tl;dr, check these sites: https://www.wikimatrix.org http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines <- origin of the word "wiki" ( http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb ) Having setup the whole Atlassian on-prem SSO suite of apps on…
War is a Racket - Smedley Butler (2x Medal of Honor, Marine General)
TWW is a great book. Another book on the TPS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915299143 I would look beyond books to seek out great organizers, leaders, and organizations in manufacturing. Dell is another good example. There…
;) Speaking of history and the Cold War, a worthy docuseries to face some uncomfortable facts of the US' post-WW2 behavior: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Even Gorbachev wrote an opinion on the…
Isn't the biggest problem of HK people vs. PRC central govt is that the primary goal seems to be getting everyone in HK and the mainland to live by the same laws (regardless of transfer of sovereignty agreements between…
I'd like to know how hard it is for other people starting out these days, what's worked for them. I'm not one to ask as I get hounded by Google/Alphabet recruiters every 3-6 months to co-design a role in…
No, that's your opinion, not mine. It's a flaw because it creates escaping magic, delimiters that are in-band (spaces) and every program has to know how to parse the output of every other program, wasting human time and…
Wow. Impressive usability OOTB. Great job!
I remember having a SS 50, 100 & 200 back in the day. And filling up water balloons the old-fashioned way. Now kids have the automatic water balloon fillers and smart phones. Do most kids even still have water fights in…
The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages…
Basically, every kernel needs an explicit_bzero() system call because it's very difficult to assure data flow properties of de/initialization without something the compiler cannot optimize away.
Yes. We went through this same fight with the Clipper chip already, but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats. It's a solved political, human-access issue that doesn't need an…
This, 1e6 times. CS/EE here and my father had an electrical automotive shop, and my grandfather and did a HeathKit electronics-by-mail course... and I still didn't have a solid grasp of practical electronics until the…
Is that the notorious and difficult-to-find Presto Hotdogger (snausage/tube-steak electrocutioner apparatus)? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=presto+hotdogger
Big clive on HN. Hurray! He earned my respect from a video on a USB charger with an electrocution risk and why you should never buy cheap USB chargers. https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
Yeap. And for average people, that leaves a hollowed-out middle-class and not-yet-automated/underpaid tasks like caregiving, teaching, nursing, police, retail sales, retail foodservice, Amazon warehouse stocking,…
tl;dr, check these sites: https://www.wikimatrix.org http://wiki.c2.com/?TopTenWikiEngines <- origin of the word "wiki" ( http://wiki.c2.com/?WikiWikiWeb ) Having setup the whole Atlassian on-prem SSO suite of apps on…
War is a Racket - Smedley Butler (2x Medal of Honor, Marine General)
TWW is a great book. Another book on the TPS: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0915299143 I would look beyond books to seek out great organizers, leaders, and organizations in manufacturing. Dell is another good example. There…
;) Speaking of history and the Cold War, a worthy docuseries to face some uncomfortable facts of the US' post-WW2 behavior: Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States. Even Gorbachev wrote an opinion on the…
Isn't the biggest problem of HK people vs. PRC central govt is that the primary goal seems to be getting everyone in HK and the mainland to live by the same laws (regardless of transfer of sovereignty agreements between…
I'd like to know how hard it is for other people starting out these days, what's worked for them. I'm not one to ask as I get hounded by Google/Alphabet recruiters every 3-6 months to co-design a role in…
No, that's your opinion, not mine. It's a flaw because it creates escaping magic, delimiters that are in-band (spaces) and every program has to know how to parse the output of every other program, wasting human time and…
Wow. Impressive usability OOTB. Great job!
I remember having a SS 50, 100 & 200 back in the day. And filling up water balloons the old-fashioned way. Now kids have the automatic water balloon fillers and smart phones. Do most kids even still have water fights in…
The key flaw of UNIX philosophy is destructuring deserialization and reserialization based on lines, necessitating all manner of argument escaping and field delimiters, when pipelines should be streams of typed messages…
Basically, every kernel needs an explicit_bzero() system call because it's very difficult to assure data flow properties of de/initialization without something the compiler cannot optimize away.
Yes. We went through this same fight with the Clipper chip already, but we can have it again with these incompetent, ignorant, appointee bureaucrats. It's a solved political, human-access issue that doesn't need an…
This, 1e6 times. CS/EE here and my father had an electrical automotive shop, and my grandfather and did a HeathKit electronics-by-mail course... and I still didn't have a solid grasp of practical electronics until the…
Is that the notorious and difficult-to-find Presto Hotdogger (snausage/tube-steak electrocutioner apparatus)? https://duckduckgo.com/?q=presto+hotdogger
Big clive on HN. Hurray! He earned my respect from a video on a USB charger with an electrocution risk and why you should never buy cheap USB chargers. https://youtu.be/3Hdn0MuCK_0
Yeap. And for average people, that leaves a hollowed-out middle-class and not-yet-automated/underpaid tasks like caregiving, teaching, nursing, police, retail sales, retail foodservice, Amazon warehouse stocking,…