chris_mc

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by chris_mc 8y ago
I'm responding to the general lack of concern by the commenter above and most engineers I know. You and this other guy commenting are missing the point, I'm not talking specifically about this algorithm, but about engineers in gen
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by chris_mc 8y ago
2x the compute resources is still horrible for our environment, which isn't pretty good to me. Computer Scientists/Software Engineers need to get it into their head that wasting compute resources is directly increasing our footpri
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Look at the VSCODE command bar. You start to type what you want to do, and the search function is incredible, helping you find any command you want. Why couldn't something simple like that be applied to the command line interface for a
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by chris_mc 8y ago
It's not nationalistic since I was not "having strong patriotic feelings, especially a belief in the superiority of one's own country over others" per the definition of the word. I was asking "when is enough, enough
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Why in the ever loving fuck are you blaming the _workers_ for this shortsightedness instead of the government organizations who are about to fuck those people over when they're 70? Maybe the administrators of the pension accounts and f
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Libraries throw away tons of books and stuff. If a man-made object is degraded to the point where it's garbage, why not? Sure, some of these tomes may have been recoverable, but if they aren't historically valuable for some reason
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by chris_mc 8y ago
If you think libraries are useless, try going to one a few times and talk to the staff about the services they provide. I'd personally say libraries are one of the government organizations with the best return on investment, because ed
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by chris_mc 8y ago
The example in the article given was that Watson recommended giving a blood thinning agent to someone with "severe bleeding", so I think, at least in this example, that there's a long way to go until Watson is ready for diagn
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I didn't read this article because it jacks my scroll wheel and scrolls nearly a whole page at a time. I don't like that. I like my scroll wheel to scroll 3 lines at a time, as I have it configured in my OS settings menu. Addition
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>Your broader point is correct but I think you're mischaracterizing Devops (which isn't about developers doing this stuff, it's about a continuously improving culture + technology to support end-to-end delivery and operati
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I didn't pay attention to the date, so perhaps I jumped the gun here declaring it a non-issue.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
> just to insert a CD and press reset That may have been all he did that time, but imagine if stuff had gone sideways, he'd have to troubleshoot it from Antarctica! I thought working from home was bad...
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Nim? nim-lang.org It's GC, but that can be turned off and you can use manual memory management or you can simply use one of a handful of GC methods that work for you (in my experience, the GC is very performant). It has easy syntax lik
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by chris_mc 8y ago
HN has decent articles, and not many of them, so going down the HN rabbit hole is more positive experience for most people as compared to Reddit and you don't have the massive size of Reddit that can keep you scrolling for hours.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
> crisis > The last reported fatal cases of cassava poisoning occurred in February 2017. Crisis? This article is so over the top it's not even funny.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I do read e-books, because I just consider them books. I have a tablet with only WiFi so I don't screw around. It's pretty great to learn stuff that has been well-researched and well-written and without insults about my mother or
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by chris_mc 8y ago
> “It was just a pattern for me — to open my phone and I would have nowhere to go,” she said. “I was just looking at a screen. It was kind of weird, so I’m trying not to do that.” I found out I did the exact same thing when I deleted my
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by chris_mc 8y ago
New FCC Comments page! [Insert dark patterns here] * Sponsored by Comcast
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I always heard you should type your PIN at the ATM, then touch all of the buttons a bunch to block this ability. That way they only see that all the buttons were touched, not your PIN. Especially important now that thermal cameras (crappy o
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Reminds me of the Ocean's 12 (13?) scene where the brothers are in the boring machine and are manipulating the stolen FBI mugshots to disguise the group members before they get found out.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
I don't like Elon much (I think he's an ass to his employees), but he still sent engineers for free to Thailand and is donating materials that are probably not very cheap (rocket parts for the mini-sub thing). At least he's t
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by chris_mc 8y ago
Following our nature is easy, we just do it naturally. Opposing our baser instincts is hard , so a lot of people don't. The greatest leap as a species we can take is if we can make it a social imperative to act against those urges, bu
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>anything of value Bitcoin's value (not price, mind you) is still very questionable.
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>Why is Bloomberg anti-bitcoin? Maybe this? https://qz.com/84961/this-is-how-much-a-bloomberg-terminal-c...
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by chris_mc 8y ago
>I have been told that it is work only appropriate for grad students. It's quite common to look down on "lesser" work like this (janitorial work, writing solutions, whaterver) as only useful for those "lower" tha