Accujack

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by Accujack 7y ago
For personal backups (unless you're the king of personal Big Data) tape doesn't make sense in most cases. Where tape shines is for offsite copies, DR copies, or duplication for safe keeping of any kind, not backups. Tape will work
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by Accujack 7y ago
You can choose to view things that way, but that's just a perception, not the actual nature of these concepts. You could equally well say they are all philosophies and use that to reinforce a view you hold.
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by Accujack 7y ago
You don't need to even go into sci-fi land to reach a dystopian scenario. With no laws to govern what technology like this is allowed to do and what can be done with the information from it, Facebook and companies like it will be able
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by Accujack 7y ago
This is pretty telling of the present state of U.S. law... there's no law against this (even today). The existing laws that protect privacy and what can be done with information companies collect have never been updated post computer
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by Accujack 7y ago
I like this explanation of what it is: "In a sense, the Å-machine is to Dialog what Glulx is to Inform 7. " It reminds me of Alan Perlis' quote: “Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else f
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by Accujack 7y ago
I get tired of hearing about science reported on by people who feel the need to make it more buzzword compliant to get page views. The initial "robot" created by this project was described like this: "Our first swimmer study
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by Accujack 7y ago
Assuming he gets a jury trial, which isn't guaranteed. Look up how the US government is proposing to try him.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Perhaps you don't know that the US is proposing to try him under a special set of court rules reserved for people who offend against the military industrial complex? IE, they won't use the regular/constitutional process, they
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by Accujack 7y ago
> they're highly skilled former Navy machinists. In general, no. Professional welders who do well economically typically have a few things in common that have nothing to do with their origin or education: * They work very hard (60+
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by Accujack 7y ago
>Is a fact that radioactivity kills people. Is a fact that water kills people. 100% of people who drink water will eventually die, and people who try to breathe it usually die even sooner.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Seconded. Eve's server architecture is amazing given the original constraints of the network... they managed to find a way to make a single worldwide server work and to make the game treat everyone fairly no matter what their ping was
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by Accujack 7y ago
Well, I was obviously generalizing, not stating that no programs anywhere need to run faster. However, taking your example, the filters can't really be optimized because they're applications run on top of a bloated operating syste
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by Accujack 7y ago
The Habits of the Magnificent Seven Highly Effective Samurai
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by Accujack 7y ago
Next time he won't shut up, threaten to speak the nam-shub of Enki?
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by Accujack 7y ago
"professional engineer"
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by Accujack 7y ago
https://dilbert.com/search_results?terms=Tapestry
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by Accujack 7y ago
They can still own flamethrowers, however.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Agreed. Bottom trawling was the first thing I thought of. The machinery is probably relatively nearby, possibly with shreds of net caught in it, sitting on the bottom.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Present day programs aren't optimized because they don't have to be. No one needs to gain a competitive advantage by squeezing the last bit of performance out of hardware because for a long time we've had steadily increasing
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by Accujack 7y ago
There's an internet meme about "Imminent death of Moore's law predicted". All Moore's law talks about is the density of transistors on a chip, and it's never been a linear progression of numbers. Recently I&#x
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by Accujack 7y ago
So in this guy's mind, wanking is essentially sticking it in the universe?
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by Accujack 7y ago
And people who may need to protest in the future, and rightfully so.
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by Accujack 7y ago
If you read the article, you'd find out that the supermassive black holes like those at the center of our galaxy were formed very early in the Universe's life, when the laws of physics were different.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Lots of places fit the bill, it's just that NIMBY folks tend to be everywhere. Provided the waste isn't liquid and won't migrate off site, it's fairly easy to contain. Much of the really bad waste that we have to deal w
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by Accujack 7y ago
Having worked at the USPS, I can say definitively it will lose money anyway, and it is not taxpayer supported except by special request (USPS can ask congress for funding for special needs, which they can deny) So, despite all the people co
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by Accujack 7y ago
This will change somewhat... Shenzen exports a lot to the US, but that's going to get more expensive soon.
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by Accujack 7y ago
Also businesses like Harbor Freight will benefit, because it will be much harder/more expensive to buy direct. Same thing with the "cheap" brands at places like Menards. This will slow the pace of innovation in a lot of area
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by Accujack 7y ago
Creating or running an open source project can be a thankless task, made worse by the sheer number of entitled jerks who can find you and your project via the Internet. If you're selling software for pay, at least there's money in
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by Accujack 7y ago
20 Years ago? It happened (by my count) at least twice after the Bell system breakup with Telephone companies accepting government money to bring the internet to rural areas. After that, I think the broadband companies (many have since merg
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by Accujack 7y ago
It's not the most popular overall because the largest number of CPU chips in the world are ARM (phones and other devices) which don't have embedded MINIX. You could argue that the most popular shipping OS is the BIOS, or hard driv

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