MikeBVaughn

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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
Woah, that's wild. Is a screw-up that universally catastrophic across engines? My very, very naive understanding of cars is pushing me towards thinking that a homologation version of a GT3 car is sort of an extreme outlier, but I know
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
What is the warranty experience like on earlier Pixels? I've heard some bad things about Google's consumer-electronics-side customer service, but I don't know how representative those stories are. I dislike iOS, but AppleCare
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by MikeBVaughn 5y ago
This specific part of the article falls flat for me, and I think its presence makes the article worse: "It doesn’t take much time on a search engine to find examples of Popperianism wielded by deniers." If you accept the author&#x
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by MikeBVaughn 6y ago
Thirty lives worth of years?
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by MikeBVaughn 6y ago
We used the book in my undergrad networking course, and I liked it quite a bit. It's "systems" in the catchall "lower-ish-level computing" sense of "systems-level programming," rather than the "system
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by MikeBVaughn 6y ago
I really like the idea of following specific subsystems of the Linux kernel forward from 1.0! That's a cool "basics-up" approach.
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by MikeBVaughn 6y ago
I've always been interested by the Platonist-vs-anti-Platonist debate. I generally disagree with finitist mathematicians, but I really do find their position interesting, and as a computer scientist I'm not unsympathetic to their
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by MikeBVaughn 6y ago
I don't have a question, but those books made a big impression on me. I have the three juggling balls from the book at my desk. They're wonderful whenever I need a quick break.
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by MikeBVaughn 7y ago
My undergrad calculus professor went to high school there right around this time. He's a (retired) group theorist, and a very, very cool guy - extremely passionate about mathematics. I can't even imagine how cool it would have bee
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by MikeBVaughn 8y ago
"Yet the world is doing remarkably well overall, and has not suffered any of the oft-threatened giant digital catastrophes." Equifax?
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by MikeBVaughn 8y ago
I mean, I just hit the 20% button and go on with my day. I'm already buying drinks at an expensive coffee shop; I'm not going to get hung up on sixty cents on a purchase that's (comparatively speaking) stupidly extravagant. I
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by MikeBVaughn 9y ago
OTOH, I'm perfectly okay paying REI $40 once every few years to not verify this.
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by MikeBVaughn 9y ago
It really depends on where you perform the piece.
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by MikeBVaughn 9y ago
I always find security measures on old-school systems interesting. They always seem more geared towards keeping semi-honest mischief makers out than serious security. Which makes sense, based on the context of the time I guess. IIRC, the Xe
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by MikeBVaughn 9y ago
I'm surprised there isn't a claim from John Cage's estate.