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by fit2rule 6y ago
Why is it so important to fantasise imaginary scenarios about your idol-of-hate rather than conjure up effective means by which things can improve in society? Derangement syndrome is a reality. Not everything bad that happens is a result o
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Yes. If you are performing a public duty, it must be done in open society. Anything less is corrupt by definition. Secret meetings are the opposite of open society.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
There have been cases of homogenous CPU architectures in safety-critical where all CPU's failed at once. Bitflippinrads are one of a multi-variate set of problems that these systems are designed to detect and avoid. Nodes can degrade
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by fit2rule 6y ago
There are generations of people alive today who don't remember the Cold War at all, and don't understand the fuss that was made about that era. These people don't know what it was like to live with the terror that life on Ear
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by fit2rule 6y ago
>I was actually surprised how "small" a lot of the bombs we've used are. I think a lot of people overlook the fact that a majority of nuclear devices were created to act as triggers in an even bigger explosion - and thos
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by fit2rule 6y ago
That hasn't been the case in Vienna for some years, so you must have seen that setup a decade or so, ago. These days its THALES-built systems running SIL-4 rated code in a best 2-of-3 or 3-of-5 voting system, and each of the nodes can
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by fit2rule 6y ago
The OpenPandora / Pyra Handheld consoles represent what you describe .. and there is a budding ecosystem around the scene. I think the problem with these projects is that there isn't really a rigorous, solid systems-software appro
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by fit2rule 6y ago
There should be such an expectation, though.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
I disagree entirely. Government must be conducted openly and with critical review by the people being governed, always. All government business should be logged and available for audit for years after the fact. Otherwise, what we get is a
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Government secrecy should be absolutely restricted by the general public - it is the beginning of all corruption of government. The UK headed down the wrong path towards totalitarian class-ist society when it decided the common people shou
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Oh, this is easy. The usual response to such a question is - "you're just an anti-intellectual! Being rich doesn't mean you're smart - any fool can do it! Real non-fools write their opinions down and other fools follow
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Imagine if we could put a metal object in the sky that would allow us to talk to anyone in the world instantly? Imagine if we could take someones blood, clean it, and put it back .. Imagine if we could gain access to the NSA's extensiv
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Yeah, its just not something I believe I should be promoting, as a developer, as a solution to anything. Its like .. Sure, meth might be fun, but I definitely don't think I wanna hang out when all the people in the room are doing it.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Even a cursory glance at the NSA ANT Catalog is enough to give one the impression, there's a whole other battlefield out there. Every now and then, almost yearly now, the conspiracy theory scene pings one of my favourite theories: the
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by fit2rule 6y ago
It sure does. (I'm pretty sure the cable is in the path of the bomb being tested..)
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Its almost like Javascript begat a developer eco-system which then required further tooling and ancillary applications in order to keep it all in order. What a pity this was done within the browser-as-OS context rather than OS-as-OS, as a t
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Bastante justa.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
.. especially considering the conditions which allow the heinous income equality situation in Cuba, in the first place, are directly related to American's continued ignorance of their military industrial complex' threats against &
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Serious question: why didn't you just pay $20 for a haircut?
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by fit2rule 6y ago
The situation with Cuba is where I find myself widely differing with the viewpoints of my American colleagues - I just cannot see any justification for the way that the USA treats Cuba. It is inhumane and un-just, and I think Americans suf
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by fit2rule 6y ago
>left-pad That is all.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Its the link in the sentence "In the end, the TC-497 was also abandoned." - that I followed... interesting that they'd use an ARG as a reference on it ..
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Ah, Czech problems. Yes, I can imagine its very frustrating to have grown up in such an environment, where duplicity and subterfuge were used to undermine the Czech people time and again. I believe we won't solve those kinds of probl
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by fit2rule 6y ago
I remember the rage I felt when I saw a junior dev use "Ctrl-Z .. kill %1" to get out of vim one time, only to be told that he 'thought it was Z something-or-other'. Its 'ZZ', kid. Or ":q!" if you do
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by fit2rule 6y ago
You reminded me of the time I solved a thorny PROGRESS/4GL programming problem in the 80's using PC-Write (what an editor that was!) by writing a macro file containing a code-gen/-mod script, and then feeding the macro file i
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by fit2rule 6y ago
I completely agree with you. Every time I get an IDE's "vi mode" unpacked and set up in any way that I can try to use it, I end up running from the IDE with my hair on fire, back to plain ol' text-mode vim at the comman
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Who exits vim? I mean, seriously. ":e ." for the win.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
20 years later, I can still write an SDL app using just the SDL repo and my C compiler, with GL features and all the other bells and whistles that made me choose SDL in the first place. Its there, it builds, it runs. There isn't a sin
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Every single bomb dropped 'in defence' is a hospital or water treatment plant that wasn't built, in peace.
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by fit2rule 6y ago
Well, it was linked in the original article directly, which used that page as a source reference for a lot of things, so .. if there is fiction, its sprinkled throughout the original source material.

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