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Somebody, I forget who, posted a link to this article. For the most part it's pretty good. I just find one thing really weird.
Just the first line, really.
A new computer-based technique could eliminate hours of manual adjustment associated with a popular cancer treatment.
Hey man, check out the new cancer treatment I'm getting. It's so hot. -
I could not forsee this thing happening to you
It's time again for another edition of "songs I never would have expected to work together, but were totally proven to work through random ordering".- Sabbath - A Bit of Finger/Sleeping Village/Warning
- Stones - Paint It Black
- Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
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This is not 'Nam. This is C. There are rules.
I was going about my day earlier, when spot sent me an IM asking for help with one of my favorite programs. Apparently, it was failing quite spectacularly on sparc, and he was having some trouble making the machine give useful debug data.
After a bit of hacking on it, I found this wonderful nugget: ( (cut for those that don't care) ) -
My moment of Zen.
So, reading through some code today, I came across this bit: pvh_dlocn_xl->offset = xlate64(UINT64_C(0));
pvh_dlocn_xl->size = xlate64(UINT64_C(0));
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The whole Oracle thing...
Ok, so here's what I don't get. I keep seeing this quote from Edward Stevens, Oracle's CTO. He's CTO at a very, very large software company, so he must be a pretty smart guy, right? Here's the quote:All we add are bug fixes, which are immediately available to Red Hat and the rest of the community.
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ich bin ein papierklammerhalter
I was looking for a paperclip a few minutes ago, and couldn't find one.
When I asked my local coworkers, one of them immediately pointed out that somebody from facilities had brought by these little desktop trinkets, which we'd all dismissed as totally useless, but actually did contain paperclips.
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