Thank you! I knew that existed, but now that I read the synopsis I'm thinking that the C++20/23 material makes sense in this "tour" book... the C++11 (and earlier) material in The C++ Programming Language is like the…
In college we had Mojo for downloading tracks out of other people's iTunes, for a precious little amount of time (maybe just a year or year and a half before they released an update that killed the actual filesharing).…
I've cracked into quite a few programming books over the years and it's pretty crazy how much of an advantage it's given me. I'm a lowly systems engineer, not even a real programmer, but I definitely understand…
I still find myself hoping (probably futilely) that Bjarne Stroustrop will come out with a new edition of The C++ Programming Language, to help me understand all the features that have been added to it since C++14...
There's a hip-hop song I like that uses the dial-up sound as a motif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhOWslHDSs The dial-up sound just evokes that early Internet feel so perfectly...
Before I RTFA, I was wondering if this would be about trying to find a way to include Wayback Machine results in search. Searching the Wayback Machine is always such a nightmare, and wouldn't it be nice if your search…
My girlfriend has been getting into crocheting recently, and I've been learning a lot about it and craft stuff in general. I've always been a computer guy... I'm bad with my hands. Could never do origami. Part of the…
I am definitely interested in how things look for STEM majors on average, and whether they've seen a similar decline. Although the article has a quote from a math professor, and that's certainly not a degree you get…
When I was an undergrad (2008-2012) I don't think I even had any classes that were given as PowerPoint slides. If they had been though, I don't think I would have felt bad asking for them - they definitely could have…
Years ago (like 2013), I had an actual use case for lynx, which was that I was staying at a hotel long-term and I couldn't access the Wi-Fi landing page from my browser for some reason. But I could hit it from lynx, so…
Have to say, it bothers me a little bit that they named it Carbon. I associate that term strongly with the old Carbon API from Apple. Carbon was officially removed with 10.15 Catalina in 2019 - what's the statute of…
I saw a Discord server use this but it never actually caught anything. Turns out all the spammers were just human idiots!
I get the week between Christmas and New Year's off and then I take a bunch of my PTO in December. It's not an official break or anything.
Last year I got stuck on Day 12 for a full week, and thinking about how to solve it consumed my every waking moment. I think this year, I'm going to be kind to myself and not participate so I can really enjoy the winter…
Last year I read How to Solve It and the first half of one of Polya's other books - Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. I certainly didn't commit them to memory, and I never systematically tried to apply them during…
I used to judge myself for not understanding everything in math articles on Wikipedia, but as time has gone on I've realized that their purpose isn't really to be an introduction, but a reference. Especially as the…
Thank you! I tried looking for a link in the HTML source for the archive.is page but couldn't find it. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough...
Is it possible to view the music clip from this? Am I missing something?
Reading this thread is bumming me out because it's made me realized my company USED TO have a good fusion between 'waterfall' and 'agile'. The requirements development phase, development, and testing phases were all…
I have a Framework 16, but I installed Arch on it a couple months ago as a dual boot to play around with. Process was largely painless but I did end up disabling secure boot. (actually I partially started the process of…
It's so sad to see how miserable ICDs have gotten. Some of them are just REST APIs and you are on your own to figure out what everything means, it's pathetic. The old ones, you can (and I have) interfaced with stuff…
On the subject of more context in math, I've always wondered if having a grasp of the history of math would be helpful in getting better at solving mathematical problems. i.e. would learning more about how math…
Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to…
I was reading the book "JavaScript, the Definitive Guide" (latest edition is from 2020) and it had a great section on regexes. Actually that book is also what helped demystify async programming for me.
