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by crb002 8y ago
23–26 mSv of radiation. If the Alzheimer's doesn't kill you the PET scan will from a secondary cancer.
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by crb002 8y ago
Exercises for Programmers by PragProg and try to use Qt with them. Then Effective STL. Then Meyers books. C++ is fragmented between STL/Boost/Qt so you are actually learning three standard libraries.
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by crb002 8y ago
So glad Iowa pawned Bumsted off on Trump.
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by crb002 8y ago
I proposed writing something like this while working for DuPont's Encirca platform. Years later still little to no adoption in the farm IT field of these models.
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by crb002 8y ago
Curious to see Aaronson's criticism.
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by crb002 8y ago
Postgres, Rust, and Angular is the current long term support tech stack. Start with Heroku and some AWS S3 buckets to store media assets. UX research methods. Then finding projects/teams you want to work on. Personally? Thinking about
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by crb002 8y ago
Offer to buy some shares of employees and spread some of the cash for Xmas if any have vested.
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by crb002 8y ago
I hope he appeals. You can't create an ex post facto covenence.
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by crb002 8y ago
Buying on the dip is rational market actor. Devious is shorting stocks or buying put options then creating mayhem to crash the market and really making $$$.
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by crb002 8y ago
Google, Microsoft, and AWS together have enough spare compute to 51% even BitCoin.
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by crb002 8y ago
Vanguard is going to have to start conducting independent audits.
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by crb002 8y ago
I'm hoping Canada puts her on a flight to Beijing instead of involving itself. She is acused of violating a trade embargo that Canada is not a party to.
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by crb002 8y ago
ROFL. "Iowa Oral Performance Instrument". Those cunning linguists at University of Iowa need an IG Nobel.
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by crb002 8y ago
Not against this. Ethanol subsidy has caused a lot of environmental damage. Wind subsidy has created a crisis as there is no money to make repairs. Solar can stand on it's own.
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by crb002 8y ago
These have enough artistic value to go to the Library of Congress or the Met.
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by crb002 8y ago
Blockade on Saudi oil now helps US oil companies boost profits. The golden rule reigns, those with the gold make the rules.
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by crb002 8y ago
TIL about printing ASM from debug JVMs.
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by crb002 8y ago
ACLU is unaware that FB has an entire Haskell library for snooping on messages in the name of SPAM detection? https://code.fb.com/security/fighting-spam-with-haskell/
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by crb002 8y ago
Most of their margins are value added services not hosting. This actually takes the capital expenditure off their plate so they can focus on the high margin services.
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by crb002 8y ago
You could probably pack an array of several smaller diameter dynamos within the housing of the base. Only issue is the belt/chain drive down the shaft so if one jams the others can still work.
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by crb002 8y ago
Curious how many of the "signals" they used were simply detecting LIBOR lies.
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by crb002 8y ago
Reposting here. At Global Day of Code Retreat this past weekend I was surprised that our Game of Life implementation in SQL was the easiest. Why are we doing data schema type erasure at the Application layer? The "flexibility" and
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by crb002 8y ago
Remotely rooting automobiles during rush hour to accelerate. Several models now stupidly designed with media systems on same wire where it is physically possible.
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by crb002 8y ago
At Global Day of Code Retreat today, the easiest Game of Life implementation we did was in SQL. As Elixir is to Erlang, we can create a better COBOL for the 95% of code that is simple business logic.
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by crb002 8y ago
Proving there was a bug in a vendor's device driver on an ARM touchscreen by stripping down X-Win to intercept system calls around glitches. Using a mock libc to intercept everything since there was no strace. Porting Ruby to the IBM B
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by crb002 8y ago
It is Game Over if AWS starts hosting IBM mainframe DB2. Most customers would happily pay a 10% premium. In the CAP theorem context if you need CA you can't beat an IBM mainframe. IBM can also co-locate nodes of it's latest Power9
507.
by crb002 8y ago
So Apple prices themselves out of the market and now they are shocked the market reacted with lower sales.
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by crb002 8y ago
That is an ADA lawsuit waiting to happen.
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by crb002 8y ago
Somebody needs to start suing these providers for fraud like consumers did to RR Donnley publishing a few years back were they were caught regrouping their price schedules to maximize their profit while telling customers they were optimizin
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by crb002 8y ago
Missing the key component. IBM mainframe colocated with a big three cloud provider. That's the secret sauce to shave latency.

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