I have no idea whether this actually happened, but it’s a pretty good story either way: Supposedly, an Airbus fly-by-wire airliner on a domestic route in Thailand was trying to land in a storm. The pilot aborted three times then told his cargo he was diverting; around 200 cellphones simultaneously lit up so their owners [...]
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Not quite a Yegge long.
File: April 2009
So I’m reading Bartosz Milewski’s latest on extending the D type system to eliminate common causes of errors in multithreaded code, and I come across this fragment: There are two major challenges in multithreaded programming: Avoiding races Preventing deadlocks While his analysis is correct, from a program-correctness point of view, and he does offer reasonably [...]
There are three kinds of academic review: review by name, review by reference and review by value. – Nat, commenter on alarmingdevelopment.com Then I could scoff at Haskell programmers, and that would make my day. – LiveBackwards, programming.reddit He means English English. The Real English. True English. But yes, they also happen to speak it [...]
About time this thing had shaders. The GPU is an RV350, aka Radeon 9600. This was the GPU I learned to write pixel shaders (in assembly!) on, back when that was cutting-edge stuff, and HL2 wasn’t out yet. It died in the line of duty, after months of use running at ~170% stock clock.
Better than Domino’s, Pizza Hut, or Hell’s.