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by burfog 7y ago
Life Sciences would be appealing to the masses if it paid better, more like Computer Science does. It would pay better if there were a need for more people to do Life Sciences.
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Consider the R0 value that you're trying to reduce by social distancing. New York City starts with a high value. People encounter each other in apartment hallways, packed subways, crowded streets, and huge stadiums. Rural places don&#x
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His use of a throwaway speaks volumes about fear of political repercussions. His regular account (assuming he has one) is probably associated with his name, and he most likely works in a place like San Francisco or New York City. If so, he
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From experience with a problematic build system, the compile time is unbearable when it exceeds the number of hours in a day. Each automated nightly build is started before the previous one has finished. This overloads the machine, making t
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NJ seems to be on the bad side of the Laffer curve. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
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It's an ultra high frequency. Super high frequencies are from 3 GHz to 30 GHz.
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You say you have skills. Everybody says that. Prove it. Assume the interviewer doesn't have time for a multi-day interview in which your skills are tested. Maybe the employer lost the last person with equivalent skills, so a non-techni
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by burfog 7y ago
They aren't asking for so much. They want: 1. understanding the language (COBOL) 2. IBM mainframe experience (JCL, DB2, VSAM, SDLC) 3. credentialed (4-year degree) Note that SDLC is a layer 2 network protocol in the SNA stack: https:&
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by burfog 7y ago
Nah, this is clearly an IBM mainframe shop. SDLC is a layer 2 network protocol in the SNA stack. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control
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This part is misleading: "widely debunked theories that the virus was human-engineered" 1. The lack of a tell-tale sign in the RNA is not proof against engineering. Nobody can ever possibly debunk anything about viral engineering.
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by burfog 7y ago
I'd pay extra for a 1999-style car. That year was near the peak for car design quality. Fancy cars hit the peak around 1995, and cheap ones hit the peak around 2010 or 2015.
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It was standard for MS-DOS, the VT100, and many other things of that era. It was common with X on UNIX-like systems in the early 1990s. Once WYSIWYG document processing became popular, people wanted computers to mimic normal paper documents
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by burfog 7y ago
So here is how it actually works with formal security audits, for example with an OS certified to EAL6 (Semiformally Verified Design and Tested). The OS vendor produces a boot loader and a simple task switcher that can pass messages. This i
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Politico continues to throw shade on the treatment, for obvious political reasons. Meanwhile it is the only approved treatment in India, it has been in use for some time in Malaysia, and it is now the standard treatment in Italy. Trials all
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Well, I guess nothing qualifies then, because you can't have a WCET on commodity hardware. You'd have to have a CPU without any kind of cache (branch history, TLB, etc.) and without any kind of instruction scheduling. You couldn&#
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by burfog 7y ago
Oh, a standards committee member! We have requests... Now that C allows mixing variable declarations in with statements, it becomes annoying that variable declarations can not have labels. This hits particularly hard with the switch/ca
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Linux has plenty of engineering. Of course that doesn't mean identical features. Linux has a VFS with lockless path lookups. The push to get Linux running on machines like the SGI Altix, with at least 10240 cores running one shared ins
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by burfog 7y ago
Agreement to cancel could be made conditional upon publishing the design and releasing it into the public domain. If the big company detests that idea, well, they don't get out of the original contract.
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They acknowledge the New York Times at the end of the article. Perhaps they licensed the content. I don't think that anybody aside from legal staff at the New York Times can determine if anybody was fully ripped off. If you have concer
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Run it through a hair dryer set to maximum heat.
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The powered respirators can be very comfortable. They don't need a tight seal against the skin, so they don't have that to cause injury. The forced air leaks out around a loose seal, preventing contamination. The most comfortable
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by burfog 7y ago
The big news: Intel is dropping SGX (Software Guard Extensions) That's the stuff to implement a secure enclave for software that doesn't respect the user's authority over the computer, such as digital restrictions management.
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Coronaviruses do not make spores. Even new masks are not sterile. Paper bag storage scales with the number of employees; each employee needs personal space for 14 small paper bags such as lunch bags.
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True, and that is important, but there certainly is a correlation. Good luck writing speech recognition software to deal with this: https://ifunny.co/video/damn-wtf-we-really-talk-like-that-63... We may want everyone t
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Snopes is not legitimate. In this case, they give a "mostly true" rating while barely acknowledging that the anti-trump timeline is missing some events. Those events, of course, are not minor. They make the timeline into what we c
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We won't have a smoking gun unless somebody from the lab tells all, which would involve going to prison in China or claiming asylum in a different country. Such a person might even be ignored unless he provides wikileaks with a hard di
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You're a bit young to really remember the Soviet Union. I'll fill you in, a bit. They used central solutions. Scientists and other experts directed the economy. Without the signalling mechanism of price, demand and supply got way
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I think the idea was that lots of indirect fire would degrade the sensors. It's really hard to armor a sensor. Lenses chip and scratch.
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Yes. Because some people built poor-quality gable roofs, we all pay more for insurance if we have them. Never mind that the pentagonal walls could be made of steel or poured concrete. Insurance companies just don't want that type of ro
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That tonic, used by British soldiers, is not available. You can get something with less than 1% of the concentration.

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