bigjimslade

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by bigjimslade 5y ago
Twitch's blog directly denies presently the theft of what they term "login credentials" which seems we can reasonably presume includes passwords. Ref https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/10/06/up
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by bigjimslade 5y ago
I really wanted to like OCaml, still do. I gave it a good shot a couple of years ago, wrote a few basic programs and loved it. But it to me seemed packaged like many languages in the days of yore, when a language shipped simply as a compile
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by bigjimslade 8y ago
Government is not on your side. Remember that, for all countries, for all times, for all peoples. Government protects itself first, at your expense, by helping those who can help it accomplish that said goal. If you can't help it to th
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by bigjimslade 8y ago
Competition drives prices down? Bloated, protectionist government regulations drive prices up? Wow! Stop the presses! This same story in umpteen other contexts has been written time and time and time again, throughout modern history. Get go
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by bigjimslade 8y ago
Speaking in the larger context, this stick you feel you've been given comes at a high price. Unfortunately, it's only a matter of time before the powers that be will fashion a stick with which to beat you, too.
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by bigjimslade 8y ago
Isn't it possible to be proficient or even prophetic at a thing while being not so good at another? I agree those comparisons to China border on wacky while I feel he is right on target about the fundamental, critical, beating-heart im
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by bigjimslade 8y ago
Ok the linked article seems to be a short synopsis of a book, one which I did not read nor have intention to. But dear Lord the article was so full of government fluff, obvious and trite blather of what has been tried and failed, over, and
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
While you are certainly correct that the military has provided the genesis of various valuable technologies, it doesn't have to continue to be that way. We could choose to expend our limited resources on more meaningful, and socially r
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
Thank you, Google employees who signed this letter! Let us hope the, ummm, yea, "do no evil" company listens to you (and to its very own motto).
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
If I were starting out today fresh from high school, and were interested in technology as a possible career, I would consider certain certifications from the likes of Cisco, Juniper, Oracle, any of the various code schools, etc., strongly c
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
Might I be nosy and ask what Scheme environment(s) you used in these production deployments? Thank you.
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
But how do you see your dash while driving? Do you just see through the blurry?
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
IBM operates an internal company-wide storage system called GSA or Global Storage Architecture, which is GPFS on the servers, with various and sundry methods of access through automounted NFS, Samba, and a basic web interface. I wonder if s
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by bigjimslade 9y ago
It was much better than <i>Cats</i>. I want to see it again and again.
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by bigjimslade 10y ago
Why did you choose SBCL among the several other common choices available? Thanks.
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by bigjimslade 10y ago
I found DPDK and FreeBSD's pkg package manager to be very clean and educational. Reference http://www.dpdk.org and https://github.com/freebsd/pkg