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Customer wants lock with non-resetable mechanical counter
4 points by daly 5y ago|5 comments
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by daly 5y ago
A "National Cyber Director"? Wow, that's a broad and difficult job. Having spent a decade or more in "cyber" related activities I think it is vital that the director have a deep understanding of how attack and defen
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by daly 5y ago
Wouldn't adding your own airtag to your car help?
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by daly 5y ago
(Maintainer of Axiom, an open source computer algebra system): Sure it is sustainable, at least as long as I can work on it. I've been at it 20 years so far. I still work on it as a research project. I was also the maintainer of Magnus
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by daly 5y ago
When Russia attacks Ukraine, it would be the perfect time for China to attack Taiwan. It is essentially a middle-out tactic where the defense forces are split. Russia needs Ukraine. China needs Taiwan. Both locations are perfect "contr
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Two double-slit experiment questions
3 points by daly 5y ago|1 comments
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by daly 5y ago
The current average company lifespan is 21 years ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/1259275/average-company-... ). It has slowly decreased over time. Given that Wolfram Research is tightly held, what happens when
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by daly 5y ago
Read the book OVERSHOOT https://www.amazon.com/Overshoot-Ecological-Basis-Revolution... You'll see that we can't feed 9bn people.
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Book: Overshoot. The Ecological Basis of Revolutionary Change
1 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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Why doesn't business have a “meeting cost” line item?
1 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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by daly 5y ago
I worked on a Symbolics machine for years. There has never been a more productive environment. I truly miss it.
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by daly 5y ago
I don't need color. I need an 8 1/2 x 11 e-ink that can hold a few thousand PDFS.
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by daly 5y ago
Every programmer I know retired into management. They made more, sometimes a lot more, money than I did. I had 8 "opportunities" to do that. I turned them all down. My reasoning is that I don't understand why I would move fro
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by daly 5y ago
Submarine communication. Acoustic signals can be detected at VERY long distances. These signals cannot. Spy communication from inside a nuclear facility.
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by daly 5y ago
As a retired software developer with 50 years experience I can say that he's unlikely to get hired. The software business is very age-biased. And, since you mentioned that he was the "director of a center", that implies that
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Post-quantum crypto proposal using Transcendentals
2 points by daly 5y ago|1 comments
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by daly 5y ago
You should probably watch John Oliver's Power Grid episode The Power Grid: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBpiXcyB7wU
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by daly 5y ago
We had a test database that contained 1 record. Nobody paid much attention since the focus was on the problem, not the database. The database included several newly developed "stored procedures". Time elapsed... and it was nearing
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The Elon Musk interview question
7 points by daly 5y ago|6 comments
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Finding Transcendental Numbers?
4 points by daly 5y ago|1 comments
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by daly 5y ago
I have hundreds of PDFS. I keep searching for an 8.5x11 e-ink display tablet. It doesn't have to do anything but store and display PDFs. The original Amazon Kindle DX was so very close.
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Review: Celebrating a Third of a Century of Mathematica
4 points by daly 5y ago|0 comments
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by daly 5y ago
Will it be graded on a curve? Is there a make-up date? Can we use a cheat sheet? Are all the questions from the book or in class? Sorry, I've taught too often :-(
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by daly 5y ago
When teaching programming the concept of "local scope" seems hard to grasp for some people. The easy explanation is that a pronoun (usually) has a scope of a sentence or a paragraph. Just calling everything a "variable"
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by daly 5y ago
Compute the area under this curve...
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Pronouns a new name for an old idea
5 points by daly 5y ago|11 comments
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by daly 5y ago
The original Lisp definitions by McCarthy
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by daly 5y ago
I used to deliver fresh bagels from a NY bagel shop. I've had bagels from many different places (not yet from Vermont though). There are no better bagels than NY bagels anywhere.
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by daly 5y ago
I'm confused. Didn't Chapelle ask the Trans community to stop "punching down" on comedians? (I think it is the very last thing he said in the show). His good friend was a Trans comedian and ended up committing suicide.
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by daly 5y ago
Yet another bit of nonsense. I've been programming for 50 years. There are no "revolutionary models". Nor is there a silver bullet. The only trend I see that has merit is proving programs correct. CMU (Harper, Pfenning, Crary

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