guleblanc

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[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

No True Scotsman.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I used to work at a company that did distributed QA. Other people's tests would run on your desktop. It worked surprisingly well. But occasionally a test of some audio resource would play on your speakers "The discrete cosine is a real, discrete version of the fast Fourier transform."

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Who would have thought it. A brothel in Watertown. Cambridge I can see. What's next, strip clubs in Belmont, Mitt Romney's home town?

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The Puritans were a small sect, just looking for the religious freedom to punish the best majority of people who didn't believe the Puritans' theology. Their notion of "religious freedom" is similar to the U.S. Catholic bishops' notion. It's a violation of religious freedom when people can make their own choices, and don't have to obey a hierarchy.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

It can have many other deleterious effects as well. I also smoked marijuana once. Now I'm old, and a boomer.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I used to work on a debugger. It was called TotalView, and it was a really stellar multiprocess, multithread debugger. You could debug programs with thousands of cores and threads. You could type real C++ code to inspect values, inject code into a running process, force the CPU to run at a given line, like a magic goto. But we had a saying "printf wins again". Sometimes you just can't get the debugger to tell you what you need.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

The first podcast was Christopher Lydon's Radio Open Source. The term podcast was created to describe it. It's still going strong. If you like ideas, books, music, vaguely leftish politics you might like it.

It has nothing to do with open source software.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

No. Not even close. It's more like a sequence of assignment and conditional statements.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Russians used to go to the sea through Latvia, during the Czarist times. They often got sea sick. A case of any kind of gastric distress became a "trip to Riga." (I learned this in a Russian language class. It may not be true, but I intend to believe it, regardless if it's actual truth. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'd like to know if I'm being unreasonable. It's a sign of strength of character )

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a Rifftrak of this I think.

If not, there should be.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who authorized maintenance for the big, fancy SC building? Can the Congress just decide to cut off funding? Can they eliminate pay for the justice, or for the staff? Can't the Congress add more justices? My current thought is that a 65 member SC is the perfect size. That's 5 justices for each circuit, not that circuits are terribly important as an organizing principle for the DC any more.

[–] guleblanc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I exclusively use openscad. I can treat a project like software, with git and make.

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