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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Could not have said it better myself! Thank you, AgileBits - much appreciated!
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
> But then we eventually find that we needed more features after all, so we gradually re-implement them again until the cycle repeats. If the protocols and standards were designed lock-step with concrete implementation, I'd agree wi
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Regarding the need to compare “apples to apples”: (Manager, rummaging through an apple barrel) “... apple ...” (toss) “... apple ...” (toss) “... apple ...” (toss) “... fist-sized lump of uncut diamond ...” (pause... toss) “... apple ...” (
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Hey, Lynne - I finally had a few minutes to check out your site and I really really like it… Thank you for putting it together! Very, very useful! :-)
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Oops - my bad - forgot about "comment reodering"... My "Well said!" comment was in reply and approving of the following observation by 'ajurna': > Nothing wrong with being strong, successful and dominant, ri
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Well said!
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
I could not disagree more. Consider the following progression: I have kids, you don't. I "should" make more. I am trying to have kids, you already have them. My IVF treatments are expensive and mess up my partner to the point
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
... which happens to be the exact opposite of what you want if you’re into deep learning. Sigh.
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Agree totally. In an idealized "intellectual-only" world, humans would be Spock-like and be pure rational actors. But we aren't, not even close. (And I would argue that that's a good thing, but that discussion is waaaaay
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
(First of all, satellite in no-way can compete with copper. That's lunacy, and not even remotely comparable.) But to answer your question, the regulatory environment helps ensure the desired outcome. I mean, why have building codes? If
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Thanks muchly, Paul - very appreciated!
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
And why not? There is a certain element of... shenaniganery going on here, perhaps. Giving away "money"? Users claiming "good and charitable works"? Neither side with real "evidence" or "proof"... So
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
Oh my. What a fun read. Sort of like reading about a horrific car accident. You read it and you think "Oh thank God… That can't possibly be real…" And then you realize that it is.
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by an_d_rew 9y ago
There is nobody that I hate enough to ever recommend that they subject themselves to the Hell that is ASN.1!
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. I've been part of many projects that couldn't scale because lack of forethought meant there was a nasty implicit O(n^2) thing going on when it could have easily been designed to be O
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
The newest SHA members are based on sponge functions. http://keccak.noekeon.org/ gives a good overview.
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Nailed it.
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Seconded! Being "healthy" is the realization of two interacting random processes: things that are in your control and things that are not. The tricky part is that the division between these categories is really fuzzy and markedly
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
In theory I totally agree with the concept of using secure defaults. In practice, however, I have seen far too many developers spend hour after hour trying to unwind a byzantine labyrinth of iptables and strange network configurations, weir
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
That was a carefully worded and thoughtful reply... thank you!
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Fortran 2000 and beyond IS a very modern language.
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Not Quebecois-French, though, LOL...
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Our Dell laptops at work all have touch screens. Running Windows 7. ( twitch )
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Huh. Might have been better to pick "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer". That way you'd know what to do when you figured it out...
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
Nicely told feel-good story!
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by an_d_rew 10y ago
My God, thank you for posting this comment! When I was getting started in simple PCB design and layout, these were the exact issues I found, and I thought I was just horribly unskilled and losing my mind! Well the former is true, but after
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by an_d_rew 11y ago
That certainly one way of looking at it. The other is that Patrick has the courage to be honest with the whole thing even though I'm quite sure he's aware that that blog post is almost kind of painfully honest.
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by an_d_rew 11y ago
You DO have the right to repair your iPhone; it just has to be done by an official Apple repair centre. I completely understand the downsides of Apple's particular approach here, and totally get why people want the right to use 3rd par
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by an_d_rew 11y ago
Just for the hardware-minded: dereferencing null is perfectly fine on Cortex-M processors and is well-defined. Yes, that's hardware, but a nice place where hardware ain't C. I'm just sayin'...
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by an_d_rew 11y ago
I also have a Waterloo Co-Op degree (biochemistry & math), and can say without a doubt that doing co-op was one of the best decisions of my early professional life. Many, many years later... through academia and industry jobs, and as so

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