bradley13

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by bradley13 3y ago
Military aircraft landing and taking off from roads has happened forever. The F-35 has now done this. Whoopee. Water is wet. How about fixing that little problem of not being allowed near thunderstorms? Not till 2027 at the earliest? But it
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by bradley13 3y ago
"There are a lot of services here if you're sober so I suspect they swooped in and found her." That's what is important. If someone has just had a run of lousy luck,there must be services to help them get back on their f
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by bradley13 3y ago
You're welcome, or rather, she is. Yeah, you don't know what people are going through, and there is enough negativity in the world. That said, I'm pretty sure it was just an introvert/extrovert clash. She couldn't i
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by bradley13 3y ago
Not so long ago, I was having my first cup of coffee in a hotel restaurant. A woman sat down directly across from me and started off with how nice it was to have someone to chat with. Um. No. I was polite, but...no. I had no interest in lea
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by bradley13 3y ago
I tend to agree. I haven't used Git in a large project, but...why would I want to rewrite history? The project is what it is. What happened, happened. If there are a couple of weird commits, who cares? At most, maybe edit the commit me
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by bradley13 3y ago
GitHub is not Git.
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by bradley13 3y ago
Just a minor example that irritated me today: try to look at a graph of past commits. In GitLab, it is nicely presented. In GitHub, it is nearly useless.
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by bradley13 3y ago
I don't know Fossil. However, the first entry in the comparison table puts me off. "VCS, tickets, wiki, docs, notes, forum, chat, UI, RBAC" I don't want my version control system to be a wiki. Or a chat app, or any of th
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by bradley13 3y ago
Back-of-the-envelope: The rendering looks like a max of about 20kw of solar cells. If they think they can produce 70kw, they are counting on quite the wind. Their predicted annual production corresponds to 26kw, which is a lot more believab
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by bradley13 3y ago
Because it definitely wasn't a lab leak?
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by bradley13 3y ago
The success of the far right in Europe is driven by migration. Huge numbers of economic migrants make their way illegally to Europe. They have little education and no useful work skills. WTF are we supposed to do with them? The correct solu
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by bradley13 3y ago
QuickBooks almost certainly used float in the early versions of their currency conversion. We saw lots of accumulated rounding errors that really couldn't be explained any other way. That was maybe 15 years ago - hopefully they've
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by bradley13 3y ago
Probably I shouldn't bother responding to your post, but I have a spare minute, so... This has nothing to do with "religion", except perhaps the religion of people who place far too much faith in models. You can, quite litera
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by bradley13 3y ago
Models help test test our understanding of past events. If you can create a model that reproduces past events, there is a chance that you have understood something about those events. Equally, however, there is a chance that you have create
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by bradley13 3y ago
"Just extend the address size" was certainly one of the options. Sure, it's still a change, but the point is: After this change, both protocols could have worked side-by-side. Devices that only supported IPv4, no problem, the
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by bradley13 3y ago
The most important thing you need, to have a chance at huge success, is to be obsessive. This guy succeeded, selling his startup for $800 million. He is obsessive. Now he's obsessive about something else. News at 11:00. As one of the d
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by bradley13 3y ago
The purity of IPv6 doesn't want NAT. Therefore, yes, all of those devices are supposed to have public addresses. We can debate whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, but that is the way IPv6 is supposed to work.
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by bradley13 3y ago
And the people who designed IPv6 designed a beautiful, perfect protocoll that was incompatible with the old IPv4 protocol. Which meant that a graceful, gradual shift to IPv6 was impossible. Cheap IoT devices are still being manufactured t
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by bradley13 3y ago
Can we go back in time and hit the designers of IPv6 upside the head? The decision not to make IPv6 backwards compatible, the belief that a beautiful new standard could magically replace something already so widespread... "Naive"
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by bradley13 3y ago
Immigrants from where? And to where? It makes a difference. Immigrants from other Western countries should perhaps avoid Germany, which isn't doing well at the moment. Economic migrants from Africa think any place in Europe will be a s
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by bradley13 3y ago
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents." This is self-evidently true. One of the problems in current society is fetish for equity, the idea that everyone should be treated the same, r
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by bradley13 3y ago
Leaving CEO pay aside, that means the median salary I'd $80k. And we're talking Rust-Belt, not Silicon Valley. That's a pretty good salary for the region, plus the benefits they get. Not seeing how the demands are in any way
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by bradley13 3y ago
I've been using Xubuntu for years - it just works, with no clutter. Absolutely my only complaint are the very thin window borders - this is a setting you cannot individually adjust. However, one quickly gets used to (alt + right-click
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by bradley13 3y ago
Prolog is a beautiful language. I've written 10s of thousands of lines of it, for mathematical reasoning, rule-based reasoning, etc.. Those are domains where it fits perfectly, and working with it is incredibly fun. Prolog has two prob
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by bradley13 3y ago
It shows how programmers get buried in a paradigm. When I wrote lots f functional programs, my procedural programs started to look functional - even though it didn't make a lot of sense for the language. That's how C or Fortran pr
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by bradley13 3y ago
For all the dissing on the Germans, let me point out that many countries use preventative detention in one form or another. This includes the USA. According to a book from Cambridge Press: "The federal government has the power to detai
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by bradley13 3y ago
Power corrupts. People in high positions (like Fauci) have a lot of power. The corruption needn't be monetary - it can also manifest as a belief that everyone should bow to you, and do whatever you say. Abuses like this are partially r
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by bradley13 3y ago
All true. It goes even farther: hiding the file structure, and even the concept of files. Ask a nontechnical Windows or Mac user where their files are stored - they have no idea. Ask if they are in the cloud - no idea. Worse - just as with
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by bradley13 3y ago
Pay for results, not butt-in-seat. If it's a job that requires physical presence, then that's how it is. It's hard to prune a tree or lay a pipe as WFH. If the job doesn't require physical presence, then it doesn't,
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by bradley13 3y ago
Teens do dumb things, this is nothing new. What gets me here is that some company produced these chips and encouraged the challenge. I hope the company, and its founders, are held liable for the medical costs of all the teens who wound up

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