FrankenPC

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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Personally, I feel like a moron most of the time when I'm here on HN. The caliber of engineers here is astounding. So, I comment here hoping for clarification. I'm nowhere near the level of engineering necessary to feel confide
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
It's a conceptual building block. YMMV. I enjoyed the concepts regardless of actual applicability.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
"I love the feeling of having a new way to think about the world. I especially love when there’s some vague idea that gets formalized into a concrete concept. Information theory is a prime example of this." THIS! THIS is why I lo
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
I'm thinking about running Wireshark on my machine to analyze the packets to see what is going on. Or, putting a non-switch ethernet hub between my wifi router and my modem to tap in with Wireshark to see if anything else looks fishy.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
At some point China will stop believing in the value of US bonds.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
What scares me is how few people take passwords, anti-virus/anti-malware, clean browsing habits, etc. seriously. Without better end-node security, individuals and the entire internet are always at risk. (I'm primarily looking at
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
> For C# equivalence, imagine if all the most easily accessible functions operated on the concrete `List` to avoid having to introduce interfaces and all had duplicates taking an IEnumerable instead (that doesn't quite work as C# us
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Makes me wonder if there's already some form of credit default swapping going on with student loans that we won't uncover until after the bubble pops.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
>They're also guaranteed by the federal government, which has seemingly infinite resources. IMO That resource is GDP. If American's can't find meaningful work that has financial value not just domestically, but internatio
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
It's not a conclusion. I have no idea what's going on with FP. So, it's a genuine question.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Hmmm... Is F# a good alternative? I already have a ton of experience with .NET and C#. I'm thinking about doing a deep dive into functional programming and don't want to waste my time with something that has a major fundamental
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
So sorry you had to go through this. It's a legit homeowners nightmare. What could be worse? Some kind of crazy crawlspace mold outbreak?
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
How long have you owned the house? Toxic waste like that are grounds to sue the previous owner if not disclosed during the purchase...at least in California.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Developing software has all kinds of metrics that show the team if the progress is in the right direction, effective, and future proof. How is it a program like DARE could have gone on for so long without peering into their own performance
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Heck, I'd be OK with a sliding scale regulation. If someone can afford the full cost without bankrupting them, then fine. If they have no money, the the cost is radically reduced and IDEALLY payed through public medical support syste
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
So, when engineering crazy things, many valuable lessons are learned that could help us all. Do we get any of that knowledge for this product WE paid for?
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Side note: There are private companies who will MRI any part of your body no questions asked. 15 years ago it was 1000$ for a full body MRI. Sections were much cheaper. Point being, how hard would it be to take pre-existing MRI plates to
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Well...my mind's blown. Astounding technology advancement.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Well..not really. "But pilot wave theory could still be important, because it has a different conceptual formulation, so if you set out to modify the theory, you get different modifications. In that sense, it is a good new idea. I pers
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Discomfort drives all powerful science.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
P=NP. We just can't read the meta-meta-rules surrounding QM yet.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Charlton Einstein: "You'll pry my determinism from my cold dead hands"
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Reminds me of a question a help desk person asked me about 20 years ago. They were having all kinds of problems printing word docs from this new windows 95 PC. I was busy at the time so rather than educate them on the nature of WYSIWYG I
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
It's not a tax. It's a statistics lesson for dummies.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
This is really interesting to me. I make money with OOP in the commercial arena. But I'm considering getting out and changing careers. Can you summarize WHY FP is superior? In this context is fine. If I'm asking too much, do
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
I work in California and hired a lawyer to nullify a non-compete clause. The company backed off when my lawyer cited case law that basically says if a company attempts to clamp down on a skill you had pre-existing to employment, ALL previo
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Doesn't this require a signature? If so, depending on the life circumstances, couldn't this be perceived as signing a contract under duress?
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
I've seen the miniature fruit trees. They gave their all to crank out a single mini fruit which wasn't so mini compared to the bonsai.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
I too am fascinated with bonsai. It's not only aesthetically pleasing, but also really interesting from a purely biological perspective.
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by FrankenPC 11y ago
Thanks for the explanation. In general, is this considered an anti-pattern? In other words, It's interesting but not advisable to consider in production programming?

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