People who bought these m4 threaded rods also frequently bought these m3 lock nuts
these people were very disappointed
Slack have decided to start training AI on enterprise customer data, including DMs, private workspaces and files. You have to have admin opt out via email. HT @Quinnypig
https://slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/data-management/privacy-principles
Entirely at random I just gave a micro-lecture (to an audience of 1) on IEEE 754, hexadecimal floating point constants, unit-of-least-precision, representations and type systems, and alternative forms of measuring error. I should do it again for a bigger audience.
Who called it “code review” instead of “objection-oriented programming”
Remember that blog post "How I got robbed of my first kernel contribution" where a maintainer slightly rewrote a patch and took credit for it? Well, I decided to do something about it.
I co-authored a guide with Maria Matějka and some other folks on documenting how your project gives credit and otherwise handles contributions. If your project's policy is to lightly rewrite contributions and take credit for them, say so! Subscriber link (free) to the LWN article:
I'll be co-presenting tomorrow evening on our Bike Bus, including last week's ride with the brass band. If you're in the area, Somerville's Aeronaut Brewery, 6-7:30PM, come say hi! https://www.facebook.com/events/453905903669468
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Now you might wonder: how often does this actually happen? The common wisdom on this topic is that hardware failures are so rare that software bugs will always dwarf them. As I found out this is demonstrably false.
While investigating Firefox crashes I've come to the conclusion that several of the most common issues we were dealing with were likely caused by flaky hardware. This led me to come up with a simple heuristic to detect crashes potentially caused by bit-flips. 10/17
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