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by gbacon 7y ago
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12... Slides: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
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by gbacon 7y ago
Nice summary! I'd enjoy reading more of your success stories rather than more mindless hurr hurr! Perl bashing.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Perl Regular Expression Matching is NP-Hard https://perl.plover.com/NPC/
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by gbacon 7y ago
Tenet and tenant have the same Latin root. A tenet is a principle to hold. A tenant is the person who does the holding.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Depending on rental and instruction costs in your area, how frequently you are able to fly, and how much time you spend studying and preparing, total cost to obtain an FAA private certificate will be somewhere in the range between $8,000 to
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by gbacon 7y ago
https://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/av... Flying as a Challenge If you go to the local general aviation airport, you'll find lots of guys in their 60s and 70s who are tackling challenges
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by gbacon 7y ago
> 3) Scrum story points are supposed to reflect end user benefits. Scrum.org states[0] A Story Point is a relative unit of measure, decided upon and used by individual Scrum teams, to provide relative estimates of effort for completin
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by gbacon 7y ago
To prepare for the FAA instrument written and oral exam component of the checkride, I built an Anki deck ( https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/2105122272 ) with the following principles in mind, all of which favored clo
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by gbacon 7y ago
They are, even with autopilots in general-aviation airplanes that commonly have a disable button on the control yoke, a button on the panel, and a circuit breaker to cut George's power.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Economics 101: Price controls create shortages. Note that I’m not defending the broken U.S. system, but attempting to fix it with price controls will exacerbate its problems.
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by gbacon 7y ago
There’s a vast middle ground between those two extremes. Some history is worth keeping, and some is not. Noise commits are of the form “forgot a closing paren,” “comment/uncomment section while debugging,” “finally got it to compile,”
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by gbacon 7y ago
I’ll sometimes do the same for a rebase that looks like it will be hairy, and I like to call the bookmarks, for example, git branch my-branch-mulligan
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by gbacon 7y ago
When cleaning up my own feature branch for review git merge —-squash <tree-ish> When merging into the baseline git merge —-no-ff <tree-ish> The reason for the latter is subtle. Yes, a perfectly linear history i
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by gbacon 7y ago
NUTS talkers on speedway.net and elsewhere
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by gbacon 7y ago
From the article: That the earth does not have a geometrically perfect shape is well established, and the geoid is used to describe the unique and irregular shape of the earth. However, only recently have the more substantial irregularities
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Differences Between MSL and GPS Altitudes(esri.com)
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by gbacon 7y ago
See also The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg https://charlesduhigg.com/the-power-of-habit/ https://www.amazon.com/Power-Habit-What-Life-Business/dp/140...
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by gbacon 7y ago
My fixed wing ratings paid for themselves relatively quickly … You must have gone a path other than immediately to CFI after you got your commercial fixed — or your idea of relatively quickly is a little more patient than mine.
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by gbacon 7y ago
Think both-and, not either-or! (M.S. CS, instrument rated, and working on my commercial ticket)
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by gbacon 7y ago
Wires can be really difficult to see during the day . Forget it at night. Flying at night is great. The air is usually smooth and stable. The lights below are nice to look at, especially near water. If things go wrong at night however, it
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by gbacon 7y ago
Please apply the principle of charity. In context, my question calls for stronger evidence than ipse dixit for this charge of monoculture.
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by gbacon 7y ago
It’s a Leftist fetish. They say they don’t want anyone in charge — or delude themselves into believing “we’re all in charge” by unfurling the Democratic Socialism banner above Leviathan. Strangely in a screed about promoting competition
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by gbacon 7y ago
What monoculture?
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by gbacon 7y ago
Here’s what won’t change: You’ll still be able to go on Google and search like you do today. You’ll still be able to go on Amazon and find 30 different coffee machines that you can get delivered to your house in two days. You’ll still be a
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by gbacon 7y ago
You can see why it became cliché to start a speech with “Webster’s defines X as…”: with his dictionary the definition that followed was actually likely to lend gravitas to your remarks, to sound so good, in fact, that it’d beat anything yo
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by gbacon 8y ago
The UK’s generational wealth discussed in the article and the generational wealth in France at the time of the revolution were propped up by special treatment in the law for nobles, aristocrats, and the “upper class.” I believe you and I ag
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by gbacon 8y ago
The point is that it’s always easy to spend someone else’s money or to call for taking it away to fund the latest Good Idea. Flipping it around to suggest that the real problem is the original proponent needs to step it up so the state ca
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by gbacon 8y ago
You did nothing to deserve winning multiple genetic lotteries, namely having sufficient intelligence to fall into the HN cohort and being born into a wealthy country and household with access to it and similar resources. You didn’t earn you
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by gbacon 8y ago
You may also like a couple of lectures by Erik Demaine: Dynamic Programming I: Fibonacci, Shortest Paths https://youtu.be/OQ5jsbhAv_M Dynamic Programming II: Text Justification, Blackjack https://youtu.be/EN
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by gbacon 8y ago
The audience for this post is at the opposite end of the market from you: two buddies building an MVP in a garage on a shoestring budget.

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