WallWextra

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by WallWextra 8y ago
People's politics are mostly determined by where they live, and maybe their age. If you insist on fighting over politics, you should at least recognize that's what you're fighting over. It's not about life and death or o
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by WallWextra 8y ago
I hope he tries, because all the facile anti-tech rhetoric on the left will probably go away if he does.
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by WallWextra 8y ago
It's a shame that btrfs seems to be dead in the water. I guess nobody with the resources to build such a filesystem actually needs its snapshotting and integrity features at the filesystem level?
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by WallWextra 8y ago
The bit about local restaurants losing business seems like a pretty thin fig leaf over a law that's really about taking tech employees down a peg. I don't live in the bay area, so maybe someone can fill me in. How is it supposedly
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by WallWextra 8y ago
As the blog post says: "Error: Syntax Error". Helpful error messages have not been my experience.
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by WallWextra 8y ago
This is a nice counterexample to the wisdom that production compilers all use hand-written parsers. Of course, the current parser does suck, but...
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by WallWextra 8y ago
What are the free speech laws that prevent ISPs from blocking controversial content?
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by WallWextra 8y ago
I think what we'll really see in practice is this being used for political purposes, with pressure groups getting ISPs to block so-called "hate" or "extremist" sites. The stuff about service tiers seems less likely
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by WallWextra 8y ago
I recently was looking at the original LR paper by Knuth, and for the first time noticed that it said "Case Institute of Technology" at the top. i.e. he discovered it as an undergrad.
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by WallWextra 8y ago
The math majors in my upper-level math classes had significantly better social skills than the people in the CS classes I took. This is only an anecdote, but it's not obvious to me that mathematics isn't more social than CS.
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by WallWextra 9y ago
Nobody will talk about "common sense media control" for some reason. It's common sense!
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by WallWextra 9y ago
It's like how the 2008 election didn't count, because Obama is actually a Kenyan. People can't just lose an election anymore.
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by WallWextra 9y ago
Here is, roughly, the media's playbook: 1. Never stop talking about Trump. Mention his name 300 times an hour on CNN. He's not a serious candidate, but he is entertaining so they give him free publicity until he is a serious can
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by WallWextra 9y ago
Can we trust the New York Times to regulate itself either?
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by WallWextra 9y ago
What makes this guy think it's acceptable to talk to people like this?
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by WallWextra 9y ago
Analysis in general is notorious for these kinds of things. There's a neat little Dover book called Counterexamples in Analysis full of them.
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by WallWextra 9y ago
When you live in a coop, you usually pay rent.
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by WallWextra 9y ago
It is not many. Definitely not "so many."
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by WallWextra 10y ago
My father recently passed, and a month or so afterwards we got a bill from the nursing home pharmacy who, apparently, couldn't figure out how to bill his insurance. The price for 30 atorvastatin, whose out-of-pocket cost is about $20,
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by WallWextra 10y ago
They don't have to be right, they just have to exist in sufficient numbers.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
How long can this stuff last on your roof? Will it shed glass microbeads everywhere when the UV degrades it?
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by WallWextra 10y ago
I remember reading somewhere that the modularity requirement was basically written to make sure the P320 won. No, I can't recall where or cite.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
Same with save page, etc.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
1. I don't know what education degrees look like in other countries, but I highly doubt more education majors in the US would solve anything without first overhauling that curriculum and making it more demanding. 2. Is there any factua
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by WallWextra 10y ago
I do believe that MACRO in the slides refers to MACRO-11, a PDP assembler. Or maybe MACRO-32, for VAX. In either case, they have been compiling this "assembly" language for Alpha (and now I guess Itanium) since VMS has run on that
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by WallWextra 10y ago
I bet PIMCO is really happy they kicked him out, now that he's promoting Bitcoin.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
I guess Apple could 'survive' releasing a new generation of laptops which run slower than the previous ones to facilitate a user-invisible component sourcing decision, but it seems like a bad move.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
You need a faster processor to hide the emulation overhead. Good luck beating Intel by a big enough margin.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
I'd expect trap to be popular on any site full of young people.
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by WallWextra 10y ago
The article mentions Honda's efforts to track down owners of cars with defective airbags. Why can't state motor vehicle registries cooperate in recalls like this?

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