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2. Correct-ordering of messages
1. Exact-once delivery
2. Correct ordering of messages
This is my favourite variation of the form documented by Fowler here https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html
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The touchscreen in my car is wonky (known issue, just haven't bothered to fix it), so when something goes sideways with the Bluetooth audio, turning the car off and back on is easily the fastest way to get my music back.
I had a Fiat Panda where the way to get power steering back after it flaked out was to do that. While driving.
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Is this an antijoke or did I just need to know where it's going, like the bartender? Maybe the bartender is confused?
The joke is that the Ramanujan sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... is equal to -1/12, so the check should be $3 * -1/12 = minus one quarter. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B...
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... (continued): The bartender gives him a puzzled look and says, "I didn't get it", to which the programmer responds "To understand recursion you must first understand recursion."
https://www.google.com/search?q=recursion
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A Soviet engineer needs some plumbing done in his apartment, and calls for a plumber. The plumber arrives, does his thing, and hands over the bill. The engineer is shocked. -'What, this is like a quarter of what I make in a month - for half an hour's work???' Plumber shrugs. -'Well, why don't you come join us? Easy work, well paid, no responsibility - just remember to keep mum about your degree, as we're not supposed…
I don't quite get the punchline. I understand how if you integrate in the wrong direction you get a negative area, but is there a double meaning here?
A programmer had a problem. He thought to himself: "I know, I'll solve this with threads!" has Now problems. two he
I don't understand why people find DNS so difficult, it’s just cache invalidation and naming things. source: https://twitter.com/jdub/status/739110670562557952?s=20
For context, I presume most of you have heard the old old joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors. (Or the older joke that the two hard problems of computer science are cache invalidation and naming things.)