Nelson69

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by Nelson69 11y ago
My wife has those same pangs of concern from time to time. That balance of the logic vs those pangs of concern is interesting. I think it can be easy to let the concern outweigh the logic.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Is your spouse cool with that line of thinking? It's legit, odds are nothing bad will happen but we live in a fear based society anymore... I live in a fairly well-to-do bedroom community, it's a rural area a short drive from som
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by Nelson69 11y ago
The utilities here charge me a connection fee, regardless of my meter. I get all of my energy from a roof top solar system but to stay on the grid I have to pay a connection fee which in my mind covers transmission costs and infrastructure.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
It is possible, or even likely, that a repository switch could lose that history on a project like emacs. Guile now has an elisp interpreter and guile itself has JIT capabilities as well as a number of other features elisp hackers have grum
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by Nelson69 11y ago
This is what forks are for, isn't it? If it's that simple, I'd think a fork could pretty easily start to solve some of GTK+'s issues. From my perspective, GTK has been mired for a very very long time. Essentially fro
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by Nelson69 11y ago
It depends on the federal prosecutor, convicting high profile criminals is one of the ways they parlay that in to politics. It's largely a matter of whether the case is winnable. Then if he acts anything like his public persona sugge
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What are some of the other doomed cities you're talking about? And with what metrics? I don't disagree with you that there are troubled towns and cities but it seems really difficult to decide when it's beyond salvage or ev
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by Nelson69 11y ago
They have very sophisticated IT and logistics software, it's one of the ways they beat everyone else on price.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
There is more synergy there though. RSNs show more games with the team you like. It only makes sense to charge more and the fans are more than willing to typically pay it.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
I've been trying to figure that out too. Part of it is certainly some kind of bug hunter fame that is being played for. That just seems like bad architecture, period. Now if this can be exploited with RMI or something, I wouldn&#x2
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by Nelson69 11y ago
It is generally moot, I've just not heard POWER referred to as non-RISC before.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What's non-RISC about POWER? IBM's power consumption is probably mostly because they've never put the processors into energy sensitive applications. More importantly, they are sold because of some benchmarks and extreme reli
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by Nelson69 11y ago
The vehicles have to independently pass the emissions tests. Even if they have a a crate engine from some other supplier. All of the compliance engineers throughout all of VAG only test emissions to the EPA test rig? Even the ones at
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Surly Porsche has their own quality assurance and compliance engineers though? And they're proper Teutonic Engineers, right? I mean, they're Porsche engineers... They'd just take an engine from their parent company and not
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by Nelson69 11y ago
You gotta love the eagerness the HN world has to label these old companies as idiots.. Never mind that 'kanban' came from the auto-industry. I say that tongue in cheek, there probably are some changes that could make the industr
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Yeah, I was going to say, I've seen hardware were advertised features were implemented with SMM. You could possibly take it away but it sure does enable a lot of nice hardware fixes without re-spinning silicon. Some implementations it
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Nit, but many also do the job because it typically has relatively flexible hours and it allows them to manage their families as well as make some money. Or at least that's been my experience with our best housekeepers. Not just wer
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Are we confusing age and culture with stupidity? A stupid person wouldn't be able to adapt, or might have trouble adapting from one tool to another. That's a stupid person. Likewise a stupid person might think that an organizati
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by Nelson69 11y ago
It's not a simple trade off. That's the problem, it's multi-dimensional. Diesel tends to be better at providing a satisfying driving experience with really high mileage. Better mileage means less CO2. Diesel also tends to
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by Nelson69 11y ago
I don't know, perhaps ones wife has some boudoir photos taken. Just that they exist would entitle anyone to the right to view them, if they could get them? Moreover, say her husband does things to restrict said access, would people
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by Nelson69 11y ago
Are there any concrete examples of the homophobia and sexism that could be pointed out? I've taken part on LKML and I've been dressed down on it and even privately a couple times and part of me wanted to crawl into a cave and disa
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by Nelson69 11y ago
The auto industry is so incestuous as it is. If patents came to play at all, which they didn't, then the big money play would be for GM, Ford, etc.. to buy VW motors and or license the technology. Either build as good a diesel or i
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by Nelson69 11y ago
VW has also built a huge reputation on diesel. They go and win Le Mans with diesels. They have a giant budget and research ability. They've pushed diesel forward in a lot of ways. Maybe the others knew they were cheating, I can&#x
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by Nelson69 11y ago
You just need to carry it, keep it in the nap sack or brief case or whatever, make a point of getting it out. Practice with it... You sort of want a mid-range beater at first, you don't want your dream camera, you want one that you
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What about ia32e x86? Other than booting it, and EFI is addressing that, it's a fairly clean and nice architecture. Some of the registers have legacy names. Are there any really odd legacy behaviors?
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by Nelson69 11y ago
There aren't any, the DRM is tied to the 'container' and that's part of the standardization process here. Everybody 'hates' DRM, it seems but I don't think it's going anywhere and I don't think y
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by Nelson69 11y ago
How about Alice? http://www.alice.org Similar idea and tool-set but it's 3 dimensional scenes and worlds.
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by Nelson69 11y ago
What ammo? Some people of questionable ethic and questionable intelligence gave a third party incriminating information about themselves and also gave them money all while hoping for discretion. (I say questionable intelligence because
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by Nelson69 11y ago
You cannot write safe code in any Turing complete language? That's a bold assertion that I don't believe is true. Surely you can use formal methods to develop software and maybe even prove it's correctness and security, it&
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by Nelson69 11y ago
> Yes, some companies use BSD/MIT software and lock it up, never to send improvements back upstream. But they ultimately are harming themselves, as they can't trivially update to new versions of the the software, because they&#

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