> (also, the values for "met online" on that graph seem to be small but non-zero in the 1980s! I'd like to hear the stories of some of those couples...) IIRC Jason Scott's BBS documentary mentions this a bit. There's a…
Thank you! I knew that existed, but now that I read the synopsis I'm thinking that the C++20/23 material makes sense in this "tour" book... the C++11 (and earlier) material in The C++ Programming Language is like the…
In college we had Mojo for downloading tracks out of other people's iTunes, for a precious little amount of time (maybe just a year or year and a half before they released an update that killed the actual filesharing).…
I've cracked into quite a few programming books over the years and it's pretty crazy how much of an advantage it's given me. I'm a lowly systems engineer, not even a real programmer, but I definitely understand…
I still find myself hoping (probably futilely) that Bjarne Stroustrop will come out with a new edition of The C++ Programming Language, to help me understand all the features that have been added to it since C++14...
There's a hip-hop song I like that uses the dial-up sound as a motif: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhOWslHDSs The dial-up sound just evokes that early Internet feel so perfectly...
Before I RTFA, I was wondering if this would be about trying to find a way to include Wayback Machine results in search. Searching the Wayback Machine is always such a nightmare, and wouldn't it be nice if your search…
My girlfriend has been getting into crocheting recently, and I've been learning a lot about it and craft stuff in general. I've always been a computer guy... I'm bad with my hands. Could never do origami. Part of the…
I am definitely interested in how things look for STEM majors on average, and whether they've seen a similar decline. Although the article has a quote from a math professor, and that's certainly not a degree you get…
When I was an undergrad (2008-2012) I don't think I even had any classes that were given as PowerPoint slides. If they had been though, I don't think I would have felt bad asking for them - they definitely could have…
Years ago (like 2013), I had an actual use case for lynx, which was that I was staying at a hotel long-term and I couldn't access the Wi-Fi landing page from my browser for some reason. But I could hit it from lynx, so…
Have to say, it bothers me a little bit that they named it Carbon. I associate that term strongly with the old Carbon API from Apple. Carbon was officially removed with 10.15 Catalina in 2019 - what's the statute of…
I saw a Discord server use this but it never actually caught anything. Turns out all the spammers were just human idiots!
I get the week between Christmas and New Year's off and then I take a bunch of my PTO in December. It's not an official break or anything.
Last year I got stuck on Day 12 for a full week, and thinking about how to solve it consumed my every waking moment. I think this year, I'm going to be kind to myself and not participate so I can really enjoy the winter…
Last year I read How to Solve It and the first half of one of Polya's other books - Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning. I certainly didn't commit them to memory, and I never systematically tried to apply them during…
I used to judge myself for not understanding everything in math articles on Wikipedia, but as time has gone on I've realized that their purpose isn't really to be an introduction, but a reference. Especially as the…
Thank you! I tried looking for a link in the HTML source for the archive.is page but couldn't find it. Maybe I just wasn't looking hard enough...
Is it possible to view the music clip from this? Am I missing something?
Reading this thread is bumming me out because it's made me realized my company USED TO have a good fusion between 'waterfall' and 'agile'. The requirements development phase, development, and testing phases were all…
I have a Framework 16, but I installed Arch on it a couple months ago as a dual boot to play around with. Process was largely painless but I did end up disabling secure boot. (actually I partially started the process of…
It's so sad to see how miserable ICDs have gotten. Some of them are just REST APIs and you are on your own to figure out what everything means, it's pathetic. The old ones, you can (and I have) interfaced with stuff…
On the subject of more context in math, I've always wondered if having a grasp of the history of math would be helpful in getting better at solving mathematical problems. i.e. would learning more about how math…
Tangential, but: As a big Space Trader fan I remember playing the contemporaneous game EV Nova and being so blown away by it. It felt like the same idea as Space Trader (visit different systems and buy/sell goods to…
I was reading the book "JavaScript, the Definitive Guide" (latest edition is from 2020) and it had a great section on regexes. Actually that book is also what helped demystify async programming for me.
> (also, the values for "met online" on that graph seem to be small but non-zero in the 1980s! I'd like to hear the stories of some of those couples...) IIRC Jason Scott's BBS documentary mentions this a bit. There's a…