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by aswanson 10y ago
Suppose a "reality" where every observation of "addition" yielded unpredictable results. Would your confidence still be warranted?
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by aswanson 10y ago
The point I was trying to raise, though, is what if the concept of "adding two things" has no basis in the "real reality". I know its hard to grasp...but imagine a reality where there is no "+" or "-&quot
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by aswanson 10y ago
Sure he can. He can overload the "=" or "+" operator and make them do whatever he wants in that domain. Taking it further, what if rules and logic, and by extension, math as we know it, is just a construct that is not a
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by aswanson 10y ago
Who's to say "real" computing, or "reality" at all, has to adhere to the laws we observe within the simulation? That's like Luigi in Super Mario Brothers saying you can't kick a turtle into a brick in th
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by aswanson 10y ago
Google is basically omniscient on a user-profile basis with years of search, gmail, and youtube data on users. They should just write and algorithm and let it send out job offers with no human intervention, just like search.
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by aswanson 10y ago
The most hilarious example of this I've seen is a forbes article where they managed to dig up a picture of Warren Buffet with a psychopath-like expression on his face for some type of investigation a subsidiary company he invested in w
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by aswanson 10y ago
Your metabolic rates at birth, adolescence, or your teen years are probably drastically different than your rate now if you're past 30. Is your average body temperature way less than 98.7 now?
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by aswanson 10y ago
The cost of starting a transistor startup in the 1950s was too high so the traitorous 8 started Fairchild. The cost of starting a SSI company was too high in 1968 so 3 dudes started intel. The cost of starting a new mainframe company in 197
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by aswanson 10y ago
Competition is for losers. 10 years ago the battle was microsoft vs yahoo and whoever...and it turned out the ones to pay attention to were fb and twtr...etc. The big innovation, the one to dominate headlines in 10 years, is likely unknown
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah. Having the big "T" on the resume might be one of the few red flags signalling fraud and corruption worse than a few years at SAC capital after a internship at Enron and Lehman Bros. Maybe the employees themselves will sue th
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by aswanson 10y ago
I used to work for a govt contractor. The only chance freedom has is for people to say shit like this to signal some of the bs I witnessed under those circumstances. Nuff said.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Does Twitter seem to take security seriously?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Glasshole. That's like...the best derogatory slur in history. Captures so much in one word.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Hilarious. We've reached a place where a doctorate in CS is an insufficient qualification to delete a fucking file.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Liberal propaganda. We still have snowballs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3koOUFp4crU
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by aswanson 10y ago
Why shouldn't the audio quality factor in? Isn't it easier to understand 44.1 Khz 16 bit CD quality audio than 8khz 8 bit pcm (phone data).
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah Woz was a beast like that, but I wonder how effective he would have been working with more people. Would he have been seen as a great engineer or just an early version of someone who wrote spaghetti code in hardware?
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by aswanson 10y ago
Done, thanks.
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by aswanson 10y ago
The documents show that a trade group called the Sugar Research Foundation, known today as the Sugar Association, paid three Harvard scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 in today’s dollars to publish a 1967 review of sugar, fat and h
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by aswanson 10y ago
Nah, take a look at the general listings for anything from embedded to .NET to the javascript library de jour. You'll see the magical 5 year number pop up across the board for a reason. I've never worked in the SFO/brospace.
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by aswanson 10y ago
I work in embedded. Unless it's for some god-awful DOD job, they don't put a premium on experience beyond five years. Even then, they don't put that much of a value on anyone in the non-managerial ranks experience beyond 10
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by aswanson 10y ago
And most employers don't care about those stated value adds. It is what it is.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Tech fields have an inherent disuse for seniority. Beyond five years, no one gives an f how long you have worked with a given toolchain/language. It's the hunger games. Medicine, finance, law, accounting...rightly or wrongly respe
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by aswanson 10y ago
This is dope. Thanks.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Just had my phone stolen. Good idea.
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by aswanson 10y ago
But what if they paid their "student activity/ and computer fee"?
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by aswanson 10y ago
The most popular protocol, or method of retrieving information from another computer, was FTP (file transfer protocol), the primitive, labor-intensive equivalent of knocking on someone’s door and asking if you could carry away his piano.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Yeah, them or Fox News.
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by aswanson 10y ago
Been through similiar experiences, with same outcome. You just learn not to give a fuck about bullshit. You don't have enough energy for it.
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by aswanson 10y ago
I just want a single download freebsd distro for the desktop to play around with. Doesn't seem to exist.

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