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by hga 10y ago
Exactly; those of us who were politically aware in the '70s heard "Central States pension plan" and had absolutely no surprise that the nation's worst managed big pension fund is again in big trouble. Per Wikipedia, mat
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by hga 10y ago
tl;dr (but you really should): be very careful who you hire to positions of great responsibility.
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by hga 10y ago
To amplify how desperate people were for memory, back before the Whirlwind people came up with 3D core memory they were considering among other things a microwave version of mercury delay lines, running a signal out to western Massachusetts
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by hga 10y ago
It's definitely an "it depends". I'm in a Purple state (Missouri, about half Democrats and half Republicans, sort of trending Red, but with plenty of independent spirit and all that), and being about to buy a home made
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by hga 10y ago
Must be a regional thing, for it's Great Value here in SW Missouri, where Wal-Mart opened its first big store in the '70s: https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=great+value+walmart&FOR...
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by hga 10y ago
Consider this: it is a fact that MIT introductory programming class switched from Scheme to Python because among other things, students were spending too much time reading libraries manuals and implementation references instead of writing
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by hga 10y ago
Minimally acceptable optimizations, because if your implementation is too slow, they're not optional. The examples are legion; to go to another domain, look at one of the reasons the VLIW Itanium failed, except for some numeric code
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by hga 10y ago
Well, one thing I can tell you is that I've heard that much of the woe that came from the Common Lisp standard started with the line "any sufficiently advanced compiler..." in a discussion.
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by hga 10y ago
(2) There are accidents of history. When DEC decided to discontinue the PDP-10, the days of the hacker community built around it were numbered. Those involved then went on to build Lisp machines... Nit on this bit of history: the PDP-6&#x
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by hga 10y ago
A good implementation also has total dynamic type checking, and the better allow you to relax that for run time speed (although it was nearly free on Lisp Machines and can be pretty cheap on out of order superscalar CPUs like Intels, as lon
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by hga 10y ago
There's also the factor that the over promising of what expert systems and AI in general could do that lead to the AI Winter were conveniently blamed on Lisp, seeing as how it couldn't have been simple failures to execute, or exec
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by hga 10y ago
That's where Common Lisp's roots that go back to the first version that ran as subroutines to punched card FORTRAN on a vacuum tube IBM computer show. Contents of Address and Decrement Registers -> car and cdr, for normal list
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by hga 10y ago
Dive into someone else's imperfect at best code and make it work. After finishing the final project for my 2nd programming class, I helped someone else make their's work. In the context of what could run on a PDP-11/70 runn
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by hga 10y ago
Oops: I also do things like maintain a minimum of a year A minimum of 6 months, a maximum of 1 year when I replenish every April and October.
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by hga 10y ago
Your fist mistake is expecting anyone in America to care about your suffering. There you are wrong, starting with e.g. reporter Radley Blako and his readers, and extending to large swaths of the white or thereabouts population who buy boo
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by hga 10y ago
the Magic Talisman Of Protection mindset is indeed a problem, and when it comes to pepper spray sounds like a bad idea. But if we move to the domain of guns, I'm AMAZED at how well and responsibly many many people in the US with li
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by hga 10y ago
A lot of this depends on how you normally eat. How much is fresh or thereabouts food, vs. stuff from cans, white rice, beans etc.? If too much of the former, and you don't have a list of stuff you normally use in backpacking trips, th
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by hga 10y ago
This child of the Gemini and Apollo programs says the one picture is worth clicking though (Apollo 11 happened when I was in 3rd grade, saw the first moonwalk in real time). SpaceX is by far the most important and exciting thing to happen
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by hga 10y ago
Actually, more like Star Wars Rebel Alliance grunge (which was a big thing back in 1977), they aren't exactly shiny after their round trip. But very cool to see three sitting there parallel to each other.
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by hga 10y ago
Ah, I make no claims about how good cell phone coverage was in the disaster area for the first week, mostly about how it was if you just traveled a short distance from it. Although I think I recall it not being bad in subsequent weeks,
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by hga 10y ago
Tangentially, there's a behavior pattern prevalent in the "Prepper" (aka Emergency Preparedness) community that confuses me. They take a logically-sound concept such as storing large amounts of food, and seem to separate the
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by hga 10y ago
Tornadoes Speaking from very personal experience, as in I was living on a high spot in Joplin, MO right at the southern edge of the "zone of total destruction" when the 2011 tornado hit, one cell tower hit the stack of apartmen
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by hga 10y ago
It's lacking enough things like standardized networking and threading support that, no, many people don't consider it a success. It was also a semi-atrocity in creation in ways that needlessly made it more difficult to implement,
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by hga 10y ago
Well, note that this is about R7RS-large; R7RS-small is "a 'small' language, suitable for educators, researchers, and users of embedded languages, focused on R5RS compatibility" ( http://trac.sacrideo.us/w
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by hga 10y ago
Were those "erstwhile free market types" in favor of Clinton using Carter's law to force banks to sell subprime mortgages in the first place? (Something that no friend of the free market George W. Bush thought was just dandy
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by hga 10y ago
Docker is using Alpine Linux which normally uses grsecurity.
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by hga 10y ago
I'm pretty sure Cash for Clunkers was far worse, for it was pure Broken Windows theory of the economy. It not just took those cars off the street, one of the requirements was to destroy the engine.
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by hga 10y ago
If the drone system is capable of aiming, you might want to try this wrinkle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosively_formed_penetrator
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by hga 10y ago
Indeed, all the "tribarrels" (equivalent to the M2 Browning used in Vietnam (or, rather, back from 1933 to today, it's a keeper)) could be/were slaved to the anti-artillery and air network, and could be automatically tak
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by hga 10y ago
But you really want to avoid discouraging your infantry from being in the vicinity of your tanks, they are a key part of a combined arms team, critical in the field to keeping the tanks alive with their better viewpoints. In cities, wher

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