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by cturner 6y ago
I feel it misses a reliable take-down of the systems people. Recipe: (1) ask the person if they have evaluated some framework which would take months to evaluate; (2) suggest that their hard work reinvents the wheel; (3) step back and enjoy
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The Australian situation has created an incentive for tech companies to consider getting into news-content production, a sector that was previously not-lucrative. Find a struggling newspaper to purchase for a song. That gets you a masthead
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There is some overlap, but the planes serve different purposes. The B1 is still in service.
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Both examples use the same operator, but we resolve them to different functions. Mentally, we use the tuple of argument types to select the appropriate function. Addition does not provide equivalent functions for all multiplication cases. H
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Through these experiences, you meet others in the same situation. Keep track of the good ones. An opportunity might come up for a group of you to do something later on. Regard each charlatan as a trainer.
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It is a similar dynamic, but I would be more inclined to trust the ETF. 1) For the metals ETFs I know about, the underlying is held by a bank which is a separate legal vehicle to the ETF. Since the ETF and the bank are both publicly-listed
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by cturner 6y ago
Another alt-space game, roguelike on the surface of a klein bottle, http://songseed.org/exhibit/20120318.srd/kleinrl.0.4.zip
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by cturner 6y ago
It is reasonable to want remote desktop access. I am unfamiliar with the RDP technique you raise, but expect it could be achieved through VNC or similar systems. X-Windows is itself a weak response to remote access. I have memories of tryin
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by cturner 6y ago
Remote windowing is a legacy of the era when universities ran dozens of dumb terminals from a server. It would be bizarre to pursue that in an era of hardware-accelerated graphics. If the Wayland design was weighed down by such things, it c
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Would it be viable to use a rig of leyden jars to smooth out power coming from a scrappy alternator/commutator, and to implement cut-outs?
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by cturner 6y ago
Check out /A Canticle for Leibowitz/. Each time CollapseOS comes up, I picture a team of monks cycling alternators around the clock to keep a system powered while another compares parchment to a vacuum-tube display. I think for it
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by cturner 6y ago
The definition for /pyramid scheme/ is straightforward, and Bitcoin does not match it.
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Stock picking is not realism.
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You can get a fair bit of that with terminal multiplexers like tmux. It does not have the ability to style different tabs. But it has advantages too. For example, you can have multiple terms connected to a single tmux session, you can run t
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by cturner 6y ago
Rights and democracy are in conflict. In a real democracy, the majority could decide to lock you up simply because they didn't like you. In a rights-driven system, everything is ultimately decided by the courts, which are run by elites
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How to Build Big Software with Small Agile Teams(youtube.com)
2 points by cturner 6y ago|0 comments
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The TDP on EPYC chips is a lot higher. I think of Threadripper as mid-tier, and EPYC as the high-end. Ryzen is remarkable because you can buy new equipment with ECC, at consumer prices. I am hazy, but don't think that has been possible
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by cturner 6y ago
Regarding verification. There is a debian package called edac-utils. As I recall you overclock your RAM and run your system at load in order to generate failures. Looking back at my notes, the output of journalctl -b tells should say someth
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by cturner 6y ago
I went through this about a year ago, to build a low-TDP ECC workstation. I do not have stats on failure rates, just this anecdotal experience. Asrock and Asus seem to be the boards to get. For RAM, I got two sticks of Samsung M391A4G43MB1,
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Iterative Development(songseed.org)
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Noted, thanks.
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I feel like you're echoing Clayton Christensen in this comment. It may be possible to escape the inevitable destruction he describes by sustaining a culture that cares about innovation. The thing that woke me up to the Apple way was wh
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by cturner 6y ago
Thanks for your note. I have had a several bursts of play with Red, but it keeps slipping my mind. I suspect it would be an easier starting point than building up Forth from nothing. There may be a challenge bootstrapping that ecosystem on
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by cturner 6y ago
I feel like I have only scratched the surface :) If you take interest in this, we hang out in #dinghy on freenode. We have bursts of activity, and then long periods of silence. But I do feel like the world is ripe for a revolution in a few
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We have a group that has been playing with that concept, songseed.org/dinghy, including the notion of a ‘forth workstation’. Through this, I have found networking to be a significant design pressure on the rest of the system, inviting
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by cturner 6y ago
Something I find interesting about the French Revolution is how slowly the commoners came to seriously consider alternatives to the default system of rule, despite sustained loss-of-credibility by the elites. This seems to fit with your &#x
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> Australia doesn't have nukes because they don't want them I don't think you did any investigation before posting that, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia_and_weapons_of_mass_... Austr
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> only in a world where the others don't > have nuclear weapons It's a world where only Russia, (mainland) China, the US, France and the UK have nuclear weapons, in pursuit of a strategic balance. > If
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Among reasons for the American spend (1) it helps to support the nuclear non-proliferation cause, and has historically been used to dissuade Australia and Japan and South Korea and West Germany from creating their own nuclear weapons progra
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by cturner 6y ago
Loosely I agree with commenters remarking that the Cold War is over. (Though not the disrespect for the Russian capability. That is a country that still knows how to fight a war.) But if not for Russia, why does Europe need a military? To g

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