hudibras

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by hudibras 12y ago
They didn't have enough memory to cope with an infinite number of inputs. Obviously a hardware problem...
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Air traffic system failure caused by computer memory shortage(reuters.com)
65 points by hudibras 12y ago|44 comments
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by hudibras 12y ago
Quick sea story. To avoid interfering with launch and recovery operations, there is a 3-mile radius cylinder (the "stack") around U.S. aircraft carriers that military aircraft have to get permission from the tower to enter. One t
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by hudibras 13y ago
This is a good but short summary of some of Seth's projects, from an old blog post of his. http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/08/22/why-self-track-the-po...
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by hudibras 13y ago
And another thing that gets overlooked is that the toilet is always in a separate room from the rest of the bathroom (washbasin and tub). It seems weird at first that you have to go down the hall into a phonebooth-sized compartment to do
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by hudibras 13y ago
Unless the debris includes a liferaft. But I'm not keeping my hopes up.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Then some geeky types will find them recruiting from far less than 50% of the population. Good luck with that, guys.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that there's no way this is a passive house. No data (temps or energy consumption) and a concept (lots of insulation and nothing else) that's been tried many times and always fails.
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by hudibras 13y ago
But wait, my whole job is going to meetings!
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Deputies: Newsweek Bitcoin story quoted Satoshi Nakamoto accurately(latimes.com)
2 points by hudibras 13y ago|0 comments
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Live Flight Tracker (MAS370)(flightaware.com)
1 points by hudibras 13y ago|1 comments
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by hudibras 13y ago
When was the last time an A-10 was shot down in air-to-air combat? Never? They must be unstoppable! But, seriously, there's that old saying: the only way to bring down an A-10 is to put a suicidal pilot in the cockpit.
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by hudibras 13y ago
[search saver :] DTS = Defense Travel System. The online system through which official DoD government travel is arranged.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I work in HR and it's unimaginable that the person wouldn't be fired. "Do not disclose anybody's salary" is as close to a Prime Directive as it gets in the HR world. Edit: Thought it over for a bit and now I'm
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by hudibras 13y ago
Clean up takes a little longer than hand-dripping, though.
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by hudibras 13y ago
I'm very impressed by the FCC report on the T-Mobile deal (linked in the article). There's a lot more technical rigor, analysis, and just plain skepticism than I would have guessed. The FCC calls out AT&T for making faulty ass
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by hudibras 13y ago
James Altucher had the same thing happen to him. He even had the same reaction once it was over: "I'm a superhero!" http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2012/03/about-the-time-i-went-d...
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by hudibras 13y ago
The AP has a story out now: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2014/02/20/world/americas/ap... EDIT: I googled to find the AP story, but I just now stumbled onto another article during my normal a
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by hudibras 13y ago
So I guess the answer is Python.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Associate Professors are usually tenured. Assistant Professors usually aren't.
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by hudibras 13y ago
Depends on whether or not they'll laugh when you say, "Well, if it wasn't for me, it would have been even rougher."
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by hudibras 13y ago
I'm not an expert, but I think what you describe is exactly what happened with telephone service in the United States (i.e, the breakup of Ma Bell, etc.)
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by hudibras 13y ago
Unfortunately, Easterbrook is coasting on the reputation he built up from this one magazine piece from 34 years ago. It's basically impossible to read anything he writes nowadays without finding something either wrong or infuriatingly
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by hudibras 13y ago
It's probably deliberately opaque, but my interpretation of "a bucket list of books to create a well-read life" is that they are all a.) good books and b.) books which will help the reader relate to other readers. It's
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by hudibras 13y ago
That's called the Murray Gell-Mann Amnesia effect. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/geneveith/2011/08/the-murray-ge...
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by hudibras 13y ago
It's left unsaid, but my guess is that he left all the boxes blank thinking that would keep her from being added to any of the databases. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer to your next question: if that's true, why was he
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by hudibras 13y ago
I'm basically agreeing with you, but one of the most amazing things from the court's decision (that didn't make it into the Wired article--bad reporting) is that the FBI agent didn't know that he had filled out the form
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by hudibras 13y ago
Page 22 will make your blood boil: Dr. Ibrahim was given a letter by the consular officer informing her that the Department of State was unable to issue her a visa...The consular officer wrote the word (Terrorist) on the form to explain
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by hudibras 13y ago
I think you could re-write your summary as: I ran an accounting decision that worried me past my lawyer. There might be a bit of hagiography of the GC in the original story based on what Ben now knows could have happened. For all we know, t
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by hudibras 13y ago
Before the inevitable globalization, free trade, and we-should-get-rid of-the-minimum-wage arguments erupt, please keep in mind that the article is talking about, and the second chart (the wage one) is showing, average annual changes by per

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