While I mostly agree with what you say, the thing is Django was probably asked what was the best way to ship the laptop, but he probably just didn't know :
- he is from neighboring DRC, not Ugandan;
- based on his description of his travels, he lives in the overwhelmed Kyaka II camp, and was probably recently displaced due to the M23 campaign;
- he was probably already enrolled in the course before being displaced, so a young full-time student, probably not even aware of how the system work in his origin country.
My bet is that he just said to ship it to a drop location in Kampala and that he would find a way to get there to retrieve it.
In the end, the Hubris was probably not on OP's side, but on Django's side, thinking he could get a laptop shipped to him while avoiding entirely the camp's organization. Although he did manage it after all...
Not necessarily startup. You can see some laptops with defcon stickers, it used to be very common for infosec auditors to have work laptops full of stickers not that long ago.
Although, it is bad practice for read team audits, and some large companies don't like this kind of shenanigans for internal audits, so that may explain why it is less frequent nowadays
As a native french speaker, I have the same feeling when reading code written with french keywords, except that since I learned boolean and arithmetic in french, it makes more sense to me to read them in french. As others have pointed out, it seems to only be a matter of how you learn to read and write code.
For comparison, in mathematics I learned to read all the symbols in french, and only learned their english equivalent much later, so it feels uneasy for me when i read their english version. So it is clearly a matter of habit that took its root when you learned reading.
I may be wrong, but it gives me some powershell vibe. Since it seems to be targeted for macOS, I would assume it "solves" the lack of powershell equivalent on Mac ?
Powershell 7+ (a long while ago named core) is the version you should use on ALL platforms, including Windows. It's just the most recent version.
"Core" gives off a vibe that it is some limited thingy. It's not, it's full PS.
Murex works on a multitude of platforms, including Linux and Windows. But also a variety of UNIXs too.
It was actually first created before Powershell was available outside of Windows. But some of the design philosophies are fundamentally different to Powershell too. For example Murex is designed to work well with POSIX (bar the shell syntax itself), whereas Powershell reimplements most of the stack, including coreutils.
Optimizing code on MMU-less processor versus MMU and even NUMA capable processor is vastly different.
The fact that the author achieves only a 3 to 6 times speedup on a processor running at a frequency 857 faster should have led to the conclusion that old optimizations tricks are awfully slow on modern architecture.
To be fair, execution pipeline optimization still works the same, but not taking into account the different layers of cache, the way the memory management works and even how and when actual RAM is queried will only lead to suboptimal code.
Seems like, You've got it backwards — and that makes it so much worse. ^_^
I ported from ABAP to Z80. Modern enterprise SAP system → 1976 processor.
The Z80 version is almost as fast as the "enterprise-grade" ABAP original. On my 7MHz ZX Spectrum clone, it's neck-and-neck. On the Agon Light 2, it'll probably win.
Think about that: 45-year-old hardware competing with modern SAP infrastructure on computational tasks.
This isn't "old tricks don't work on new hardware." This is "new software is so bloated that Paleolithic hardware can keep up." (but even this is nonsense - ABAP is not designed for this task =)
That Z80 code is not the equivalent of the modern code though, is it?
for example your modern code mentions 64KB lookup table.. no way you can port this to Z80 which has 64KB of address space total, shared for input, output, cache and code.
So what do those timings mean? Are those just a made up numbers for the sake of narrative?
Memory and i/o ports are in separate address spaces in Z80, but for use cases described in post ("dot product for 1536-bit vectors") i/o port space does not matter, it's all memory - and there is just a single address space there.
(Granted, some Z80-based systems had funky paging setup, but author makes no mention of those, they just say generic Z80 - and that means total 64KB for code, input data, cache and output data)
Oh, that makes a lot more sense! I was puzzled as to how the new hardware could be so slow, but an inefficient interpreter easily explains it. I've seen over 1000× slowdowns from assembly to bash, so it sounds like ABAP is close to bash.
I've had him as a sociology teacher in the early 2000s, specifically on this subject (controversies).
It was apparently his first time in this school, and he was not prepared for the controversy that happened due to his (controversial) stance on the scientific method. He ended up calling us names, and privileged kids (that part was 97% true, but not entirely true...).
It's only after his death that many articles praising him appeared. I guess people capitalize on its notoriety rather than on whatever bullshit he wrote...
> (controversial) stance on the scientific method.
That stance is well-covered here.[1]
Some of the problems in science come from experiments too close to the noise threshold. This is most of social science and psychology. The hard-line position is Rutherford's "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
Related to this is Hoyle's "Science is prediction, not explanation."
For phenomena that led to useful engineering, repeatability and predictability are very good.
Otherwise the products won't work.
People tend to forget this, because controversial research topics are often close to the noise threshold. It something turns out to be real, and you can get it to happen further from the threshold, it becomes routine engineering. It's then no longer controversial. Your result gets a few lines in the Handbook of Chemistry and Physics. This sort of science makes the world go.
Philip K. Dick's “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away” remains useful.
Taking this hard-line position is useful, because humans are evolved and wired to see patterns near the noise threshold. This is a useful survival strategy for detecting predators in the brush, even with a high false-alarm rate.
Once past survival level, it's less useful.
The english version is weird. It was planned from the beggining that they would bury a bronze owl.
The bronze owl was to be exchanged with the precious metal one. In the french news, they specifically mentioned that the bronze one was found.
If you think about it, it makes more sense. The co-founder was given the rights to the original treasure hunt because he is the owner of the valuable owl. He is the one who financed the whole thing.
There are quite a few tables that are considered tournament grade by the various table soccer associations, including ITSF (I think at least six manufacturers at this point?). In the US, Tornado is the most common tournament table by far and has a 3-man goalie bar, but many European tables like Bonzini or Garlando have the 1-man and raised corners.
> I wonder if the French are considering digging underneath all those obstacles?
The problem is the Seine phreatic zone, which starts usually between 15 to 25m below the surface. Some GRS galleries are actually completely inundated and others have a level of water that varies between the seasons.
In order to have some metro going underneath the Seine river, they had to freeze it first. It is not an easy task, so there must be a real advantage to going under the Seine.
That doesn't seem even remotely useful in practice.
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