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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm not sure what "bare with me" would mean. "Come to a nudist colony with me."
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by derleth 13y ago
> I'm only talking about auto-generated links that can't be clearly disambiguated by the system. But they could be disambiguated by humans, which is my point. Humans understand context.
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by derleth 13y ago
It would be interesting to know how those pages function in IE5. Does anything they do rely on JS IE5 doesn't understand? CSS IE5 can't process? eBay, Amazon, and Facebook especially might become worthless even though it looks like they ren
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by derleth 13y ago
> Just make the link to the disambiguation page, if there is one? Otherwise, make it a special link that doesn't go anywhere directly, but uses some javascript/CSS to raise a dialog when clicked, that gives you the different choices? Bo
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by derleth 13y ago
> The articles that get deleted by the little notability hitlers are contributions with no cost incurred by anyone, save the trivial storage space. Godwin, and wrong on the merits, as well. The stuff that gets deleted is the stuff that
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by derleth 13y ago
To include verifiable human knowledge.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Where's the FUD about recent college grads in the 1960's interviewing for jobs with full, unkempt beards, and making allusions to radical politics? Gone the moment those people became the old folks who rant and rave about "kids today"
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by derleth 13y ago
> deletionism Deletionism is the reason it's worth using to begin with. It prevents it from being flooded by crap and allows it to stay on mission. Not everything has to be all things to all people.
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by derleth 13y ago
> American eating habits. People would rather be miserable, fat, poisoned zombies than to stop eating empty carbs with a side of sugar and mystery meat. This is entirely untrue, as should be obvious from the absurd conclusion it forces
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by derleth 13y ago
> Except M.A.D worked. It's an example of a beneficial Nash equilibrium because the stable state was a military stalemate. True if you ignore the externalities of a huge military build-up. A better solution would be both sides agreeing
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by derleth 13y ago
> What can be more powerful than the collective power of masses? An entity that isn't tempted to defect from a boycott: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Milgrom > Milgrom, together with Barry Weingast and Avner Greif, applied a r
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by derleth 13y ago
> Widespread public problems this this cannot be solved by individual citizens or organizations. They need the power, money and resources of a government. More to the point, they need an entity that is both powerful enough to force chan
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by derleth 13y ago
The way I write the numeral '1', I'm in more danger of confusing it with lowercase 'l' than numeral '7'. I believe this is one of those little things that helps mark people out as European or American. (To prevent my numeral '1' from collid
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by derleth 13y ago
> well known Easter technical school Derived from a well-known Passover technical school?
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by derleth 13y ago
Then why did the Royal Society create a contest to explain it?
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by derleth 14y ago
> Now let's assume a hacker breaks into their system and downloads a full dump of their database. Now that hacker has many (hundreds? thousands?) of key photos matched directly to addresses and likely tons of other PII. In theory, they
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by derleth 14y ago
COBOL does have one thing worth stealing, though, which is its data definition language and automatic parser generation facility in the core language. Essentially, COBOL allows programmers to declare what their input file looks like and the
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by derleth 14y ago
> Yes, so all it takes is somebody to rob THEM, and get keys and addresses... Which would legitimately take the heat off of them, so it would be in their interests to fake a robbery of themselves not long before their real robberies of
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by derleth 14y ago
> So then they have my address and keys to it? Right, which means if your house is burgled within a reasonable timeframe after you use the service, they're prime suspects. It's a pretty big risk for them, I should think.
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by derleth 14y ago
> If the orchestra is just about the music, why not listen to a recording instead? The social experience. The experience of going someplace special, outside the normal orbit of your life, and being That Person for a while. That Person b
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by derleth 14y ago
> I thought tech mas about metocricity. I couldn't tell, at first, if the last word was supposed to be 'mediocrity' or 'meritocracy'.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Atheistic religiosity is still religiosity Right. Replacing one form of blind adherence with another is not an improvement. There are people who have no blind adherence to anything. It is possible, and we need more of them. That isn't
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by derleth 14y ago
> It's a valid operation regardless of whether a standards body says it's not. All the world's a VAX, sure. Don't mind the next generation of hardware coming down the pike and the next wave of compiler optimizations. http://catb.org/ja
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by derleth 14y ago
> Should people just not be allowed to meet each other face to face? In some cases, when making some kinds of selections, this is entirely reasonable. For example, in auditions for certain orchestras: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audit
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by derleth 14y ago
> C is memory with syntactic sugar and as such it is helpful to think of things in C as starting from memory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie-to-children > A lie-to-children, sometimes referred to as a Wittgenstein's ladder (see
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by derleth 14y ago
Interesting in that I've seen the exact opposite: Chrome hits the disk a lot harder, especially on startup, compared to Firefox.
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by derleth 14y ago
> "c for ruby programmers" Most, if not all, of this book would be "How To Use Pointers" with large sections on how to structure your code around correctly allocating and freeing memory. A (fairly brief) appendix would be "Weird Stuff C
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by derleth 14y ago
If you need opioids for the pain from a stubbed toe, you have a serious problem with something (mental, physical, or both) and need more help than an OTC opioid can give.
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by derleth 14y ago
> Cuts of beef? No, cow organs. All cattle, regardless of where they're from, have the same organs. Any word you don't recognize isn't an organ, so it can't be the right answer. Assuming you know what the organs are, of course, which is
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by derleth 14y ago
> There are some real ports of Linux for "limited" architectures, like uClinux (supporting few 32-bit micros, including some MMU-less ones) and ELKS (for 16-bit x86 CPUs). But is it actually Linux, or something that was based on Linux b

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