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by _delirium 13y ago
In the early 'net there was an ethos that the domain names system was an identifier service, not property. A domain name was an identifier that could be requested as needed, and in return for payment of a nominal fee would be delegated
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by _delirium 13y ago
Yeah, the traditional distinction between professors and degree holders who aren't professors wasn't part of the guild-training system, but probably better maps onto an idea like patronage. Someone who completed the doctorate was
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by _delirium 13y ago
If you fancy farming, there's one dedicated to that as well: http://www.wwoof.net/
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by _delirium 13y ago
That's true in a general sense, but has technologically improved household soap in particular contributed measurably to the reduction in mortality rates? There are large contributions from antibiotics, vaccines, the general improveme
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by _delirium 13y ago
Another factor in Denmark is that Amazon's convenience and prices are not as good as in the US. There's no amazon.dk, so you have to order from .co.uk or .de, which makes the order take 3-4 days. And it costs ~$10 to ship one book
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by _delirium 13y ago
They tend to also be brittle optimizations if your code is not tied to a specific platform, since cache behavior on different architectures and even micro-architectures differs significantly.
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by _delirium 13y ago
Yeah, ARIN is $500/yr for ISPs using a /22 or smaller of IPv4 space (i.e. 1022 addresses), $1000 for up to a /20 (4094 addresses): https://www.arin.net/fees/fee_schedule.html RIPE is a lot pricier for sm
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by _delirium 13y ago
I wouldn't say having to confine your speech to private quarters where word can't get traced back to you is being able to "speak freely". If you can't write a newspaper letter to the editor, or post an update on Fac
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by _delirium 13y ago
Their main page (ffdn.org) has this description: Members of the FDN Federation are Non-Profit Internet Service Providers sharing common values: volunteer-based, solidarity-driven, democratic and non-profit working; defense and promotion of
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by _delirium 13y ago
A friend summed it up like this: Modern employment. Can't speak freely before you have a job (social media vetting), can't speak freely in your own time while you have a job (clauses in your contract), can't speak freely whe
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by _delirium 13y ago
That's indeed true in California, but "at will" employment doesn't strictly require that. At-will employment means either side can terminate the employment arrangement for any or no cause, as distinguished from jurisdict
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by _delirium 13y ago
Even in cases where there is some leverage (due to work being skilled/scarce), I'd often like someone to negotiate on my behalf collectively. I'm not an expert on employment law, on "gotchas" in employment contracts
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by _delirium 13y ago
I do! Though on Android. For things like IRC sessions I prefer to have them running in a screen session remotely and just ssh in. Well, mosh rather than ssh, because it has better support for intermittent connectivity: http://mos
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by _delirium 13y ago
I like to treat Dilbert and Office Space as slightly-fictionalized-for-the-sake-of-humor documentaries.
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by _delirium 13y ago
The gap is even bigger if you consider that most EU countries also have ~2 weeks of fixed statutory holidays that aren't included in the 20 days, while most U.S. companies give only between 0 and 3 "free" fixed holidays (Than
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by _delirium 13y ago
Fwiw, -fipa-struct-reorg was removed in GCC 4.8.x. From the release notes: The struct reorg and matrix reorg optimizations (command-line options -fipa-struct-reorg and -fipa-matrix-reorg) have been removed. They did not always work correct
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by _delirium 13y ago
I kind of wish the startup community looked like the picture painted in this post. :) More audacity and innovation, less audacity-lacking "innovation" of the form, how to get users to click ads more often and exit this company fo
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by _delirium 13y ago
Here's an article from 2004 on that; would be interested in any updates: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/ARCHIVE/2004/JULY/Pag...
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by _delirium 13y ago
It's interesting this is making a revival in C for efficiency. When I was first learning to code ('90s), this style of "parallel arrays" was seen as a scripting-language wart. When you semantically want an array-of-struc
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by _delirium 13y ago
That's not one of the 18 countries in the Eurozone, though. The Eurozone consists of: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia,
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by _delirium 13y ago
Good point, that's definitely another ability a country in ERM retains (though if done unilaterally it would still constitute pulling out of ERM as a treaty). That's what China does with their unilateral and occasionally revised p
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by _delirium 13y ago
They've also had their currency pegged to the Euro since 2005 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Exchange_Rate_Mechani... ), so in a sense their currency has already for years been treated commercially as mere
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by _delirium 13y ago
This is about the font size I read most stuff on the web at, so I guess I agree. The font on most sites is too small for me, so I browser-zoom them in 1-3 stops. As long as browser zoom works, though, I don't think it's a huge dea
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by _delirium 13y ago
Are you excluding Germany, on the basis that they're de-facto still in control of their local currency's monetary policy? :P
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by _delirium 13y ago
If you're running on one microarchitecture, I agree. But if you're running on more than one, manual structure packing may actually give more unpredictable performance than letting GCC handle it. At least GCC will make an effort to
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by _delirium 13y ago
I have a weird issue where, after upgrading, opening the Activity Monitor causes a process called 'systemstats' to balloon to >1.5GB memory and peg the CPU. Doesn't seem to be just a startup thing, because it does it indef
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by _delirium 13y ago
It was definitely a somewhat weird experience the first time I talked to someone who was wearing something vaguely like this. I had a grad-school interview with Thad Starner ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thad_Starner )
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by _delirium 13y ago
> That would help, but I am not confident that it could be made as socially acceptable as for example smartphones. I wonder if a classic-style cameraless HUD could alleviate some of the social issues while still retaining enough of the
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by _delirium 13y ago
In AI, related work is usually at the beginning, but sometimes at the end. A common form is to set up the problem in the intro (section 1), then use the related-work section (section 2) to survey existing solutions to the problem and explai
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by _delirium 13y ago
That's definitely one important aspect. And even stuff not formally fossilized often becomes de-facto fossilized due to the way funding for development works. Things are often very bursty: a large library or piece of software may be wr

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