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by gchpaco 13y ago
Unreinforced brick will indeed fall down in even modest earthquakes. In new construction it is possible to sink rebar into the wall, at which point it is at least the equal of concrete (and certainly more attractive); however a lot of peopl
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Many of them do, although there is the notorious story of an Enzo that got literally torn in half on CA 1 and both people inside walked away.
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Well considering they had a max speed of two miles an hour unloaded, you could probably jump off and get a beer before the crash happened.
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by gchpaco 13y ago
When I thought about that malloc question, I starting asking myself "so I knew the old way was eventually libc calls sbrk and the kernel adds some more pages to the page table. But I can't remember if that's still considered
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Are you kidding? My father works in aerospace for firms doing subcontracting on non-black projects and every time he talks about work it would be about some new ridiculous boondoggle. I remember some idiots conducting testing managed to p
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Attacking an AWACS is very much on the table, it's just hard. It's like being a battleship captain saying "well, if we sink the bloody carrier then the problem's solved, right?"--you're not wrong but you&#x2
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Dip pens can be really touchy. I use a fountain pen a lot. Paper quality becomes extremely important; a ballpoint will skip over rough weaves in poorly made paper, but a pen with a nib will catch on them. Why, then, would anybody use anyt
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Actually, modded Minecraft sees an enormous amount of activity, particularly of late it seems. It's started cannibalizing my DF time, of all things--vanilla Minecraft is dull by comparison. DF sees a little of this with dfhack and all
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by gchpaco 13y ago
These technologies come into their own when you are managing large fleets of servers; but by the same right, you need to offer a lot of sophistication to make large fleets of heterogeneous servers work. When you have five servers these see
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Jurisdiction is funny on universities. UCSB (one I have personal experience with) has a special campus police branch that overlaps somewhat with the Isla Vista branch but are nominally distinct; I don't think the county's sheriff
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by gchpaco 13y ago
Typically the smaller ones are also refrigerated whereas the 2L aren't, precisely because you're expected to grab the former when you're on your way from A to B and are busy.
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by gchpaco 13y ago
I spent seven years doing a PhD in Computer Science. It was an unpleasant experience from about year three or four on and I would have gotten the masters' and left before finishing if I knew then what I know now, and probably a) not gone t
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by gchpaco 13y ago
The old saw is that when you finish your PhD you will either be sick to death of the subject and do something quite different, or still interested and spend most of your career on the same subject. It does seem to be quite binary in practi
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by gchpaco 13y ago
There's a notorious proof of Heron's formula (computing the area of a triangle from the lengths of the three sides without trig) that proceeds by proving three things that seem to have nothing to with one another or with the goal, and then
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by gchpaco 13y ago
There's an important difference between mild steel (which is basically pure iron) and wrought iron (which has slag inclusions); the slag inclusions in the latter actually make for significant rust resistance.
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by gchpaco 14y ago
The evidence of systems like Relic RTSes (Company of Heroes, Dawn of War, etc) indicates that even when you make the system easier to use, micro skills just shift to something else. In DoW2, for example, the skills that in SC2 make control
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by gchpaco 14y ago
From http://www.h5l.org/manual/HEAD/info/heimdal/Authorisation-da... : The Windows 2000 KDC also adds extra authorisation data in tickets. It is at this point unclear what triggers it to do this. The format of this data is only availab
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Code switching is actually when you wander between two or more languages in the scope of a single conversation (which is downright weird to listen to if you speak only one; girl I knew would wander between Russian and English conversing wit
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Windows AD is Kerberos based with a gratuitous compatibility breaking change that I can't remember right now. We use Kerberos at work, and the FreeIPA project is Kerberos based. It doesn't really come into its own until you have many, many
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by gchpaco 14y ago
The conventional x86 way of doing it was to spill to "the stack" and I'm told that their chips actually specially optimize that nowadays. But it's all very weird, deep magic in a lot of ways.
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by gchpaco 14y ago
For reasons like this I usually claim that 32-bit x86 chips have zero or at most one general purpose registers. Everything else is full of weird junk like this.
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by gchpaco 14y ago
But she probably has a better reason for owning them.
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by gchpaco 14y ago
I find that with large forts the "rolling resource shortage" problem is really obnoxious. Things like "oh, my idiots turned all the wood, the wood I needed for beds, into charcoal" get my goat. Actually solving the steel shortage problem
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by gchpaco 14y ago
It is actually really a blast, enough so to cause these sort of really frustrated "it's awesome but it's awful" threads. It is a weird combination of open world architecture combined with really stupid minions. What is in reality probably a
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Could just be regional idioms; I think I picked that phrase up from some British folks who made a habit of understatement. It isn't especially friendly to the reader, I'll admit (there, I did it again!).
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Those charged with enforcing the rules are not infrequently in bed with those violating the rules; "regulatory capture".
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by gchpaco 14y ago
"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement." I think Nasrudin?
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Good god isn't it addictive enough?! More realistically there are things you can do in DF like bathe the world in lava or crack the Maximum Fun Chamber that would be kind of obnoxious for your neighbors. A bit like playing Minecraft with I
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by gchpaco 14y ago
Steady state things, mostly, like "ensure that there is always 30 bars of pig iron" or "ensure that ten quarry bush leaves always are available"; if there are too many objects it will stop making them (particularly useful with things like p
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by gchpaco 14y ago
I assure you, the current player base is acutely aware of how bad the UI is. It's not even that it's opaque until learned, it is sometimes just downright impossible in vanilla DF to answer certain elementary questions like "how many dwarve

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