different classes of nouns is a pretty strange feature... Strange, perhaps, but present. To a native Chinese and Japanese speaker …

I'm surprised no one has brought up how difficult it often is to incorporate design changes into an existing project unless it has been developed with such accommodations from day …

That makes me sad because I've never made more than 1/3 of that as a developer in Vancouver.

What's more, the second source cited is basically a copy-n-paste of the Telegraph article. Phoronix can pretend to be a reliable primary source all it wants, but it's questionable …

> I'm inherently suspicious when someone says something like "conveys information", but then says "logic and reason" don't work. Actually, the study of semantics, which is highly l…

(Disclaimer: I've not studied any of these languages in detail; the following is a mix of what I have studied, personal knowledge, and logical conclusions derived from both) Struct…

Right. I think I would file all of that under the "hard to translate" category. Now, let me clarify upfront that my minor (technically a "joint-degree", but effectively a minor) is…