MichaelSalib

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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
It is WELL within his ability to, say, directly order all prisoners released Released where? To Cuba? Into the sea? If you want to release people, you need to send them someplace. Congress has banned the government from sending them to th
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
that smacks of a lack of resolve This is what political scientists call "green lanternism". That's the phrase they use to make fun of people like you, i.e., people who insist that leaders can break institutional constraints
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Note that some clock reads that appear to go through a file system actually don't on some architectures. On x86-64, there's a special page that's mapped read only for all processes. This page includes time data that is update
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Neverd did any ASIC but I know they have about 10X the testing and simulation that FPGA have. My spouse designs CPUs for a major CPU manufacturer (you've used them). She is responsible for physical design for one tile (there are many
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
The OP's solution didn't deal with letter counts at all; my first expression was to show him a similar solution that was more succinct to illustrate the principle at work. My second solution deals with multiplicity properly.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
You might want to try something like 'return set(x)==set(y)'. Or, a better solution might be 'return set(collections.Counter(x).items())==set(collections.Counter(y).items())'. The point of the question isn't to see
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I'd also love to see this; or, if it would be easier for you, I'd love to see a longer comment where you explain it in more detail.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
That doesn't fly in an interview. Actually, it does. I've been interviewing a lot lately, and I'm totally fine with people trying something, changing their mind, fixing mistakes, etc. When they get stuck, I help them out. A
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I don't think this is really true. The biggest public policy advocated by people who care about climate change is a carbon tax. The effects of such a tax on the margins are more energy conservation (better weatherization, green roofs,
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Fukushima used a more than 50 year old reactor design, it has very little bearing on either the risk or feasability of building new nuclear plants. Was Fukushima considered a safe design or not? Did the regulatory authorities consider it
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
The primary public policy that people who care about climate change have advocated are carbon taxes. Nuclear power proponents insist that these carbon taxes would benefit them significantly. So what more do you want? In many countries, the
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
It is really strange how many allegedly technical people are so invested in believing that thermodynamics isn't real.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Your tack.io proposal looks great. Do you have any sense as to whether or when it will be adopted?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Can you name a language besides C++ and C in which comparing a signed integer to an unsigned integer will compile and run without warning while implicitly converting one to the other?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Formal verification allows you to prove that an implementation faithfully implements its specification. What does the formal specification for a web browser look like? I'm guessing that we're talking about thousands of pages of ex
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
My brother has DS. I don't think we should fetishize neurological disorders. It is a heartbreaking disease: watching him lose the ability to communicate effectively with the world and withdraw inward has been the hardest thing I'v
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
EDIFACT is a standard for tree-based message exchange used in the airline industry; think of it as a third-rate XML designed in the 80s. Airlines are very picky about using EDIFACT to specify the syntax of messages but usually don't bo
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Have I disputed this fact somewhere? Yes, when you were complaining that "These are the guys trying to cram Python into every possible goddamned use case". Proof that Python can't get the job done in that particular area.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Um, people have been doing high performance numeric and scientific computing in python for over 15 years now. The truth is, for a lot of numeric computing, you're better off using python, which calls fortran or c code to do the heavy l
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
My laptop once tested positive for TNT residue at ORD. They asked if I had any idea why it did, I said no, and they let me go after testing my shirt.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
But aren't patriarchy and misogyny fundamentally related? I mean, are there any societies with strong patriarchal norms but very little misogyny?
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
there have been plenty of sexist, patriarchal regimes in European history where behaviors such as the ones described would be considered gross affronts to basic morality by the Christian church Really? I'm skeptical. Can you point to
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
I read a source indicating that that's not quite true. Rather, if you don't answer questions at the time, the fact that you didn't can be introduced as evidence in trial later on. I.e., if the police pick you up and question
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Recent versions of SSH (6.1p1 on Ubuntu 13.04) support ECDSA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic_Curve_DSA Unfortunately, gnome-keyring-daemon can't deal with those keys...grrr.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Sorry, I don't offhand but you can probably find one by just searching for "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime" by Charles Tilly.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
Wow. Thank you for digging up that crap. I expected that a holocaust denier would be odious and vile, but I didn't think he'd actually write about Jews ethnically cleansing white people. That is...just wow.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
With respect, you might want to familiarize yourself with some significant papers from the political science literature, starting with http://static.ow.ly/docs/0%20Tilly%2085_5Xr.pdf‎
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
With respect, this is incorrect. You can have load-time execution without making parsing impossible. See Common Lisp for an example.
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
You really have no theories you want to share Ah, I see you're still struggling with the 'no personal attacks' suggestion. It is OK; I understand that this may be beyond your capabilities. With real inline lambdas and map,
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by MichaelSalib 13y ago
you have no clue about even the small built in library in Perl. I've written production perl code; no doubt with less skill than many posting here, but my comments are based on experience with the language. Moreover, I've avoide

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