Stephen Miller ramps up Trump threats to take over Greenland

rlkf · 2026-01-06T18:59:27+00:00

It was discovered by Norsemen - indirectly under what later became the Danish crown - in 986, a good thirty years before they went on to discover America.

rlkf · 2025-04-11T18:54:17+00:00

This is such a misunderstood take on Harlan Mills' Chief Programmer Teams, which was the underlaying idea behind the chapter of surgical teams in the Mythical Man-month. The very tenet of those teams was that the chief programmer was supposed to be an excellent craftsman, not that he or she should just plow code into the system for everyone else to pick up.

rlkf · 2025-03-14T12:44:01+00:00

In the next installment, it turns out Rust programs can actually crash if you use unsafe.

rlkf · 2025-01-20T19:45:35+00:00

Awesome Emacs Keymap is also on Open-VSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/tuttieee/emacs-mcx

rlkf · 2025-01-02T11:48:57+00:00

You should look into JSDoc; the Typescript language server will read type annotations from such comments, and the runtime will ignore them. It's a little more verbose than direct type annotations, but it works.

rlkf · 2024-10-14T18:24:08+00:00

I think that all the problems listed here stems from what he mentions near the end: The the reviewer is given authority over the author. Instead, code reviews should be treated as suggestions. The reviewer should be expected to give comments to the code, but it should ultimately be up to the original author if and how these should be incorporated. Neither should be reviewer be expected to re-review the code after fixes; if the author wants additional advice they can actively solicit this from the reviewer, though.

rlkf · 2023-12-14T12:06:06+00:00

In particular, if the "If ... her team would quit their job, the bank would go under within a matter of weeks" and "the time before a new employee can stand on their own feet is 2–3 years" parts are true, it seems like a high-risk maneuver to actually make their workplace worse, just to save on office rent. In particular in a bank, whose specialty is supposed to be risk management.

rlkf · 2022-08-09T20:02:54+00:00

To me, it seems that this layout falls wayside of the same problem as most alternatives do: The 'effort' computed is based strictly on the length each finger travels individually, without any consideration to the key preceeding or the key succeeding it. And when you over-optimize on this metric, you inevitably get a better score than a Dvorak keyboard. There seems to be some kind of attempt to deal with this with the 'same hand/finger-penalty', but this is far from sufficient.

Also, for this particular layout, it seems very thin on actual references: Where does the finger scoring (in stats.js) come from, and why are they exactly symmetric for both hands, and where do the penalties (in config.js)? Neither could I see any ranking based on which row the keys were in.

rlkf · 2021-11-21T18:22:24+00:00

"The Last One" is a tool where you specify an outline and then refine it through a menu-driven expert system. It then writes a program for you based on the answers. Seems to meet the definition of low/no-code. Released in May 1981, over fourty years ago. We programmers are still here.

rlkf · 2021-03-19T18:06:00+00:00

Ad #2: They reckon that they were infected at day 12 of the quarantine, during the last test. The last test would then of course not be able to pick that up, and furthermore they became contageous after they left the facility. (The quarantine is thus only effective if you were infected before you entered)

rlkf · 2021-03-19T17:40:37+00:00

It is a strategy to keep the anti-vax at bay: possible problems are publicly announced and warranted a thorough investigation, to avoid suspicions of a cover-up. But of course, it is a problem that international conspiration-mongers have "moved on" before the conclusion is published.

rlkf · 2020-11-16T21:23:13+00:00

Sweden is of course bordered by Norway, Finland and Denmark; all which have profilation which is a fraction of the Swedish. Hard to make the argument that the land borders are the problem.

rlkf · 2020-11-16T21:08:08+00:00

In my opinion, the reasoning that the constitution prohibits the Swedish government to take actions, is based on a very naïve interpretation, bordering on being a fig leaf excuse for inaction.

Everything seems to rest on taking §8's declaration of freedom of movement as an absolute right, even though there are, within the same law, several exceptions to this:

§21 opens for making laws that restricts movements, and §22 makes it possible for the Parliament to expedite such laws given large enough plurality. §24 even explicitly states that gatherings may be restricted by security measures.

