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by cgh 8y ago
Seems as good a time as any to mention this excellent book: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/ant-colony-optimization Really interesting stuff. There is code online somewhere. It's possible ant colony optimisation is
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by cgh 8y ago
I traveled through Turkey in 1993. The PTT (phone monopoly) had a saying which doubled as a vision statement: "A phone in every village!" They hadn't met that goal and I'd sometimes roll into these little places where th
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by cgh 8y ago
That, and how it seemed like Paul made it rain in the end. He was a man playing god, not an actual weather god.
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by cgh 8y ago
Peter Bright is Ars’s Microsoft guy and is known for his Apple antipathy. Not sure why he’s doing this review.
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by cgh 8y ago
Ha, that is excellent. I once thought that Pierce Inverarity would be a great name for a beer. It would be peak hipster pretentiousness: a brewery whose beers were named for Pynchon characters. Unfortunately, they'd probably all be IPA
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by cgh 8y ago
dang has great taste in fiction. I enjoyed our brief discussion of character names in Pynchon and Peake. Here's why I remember this: no one I know in real life reads fiction. I know plenty of people who read non-fiction (political stuf
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by cgh 8y ago
Computers have been networked since the late '50s-early '60s. SABRE, the airline reservation system, went online in 1960. Heinlein would have been well aware of networked computing.
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by cgh 8y ago
Microsoft Biztalk. By "work", I mean it didn't crash. It also didn't do anything useful.
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by cgh 8y ago
What the...? I had no idea about this. I am a subscriber to Alpinist. In fact, I renewed my subscription not too long ago via one of my laptops, which is running Fedora. Thanks for a couple of great things, Marc.
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by cgh 8y ago
What's funny is Canadians often lament their lousy salaries compared to their US counterparts. But I've found that by "US", they really mean "Silicon Valley". It's not a fair comparison. Also, quality of l
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by cgh 8y ago
I work for an American BigCo writing server-side code. I typically put in a 50 hour week. Salary: $155,000 However, I work remotely (I am not American) so I have that flexibility, and I also don't waste time commuting. To me, the extra
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by cgh 8y ago
> There can be no growth because contractors don't scale. They bring a fix percentage of their day rate. IBM's revenue growth over at least the last three quarters is due to its mainframe business and the launch of the z14.
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by cgh 8y ago
You can also eat a very low-carb diet. Restricting your carbs to foods like greens and berries will have the same effect without the need for a prescription. Gluconeogenesis is demand-driven. Of course, in the context of anti-aging, Metform
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by cgh 8y ago
Yes but then again, so do some Cisco switches nowadays. Arista's management team is former Cisco as well. There is a tangled legal history between the two companies, with Cisco claiming various patent infringements. So far as I know, n
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by cgh 8y ago
You are correct. The whole “beware of protein” narrative is completely wrong-headed. People here would likely be astounded by how much protein strength athletes eat with nothing but positive health effects.
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by cgh 8y ago
Way too low. Try doubling it (not kidding). If you’re worried about calories, reduce your carbs.
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by cgh 8y ago
This got me thinking about my time as a teenager teaching myself assembly on my C64 (which of course used the 6502 instruction set). I was trying to recall the assembler I used and I finally dredged it out of my memory: Develop-64 by French
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by cgh 8y ago
There is growing evidence that hyperinsulemia is related to migraines. Insulin-resistant individuals and/or people with metabolic syndrome who suffer migraines could try lowering their insulin levels by removing fast-digesting carbohyd
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by cgh 8y ago
As has been pointed out elsewhere[1], atherosclerosis is largely a genetic condition and is not necessarily related to a high-fat diet. "In the new study, Zink and his colleagues found that Ötzi had several gene variants associated wit
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by cgh 8y ago
>> Why do we still tolerate this? This is the real question. The thieves are just a symptom of the real infection: terrible, insecure client software. I'm not sure what the solution is but I am pretty sure it involves Microsoft h
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by cgh 8y ago
That particular quote concerned Katana's ability to move money between banks, not his "hacking" prowess. In fact, the article even refers to their methods as "class spear-phishing", implying there wasn't anythi
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by cgh 8y ago
It's covered in the article. It does fall into the classification of a semi-arid desert.
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by cgh 8y ago
I doubt he was involved. I believe he died only months before the movie’s release. The story/novella describes plenty of grim weather because Earth’s atmosphere has been nearly destroyed.
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by cgh 8y ago
PKD had amphetamine problems, not methamphetamine. Though of course they are related, meth is in a different class when it comes to potency. His hallucinations and mental issues started well after he finished a drug rehab program in Vancouv
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by cgh 8y ago
Coincidentally (though Dick himself would likely think not), I'm re-reading The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch right now. And looking at my bookshelf, I see that A Scanner Darkly sits next to His Master's Voice. Maybe it's
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by cgh 8y ago
You mean like the Atari 400? http://oldcomputers.net/atari400.html On the plus side, very easy to clean.
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by cgh 8y ago
I had to take a mandatory course where we wrote a simple flat-file db in x86 assembly, complete with a simple console-based interface. I’ve rarely needed to even look at assembly professionally, let alone write a real db, but I fully agree
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by cgh 8y ago
I get the depressing feeling that a lot of Javascript programmers have no formal CS education at all.
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by cgh 8y ago
Why not take the opportunity to learn other languages and see for yourself rather than ask someone to hold your hand? Show some initiative.
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by cgh 8y ago
Calling it milk also encourages people to give these products to infants in the mistaken belief they are an acceptable substitute for real milk. Of course they aren't, as real milk is nutrient-dense and nut "milks" are essent

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