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by brians 9y ago
As I understand it, they’ve only lobbied to prevent biased, underhanded research: none of the funds made available for injury prevention and control at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may be used to advocate or promote gun c
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by brians 9y ago
Why does mechanical stuff suck? Because of friction of moving parts. Too much energy is lost to heat. For a thermal engine, if you can arrange to put the moving parts mostly on the hot side, that’s no longer loss.
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by brians 9y ago
It’s a Haskell list comprehension. You read it as: The sum of x for x from one to 999 where x mod three is zero or x mod five is zero. well, the bit in square brackets is a comprehension. `sum `is just ordinary function application.
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by brians 9y ago
I’m not sure that’s evidence against their natural monopoly position. It might be that we’re in a world where in some places, it’s plausible to have two ISPs, and in many it’s not—but if two try, they’ll both fail to get enough people to b
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by brians 9y ago
It was the default for professional engineers and accountants. TI made calculators for school children, so added an algebraic interface, removed anything not allowed by the College Board exams, and simplified and standardized. Great educati
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by brians 9y ago
I wish you wouldn’t call it irreversible. Every large public claim of that sort has proven false. Consider the Netflix case, where the separate IMDB review dataset allowed reconstruction of pseudonymous movie watching records. These approac
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by brians 9y ago
That load balancer is a server. It has the TLS key, and so is authoritative for be content of the site. The model of “surrogate origin server” is sometimes more helpful than “middlebox” and similar.
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by brians 9y ago
Not magical. Fucking terrifying, and uninterested in the management layers designed to insulate any level staff from the consequences of this mistake. Compare Rickover.
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by brians 9y ago
Or AMD, or ARM
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by brians 9y ago
Social media networks claimed a number of users—falsely. Reporters created a couple accounts, got the true number, exposed the lies. Pwnage.
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by brians 9y ago
It sounds like your threat model doesn’t interactive hardware adversaries. Mine does, so worry about how they might capture my long pass phrase is a big concern. Well, to whom do I tell my long passphrase? Right: my computer. Every morn
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by brians 9y ago
For the same reason that urban areas need tighter building codes than rural, tightly linked economies need to more closely regulate what our neighbors do lest we be caught in the consequences. ICOs externalize many consequences.
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by brians 9y ago
Yes, in return for getting poles along streets throughout the rest of America. Similarly, they have to interconnect with other telcos.
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by brians 9y ago
Exactly. But without that, midline alignment is shot. I’ll stick with 8x13.
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by brians 9y ago
Xdpyinfo, if nothing else?
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by brians 9y ago
For me: Dropbox treats my data as dead text, mostly. The password people want to track what accounts I have, add favicons, all sorts of parsing and storage with expectations—and so opportunity for error.
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by brians 9y ago
And 2 vs 1 is really only a licensing issue. Python 1.4, from 1996, is not so different!
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by brians 9y ago
The change to string handling justifies it for me. Writing `u’foo’` everywhere is a pain, and the rest of the 2.7 model is extraordinarily prone to runtime errors. With 3.6, I don’t have those problems.
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by brians 9y ago
How many direct supervisory relationships does each manager have? How bushy is the supervision tree?
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by brians 9y ago
I uninstalled Electric Sheep after http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2005-4581/
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by brians 9y ago
Absolutely. But in some places I've worked, friendships built at work split heavily, though not exclusively, along gender lines. Men can reach out to befriend other men, and women women, but across that line has too much risk of being
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by brians 9y ago
Wait a minute. Actual abuse and catcalling are both abuse. The metoo campaign had flaws—I think it badly hurt some men who’d been sexually abused or harassed—but the line of what’s appropriate didn’t seem to move there.
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by brians 9y ago
Well, there’s the problem right there. There was an individual responsible, meaning one set of hands unreviewed on a keyboard, for a change that could cause a global outage. If I’m that person responsible, I’m going to hire two staff, ask t
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by brians 9y ago
When Google Plus was big. 2011? Quotes still work, and also have an effect like +
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by brians 9y ago
And remote execution.
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by brians 9y ago
No. Apple, and perhaps other manufacturers, insist it not be there.
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by brians 9y ago
It may be relevant that the author held dual chairs in Mathematics and Philosophy (phenomenology, I think).
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by brians 9y ago
Quality comes from feedback control systems. Quality of design comes from management oversight and correction. Fan-in is a concern. Orphaned teams become a concern at a tenth Apple’s scale. Informal networks and approval based on trust of p
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by brians 9y ago
Can the company tell how many you have, and draw conclusions about how committed you are? I think this is being paid in stock options. Many people choose to mix stock, options, and cash in compensation.
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by brians 9y ago
Looking for good models for ops team improvement, I was just handed the Watch Officer's Handbook. It encourages new watch officers to give rudder orders, not desired headings.

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