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by fargle 7y ago
Awesome! Just awesome. One of the first "discoveries" I made is how much bigger the distances to the outer planets are and how much their spacing geometrically increases. That's never been obvious to me before. Thank you.
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by fargle 7y ago
And in the US.
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by fargle 7y ago
What a disaster. There is no doubt that was an epically awful experience. Yet I fail to see at all how it was everyone else's fault. You pay the landlord and uber the price that the market sets and you are free to not do so. The points
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by fargle 7y ago
Here's an example of exactly how this subject should be handled. In fact, he even explains why he chose to change the title. You should check out: https://blog.reverberate.org/2014/09/what-every-computer-pro
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by fargle 7y ago
So please point to all the security holes created by Lamport or Knuth. I didn't say, by the way, credentialed engineer. I said "think like an engineer". I'd even accept Hacker. Those who are just "programmers"
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by fargle 7y ago
You are beginning to see what I mean. But here's the part you didn't get. If you are going to be a programmer, you should think like an engineer. You need to understand your machine and your code and the effects of it all. I bel
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by fargle 7y ago
So a well meaning reader will decide not to use floating point. He will switch to fixed point. And encounter the same problem because you never explained it correctly. You need to understand the material before you create a explanation of i
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by fargle 7y ago
So you copy a title, change one word to a synonym, summarize the contents, and it is I that doesn't understand what plagiarism means? Your QUOTE "main goal was not creativity or new information". When I said "close to&qu
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by fargle 7y ago
I'm not cross. I'm disappointed. I naively hoped you'd at least hear some criticism. What I learn is that you imagine that I don't understand (I do), don't know (I do) and it reflects badly for me to criticice. You
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by fargle 7y ago
How does that reflect "badly"? You freaking linked a manual appendix. The original source is in Communications of the ACM.
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by fargle 7y ago
Awesome job. I particularly like the size of the code. When I see that state diagram, or think about what you have to do to control DRAM, or look at other COTS and OpenSource controller cores, I always was super leery of the complexity. Th
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by fargle 7y ago
Normally when I see a headline of this sort, I expect I will find another over-enthusiastic bombastic smoke-and-mirrors hit-piece. The fact that this article hits home and is right scares me a tiny bit. For example: "I should note that
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by fargle 7y ago
> Many, people have in fact stated that my website helped them. So it seems you are provably wrong. Again with that very loose logic. I did not state your website helped no one. So the fact that it helped one or more people does not prov
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by fargle 7y ago
> My audience is programmers This gets to the heart of why I felt it necessary to comment at all, and as you have gathered, am being derisive and negative toward your website with navigation panel . Programmers is not a term I like. It
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by fargle 7y ago
> but you need help OK, I don't like your page and did openly disparage it but have said nothing unkind or impolite to you as a person. You, however, refuse to acknowledge that you are insulting large classes of "programmers&qu
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by fargle 7y ago
> Your link is a scanned paper article Which is formatted properly and has references cited correctly. It is organized and precise. It would be better if you found the real PDF. What is NOT OK is to link to the back of a manual that is a
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by fargle 7y ago
> there are now dozens of articles out there using that title format And if they were copying and summarizing most of the same content they would also be plagiarizing. If they are riffing on a title theme about a different subject, whi
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by fargle 7y ago
> I.e. it has everything to do with floating point. Floating point has those problems, but so do many other representations. It isn't just a floating point problem. This is exactly the kind of muddy thinking that is avoided by sti
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by fargle 7y ago
> "terrible", "junk" and "garbage" is not a good faith critique Fair enough. But the you asked why I felt that way, and then I am trying to explain in good faith. There is no need to get cross.
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by fargle 7y ago
Why has this been flagged? Yes. I also struggle to think this is real. I'd love to see a Tesla truck, but a over-sized document shredder with 33" tires must be some kind of april fools.
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by fargle 7y ago
amen. and if magnetic shit falls off my car, that's the breaks, suckers.
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by fargle 7y ago
To an idiot, apparently, it is.
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by fargle 7y ago
Still doesn't make 'em cheaper.
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by fargle 7y ago
I just zapped myself so hard my hand flew back and got cut on the metal box. Hurt a bit, but it was $900 cheaper than your lesson. :)
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by fargle 7y ago
> So did I on a small website... I was responding to you saying that a comment in a forum that I made was "doing the same thing" as your small website. But it's not equivalent. I didn't make a website, not a paper. I
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by fargle 7y ago
I don't even disagree from a purist standpoint. And yes, I think everyone should read it. But they won't all, and don't need to, understand it. But um, so a sophomoric summary without the "complications" of proving
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by fargle 7y ago
Well, fellow rocket scientists: 1. Pensions no more and the 401-K is the way. This is a huge boon to the employees who's retirement stake is no longer barely at all tied a one company or another. 2. Thanks, ObamaCare. The more governme
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by fargle 7y ago
OK, is this a joke? Some kind of Poe's law inversion point? The article's suggestions for curbing gun-related massacres: 1. Emotion and Behavior-Controlled Brain Implants 2. Banning the bullets (so it'd be "bullet violen
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by fargle 7y ago
"It was a dark and stormy night" http://ronaldbrichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Snoo... http://ronaldbrichardson.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/Snoo
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by fargle 7y ago
carnivore boomer to you

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