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by cat199 6y ago
> Companies aren't altruistic, their only purpose is to provide value to shareholders. Companies do whatever their owners tell them to do. What you are talking about one specific model of what some people think they should do and wh
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by cat199 6y ago
Not sure what else is out there, but the TMCx accelerator program is specifically designed around biotech startups and was created to build up the (bio)tech startup ecosystem around the texas medical center (largest medical center worldwide
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by cat199 6y ago
> It's a lot easier for me to read through a list of things in some category this also creates a fixed 'path' cognitively since you are reading/naming the intermediate nodes on the way to any given task, and the inter
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by cat199 6y ago
Isn't a third party admiring/honoring someones beauty independently an inherently different act than publicly proposing that ones own beauty should be admired? agree there can be a double standard, but if there is, it can go both
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by cat199 6y ago
There's also the question of profit - currently, people of all ages can easily access commercial pornography which then profits from the activity (either through advertising revenue or overt sales). So in effect, due to not requiring a
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by cat199 6y ago
As I understand it, it is a better USB layer/feature set to run SCSI on top of which has better properties. TFA gets into it a bit.
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by cat199 6y ago
> The idea that satanic witchcraft was invented by mediaeval authorities is preposterous IMO. spot on > with a desire for populations to conform to dogmatic religions and drop ancient customs and beliefs or, to stop manipulative and c
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by cat199 6y ago
> ... started one business that had the least possible success, somehow made a lot of assumptions about business success after that, and now is starting a program to mentor others? maybe it's all an elaborate ruse to become presiden
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by cat199 6y ago
> many JITs don't do this for security reasons would be nice, but historically it's more been: - all JITs do this - OpenBSD creates W^X - open source JITs and other OS's start to incorporate W^X - things are now either W^X
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by cat199 6y ago
think this + undeveloped palates is exactly it. IMHO americans aren't big on 'subtle' when it comes to anything food/drink (or really anything else) for the same reasons - 'really good beef' isn't the same
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by cat199 6y ago
or colluded with the wrong state's operators.. backstory on this one I'm sure could be an interesting movie or 3 .. "Most of the people suspected of being involved in the production and assembly process, including the organis
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by cat199 6y ago
in terms of legal basis yes it sounds like the realpolitik in this particular case probably goes deeper "Most of the people suspected of being involved in the production and assembly process, including the organisers and heads of the i
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by cat199 6y ago
1st i've heard of this as well (though i'm not in the loop on these kinds of things) that said, you might enjoy the topic of 'narco subs' which are illicit submarines manufactured to smuggle drugs (mostly from latin amer
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by cat199 6y ago
> Frankly, it is just much simpler to directly work with makefiles agree. pmake (colloquially bsd make though it arrived late in the CSRG era) allows for the concept of a 'makefile library' that handles common things (e.g. &#x2
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by cat199 6y ago
if i'm remembering correctly, and autoconf-style project guidelines have the default target as 'all', so 'make all' for the second step should usually work
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by cat199 6y ago
yep - probably a few ways to do things and I might not be doing the cleanest, just the way I learned/figgured it out
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by cat199 6y ago
cheers :) for line counting - indeed a good point and clearly required for the examples - After time, eyballing this becomes a skill. For things that fit on a screen (~50 lines or so, give or take) I'm usually correct 1st time or withi
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by cat199 6y ago
> facade institutions serving the interest of the political oligarchy seems in line with the EU approach, no?
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by cat199 6y ago
copy 10 lines from the current position into buffer q, go to the start of function jnk, copy 5 lines into buffer w, jump to line 10, paste contents of q, contents of w, and contents of q sequentially one after the other: "q10yy /j
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by cat199 6y ago
this is huge flamewar territory, but this is a bit 'off' question wise - alot of the current state of things is due to historical precedent - some details: - (original) vi was on most unices from the mid-80s onwards out of the box
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by cat199 6y ago
.local is a bit problematic since there are RFC's explicitly stating this should only be resolved by multicast DNS which has its own security issues and also fallback lookup is somewhat undefined.
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by cat199 6y ago
this is IMHO no different the real world - a 'good' despot/monarch/etc can be a good leader, but this is highly dependent on the situation (read: leader), and leadership transition process is always a risky one. Democrac
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by cat199 6y ago
more fundamentally, no one focused on cross-platform input device 'standards' at that time, so the suggestion itself is a bit of an anachronism. I'm pretty sure every hardware platform had its own standard, and there were mor
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by cat199 6y ago
> closer to random noise in the data stream, sure, but the underlying data framing would probably still have very strong patterns as compared to true noise
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by cat199 6y ago
> So there are ancient versions of utilities due to GPL aversion and stuff. They're not ancient, but are mostly ports of recent FreeBSD (or occasionally some other BSD) utilities. Some of these have a lineage dating back to AT&T
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by cat199 6y ago
if it is a reference, this is probably more likely than process threads, since 'threads' as a native construct were a mid/late 90s addition to unix systems
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"How long it takes those jobs to come back entirely will be a crucial indicator of whether Americans feel safe returning to normal activities, and if they have the economic means to do so. “I’m obsessed with dentists because, if the on
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by cat199 6y ago
do you not find it ironic that on a 'hacker entrepreneur' site that has played at least some small part in inspiring the culture of 'untrepreneurship' (if only in a 'copycat' fashion, lest I insult anyone here)
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by cat199 6y ago
much easier to dodge ineffective HR (whether by their own incompetence or organizational inertia) and insecure managers by jumping ship (and optionally asking for a life raft if you want to come back)
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didn't go too deep on the code spelunking, but v7 Unix (and 2BSD) used 'swapping' rather than paging, where the whole process was moved in/out of RAM, 32V (32bit v7 for the vax by AT&T) kept this, 3BSD (32V++ in a wa

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