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by evilotto 3y ago
I've heard it before in microsoft context. Oddly, Raymond Chen has never covered it - https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/tag/microspeak
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by evilotto 3y ago
X is an interesting case. It was released with a permissive license and the Free Software people argued against it saying that the vendors (Sun, IBM, HP, SGI, etc.) would take it and make a dozen different incompatible versions without sha
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by evilotto 3y ago
There's no "Add to cart" on the page. What kinda online store are they running?
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White-collar crime costs society 20x as much as street crime(embroker.com)
46 points by evilotto 3y ago|28 comments
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by evilotto 3y ago
"[The Unites States Supreme] Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is 'actually' innoc
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by evilotto 3y ago
I think it was Mark Twain who said about Web 2.0, "In every transaction where money changes hands there is a buyer, a seller, and a product. If you are not the buyer or the seller, then you are the product."
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by evilotto 3y ago
AOLserver was 5 years ahead of its time, then stayed put for the next 10. Back under the name NaviServer it is still being actively maintained, although new development is intermittent. Likewise, OpenACS is still a going concern, but the
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by evilotto 3y ago
There's still a few .rvt links on the site, so they may still be using a fair bit of rivet.
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by evilotto 3y ago
Or in CSS: https://www.bryanbraun.com/after-dark-css/all/flying-toaster...
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by evilotto 4y ago
The author makes several really good points about how so much of our taxes that are levied and paid in good faith go towards enriching already-rich entities (healthcare, universities, the defense industry). It's disappointing that the
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by evilotto 4y ago
Or look at the right column and apply Godwin's Second Law.
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by evilotto 4y ago
Unless something has changed in the past decade, fork on linux is really slow when you're forking a large multi-GB process because even though the memory is COW all the kernel page tables still need to be copied. This is one reason wh
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by evilotto 4y ago
Meteorologists seemed to feel that Dark Sky was a graphics processing tool, not a weather app. https://slate.com/technology/2022/12/dark-sky-weather-app-ap...
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by evilotto 4y ago
Is basic fork/exec from a large process still slow or have newer apis fixed that?
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by evilotto 4y ago
I heard a legend at RPI that some students figured out just how big of a job they'd need to submit to underflow the MTS money variable and give themselves a balance of 2^24 or whatever size value it was actually using. IIRC, it was a
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by evilotto 4y ago
The plot of the 1981 movie "Looker" was that models were being replaced with 3d renderings of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looker
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by evilotto 4y ago
But can either convince the other one to let them out of the AI box?
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by evilotto 4y ago
Cool-Retro-Term gives a fun approximation of an amber CRT. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by evilotto 4y ago
Parenthood is the Matrix. Nobody can tell you what it is, you have to experience it for yourself.
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by evilotto 4y ago
Oracle's real pricing model is to sell consulting services.
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by evilotto 4y ago
There was an xkcd comic set in the future with the exact date calculated from the stars. https://xkcd-time.fandom.com/wiki/Astronomy
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by evilotto 4y ago
Get this person off your team however you can. When the sh*t hits the fan over one of their own special exemptions (like something fails in production that should have been caught in a unit test) it will NEVER be their fault. They will po
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Wolfpack Fever(wolfpackempire.com)
1 points by evilotto 4y ago|0 comments
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by evilotto 4y ago
To be fair to the annoying "call us" pricing practice, on your end you need to have a ballpark idea of what you want, whether its number of seats, data size, or whatever the product is sized in. Having that makes the calls go fa
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by evilotto 4y ago
My first question for you would be why do you want to work at my company? You like working at early-stage startups, and that's not this company. My second question is what would keep you working at my company when something else catc
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by evilotto 4y ago
There's lots of weird little vortices where the wind seems to start or end in a spiral. I'm guessing it's an artifact of the modelling. Funny, but overall very cool.
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by evilotto 4y ago
I am not interested in hiring someone who doesn't want to stick around for 2 reasons: First, as others have said, it takes time to learn an organization, far longer than learning say, a new programming language. Someone who only stic
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by evilotto 4y ago
Space Force. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18th_Space_Defense_Squadron
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by evilotto 4y ago
I think the problem is that he's selling the maps as a service. A homeowner doing it for themself is different from hiring a professional service to do it.
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by evilotto 4y ago
This sounds like what YQL should have grown into. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahoo!_Query_Language

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