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by dzdt 8y ago
I clicked on the growingupbilingual link. About every third word is a highlighted brand. I have trouble reading it as a personal account when it looks so much like advertising.
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by dzdt 8y ago
For what it's worth I also read it as "I use the Chrome browser on Windows to get work done" and only slowly figured out the correct interpretation as the debugging adventure got crazier and crazier.
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by dzdt 8y ago
And the debugging exercise he went through was insane! I wouldn't have had a clue how to even begin tracking a performance glitch like that that results from an interaction between a very complex program and the OS.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Which is also why facebook/google/etc login for websites is attractive. Offload the worst part of the work.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Ha! Yes, COMAL. Thanks.
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by dzdt 8y ago
No higher level languages were ever competitive with assembler for the 6502. The stack model of C is not a good fit, as the 6502 machine stack doesn't give any support for reading or writing stack-based variables. Good performance de
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by dzdt 8y ago
Did I miss it, or are there zero example images in the article using the new color scale?
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by dzdt 8y ago
"Via x86 CPUs" would be perfect. It conveys detailed information to those with detailed knowledge while still being understandable to those less familiar with tertiary cpu manufacturers.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Yes they note that in some instances the roads preceded the cities. But when they do analysis there is no effort to seperate cases where the cities preceded the roads.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Alternate hypothesis: locations 2000-year-old cities predicts modern day prosperity. And also locations of 2000-year-old cities predicts locations of 2000-year old roads -- uncontroversial I think. The proposed mechanisms are (1) cities are
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by dzdt 8y ago
Nor is he around his grandma for her to talk sense into him; instead he is around a bunch of career criminals. Nor is he around his children, making a stable household for them to grow up focusing on school and building their own futures.
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by dzdt 8y ago
It amazes me that there are places where there is electronic voting with no paper trail. That is placing way too much trust without any verification. Really there should be a paper trail where each voter can check their votes on the paper
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Ask HN: Who sees which kinds of your personal data
1 points by dzdt 8y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 8y ago
Is there any public details on the twitter social network: who was following these accounts and retweeting their messages?
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by dzdt 8y ago
The cause of inflation is usually described as too much money chasing too few goods. Economists often use quite narrow definitions of money, counting things like cash and bank accounts, and maybe CD's, but never other valuable liquid f
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by dzdt 8y ago
Its amazing that an individual, working just with their own time and money in their own house, is so outpacing efforts like that of the Library of Congress.
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Tom Tryniski digitized nearly 50M pages of newspapers in his living room(cjr.org)
326 points by dzdt 8y ago|70 comments
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by dzdt 8y ago
It could be your name. I knew a guy name Omar Ahmed (now sadly deceased); he got extra security every time. Someone with the same or similar name was on a watch list.
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Project Implicit Social Attitude Tests(implicit.harvard.edu)
1 points by dzdt 8y ago|0 comments
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by dzdt 8y ago
This story strikes me as likely to be exaggerated or invented. It is exactly the scenario described in Ken Thomson's Reflections on Trusting Trust. But unlike Thomson, who was developing the compiper, there is no reason a random grad
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by dzdt 8y ago
I would have liked to see more discussion about example old fossils of language.
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by dzdt 8y ago
Human drivers average about 1 fatality per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. [1] So we are still a long ways from being able to access safety in comparison to humans. [1] https://crashstats.nhtsa.dot.gov/Api/Public&
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by dzdt 8y ago
I take "lots" in that quote to be 100 (base 4) or 16 (base 10). Then Jupiters 79 moons would be counted as "oodles-many-many-many-three" -- assuming "oodles" as 1000 (base 4) or 64 (base 10).
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by dzdt 8y ago
Larry Page is not an idiot. Flying cars have giant unsurmountable flaws that should be apparant to anyone who is not an idiot. What gives?
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by dzdt 8y ago
I am less concerned with whether Padilla was actually a bad guy than whether the process was actually a bad process. If we allow a precedent that the government can remove someone's rights by saying the word "terrorist" then
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by dzdt 8y ago
Who remembers in 2002 when an American citizen was arrested on American soil and transferred to a military prison, where he was held for three and a half years with no trial while the government claimed he had no rights or recourse because
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by dzdt 8y ago
The Transportation Safety Board report is at http://www.bst-tsb.gc.ca/eng/enquetes-investigations/marine/... They recommend improved safety planning requirements and automated beacons for such commercial vess
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by dzdt 8y ago
If you chase down the science paper (cough scihub cough) they tested various "native" breeds and found they were not genetically pre-contact.
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by dzdt 8y ago
It reminds me of the US congressional escape bunker under the Greenbrier hotel in West Virginia. I wonder how many other such facilities are still secret today. [1] https://www.npr.org/2011/03/26/134379296&#x2
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by dzdt 8y ago
When I tried Wesnoth (some years back) my issue was the campaigns would progressively get farther out of balance as you progressed. If you ever continued after completing a previous scenario with modest to heavy losses, you would find your

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