jcoffland

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by jcoffland 7y ago
Finding the right parameters to cross compile each dependency you need is tedious. Sure some packages are easy to cross compile but it's much easier to set up an emulated build environment and then compile everything normally.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
A Makefile tracks a dependency tree and rebuilds what has changed. Docker has a dependency list and has to rebuild everything following any change. Seems to me like we've gone backwards.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Cross compiling is a lot more difficult to set up. Emulation let's you use much of the target system's tools as is. Cross compiling means you have to build all of those tools for the host system. For example, with the RaspberryP
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by jcoffland 7y ago
I like to think of it as Universal Time Code.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> a third-party candidate doesn't spoil an election Without the fear of throwing their vote away, more will rank the 3rd party candidate first.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Good advice on how to be a successful corporate drone.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
We read SICP back in college. I loved it but I remember a lot of moaning from my classmates. I wish I had more practical need for Lisp because I loved programming in it. My favorite part of SICP is where a streaming lazy evaluated version
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> Driving people elsewhere is one major mechanism. This is exactly how Boise has kept it's homeless population low for many years. First they ticket people, then jail them and finally offer to let them go if they get on a bus heade
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Then why are people complaining so much about fracking caused earthquakes?
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Maybe we should be fracking in California to let off fault pressure. If we could create many small earth quakes maybe we could avoid the big one.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Sure there's lots of fear around sleep deprivation but where's the evidence that it causes death? By evidence I mean studies that don't involve pumping mice full of stimulants for days.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> Push yourself longer than a few days without sleep, and the effects can be lethal. The above statement in the article links to a story on Reuters about one case of an intern who stayed up for 72 hours and died for unknown reasons. Har
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Let's judge people on what they have done not on what they might do.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> The debbie-downer perspective would be that for each additional qubit you add, you effectively double the cost of isolation from the environment, quantum error correction schemes, etc. This is exactly my concern with quantum computing.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Wow, these are some seriously racist comments.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> they will be easy to convince that this was ... chicken little screaming that the sky is falling. But that's exactly what's going on. Climate change is a serious issue but the climate change elite have decided that the rest
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> is often the disease talking. Or is your response the drugs talking? I know at least with my addiction to cigarettes in my teens the dependency had some very persuasive mental arguments that kept me at it.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
It's not eInk but a spherical screen already exists: https://pufferfishdisplays.com/solution/puffersphere/
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by jcoffland 7y ago
One of the big problems I find is that when I call or text my male friends they often fail to respond. My female friends always respond. I've had multiple discussions with my male friends about this and my conclusion is that they are
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Show HN: Remove image background using OpenCV in Python(github.com)
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by jcoffland 7y ago
The most important success metric for any software is number of users.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> Or, it could be the result of a nefarious military operation conducted by an unknown state actor, but that’s pure speculation. My bet is that it was due to natural causes. Underwater currents, seafloor landslide or something similar.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
Do you mean cars?
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> Amazon even owns one such store, Whole Foods. The quality at Whole Foods has gone down fast since Amazon took over.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
In a just system, guilt has to be proven before the accused are punished.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
A loop around Manhattan is about 30 miles.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> You might also get flooded with rather demanding emails by technically incompetent people who complain that your free source code release didn't solve their problem. Once I learned to listen to incompetent users, I started to crea
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by jcoffland 7y ago
This is why your software should avoid relying on cloud services that you have little or no control over.
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> How does online voting differ from mail voting? You cannot easily encrypt your voting information when sent by regular mail. If you have a unique unforgeable id, like a private key, and a secure voting device then your vote can be s
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by jcoffland 7y ago
> The major problem with online voting is that people can be coerced into voting against their wishes The main problem is guaranteeing one vote per eligible voter. Coercion is a related but smaller problem. It's much harder to coer

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