In case others want to get into 18.404j, but don’t have the prerequisite knowledge, I made a pretty complete graph of all available MIT courses (at least until 2023) and linked them as a left-to-right dependency graph:
https://thaumatorium.com/articles/mit-courses/mit.drawio.svg
Just search for 18.404j - it’s an SVG, so search works.
I just sometimes wish there was a little more content getting posted.
Well, that’s a problem that’s within your power to fix! Start posting!
Oracle was never really innovative on a technical level
Even their RDBMS and SQL was copied from ideas that came from IBM. And I recall either E. F. Codd or one of the SQL guys making a remark about Oracle’s less-than-saviour sales tactics, even back in the 90s.
Nonprofits can “own” for-profits.
One of the saner reasons for this structure is that the non-profit owns the things the for-profit works on. If the for-profit goes under, all things are still owned by the non-profit, so some large tech company can’t swoop in and yoink anything available.
This includes any and all data generated by the for-profit, which means your data is “safe”.
This is why we have journalists - worst case, take this information to some newspaper, who will likely LOVE to poke the bear.
OK, maybe that’s a little idealistic, but at least you can try, eh?
I was able to do it for a restaurant once, where I was the first one to do so. I got 1.6+ million views on one image of the (then empty) restaurant. I’m pretty sure that’s the peak of my online presence. It’s all downhill from there.
Soon, Firefox can block ads better than Chrome. Ads are annoying. I see Chrome losing at least a 5% of the market, if not more, to Firefox, just because they’re going to break uBlock Origin, and Firefox isn’t.
Just ask whether they can provide a phone as well.
Bears do not want to kill you. They want to be left alone.
I’m not a bear, but same.
Not very RHELAIable, you say?
That’s obviously a randomly generated string.
A bot-ass username would be FirstnameLastnameFourdigitnumber. Sheesh.
Not really, since those have been the most popular expansions. It’s easiest to measure up to, no?
Oh wow, looks like the Haskell devs have been hauling ass! Nice!
I remember the language server being a thing already, but it was in some alpha stage back then. Good to know it’s usable now! :D
Here’s what I remember from Haskell (around 2018):
I love the language, but hate the tooling.
Used it for Uni (did a minor where I learned Haskell, recursion, parsing and regex - probably the most information dense part of school I’ve ever had. Half a year of minor also burned me out, so I never went for my masters; I’m OK with my Bachelors :D ), but never felt like picking it back up.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_port
Because there’s going to be kids around here who have never seen this port (other than maybe on a Point Of Sale (POS) system?)
I just checked his Wikipedia page for his credentials. Worked for 9 years at NASA, of which 7 working on the Curiosity rover (yeah, the one that’s on Mars now).
I’d say that’s credentialed enough.
I too wish he did more complex stuff.
These claims sound like fantastical conspiracy theory, but they are not. They are proof of conspiracy
That’s not how claims work, buddy.
Lastly, we string these major discoveries together: Cryptocurrency is an economic doomsday device; our government is a secret kleptocracy; The Simpsons exists to brainwash us. From there, the only research we need is critical thinking and we’re able to piece together the true story of our circumstances.
Wait, I thought we were supposed to use that all throughout, not at the very end!?
TL;DR Yeah, the guy clearly had a screw loose. Jumping from unfounded (conspiracy) theory to another. At least he was not a Nazi, I guess - he hated everyone* equally.
* everyone being “the government”, “Crypo-anything”, even a few billionaires!
The most recent expansion for WoW has been really good.
Vanilla good, Wrath good, or Legion good?
About 2 years ago I wondered the same, so I collected a bunch of data (of ‘who worked on which game’) and used D3.js to make a graph thingy:
Downside: It’s up to Shadowlands, not Dragonflight; Also, the few little circles pulled more left are mentioned multiple times in the same Credits, just under different roles.
The thick green circle is Customer Support (though this was before the mass-layoff by MS).
Live version here, but it’s SUPER janky - changing selections will generate a new graph lower down the page.
Raw JSON data here - I had to install Retail WoW (F2P is good enough), dig into the game files to find the .html files that contained the credits and then convert that whole pile of doodoo into JSON.
Nix! Just being able to run
nix-env -i gitand get a newer, isolated, git installation on an older Debian is very nice. Makes it easy to remove.I can also do
nix-shell -p <application I want to try out>if I want to test stuff out.I’ve been able to ignore the Nix language pretty well so far, so no incredibly steep learning curve quite yet. Nix OS is still too spoopy for me.