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by crucini 11y ago
I am very glad I don't work with this man. This essay really makes me grateful for working with pretty chill people. We should have better sorting mechanisms so he can work with like-minded people and I can avoid them. I don't say
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by crucini 12y ago
To be fair, the article does state that there was no golden age of access, and things were worse when the docks were in operation.
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by crucini 12y ago
What are major conventional weapons? Does that include rifles and pistols? Phillipines apparently has less than $1M in exports, yet it's home to Armscor / Rock Island Armory, which sells quite a bit into the US.
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by crucini 12y ago
I think this is a really good answer. However I slightly differ on #1. Python calls the default sequence container a list. If you took that literally, it implies O(1) inserts.
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by crucini 12y ago
> Smoothing out bumps or making it "easy" and worrying about fragile stuff is totally unrelated to acting intelligent. I stared at this sentence for a while and didn't quite decode it. Sounds like you've had your sha
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by crucini 12y ago
The road of life is bumpy. I would not seek to smooth out the few remaining bumps in school. We are already in danger of creating fragile people who shatter at the first bump. All this, even if the teacher's idea were quite wrong - b
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by crucini 12y ago
Sounds like me. What I've found helpful is to reduce the scope of the project. Focus on base hits rather than home runs. Not quite the same as "MVP" if MVP implies permission to release something crappy and incomplete. I sh
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by crucini 12y ago
Same tension occurs in Java games for phones, at least pre-android. Instead of an array of Sprite objects, turns out its more efficient to have parallel arrays of ints, which leads to less readable code.
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by crucini 12y ago
>B-trees are the optimal implementation of dynamic arrays Then why don't the popular scripting languages use B-trees for their sequence containers? Both Perl and Python use arrays for this. Both pay the price of O(n) inserts mid-co
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by crucini 12y ago
Cool. What about tempest? If you're buying a heavy, slow laptop for security, it would be nice to know it's tempest-safe.
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by crucini 12y ago
This is a very interesting topic - how much can we rely on the tendency of people to leak. I notice that despite the thousands who have worked for Intel, virtually no Intel confidential material has been leaked. At least, that I'm awa
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by crucini 12y ago
Sounds convincing. I'm not clear on the "million tricks" though. Suppose you embed some machine language in a string javascript, and use your r1/r2 trick - how can you compute the address of the machine language you wan
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by crucini 12y ago
But can one predict how CSS will look to the CPU? Or do you assume a memcpy will happen at some point, and catch it then?
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by crucini 12y ago
Hmm. In python you have: dog.head.ears[0].hairs[123] In perl5 you have: $dog->{head}{ears}[0]{hairs}[123] I can see why some folks prefer the former.
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by crucini 12y ago
Cool article. I didn't understand how the privilege escalation would be exploited. Obviously if the attacker already has access to the box, he can get root with this exploit. I think a chip backdoor could also be based on information
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by crucini 12y ago
I don't know anything of this case, but this article is biased and propagandistic. It uses the phrase "rotary phone" to trivialize some secret documents. They may indeed be trivial and improperly classified. However the art
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by crucini 12y ago
Declan, I respect the work you've done, but this is a bad argument: > despite his JSTOR "victim" never asking for a criminal prosecution Law enforcement and prosecutors have to take the responsibility, and not put the weig
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by crucini 12y ago
78 comments here, 61k signatures, and nobody has pointed out the glaring grammatical error in the first sentence of the petition. I reckon that the intern who read the thing got a laugh from it.
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by crucini 12y ago
Have you found any other authors like the early Gibson? I would say Snow Crash is similar. Other than that I've found cyberpunk a dead end. Also, Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler are slightly similar, but much less intense.
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by crucini 12y ago
OK, I need to give the Bigend Trilogy a try. The Bridge books were the end of the road for me. If they're just a temporary low spot, I'll keep going.
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by crucini 12y ago
Neuromancer was amazing. I realize now that Gibson's books monotonically decreased in quality. The books have gotten thicker, artier, more self-indulgent, and weaker. I'm sure he'd like to recapture the magic he had at 34, b
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by crucini 12y ago
Why should he be mad? Think of it as a simple cryptogram, like ROT13.
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by crucini 13y ago
I'm afraid it's an inherently proselytizing religion. The restrictions on minor consumer items are a penitential hairshirt. I think your "big-picturism" bypasses the immediate absurdity of consumer environmentalism, but
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by crucini 13y ago
Perhaps there is some hypocrisy, but I think your comment borders on a common fallacy. The fallacy says that an idealist is hypocritical for using real-world resources which wouldn't exist in his ideal world. It says a communist is hyp
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by crucini 13y ago
Yup. Next step is to extrapolate the saints, dogmas and heresies of the current church.
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by crucini 13y ago
Well, hang on. While I understand your reaction, this is a bit of a strawman: > without any English professors? It does feel like we're educating too many English majors for the limited number of English teaching slots. Not to men
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by crucini 13y ago
The entire system of modern "research" and PhDs strikes me as an unsuccessful attempt to mass-produce the kind of scientific thinkers that made our modern world. PhDs are basically people who occupied the "student" role
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by crucini 13y ago
How can the receiving party know the pastie URL? If the sender can edit a previous paste, they can agree on a URL, but I didn't see how to do that.
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by crucini 13y ago
Not just diskless, but somehow incapable of flashing the BIOS, rewriting the CPU microcode, and loading new firmware into the NICs and other peripherals.
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by crucini 13y ago
But it's not always that clear-cut a difference in time. And the manual way has more problems. Quite often you are asked to do the same task again a bit later. At which point you wish you had automated the first time. The manual way

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