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by fexl 13y ago
In the South Pacific island story, when the gold was lost, the money was lost. That was a loss of a physical substance with a unique combination of specific physical characteristics. If it had been silver, copper, platinum, rhodium, or ir
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by fexl 13y ago
Sure, that makes sense. Wow, I didn't know it was cystic fibrosis. I like your comment about the medical care that you two are "supposed to require." :)
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by fexl 13y ago
Keep up the good work. You'll be more independent when you stop depending on food stamps, but you're on your way. Also, I recommend ordinary reusable cups instead of plastic disposables.
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by fexl 13y ago
Why the downvotes on onion's comment? I don't see anything factually incorrect about it.
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by fexl 13y ago
I love the goat-herding idea, but here's something that may help you short of taking such a big step. Grab a plastic garbage bag, and go walk two miles out along a road, and then on the two miles back, pick up all the garbage you can.
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by fexl 13y ago
15 years of Perl and I just now learned about the yadda-yadda ... thanks!
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by fexl 13y ago
Nevermind, I figured it out. I did Export some certs from Chromium and Import them into Firefox, but it wasn't working. However, when I restarted Firefox, it worked.
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by fexl 13y ago
By the way, I looked in the list of trusted root CAs in Chromium, and I didn't see anything called "Positive SSL CA 2" there. If I had seen it, I could have just exported it from Chromium and imported to Firefox.
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Ask HN: How do I install the Root CA "Positive SSL CA 2"?
1 points by fexl 13y ago|2 comments
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by fexl 13y ago
The purpose of any computer program is to produce side effects. A program which has no side effects has no observable behavior and is therefore useless. In that sense, side effects are good, so embrace them. That implies that the purpose
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by fexl 13y ago
Nice discussion of branch prediction there!
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by fexl 13y ago
Does anyone know how to disable TLS 1.0 in Firefox 26.0 (on Linux)? I found this article: http://www.spotht.com/2010/06/how-to-enabledisable-ssl-30-an... However, the Options in my browser do not include a tab ca
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by fexl 13y ago
I'm pretty sick of all high-level languages actually. I even wrote my own functional programming language "Fexl", and I'm sick of it too. Here's a totally general purpose quicksort: # (sort keep compare xs)
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by fexl 13y ago
I get pangs of nostalgia watching this thing. I'm old enough to have worked with punch cards, teletypes, mag tapes, line printers, front panel switches, and such -- in the '70s anyway. (... now where the hell are my cigarettes .
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by fexl 13y ago
Until the advent of the Federal Reserve, the dollar itself was a deflationary currency: http://nothirdsolution.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/cpi...
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by fexl 13y ago
Nice. You may also recall this article about the nature of mercury: http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/the-curious-wavefunction...
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Atmospheric Electricity Powers Small Motor [video](laserhacker.com)
10 points by fexl 13y ago|3 comments
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by fexl 13y ago
Point taken, but in spite of their aspirations, they are neither omniscient nor omnipotent. Thank goodness.
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by fexl 13y ago
I admit that was an unfair swipe at formalism, but I do think that formalism is far more effective in the light of a clear, intuitive exposition that conveys the concept straight into the mind. Formalism is good for battening things down t
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by fexl 13y ago
I make sure Uncle Soprano gets his cut.
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by fexl 13y ago
The term "money laundering" originally referred to the practice of concealing the movement of funds involved in a crime. Now they've redefined it so that concealing the movement of funds is itself a crime, even if the fund
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by fexl 13y ago
I will hazard a guess that making his living at Subway helped his math endeavours. He did not have to endure the stress of a corporate or academic rat race, and nobody claimed to own his intellectual products.
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by fexl 13y ago
I like the simple explanation of K-Means, and I like the contrast with the dense set-theoretic language -- a prime example of "mathematosis" as W.V.O. Quine put it.
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by fexl 13y ago
Brilliant job. I've been a C programmer for over 30 years and I love your approach here.
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by fexl 13y ago
As a personal anecdote, one recruiter from a well-known organization did mention my Github page as an indication of drive and initiative, but it was by no means a deciding factor. Just another piece of evidence on top of a lot of other thi
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by fexl 13y ago
Why are females with CS degrees less likely to have Github pages than males with CS degrees? Is it because of the testosterone which tends to make males show off more than females? If not that, then what?
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by fexl 13y ago
I upvoted you before I read your last paragraph. I am massively in favor of personal freedom, but I am not rooting for massive disasters or scandals with self-driven cars. Nevertheless, it creeps me out in the same way it must creep out
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by fexl 13y ago
"The exterior of his schools will be mostly glass, so outsiders can peer in." That reminds me of one of the technical schools I saw in downtown Lima, Peru. It had a huge number of large glass windows on the front, and as I walked
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by fexl 13y ago
Done. https://github.com/chkoreff/Fexl/commit/ce1d0f596ab3043e0edf...
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Drones that can Kill without Explicit Human Direction(defenseone.com)
3 points by fexl 13y ago|0 comments

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