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Why I'm Tcl-Ish(colin-macleod.blogspot.com)
167 points by blacksqr 6y ago|122 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
If it's a performance oriented language, how about some benchmarks?
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Like Soylent Green, a software company is people. If you have hiring authority and you don't think it's worth your time to spend half a day a couple of times a week to get the right people into your organization, you have the wron
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by blacksqr 6y ago
> The same ones that are already paying for the current financial safety nets Those who are currently paying for safety nets are doing so by compulsory taxes. If left up to their choice, as above poster suggests, why should anyone expec
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by blacksqr 6y ago
"The name was derived from a 1967 Star Trek episode, 'The Return of the Archons', which features a scheduled alien riot." [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hour_Productions
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by blacksqr 6y ago
> My theory is that hiring is just really hard Not that hard. Talk to people like human beings and examine their previous work and employment history.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
I did read the article. The fact that someone reasons ones way to a dubious conclusion doesn't make the conclusion less dubious. All premature fence-pullers think they have rational reasons for pulling the fence down. They're th
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by blacksqr 6y ago
There's an old saying: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." The phrase "hiring is broken" comes up dozens of times in HN searches. If something appears broken to you, but per
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New method converts carbon dioxide to methane at low temperatures(sciencedaily.com)
8 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Years ago I read that Easter Island has no trees because the inhabitants chopped them all down before Europeans arrived. The lack of wood for building led to significant misery. The author of the book I was reading noted that all of the is
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The process requires electricity for an electrolysis of water step to obtain hydrogen for methane synthesis. Why not just use the electricity for power and skip the complexity of the other steps?
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by blacksqr 6y ago
What percentage of people who want the freedom to ignore virus precautions do you think are also willing to pay to subsidize others staying home? I'm not optimistic it would be large. The solution you suggest would be equivalent to a p
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by blacksqr 6y ago
I'm not a C programmer, but I have heard of amalgamation, and I wonder why a standard workflow to create a single compilation unit from multiple source files isn't more straightforward.
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NSL (Neural Simulation Language): simulation system for neural networks (2002)(neuralsimulationlanguage.org)
7 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
I've been using a trackball for decades and it made a huge difference for me. I use it with minimal wrist action to save me from the near-crippling wrist pain mice caused me. I also use it with my left hand although I am a righty, to d
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Pics
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The article says that much of this is driven by Web development. 100x the code to do the same thing as ten and twenty-five years ago: serving web pages.
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Study shows Pepcid and Zyrtec effective in Covid-19 treatment(northsidesun.com)
32 points by blacksqr 6y ago|7 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The process mixes chitosan and acetic acid with basalt-based synthetic Mars soil. The question now is, will it work here with Earth basalt?
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Making it harder to read crypto keys from RAM (2019)(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The Electoral Count Act is designed in part in anticipation of just such a scenario, and Democrats can prevail if they are smart and tough enough to use its tools. "The Conscientious Congressman's Guide" was written to inform
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The Conscientious Congressman's Guide to the Electoral Count Act (2004) [pdf](floridalawreview.com)
24 points by blacksqr 6y ago|4 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
It's not the counting that takes a long time necessarily, but adjudicating the legal challenges in close elections over what ballots are valid. Also, there are the inevitable delays caused by malfunctions in poorly designed and maintai
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Conclusion: Pre-exposure prophylaxis with hydroxychloroquine once or twice weekly did not significantly reduce laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 or Covid-19-compatible illness among healthcare workers.
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2020 General Election Early Vote Statistics(electproject.github.io)
51 points by blacksqr 6y ago|48 comments
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by blacksqr 6y ago
Working for free and getting a loan to cover expenses is still working for free.
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by blacksqr 6y ago
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." --Frank Wilhoit
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by blacksqr 6y ago
The economy does better under Democratic administrations than Republican, going all the way back to the 1920's https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/309cc8e1-b971...
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by blacksqr 6y ago
First, get a 65-million-year head start.
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Tcl/Tk nuclear power plant command/control interface(wiki.tcl-lang.org)
2 points by blacksqr 6y ago|0 comments

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