iak8god

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by iak8god 12y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree then. I don't want a bank of buttons anywhere. Do you really want 30 different devices to set up and then worry about whether they've lost the connection to your wifi or run out of battery life
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by iak8god 12y ago
> but having a free, physical button that magically reorders trash bags or detergent or paper towels placed in the very location where you would consume such things? magical! I don't get it. I keep tens of such things in my kitchen
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by iak8god 12y ago
>> Dev costs are relatively small compared to operating costs. > > Uhh, not in my experience. It's probably not possible to make a true statement out of context about which costs less. This depends quite heavily on what you
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by iak8god 12y ago
> I think it's good that this technology exists (especially if my car were to be stolen), but I don't see how it would be harmful to the public interest to require police to get a warrant before looking me up. The most justifie
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by iak8god 12y ago
A majority of the drug cartels' profits come from one drug - marijuana[1] - which is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco. Legalizing pot alone would hurt these guys immensely. [1] http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD&#x
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by iak8god 12y ago
Kind of talking to myself here, but thought it was worth noting that "Jessica" was the top female baby name of the decade for both the 80s and 90s: http://www.ssa.gov/oact/babynames/decades/
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by iak8god 12y ago
Yeah I get that. They they wouldn't do it if it didn't work, though I'm not sure quite who falls for this. In any case, I'm just amused that mine are so heavy on the Jessica.
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by iak8god 12y ago
I go in every month or so to retrieve a handful of legit messages and mark them as not spam . Today I had about 50 things in my spam, about ten of which didn't belong. Most were things I don't really care about, like LinkedIn inv
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by iak8god 12y ago
Thanks. I'm surprised to see that computer and information sciences and engineering have dropped quite a bit since then as the percentage of degrees.
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by iak8god 12y ago
Tangential, but I'm curious: your comment seems to imply that that are now fewer CS degrees issued per year than in 1985. Is that what you meant? Can you point me to the numbers?
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by iak8god 12y ago
Sorry, I don't follow.
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by iak8god 12y ago
If I understand correctly, you believe that the entire CIA as it currently exists is unethical and illegal. That may be a defensible position but it's an obstacle to discussing any specific action: how could you then support any acti
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by iak8god 12y ago
Do you think it is illegal or unethical for the CIA to just explore these capabilities, or to develop them and use them only in a targeted way, subject to appropriate oversight?
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by iak8god 12y ago
Hardcopy or not, making students iterate over their work with feedback at each step, is the right way to do this. Make submitting drafts and responding to feedback part of the grade. The only problem that this is a lot of work for the instr
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Time and time again, I see kids that cheat and they never tread water. Even if they graduate, they have problems. Graduating these students is bad for them and bad for the institution. I've always wished that more students could b
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by iak8god 12y ago
I'm strongly opposed to sweeping surveillance, but not even a little bit torn on this story. I'm glad it's now public knowledge, but this is exactly the sort of thing our intelligence agencies should be doing. Edit to expand
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by iak8god 12y ago
I didn't mean to imply that the verbosity/complexity of their original code base was caused by the type system. The article is light on details, so we can only speculate: maybe they'd be better off with Haskell but just faile
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by iak8god 12y ago
The arguments I've heard supporting this are usually weaker than their proponents think because they simply don't understand the alternative. Even if this is true though, "banking" is much too broad a category to make su
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by iak8god 12y ago
I like it, but how about: There are only 10 hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors.
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by iak8god 12y ago
> I'm envious of your attitude for not really caring about your laptop's size. Well, it's not that I don't care at all , but I'd much prefer an up-to-date processor, GPU, etc in a 2011 13" MBP chassis - wit
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by iak8god 12y ago
I like the power and price advantage of paying only the retail price for storage and memory upgrades and installing them on my own. Size is a very distant third, and mostly a cosmetic issue at this point. You may be right about the long-t
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by iak8god 12y ago
> unless the RAM is soldered Is is according to ifixit's teardown: "Buyer beware: Just like in the MacBooks Air and Retina, the RAM in the XPS 13 is soldered to the motherboard, and cannot be replaced. When you're picking
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by iak8god 12y ago
> But I can't live with less than 384GB of RAM. Heh, that's a bit more than I expect from this form factor, but I can't believe Dell's calling this an "Ultrabook" and reviewers are calling it a "premi
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by iak8god 12y ago
Ctrl-f procrast > You, my friend, are suffering from Procrastination. 1000X this. I recognized this immediately because I see the same pattern in my own behavior. OP starts out doing a bunch of things that will need to be done eventua
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by iak8god 12y ago
According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English. [1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
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by iak8god 12y ago
> Renouncing my US citizenship too. Statements like this make it hard to take your comment seriously, but I'm going to try. > Time for a change of career. I've always wanted to protect our dying forests and species in any ca
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by iak8god 12y ago
Interesting. Thanks for pointing out that the abstract mentions "the full paper." It is possible though that the paper was never completed / published: note that though this abstract was "Submitted to PLDI '94,&quot
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by iak8god 12y ago
> It's called Chromium. It's called Firefox.
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An extended abstract is basically just a short paper, and not usually the abstract to anything [1]. So that might be everything the authors wrote on the topic. It's reasonable to assume that any full paper by P.T. Withington would be
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by iak8god 12y ago
Frank Schaeffer has better first-hand knowledge of this topic than just about anyone else alive. Wikipedia[1] would be a fine place to start educating yourself about his and his father's outsized roles in the formation of the religious

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