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by bcoates 12y ago
When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. I think the Elf on the Shelf gives exactly the right message about the place of surveillance in ou
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by bcoates 12y ago
You might be looking for this: https://wiki.freenetproject.org/Updateable_Subspace_Key
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by bcoates 12y ago
Productivity an objective fact about the world, not something where people can agree to disagree about their equally valid outlooks.
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by bcoates 12y ago
Location: Santa Monica, CA Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Contract or remote/local part-time OK. Technologies: Nodejs, C++, AWS, C, Python, C#, PHP, low level networking (particularly wireless), systems programming (mostly Linux
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by bcoates 12y ago
What's not-ok about linking a do-everything platform library?
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by bcoates 12y ago
works for me, surge notifications and all
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by bcoates 12y ago
zSeries have transactional memory -- it'd be interesting to see that used for opportunistic multithreading in node.js.
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by bcoates 12y ago
No grand conspiracy is needed. The purpose of the government is to be a place you can go, when you need to obtain someone else's money to spend on someone other than yourself (and if you're doing it right, keep a bit for yourself)
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by bcoates 12y ago
If he's talking about games and therefore mass market Intel micros, he's roughly right. 1990ish just-plain-VGA gives you 640x480x4bit or 320x200x8bit. You'd generally use the latter for games.
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by bcoates 12y ago
I have no idea how popular the translated versions are, but the English-language bookstore I visited on a tourist street in Beijing had a decent selection of Orwell but no 1984 or Animal Farm (you'd probably have the opposite problem i
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by bcoates 12y ago
An example of basic concurrency I have great difficulty doing correctly in Java: n = 0; avg = 0; function twothings() { thing1(function(ret) { ++n; avg += (ret - avg)/n; }); thing2(function(ret) { ++n; avg += (ret - av
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by bcoates 12y ago
It's not just the extra lookups -- static in express is deceptively dog-slow. For every request it processes, it stats every filename that might satisfy the URL. This results in an enormous amount of useless syscall/IO overhead. T
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by bcoates 12y ago
I'm a non-frontend dev who uses node.js for server/systems/embedded work. My preference for node is based primarily on its sane concurrency model. I basically use it as a handy scripting language for doing rapid prototyping o
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by bcoates 12y ago
In a camera, light bounces from a light source, off an object, into receptor, with at least one aperture in the path to ensure that light arriving from different directions reaches different sensors. These sensors collect light from some ar
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by bcoates 12y ago
No, that's awful. Right now "worthless unwanted crap" cleanly self-identifies itself by hostname, so I can opt-out trivially with a browser extension. Hosting it alongside the content makes that much harder.
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by bcoates 12y ago
I'm guessing the developer tasked with implementing this didn't have access to any other device-unique state, and getting the hardware team to have a new unpredictable value flashed onto each device was impractical.
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by bcoates 12y ago
The big advantage would be that we're not limited to the exhaust velocity of combustion (which is inherent to using your reaction mass as fuel). If we can lase it hot enough to double the exhaust velocity, the rocket equation says we o
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by bcoates 12y ago
Whatever happened to transmitted power designs, like using a ground-based laser to lift a payload? If you can leave the powerplant on the ground and only send the power, you no longer have to lift the fuel, just reaction mass.
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by bcoates 12y ago
In early-bound, single-dynamic-dispatch languages it makes a small amount of sense, as x.fn() is the only syntax for a dynamic dispatch against object x and fn(x) uses at most compile-time information to determine what fn gets called.
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by bcoates 12y ago
It checks out, I put in TempleOS and got out Genesis: "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it."
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In Soviet Union, Optimization Problem Solves You (2012)(crookedtimber.org)
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by bcoates 12y ago
If this interests you, you might like the book "Red Plenty". It alternates between novel and essay about Khrushchev-era USSR, when people on both sides of the curtain thought there was a pretty good chance that the Soviets would s
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by bcoates 12y ago
I don't mind the binary protocol that much, but the apparent assumption that every endpoint is a fat stateful cache (push, multiplexing) is madness. Have they actually worked out how to implement a HTTP/2 front end cache in the fa
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by bcoates 12y ago
How would that work? You could sign that you trust your next-to-last hops to deliver traffic to you but transitive delivery isn't guaranteed and not every chain of valid hops is actually workable as a route capacity-wise. A completely
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by bcoates 12y ago
Terrestrial fixed wireless is commonplace in the US. Prices generally start at a few hundred dollars a month, speeds from ones to hundreds of Mbps. There is competition to Cable and DSL for Internet access, but most operators avoid the low-
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by bcoates 12y ago
A good place to start is to refuse to cooperate with evil. The justice system depends on the active and passive cooperation of the general public. Do not call the police. If the police wish to speak with you, on any matter, politely decline
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by bcoates 12y ago
The various normal forms are named for the kinds of invalid data they reject, so they can be used as a design process to ensure the higher level goal (that "a database schema should be able to represent only valid data")
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by bcoates 12y ago
What benefit do banks get for being multi-nationals exposed to every country's laws instead of just doing one bank per country? I thought that this was the norm for regular businesses.
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by bcoates 12y ago
It looks from the article that this results in bounded-time concurrent reads and writes, even in the worst case, as long as resizes can complete often enough to not be overwhelmed by the writers, is that correct? This looks huge for smoothi
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by bcoates 12y ago
/bin/sh is the shell called by system(3) and used by portable scripts bundled with packages. Those things can't use anything but standard sh anyway, so having them run bash is overkill. "Don't use bash as your &#x2F

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