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There is in fact a default timeout of 5 minutes and you can change it: https://rclone.org/docs/#timeout-time I shorten it to prevent lockups like you are describing.

William Cleveland did some research along those lines and he wrote two good books: - The elements of graphing data - Visualizing data The first one is of general interest, the seco…

I think this is no longer true: https://www.baeldung.com/java-17-random-number-generators https://openjdk.org/jeps/356

The book has eight voluminous chapters and only one is about hypothesis testing. Much of it is about design of experiments and statistical process control, think something like opt…

Programming is applied algebra just like tying your shoes is applied knot theory :)

Here are a few popular science books: One Two Three . . . Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infin…

Stanford has ENGR108 [1] based on freely available book "Introduction to Applied Linear Algebra – Vectors, Matrices, and Least Squares" [2] by Stephen Boyd, with video lectures [3]…

I think these people other than Feynman transcribed and edited the lectures into book form. This seems to have been the process with most (all?) books of his, "QED" and "The charac…

The "Feynman lectures on physics" books are based on actual lectures to Caltech students. You can listen to audio tapes of the lectures here: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.ed…

Perhaps this was one of the talks by Radia Perlman?

Peter Norvig wrote a good article on this: "Warning Signs in Experimental Design and Interpretation" http://norvig.com/experiment-design.html

Paul Halmos wrote a book I like a lot titled "Linear Algebra Problem Book" that teaches you linear algebra through a sequence of problems - its different from the one posted here i…

You can use jupytext to maintain dual .py/.ipynb representation of notebooks and keep both versions in sync: https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/main/docs/paired-not... It work…

Production failures due to bugs in both TCP-based servers and clients happen all the time, long time ago I invested a little time to learn basic socket programming in C and the ROI…

Vim can't highlight Markdown correctly because it does highlighting via regexps. For correct parsing and thus for correct highlighting of Markdown you need a real parser. See e.g. …

For the people who did not notice, in the "Open Access" tab you can download the PDF of the whole book legally and for free. There is also a second book by the same author which is…

For interviews and programming puzzles you only need to know notation for basic mathematical logic, basic set theory and the summation notation and maybe some bits and pieces from …

Knuth is one of the founders of analysis of algorithms as an academic discipline and the original publication of TAOCP played a role in founding the field.

This is a very good book, fairly mathematical: https://archive.org/details/ofmathemahistory00todhrich Ian Hacking has two books, he is a philosopher, accordingly they have a broade…

Looks like Git has its own string type: https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/strbuf.h https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/strbuf.c See this for the story of why strncpy/strnca…

This is one of Lem's most approachable, fun to read books. I also much recommend his books starring Ijon Tichy, the only books that make me laugh out loud - "The Star Diaries" and …

I watched the TV series some weeks or months after having seen the Gary Oldman movie, I enjoyed both, but the TV series is great while the movie I thought was just good. Both have …

If we are speaking movies, the old BBC TV mini-series "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" and "Smiley's People" with Alec Guinness as Smiley are absolutely great.