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https://www.anquotes.com/charles-bukowski-quotes/ has some similar themes. “Writing about writer’s block is better than not writing at all.”

I got on very well with Van der Linden's Deep C Secrets . It's from 1994, so misses out on the newer versions, but aside from that it's aged well, IMHO. And good news: it's been op…

The entire device is tiny: 20mm x 5mm x 5mm approx. It looks to work using a small laser and a lens which focuses the beam about 5mm above the device. The sensor unit contains a ph…

There are quite a few examples of very misguided educational strategies. Whole Language [1] failed so many students, but had significant funding and guru-level support for decades.…

Commodore release a new variant of their C64 computer, with a '99%' faithful recreation of the original hardware on an AMD Artix 7 FPGA, along with some more up-to-date specificati…

Chinese New Year falls between 21 January and 20 February. This would be somewhere between week 3 and week 8. Some ISO 8601 week numbers for CNY: 2022 CNY fell on Feb 1 , which is …

Skirrow was significant in the Nobel-winning discovery of H. Pylori, has an Agar gel named after him, and championed public health.

USA has increased its export controls on advanced process node chips, with an act that comes in to effect today, and will get published in a few days' time. The preview is availabl…

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Barber's Adagio for strings , although it gets referenced enough; Khachaturian's Spartacus and Phrygia , especially the brass version; Holst's planets , esp Uranus; Beethoven's 7th…

indeed, with an incoming Teams meeting invite, it should be determinable from the sender's context which account should work on the meeting. Instead there is 2 minutes of waiting, …

Not so sure that's fair. There are papers cited from 2016 that are from other authors.

The dystopia in the film version of Ready Player One clearly borrows from this.

Putting the WiFi SSID and password on the side of the energy monitor sensor box allowed for this: > The whole thing was quite dissapointing. However, I do have a few Raspberry Pico…

Regulating here is necessary, but the challenge is steep! IoT devices may include a complex bill of materials (BoM) including software (SBoM). Vulnerabilities can appear in any of …

Totally valid point. Escrow then open sourced, or perhaps even some insurance policy so that the future patching and vulnerability remediation is guaranteed. There's a bunch of stu…

As a tool for quantifying the number of civilisations, agree, the Drake Equation is not so useful given the known unknowables. But as a tool for stimulating discussion, creating en…

Someone must have felt very clever when they concluded Erlang would be dimensionless. Calls per second X seconds per call = no unit. But that's wrong. Clearly the number of calls o…

Do you have an opinion on Carbon?

Not for big arrays. Radix sort is O[n] . (or [n * number of bytes in Int] or whatever is being compared). It's omitted from the comparisons, I see. Radix sort can also have predict…

Philosophers may consider this a "performative utterance".