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akramer

Re:Paper Airplane Designs: A database of paper airplanes on Saturday May 27, 2023 @12:03AM (#36091984)
The book you're thinking of is called "the gliding flight" and is my favorite paper airplane book.

https://www.amazon.com/Gliding-Flight-Paper-Make-Original-Ai...

Yes, that would be negative correlation.
Re:Beware of Bargin Bin Tools on Tuesday December 20, 2022 @01:41PM (#34070257)
Knipex Pliers Wrench is what you're looking for. They end up squeezing hard, unlike a crescent wrench, and do not round off fasteners as easily.
Re:AWS vs. GCP reliability is wildly different on Thursday September 22, 2022 @11:24AM (#32940178)
The GCE API can be idempotent if you'd like. Fill out the requestId field with the same UUID in multiple instances.insert calls (or other mutation calls) and you will receive the same operation Id back in response.

Disclaimer: I work on GCE.

This is an interesting claim, because "being lost by your family at age 2 and essentially kidnapped and shipped to another country" ranks pretty high on my life impacting events list.
Re:Suspicious Discontinuities on Friday September 10, 2021 @04:48AM (#28479152)
The graph shows that those low p-values are more likely to be in papers, not that they’re more likely to occur. Is that suspicious? I don’t know enough about it to judge.
Re:“They introduce kernel bugs on purpose” on Wednesday April 21, 2021 @11:04PM (#26898276)
There's a reply to the LKML from the researcher in question admitting that the new student is also working under him doing research. He claims it's not related, but it's not clear how much his word is worth now...

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/[email protected]...

I spend entirely too much money at Best Buy, and I’ve only written 5 star reviews for products I like. The bad products get immediately returned for a full refund - one of the advantages of buying from a big brick and mortar store. I never think about products I returned, I would prefer not to unless I’m given some incentive to write a bad review. Now, if I were stuck with the item, I’d probably trash it online in their review section.
Re:A backdoor in the Ruby gem bootstrap-sass on Friday April 12, 2019 @11:51PM (#19651024)
It appears to evaluate ruby code provided by the client given specific strings being set in a cookie.
Re:GNU Parallel Cheat Sheet [pdf] on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:08PM (#19333569)
Each time I've seen something about GNU parallel pop up I've been tempted to post, but I've never made an account until now.

I wrote a very different style of command parallelizer that I named lateral. It doesn't require constructing elaborate commandlines that define all of your work at once. You start a server, and separate invocations of 'lateral run' add your commands to a queue to run on the server, including their filedescriptors. It makes for easier parallelization of complex arguments.

Take a look if this sort of thing interests you, as I haven't seen anyone write one like this before. Its primary difference is the ease with which each separate command can output to its own log, and the lack of need to play games with shell quoting and positional arguments.

Check it out: https://github.com/akramer/lateral