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by adekok 10y ago
Or just plain theft. She is on video taking a computer which isn't hers. That should be prima facia evidence for filing a police report stating "theft". The question of motive is one for the courts. If they find her, and
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by adekok 10y ago
If they happen to be flying somewhere, and there's a laptop free for the taking, why not?
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by adekok 10y ago
The attitude of "license all the things" comes from two places. Existing groups use licensing to shut out newcomers. They are largely anti-competitive, and anti-capitalistic. The other is where unlicensed activities results in pe
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by adekok 10y ago
> The only mystery to me was why Intel never just sucked it up and made a low-margin x86 chip to compete directly with ARM. Culture. Some companies are willing to sacrifice today's revenue for tomorrow's growth. Intel isn&#x2
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by adekok 10y ago
Intel also bet big on Wimax. Which (mostly) ended up going nowhere. That was another multi-billion dollar mistake. And one which cost thousands of jobs at Intel.
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by adekok 10y ago
> Laziness. It's usually faster to ask someone a question than to look up the answer. :( My common answer is "If you're too lazy to read the documentation, I'm too lazy to cut & paste it into the email". Foll
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by adekok 10y ago
And where would you get said horse? Where would you keep it? What would you feed it? Who would take care of it? Students should be capable of reading text . If they can't, they belong in kindergarten, not university.
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by adekok 10y ago
Having written documentation for end users, that will work for only a portion of them. Probably most, which is good. But there are a significant percentage of users who can't (or won't) read documentation. Even they do manage to
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by adekok 10y ago
Let's back up. You're using colloquial English to reason about physics. This is wrong. Physicists have very specific definitions of the terms they use. Which are sort of similar to the common ones, but differ in key points.
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by adekok 10y ago
> But what about the wave function? Looking at the wave function changes nothing. It's all the same physics, and all the same concepts. You can't get different behavior from the physical system by "looking at the wave fu
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by adekok 10y ago
> But even disregarding this, there seems to be a need to propagate something through space. That's the problem with QM. So far as we can tell, nothing propagates through space. Even if something did propagate through space, i
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by adekok 10y ago
Physicists have thought through that, too. You can create a theoretical model, and then do experiments to see if the model is right. It isn't. All known underlying models of QM are either wrong, or (as yet) untested.
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by adekok 10y ago
> I am not sure that this is correct. <sigh> So you're smarter than every physicist alive. Well... no. > One can now argue whether that change should be called information ... No, you can't. You're using colloqu
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by adekok 10y ago
That explanation requires a deeper understanding of QM which is difficult to explain via analogy.
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by adekok 10y ago
> I am not sure that this is the correct or best way to describe it. That's how physicists describe it. So it is the best way. The thing to remember is that information (in physics) means "particles". The screen gives yo
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by adekok 10y ago
Like: #italiano #kansas #kickoff Which presumably show racism towards Italians, a hatred of the midwest, and a dislike of football? Or maybe Instagram has an automated system which correlated hashtags with reported porn. Tags with greater
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by adekok 10y ago
It's an analogy. The weirdness of QM comes from the following, slightly more complicated, situation. You have two cards, a red one and a blue one. You also have two envelopes. Without looking at anything, you put one card in each env
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by adekok 11y ago
One of the Interix guys gave a talk at my local Unix group in 1997 or so. He said they had a support contract with Microsoft. Once Windows NT came out, Microsoft stopped answering calls for about 6 months. Because NT was going to win, rig
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by adekok 11y ago
> It seems odd to me that "Bob" hasn't been outed. Since Bob hasn't been criminally charged with anything, "outing" him is legally "libel". He could sue, and win.
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by adekok 11y ago
Maybe. The larger question was why did Bob have root access to people's individual laptops? He could have done a "snowden", grabbed their SSH keys including passphrases. That would have been much harder to detect.
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by adekok 11y ago
The hard part for physicists to accept is that the theory requires the speed of light to change. It would be interesting to see how the theory behind the Unruh radiation works with "The quantum vacuum as the origin of the speed of ligh
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by adekok 11y ago
> software bloat almost always comes from smart, often the smartest, devs who are technically the most competent. That's not my experience. My experience is that software bloat comes from people who think they know what they'
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by adekok 11y ago
> The probabilities change, even when a door you didn't pick [and doesn't hold the prize] is opened. That's the common misunderstanding of the problem. Most people think that the probabilities go fro 1/3, 1/3, 1
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by adekok 11y ago
> I would like to see someone who is expert in this area weigh in on why these services come up with these terms Obligatory IANAL. But I don't need to be. IFTTT came up with these terms because they believe the terms to be benefici
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by adekok 11y ago
> On the other side of the spectrum, do you expect Slack to maintain the Slack integration you write for your webapp? Do you expect Microsoft to maintain Excel plugins? No. Because the situations are different. Here, Pinboard did essent
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by adekok 11y ago
Free speech includes “All these guys did is simply push a sequence of buttons that they were legally entitled to push.” http://www.wired.com/2013/05/game-king/ The prosecutors argued that they were "hack
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by adekok 11y ago
> A wrongful arrest is more like an arrest with no warrant and no evidence Like arresting someone when they have evidence the person they're arresting didn't do the crime?
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by adekok 11y ago
Normal desktop failure modes don't work well here. "Hi, this is your car. I've discovered that the road is icy, and am currently in the middle of a 360. Would you like to (a) take over, (b) call an ambulance, or (c) retry?&
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by adekok 11y ago
One minor nit about the projects use of autoconf / automake. Projects should please check the generated files into git. Sure, they're auto-generated. But 90% of the time when they're not in git, I discover that I have a
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by adekok 11y ago
> Not sure why I'm getting more than one downvote here. Not from me, but I might explain. > I'm not sure why you think your experience disproves the experiences of thousands and thousands of other people, though. [ citation

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