cjcole

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by cjcole 9y ago
If corporations are sociopaths ( http://politicalloudmouth.com/why-publicly-traded-corporatio... ), imagine the fun when one becomes too powerful for a merely national government to check.
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by cjcole 9y ago
"Flat" may be a matter of perspective: http://www.letsrun.com/forum/flat_read.php?thread=728621 (A discussion of how "hilly" Boston is with respect to the Boston Marathon.) "If you live in Kans
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by cjcole 9y ago
I expected the downvotes (I mentioned the unmentionable) but please feel free to engage as well (if nothing else to satisfy my curiosity).
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by cjcole 9y ago
> Firstly, the popular unrest. > Pull the rug out from under them, and my bet is you'll have riots in the streets[0]. Let's make this even more fraught. Imagine that the cohort net paying into the system at any given time ha
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by cjcole 10y ago
Is there an opportunity for Servo here?
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by cjcole 10y ago
I stopped flossing for a while (forget why) right before a check-up. The "gum quality" numbers (scale of 1-5) that the hygienist called out for each tooth gap were conspicuously worse than usual. I hadn't told them I hadn&#x2
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Sandstorm is returning to its community roots(sandstorm.io)
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by cjcole 10y ago
“Who can deny that we are a nation addicted to television and the constant flow of media?” "Like Us on Facebook"
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by cjcole 10y ago
"The average US city gets 26 inches of snow per year." http://www.bestplaces.net/climate/city/california/mountain_v... "Snowfall is 0 inches." http://www.bestplaces.net/cli
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by cjcole 10y ago
"adj. Employing or exerting compulsion; coercive." Restless leg ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restless_legs_syndrome ) runs in my family. It's not the same thing of course, but it lives in the same space
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by cjcole 10y ago
Their business model is to attract and sell your attention to other companies. Given that, and the existence of pervasive surveillance and data mining, the above is inevitable.
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by cjcole 10y ago
In his statement of resignation he says that given recent events the Tor Project no longer meets his ethical standards, and that he will be ceasing all support, including financial and technical. Full statement: https://trac.torp
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by cjcole 10y ago
> format + protocol like Git > distributed decentralized peer-to-peer network > a unique address system > personal crypto keys Funny. You just described a perfect fit for Urbit.
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by cjcole 11y ago
That categorization ("blatant racist") will sadly tend to produce an endless argument over who can and can't be racist. That's fruitless. More accurately, that statement is both anti-white and misandrist, almost by defin
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by cjcole 11y ago
Maybe professional arm wrestler would be even more apt. Here is Devon Larratt (225 lbs) easily beating Hafthor Bjornsson ("The Mountain" from Game of Thrones; 419 lbs) without breaking a sweat. Specialization wins. https:/&#
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by cjcole 11y ago
Hence the snakebot: https://my.teslamotors.com/sv_SE/forum/forums/snakebot-autom... 'Without the snakebot, you can still summon your car from garage but it has to be unattached, unplugged. With the snake
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by cjcole 11y ago
One nit to pick: "tight-knit"
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by cjcole 11y ago
"Some people jsut want to write something that is both fast, predicable." And debuggable? Not crashing in random places due to stack or heap corruption helps there.
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by cjcole 11y ago
I've gone all-in for Rust for any side projects. I still get paid to write C++, but I choose to use Rust. I'd say that I'm up to around 20K LOC at this point and the sheer peace of mind that I get is worth almost any amount o
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by cjcole 12y ago
The core problem is that the set of safe programs is considerably larger than the set of programs which pass a tractable, maintainable, and (potentially) provably safe compiler (including borrow and type checkers). You want to enlarge the l
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by cjcole 12y ago
It's not the case that all wrestling with the borrow checker is about bugs: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/6393
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by cjcole 12y ago
I've written about 10 thousand lines of Rust at this point and hope to write much more. After "suspending frustration" and internalizing the borrow checker and the idioms it just works for me now. That said, I still get minor
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by cjcole 12y ago
"Honnold does this without apparent fear, as if falling were not possible." I've seen a few interviews with and about him. That seems to be a universal sentiment. I'm curious about his amygdalae. It's clear that he
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by cjcole 12y ago
I'll skip over the surface contradiction [1]. I believe that you're not really arguing against nations (or states) but against "exclusion". I think you're arguing that there may be political divisions, but that the
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by cjcole 12y ago
Would nations be required to accept all subscriptions? If yes, on what basis and on whose enforcement?
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by cjcole 12y ago
Yes. http://blog.llvm.org/2010/01/address-of-label-and-indirect-b... A venerable interpreter implementation trick.
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by cjcole 12y ago
And when people are asked "what do you think of band X" for an X which does not exist, they may answer you as if X existed. And later they may even forget that they were fabricating and come to believe it themselves. https:/
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by cjcole 12y ago
Either it was poorly executed or disingenuously planned. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Dig 'The Big Dig was the most expensive highway project in the U.S. and was plagued by escalating costs, scheduling overrun
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by cjcole 12y ago
Sounds very much like my symptoms (intense knee pain/swelling and no rash), except that you don't mention low-grade fever and jaw pain (which I had). I was eventually on crutches and had an enormous amount of fluid (orange) remove
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by cjcole 12y ago
"I've even started wearing boxer briefs just to keep them out of there at least." Sadly, doesn't work. I've found two attached under the elastic band. Maybe they like the heat?

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