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by bantunes 11y ago
Could someone explain to me why they attempt this? Wouldn't inflating a set of floating devices when it goes down the ocean an easier way of retrieving it? Or something other than this REALLY HARD TO PULL OFF maneuver? Genuinely intere
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by bantunes 11y ago
If the War On Drugs is any indication, the Western world will never stop doing the wrong thing - even with evidence that it's not working.
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by bantunes 11y ago
Do you know what equipment was on the plane? Police are already starting to use X-ray scanners without warrants...
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by bantunes 11y ago
Isn't not knowing who has oversight for this kind of thing creepy?
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by bantunes 11y ago
The Web and HTTP were designed as support systems for a set of hyper-linked documents. Javascript came much later, and it's of little surprise to me that devs are having a hard time figuring out how to make them work together. The arti
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by bantunes 11y ago
A more in-depth look at BerkeleyDB is available at AOSA ( http://www.aosabook.org/en/bdb.html )
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by bantunes 11y ago
You should try to be open to it, OP tries to make a point and not just rant. Typical OO structures don't fit the way some (small majority?) of programmers think. Is becoming proficient at OOP an exercise in brain rewiring? Or should we
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by bantunes 11y ago
Git is no good for binaries. And SparkleShare is dead. The proper alternative is SyncThing https://syncthing.net/ I have it on my home and work laptops, a NAS and a VPS and it just works brilliantly.
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by bantunes 11y ago
"There is a lesson here for ambitious system architects: the most dangerous enemy of a better solution is an existing codebase that is just good enough." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
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by bantunes 12y ago
I wonder which industrial lobby has this guy on its payroll.
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by bantunes 12y ago
I don't get it - why do people still listen to him (honest question)? Is it the money? Didn't he just luck out with Paypal? He clearly is all about the $$$, even advocates that you should actively pursue building a monopoly, since
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by bantunes 12y ago
It's scary how bad algorithms are at accurately portraying the diversity of human behavior, but social pressures are weeding out those that don't fit in computer models. The future holds a bunch of people happy to be labeled, and
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by bantunes 12y ago
how are those not characters? :D
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by bantunes 12y ago
It doesn't use ncurses, actually - it just prints characters out to STDOUT.