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I hate languages with significant whitespace
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I have always been amazed by knife-throwers' ability to calculate the amount of revolutions between their hand and their target when throwing. It just seems like one of those things that the human brain couldn't possibly calculate correctly on a consistent basis. Does it take a very long time to get comfortable with it when training?
It took me a couple months to get decent at it, though I'm still a quarter revolution or so off frequently. Axes came far more naturally to me, where I generally get very close to perfect on my first throw. If distances are marked I'm fine with either, though.
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Over the years I've been steadily training myself to type "WHERE" earlier in the process, until I have finally settled on the obvious-in-hindsight solution: Always simply start with the WHERE clause. (Of course every effort not to be on the SQL shell of a production server in the first place should be taken, but sometimes you need a sledgehammer and nothing else will work.)
The habit I learned was: before running any DELETE or UPDATE statement, run a SELECT with the same WHERE. (e.g. if I meant to say DELETE FROM puppies WHERE cute = 0, first run SELECT FROM puppies WHERE cute = 0.) I find I remember to do that because of the direct benefit (getting a sneak preview of what I'm going to delete), but it also means I end up thinking twice about the WHERE statement, so I'm much less likely…
select *
-- delete x
from Table x
where x.whatever = 1
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It took me a couple months to get decent at it, though I'm still a quarter revolution or so off frequently. Axes came far more naturally to me, where I generally get very close to perfect on my first throw. If distances are marked I'm fine with either, though.
Are there specific techniques to learning it, or is it just experience? For example, do you have to be very familiar with the specific weapon you're using? Does "visualizing" help? Are there tricks or points of reference that you use to help out?
If you want to get into it, I recommend two things: first, find someone who does thrown weapons and can talk you through the basics and point out mistakes in your form (SCA events are a great way to do this, and that's how I got into it), and the second is just to get a slice of a tree trunk and some weapons and start practicing regularly.
I found it to be a great way to relax and get my brain away from tech. It's one thing I miss in moving to NYC.
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"Double-edged sword" has never worked for me, as a cliche. Do you often find yourself inadvertently smacking against the dull side of a single-edged sword, such that you stay away from double-edged swords for your own safety? rm is like a double- ended knife, i.e.: http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/4253/425... (Fun fact: many knife throwers grip the blade end anyway, rendering the cliche to an even…
I had a friend who actually knew proper sword technique, and he was not impressed by my machete with saw teeth on the other edge. With a single-edged sword you can use your forearm to support it when blocking, but with a double edged sword, not only can you not do that, but trying to block with the sword itself allows your opponent to overpower you and press your own sword against you.
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The change is a few weeks old, and all of the comments are about an hour old. Seems safe to say that the comments reflect more on "people linked to this change from HN/Reddit/etc" than "people that use Github"
I'm not about to go looking at all of their accounts but considering the comments most left it looks like they were already logged in. I doubt they all signed up just to post a 'lol'. I'd put my money on these comments being from an intersection of github and reddit/hn/digg users.
Well, actually /b/ often raids web pages and do such things. If anybody working at GitHub can correlate the comments and the age of the accounts, I wouldn't be surprised to be surprised.
Plus, to me, it appears more like /b/ than reddit. I have a very limited experience in reddit though (yes, those anonymity-driven, fast-flowing communities are interesting).
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Mine was plugging in the power connector backwards on a super important ide drive (it was the only backup for an already failed server) and watching smoke issue from its controller board. Having to explain what I'd done to the boss was so scary, I slunk home with the drive and traced the power circuit with my oscilloscope until I found a capacitor that had blown short. I soldered on a through-hole replacement and it…
My gosh that's one of the best stories I've heard in a long time. The thing that worries me is that things like this are going to me rarer and rarer - there seems to be less interest in electronics, and less electronics that can be hack-fixed like that.
While yes technology is getting smaller I have found that with many parts I can now easily find replacements online, I can get advice from other professionals, I can easily figure out how something works so that I can fix it. I've currently got a power supply sitting on my work bench that has a weird issue and I am slowly going through, making a net list and building a schematic with part numbers in an attempt to isolate the fault.
Maybe I am a rare breed, but seeing as how the interest at Maker Faire keeps going up, and interest in electronics also keep going up I will assume that eventually more and more people will get into experimenting in this field.
At least that is my hope.
I learned a rather unusual trick to keep myself safe from unintended glob matches. It is not "fool"-proof, but it will probably dilute an unmitigated disaster into an incomplete disaster: Keep a file named -i in the sensitive directories. When glob picks it up, which should be fairly early, it will be treated like a command line argument. Has saved me on occasions. I also had a friend in school who used to, for whate…
If you are on a Mac, you must know that you should never put the `-i` option at the end: $ ls | wc -l 5 $ rm * -i rm: -i: No such file or directory $ ls | wc -l 0
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Was asked to uninstall IBM/Rational ClearCase from our source code repository server. Apparently at the time, Clearcase's installer NFS mounted 127.0.0.1:/ to a subdirectory. Don't ask me what brain-dead system designer thought this was a good idea. So, I did a simple /etc/init.d/clearcase stop (not sure that is the exact name) and: # rm -rf /opt/clearcase (hmm... that seems to be taking a little too long to run) Pan…
One of my first tasks after being given root access at my first n?x job at an ISP was "clear off all of the DNS stuff on $main_server since we have $dedicated_dns_server now". So I merrily started mv-ing things to a scratch directory that we could wipe in 6 months if we didn't need anything from it. Unfortunately, the zone file directory was NFS mounted from* $dedicated_dns_server. With pass root set. I think I took…