Kadin

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by Kadin 10y ago
That sounds a bit hard to believe in the specifics, but in general I don't think it's particularly controversial that the US government has something of a vested interest in keeping the defense industry from contracting too much d
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by Kadin 10y ago
Tell them to buy a factory that makes computers. That's really the best way to do it; you have to own (or control) as much of the supply chain as you can. Not really practical if you're a private company who has to compete on thi
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by Kadin 10y ago
One of the many other articles that have been floating around the past few days mentioned that Treasury has a bunch of programs written in an old IBM architecture's version of assembler.
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by Kadin 10y ago
"75% of the budget to maintenance, and 25% to new system acquisitions", which is what I suspect that statistic really means, isn't that bad. Honestly it might be heavy on new system acquisitions. I tend to think that enterpr
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by Kadin 10y ago
Not with a decent ABS system, and all the cars that have automatic braking have pretty good ABS.
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by Kadin 10y ago
There is a huge supply chain in the US for very complicated goods due to defense procurement. It is not cost optimized (even close...) but it exists. It is a falsehood that "we don't make that stuff here anymore" for virtua
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by Kadin 10y ago
The elites will share their wealth only insofar as it's cheaper to do that (bread and circuses) than it is to keep the proles at bay through force. What Marx saw as an inexorable trend towards socialism may have in fact just been a tem
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by Kadin 10y ago
Sure, it's great for Germany. Those robots don't maintain themselves.
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by Kadin 10y ago
There are knock-on / 2nd order effects in other industries, as well. E.g. if robotic trucks lower the cost of over-the-road shipping by removing a big cost component (the driver), then it might affect the breakeven point at which rail
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by Kadin 10y ago
Install enough RAM to run every application on your system, simultaneously, without swapping...? I guess there's that. I am surprised Apple hasn't encouraged users to do that, come to think of it.
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by Kadin 10y ago
> "Building an extension for this should be very simple." Which is then followed, amusingly, by a developer who has tried to do it saying that in fact, it's not that simple (without ridiculous permissions). But now it seem
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by Kadin 10y ago
Lots of systems email users an initial password which must be changed at first login. It's not the world's most elegant solution, but it's also not terrible and basically does an implicit email verification. I'm not su
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by Kadin 10y ago
Striking a blow for mediocrity. Ugh. If there was really a problem with data loss, the better solution would seem to be warning the user before navigating away from the page. Removing a widely-used single-key behavior in order to protect
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by Kadin 10y ago
This is why I am very skeptical of (non-open-source) software made by startups. Often they are not in it to build a sustainable long-term business, but just for an exit, and that almost inevitably means the death of the software. It'
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by Kadin 10y ago
> I've never heard anyone complain about it being hard to get music published. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not, but if not... that is absolutely not what I have ever heard. The iTMS is brutal to independent
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by Kadin 10y ago
Nice work and I'm bookmarking that, although I sincerely hope not to use it.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I hadn't heard that either. Their reputation in the DC area is that the generally pay market rate, although I think part of their recruitment strategy is that they're less stodgy than the other big defense contractors. (I.e. &qu
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by Kadin 10y ago
MediaMonkey and Fidelia are the two products that seem to be tossed around most frequently as iTunes alternatives, and which seem to be reasonably close to feature-parity (at least, as music players; they obviously don't do all the gar
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by Kadin 10y ago
I can't comment on Win10 per se, because I haven't seen a compelling set of features that would cause me to upgrade my Win7 machine. Win7 is essentially what WinXP was a few years ago; it's not perfect, but it's familiar
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by Kadin 10y ago
On what devices is that really a good tradeoff? On mobile, sure (at least, on mobile devices like Apple's that don't have SD cards), but on a regular computer? I find it very hard to imagine that most people are more constrained
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by Kadin 10y ago
While I can appreciate the annoyance when people take a discussion off-topic, in a threaded forum like Reddit, you always have the option of just clicking the little 'close' button and collapsing a comment and all of its children.
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by Kadin 10y ago
I was a user of K5 and I don't think anyone there viewed it as "ephemeral communication". If they thought so, it seems as though the joke's sort of on them, given that the site stayed operational for almost 17 years. I
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by Kadin 11y ago
This is exactly what filters are for and why every decent MUA has them. You just filter each list to a folder, or all the lists into a folder, and read them there rather than in your inbox.
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by Kadin 11y ago
Well, any card with mic pres can do it, including a lot of older SoundBlaster type cards. I wouldn't recommend mucking around with doing things that way, but it could be done. Most people rip vinyl using a hardware phono stage (which
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by Kadin 11y ago
Taken individually, all the improvements might seem merely like changes in degree -- Amazon is an improved Sears, Roebuck; Wikipedia is an online version of Britannica, etc. -- but in the aggregate it creates a difference in kind. By makin
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by Kadin 11y ago
Wouldn't really even need to "service" the battery. It would be pretty easy to add a "master disconnect switch" or some other type of service switch, close to the battery, that cuts off power to the rest of the car
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by Kadin 11y ago
Love SDF. (Of course, I run bash and Emacs on it, which will probably earn me a slightly-warmer spot in Hell someday than if I used ksh and vi like God intended.)
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by Kadin 11y ago
I think the last generation of SPARC-based workstations in wide production were the Ultra 45s. They were made until 2008, according to Wikipedia [1]. They sell for surprisingly high prices [2], for an almost-decade-old computer, on eBay.
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by Kadin 11y ago
It's really a question of who you trust. There are lots of scenarios where you might trust the developer of a particular piece of software more than you trust the entire software stack running on your PC. This is especially true for
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by Kadin 11y ago
Many big players have vested interest in hardware platforms that are not tampered with out-of-the-box, or open to easy tampering, by their adversaries. The Chinese have an interest in having a hardware platform that doesn't have NSA co

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