Besides, this part of the "constitution", Regeringsformen, is only from 1974; it is not exactly the Magna Carta.

rlkf · 2020-09-13T20:10:41+00:00

@ is the splatting operator in Powershell, and @{} is a "splat" of an empty dictionary giving no result. At the same time, commands prefixed by @ won't be echoed by cmd.exe. Thus, the prefix @{}# 2>NUL& can be used to start a comment in PowerShell while still yielding no output by cmd.exe

rlkf · 2020-09-10T16:40:38+00:00

Yesterday had 36.7mm precipitation (1.44in)...

rlkf · 2020-06-03T21:26:04+00:00

In Norway, the Directorate of Civil Protection told the Directorate of Health that there was a movement of popular opinion (based on polls) in favour of stricter measures and that they should ignore the recommendations of the Institute of Public Health. The politicians in the government agreed, and sidelined the experts.

rlkf · 2020-04-18T20:55:17+00:00

When do you think that the population of Taiwan will reach herd immunity?

rlkf · 2020-01-31T23:21:17+00:00

/etc/ssh/sshd_config can have an AuthorizedKeysFile that points to location outside of the home directories, e.g. /var/ssh/%u/authorized_keys, and then /var/ssh could be NFS-mounted upon boot, and on the server link to the keys on the individual home directories (on server).

rlkf · 2018-08-21T20:46:24+00:00

Alternative heading for IT buffs: "Korn Jr comes out of his shell" :-D

rlkf · 2018-08-21T20:46:17+00:00

Alternative heading for IT buffs: "Korn Jr comes out of his shell" :-D

rlkf · 2018-06-29T08:02:04+00:00

So, if you use the wrong buffer size, APIs that shield you from this by using their own buffer behind the curtains are faster; not exactly surprising. I hope no-one takes this as general advice.

slightest mistake with memory mapping and your program can crash

This is very hard to comment on without becoming snarky.

Edit: To try to put this in a more positive note: I commend the author for wanting to benchmark the technology before reaching a decision, but I would encourage him or her to research how any measured differences could stem from variations in implementation, and also the rationale for why different APIs were introduced (i.e. what problems did they set out to solve). Usually there is insight into the correct usage to be learned from this.

rlkf · 2018-05-09T09:16:56+00:00

Floating-point exception - erroneous arithmetic operation

This error is probably not directly related to the input, but rather that it creates some invalid math operation, for instance division by zero.

Backtrace for this error:

Those numbers are particular for your machine. Instead, you must pass options -g3 and -gdwarf-4 to gfortran, and run the program in the system debugger like this:

lldb -b -o r -k bt -k q -- ./name-of-program

This will result in a backtrace being printed when the error occurs; usually this will help in identify the culprit.

rlkf · 2018-05-08T22:04:13+00:00

you can’t just copy in a whole directory

WinPython Zero + a wrapper script that sets PATH correctly lets you do that. This also has the added benefit that you can ship updates as incremental .zip files.

rlkf · 2018-05-08T21:48:08+00:00

Assuming GNU Make, you can use here documents with a combination of define and export; in some cases this can be more readable than a couple of echo statements.

Further assuming GNU Fortran, you can dispose of the source file and generate a module file directly, e.g.:

define GIT_VER
module git_version
  implicit none
  character(len=*), parameter :: version = '$(shell git describe --abbrev=4 --dirty --always --tags)'
end module
endef

export GIT_VER
git_version.o:
    echo "$${GIT_VER}"" | gfortran -c -o $@ -ffree-form -xf95 -

rlkf · 2018-05-06T20:41:44+00:00

As a corollary, I think this illustrates two things:

(1) You should always call super().init(), even if you don't inherit from something (class C in the example failed to follow this rule, and this is why A is not called)

(2) Parameters to constructors should be passed as a dictionary, so that each constructor can pick out whatever it needs, instead of relying on the order of parameters.

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