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by dublin 6y ago
On the other hand, you could just allow free speech and expression, a strategy that has worked extremely well in western civilization for at least the last 500 years. For instance, I have no problem with letting Nazis present their views
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The impressive thing about that one is that it's still alive and working to support a going business that's delivered cars this week!
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I can be, if you don't server everything through databases and app servers. Remember that HTML was really designed to work reasonably well in the age of dial-up modems, so it flat screams if you use it correctly. (Also note that comin
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It also significantly deters people from ever modifying that code and using it commercial applications, even if they are willing to open it up sometime in the future. (Believe me, as a several-time CTO, I've wound up in every case de
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This is airing dirty laundry from literally years ago. I actually don't know what the current situation is, but it's lear that the argument presented at the github link is four years old now. It's quite likely that things ha
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Keep in mind that although that regulatory certification approach does indeed increase security, it can also greatly constrain innovation. It's most appropriate once systems have matured a bit. FWIW, there was an average of one steam
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An alternative to full air-gapping is gateways that pass only the traffic they're supposed to. One example: For many years before they were bought by HP, Compaq's mail system had a regular Internet-connected SMTP MTA that fed t
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+100 for use Hesiod. It solved this problem well and correctly years ago, and just works. (It was also a key part of the support for Carnegie-Mellon's Andrew networked filesystem.) The seamless integration of all the Project Athena st
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I'm currently working on two, but unfortunately can't post about them yet. Both are lightweight consumer products manufacturing - decent margins, probably good markets, and the kind of thing that can be spun up in a garage (and r
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Not that there's anything wrong with that...
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Actually, Music is STEM, in the true and classical sense - it's only our perverted modern view that has severed music from its moorings in mathematics. It was even part of the quadrivium of medieval education: Arithmetic, Geometry, A
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In the UK? Help do Science on your killer cat(whatthecatdraggedin.org)
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It would be nice to know if this vulnerability is avoided by simply disabling IPv6, since almost no one uses v6 on LANs anyway.
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What the article author doesn't get: Serverless cloud platforms and APIs are the 21st century equivalent of OS APIs and libraries. They're still maturing, but the abstraction has moved up a level. Most people don't care (an
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Your chain breaks between Me and XP, because you omitted Win2K. And that's a huge change - It was the point at which they switched to the NT kernel from the previous DOS-based ones. While MS hasn't always done a great job on all
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While he didn't rely on them that much other than as a confirmation, it clearly surprised the folks at Stereophile that he was instantly able to pick up on the subtleties they noticed.
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That's true, but psychoacoustic compression models like MP3 work precisely because they're throwing out what most people can't hear. That said, people are different, and some people can hear the difference. My ears are pr
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In opposition to both the article and the comment above, Usenet (actually uucp) bang-paths are VERY different from domain names, in that they don't represent any kind of organizational (in this case, naming) hierarchy at all, but rathe
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A BMW straight six with a manual transmission can be expected to last 300K miles, and if you choose the right one (some models are notoriously bad), the maintenance isn't even that bad. Electronics are damn expensive to fix in any ca
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Yep, buy interesting used cars - they're a much better deal, especially if you can take the time to wait for a good deal rather than needing to buy a car right now...
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Not even close. "Best" has lots of dimensions, though: It depends on what you mean, and that changes which car is "best" quite a bit: Fastest: The one I own now, a Chrysler Crossfire SRT-6 (the one with the 350HP superc
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Another example of Tesla qwality. They're catching up to Government Motors, all right. (FWIW, I admire Tesla's innovation, but they don't make very good cars.)
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But Windows lets you do things no Linux distro really can - use modern, state-of-the-art interface technologies like multitouch, pens, and dials. A Surface with WSL is about the ideal setup, with the best of both worlds. Also, the author o
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Worse, "What's Going On" (a good, but not #1-worthy album, for sure) rose to number one, while the remarkably complex and innovative "Getz/Gilberto", which influence myriad other performers, dropped off the lis
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FWIW, what the Stanford Graduate School of Business types found was that when you take a bunch of inherently pretty uncreative people, then try to regiment their creativity with a rigid process, they become even less creative. Gee, ya thin
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3.1415927, which I memorized in 10th grade (just a hair more accurate than 335/113) has always been more than adequate for every engineering task I've ever had to engage in - including those in the aerospace industry (both rockets
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Since this is critical health and safety stuff that can lead to serious injury, everyone I've ever seen uses hardware interlocks - generally, the door-closed switch is in series with the microwave power supply, so it's impossible
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I disagree - by and large, we don't need to "rewrite for tomorrow". Almost every significant problem in Computer Science and Software Engineering was solved (well) decades ago, often in the 1960s. Security is a bigger issue
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It's worth noting that it took 75 years after Gutenberg's press before some disgusted printer came up with the idea of page numbers. As the saying goes, all progress depends on the unreasonable man, who eventually becomes disgust
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The quality surveys and several owners I know would beg to differ. Tesla has had, and continues to have, horrendous quality issues. Don't get me wrong, Tesla does do some things well, and they're certainly not afraid to innovate

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