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811.
by hga 10y ago
Every single friend and family member who I know in or who at one point lived in Venezuela has either been robbed, assaulted, kidnapped, shot, or murdered. This is indeed sad; I visited Venezuela in 1971 when I was in 4th grade, and it wa
812.
by hga 10y ago
Errr, I'm sorry, I have such a big memory budget on my machines that I haven't paid that close attention, I care a lot more about it hitting much my more constrained DSL Internet connection.
813.
by hga 10y ago
BTW. If you have a lot of HN tabs open and you try to reload a session after a restart, you get IP blocked for a short time - another good reason to use Firefox if you like keeping a few HN news tabs open, as it only loads 1 tab and keeps
814.
by hga 10y ago
Session Buddy for non-mobile Chrome works very well and allows you to do roughly the same thing. I.e. take an saved session, maybe after copying (I think you can do that), and delete the tabs you're not interested in (it does have one
815.
by hga 10y ago
I tried that one, and it is indeed good, but see my other reply about how spacial organization works best for me. One Tab just didn't hit the sweet spot my normal system achieves, again, for me.
816.
by hga 10y ago
That is most certainly a part of it as well. Hypertext is a very real thing, even if it's current implementation is not Xanadu fancy.
817.
by hga 10y ago
Heh. First, echoing some other comments, this is a test of these web browsers. My Pale Moon instance (a Firefox fork), which I use much less "actively" and with NoScript running on it, has 42 windows with 2119 tabs, but Firefox
818.
by hga 10y ago
What I do, when Chrome, or rather, my abuse of it (14 windows, 735 tabs at the moment, Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit on a 32 GiB system) becomes onerous is to go to the task manager and kill groups of tabs taking up "too much" memory, and v
819.
by hga 10y ago
Is there any arena of starting businesses that not a wellspring of negative lessons? At least one difference with group funding is much higher visibility than any other I can think of.
820.
by hga 11y ago
Someone needs to get their space craft there....
821.
by hga 11y ago
Not necessarily, it's entirely possible for a company to severely damage itself by creating too much friction in the sales process. This is the sort of thing that helped kill Sun, although the circumstances were sufficiently different
822.
by hga 11y ago
As far as I know, the big push for this started in the '80s, and was by the Federal government because they evidently thought they were paying too much for science labor.
823.
by hga 11y ago
Errr, when did this happen? As of 1979, the 18.01 I took matched what I understand is the the AP Calculus BC sequence, and while having previous exposure to the calculus certainly helped, it wasn't assumed.
824.
by hga 11y ago
Does not have an ABET accredited CS major, for what that's worth.
825.
by hga 11y ago
I think "panicked spasm" is more accurate than "holistic response", at least in connotation, but as I recall the only real changes were in what was required, terminating the use of Scheme in the entire required curriculu
826.
by hga 11y ago
Calling it his "reasoning" with all the connotations that come with that word goes way too far. This was his polite implicit criticism of the new core, which among other things also teaches much less in the way of EE fundamentals,
827.
by hga 11y ago
NASA was always a jobs program as well as what it ostensibly was for, it was officially tasked with industrially uplifting the South, which became an even bigger thing when LBJ became president. The area to the immediate northeast of MIT w
828.
by hga 11y ago
From Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sab... ): Adapted as a fighter bomber, the F-100 was supplanted by the Mach two class F-105 Thunderchief for strike missions over North Vietnam.
829.
by hga 11y ago
Well, the Navy's been there fairly recently, the single engined A-4 Skyhawk, the F-8 Crusader, and the A-7 Corsair which was based on the latter all saw heavy service in Vietnam. And per Wikipedia, the latter replaced the A-1 Skyraide
830.
by hga 11y ago
There's great coverage of all that in: http://www.amazon.com/Skunk-Works-Personal-Memoir-Lockheed/d... In particularly, they patched together their prototype in a way which all hackers will appreciate.
831.
by hga 11y ago
From my reading of the excellent book Clashes: Air Combat over North Vietnam, 1965-1972 ( http://www.amazon.com/Clashes-Combat-North-Vietnam-1965-1972... ) that would imply your father was fighting over South Vietnam (or pe
832.
by hga 11y ago
The F-35 is becoming the definitive example of how scope creep destroys a project Or an example of how we don't learn from history, for the same exact thing happened with the '60s TFX, except the F-35 substitutes S/VTOL for
833.
by hga 11y ago
Of course, unlike the bombs dropped on Japan modern thermonuclear weapons burn large amount of U328 with the fast neutrons created from fusion, resulting in large amounts of fallout. They may not cause many radiation deaths from their expl
834.
by hga 11y ago
> well, we're getting really good at taking out resistance from the safety and comfort of a control room hundreds or even thousands of miles away from the action. He seems to be unaware that those people have to go home to sleep w
835.
by hga 11y ago
Sure, if you're willing to have the participants of the site be ignorant of the consequences of the actions some of them support, sure. But if you think our contingent threat is rhetorical, you're a fool. If you live in a fragi
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by hga 11y ago
4: Be certain of your target and what's behind it. The former is critical for all sorts of things like hunting and self-defense, although a few of the "accidents" I've read about sure smelled like murders to me.
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by hga 11y ago
No, the more inaccurate their targeting, the harder it was for them pull off a counter-force first strike. No need to lead them into temptation.... Once they're launched, you've already lost catastrophicly, no matter exactly wher
838.
by hga 11y ago
I assume your ethics also don't allow you to kill by proxy, e.g. you'd call the police in the aftermath of a burglary, but not for a real time life and death situation? (Although if you want to maintain the lowest risk anyone wi
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by hga 11y ago
Fascinating; per Wikipedia, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W79 and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48 they used a "linear implosion" technique, but it sounds like it had about the sam
840.
by hga 11y ago
Super carriers have a much bigger space budget than submarines, so I wouldn't be surprised if they used less enriched uranium. On the other hand, refueling is a total pain, so that might put a premium on the total U-235 in the fuel ro

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