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by fsckboy 10mo ago
was referencing the main competition to ssd's, often decried as spinning rust
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
thanks JohnBooty for sharing your insights about women with certain bodies
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
infidelity, paternity, staffer scandal
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
there's a corollary to "ask forgiveness later" which is "there are so many complex regulations and in such grey area minutia, there's not time to make that my main job. i have no idea if i'm doing anything wron
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
"it's moo. like the opinion of a cow, it doesn't matter" -- Joey Tribbiani
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
under your system, when should Stephen Hawking have pulled the plug?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
this is about drives that are not plugged in. are you saying parity would let you simply detect that the data had gone bad? increasing the number of drives would increase the decay rate, more possibilities for a first one to expire. if your
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> unpowered SSDs slowly lose data so it's as if the data... rusts , a little bit at a time
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> I'll believe you actually hold this opinion after you die from an entirely curable decease. what does that have to do with anything? narcissism and self importance are adaptive features we use to propel our genes into the future
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i'm not talking about a plea bargain, i'm talking about declining to prosecute, not filing charges after an arrest, or asking the court to dismiss the charges i am sure that every victim allegation does not lead to a prosecution i
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> it's an unequivocally good thing. the miracle that is humans and humanity came about through millennia of unrestrained fertility and lots of sex℠ producing many babies, most of whom didn't survive to adulthood. Insects and f
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
and you couldn't put a (2017) in the title?
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
this is pretty interesting but i don't think i can justify dropping everything to study it. but it did remind me of an adjacent "field", that guy who explores all the ways to lace shoes (i think this is the one, but whereas o
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> likely the most sweeping public exposure of covert foreign activity on a major platform since the revelations about Russia in 2016 the 2016 "revelations" were a nothing-burger, ginned up as cover for the actual dangerous con
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
just as HN is segregated from the majority of the web by focused interests within the community at large, within this community there could also be segregation of interests. you don't need to try to stamp it out every time you hear abo
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
if the jury believed the woman's claims, yes, it's enough for conviction. conviction rates are high not because it's easy to prove guilt, but because district attorneys don't bring case that are likely to be lost. the sc
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> In the US, we restrict ... alcohol consumption to 18 isn't it 21 all over the US? it was changed to cut drunk driving in the late 70s at the federal level, tied to highway funds, so the states needed to cave
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
everybody has a fraction of that speed
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
for those not old enough to remember, that's pronounced "corrosion"
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
the difference between the two is that I removed the factors of 3 from 123456789 to get 13717421. so much for your secret knowledge of a hyperspecific case.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Trust me, you can do this in your head if you know basic high school level math yeah, i guess it was a mistake to graduate from MIT undergrad and grad school in quant fields, i should have just stuck with high school math > If I as
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Depression is likely to have many possible underlying causes including adaptive evolutionary procreative success
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> The problem does not state that the numbers have to be integers. a and b happen to be 9 +- 2 sqrt(11) but the problem does state that you should be able to do it in your head. who exactly should be able to formulate and reduce simul
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
he said "if you need an analog oscillator". (yes, digital signals are analog signals and analog signals are digital signals, but...)
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
MDL was a dialect of lisp invented by/in part/under Sussman, the originator of Scheme and SICP; what you're calling an obscure dialect was was part of the continuum of a research trajectory, one of a number of experimental la
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i'm not a complete expert on this, but the dates entailed here trigger clear memories. the date on the Zork archive you linked to is 1977. in 1977 there was not really yet a notable software market for personal computers based on micro
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i went to the trouble to search for the first known example to provide a historically salient version. I shortened it slightly because it had been written as a dialog with lots of quotation marks, but i kept the unique phraseology. google t
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
i could have chosen anything, you choose and do it. he didn't say anything at all. "i no longer consider these issues to be black and white [riffing on another comment], i now see it more nuanced, where some things need more of so
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
false equivalence describes a false equivalence. the equivalence that I pointed out was true. he didn't say anything.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> a larger proportion of "chancers", people who are only in tech to "get rich quick" your complaint was Unassailable Hacker® jwz's complaint about HN more than 10 years ago here's a link (many on HN complai

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