jedsmith

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by jedsmith 16y ago
In fairness, once pointers clicked for me, a heaping pile of computing made sense. I banged my head on x86 assembly for a few weeks when I was 14, went back to C and got pointers, then reapproached assembly later and was delighted at how
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. Dr. Laurence J. Peter
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by jedsmith 16y ago
It's interesting that this question implied the negative -- not what's the difference between , not even what are the strengths and weaknesses of , but: > What pieces of the whole are missing? The implication being that without a form
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by jedsmith 16y ago
A little off-topic, but you sound familiar with libevent. I've never used either but I'm looking at gevent for a project, and I noticed that they switched to libev: http://software.schmorp.de/pkg/libev.html ... do you know what "limitatio
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by jedsmith 16y ago
The computer visuals were great. One thing that I caught, being the complete nerd that I am: if you look closely at the terminal that Sam sits down at before going on-grid, there is a copy of top running. It reports the system uptime as a f
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by jedsmith 16y ago
If I were trolling, would I expound upon my suggestion as I did? If you stopped reading at that quotation, you're right: I'd be unsure if I were trolling as well. This is about what the community wants and needs. pg and the other long-term
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Complete the fledgling environment of selectivity in one fell swoop and explicitly say, in the guidelines, that low-karma users are no longer allowed to participate. Remove the ability to vote, comment, and perhaps read from all users below
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by jedsmith 16y ago
With respect, the meta of late has been extraordinarily aggravating, and I do think it is a problem here.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Then: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Now: Every program attempts to expand until it can annoy the user's friends.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> nuke power is the safest power we've come up with (among power sources that actually have produced a significant fraction of the power we use) This is crucial, and is why blanket statements like "nuclear power is safe" are dangerous.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> The Reliant Robin, while obviously a horrible design, does not roll over every time you drive one a half mile But it is absolutely hilarious when it does.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
My point is that fossil fuels and nuclear power are the only two types that scale efficiently with current technology. Everything else doesn't scale as well. Not sure how else to word that, and that's exactly what I meant up there. It has n
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by jedsmith 16y ago
At scale, right now, those are the only two options.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
What do you think, 2.5/10? I didn't put a lot of effort into it.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
There's a SubHN for April Fool's submissions, /hn/aprilfools. Blame the community for not using it properly.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I should have phrased it better. Thank you for making me go look. http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Copyrights#Contributo... Your submissions are automatically and irrevocably licensed GFDL and CC-BY-SA. Copyright isn't transferred,
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by jedsmith 16y ago
If you put your book on Wikibooks, you don't own it.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
I think the vast majority of top-level comments on that item considered the information dubious or were holding out for independent confirmation; I don't think HN leapt to a conclusion. My comment, one of the less obvious, was more from a g
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by jedsmith 16y ago
They have also received criticism for the large number of loan defaults, and lobbying to change how the loan default statistics are calculated to make their numbers look better (at least according to Frontline). Same program also mentioned
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by jedsmith 16y ago
What's mind blowing is that anybody believes what a support department says.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You can link right to it: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.devel/146...
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Fair enough! This crow is delicious, want some?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Except for the teams of people patching software for security holes and issuing those updates automatically through a package manager?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Am I the only one that wipes the OEM operating system as soon as I buy a computer? Even if I'm putting Windows right back on it? I started doing it because of the crap they bundle in there, but this seems like an unintended good reason to d
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Great point, but I wasn't aware that there are "usual, legitimate" reasons for downvoting, and that these are well-known enough that you can call them the usual reasons. Seems like everybody just uses their best judgment. That said, I did
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Maybe, and if that were the case, the number of people the sarcasm is missing means it could have been communicated better. Watch his karma swing around -- I'm not the only one that missed it, apparently. It certainly wasn't a good spot for
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by jedsmith 16y ago
Or those who fancy sex on the dinner table without spectators? That's a relatively crass example (sorry), but the privacy implication is clear when you put it in those terms. My home is my home, and what I do behind my door is my business.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
> In your life, approximately how many people have gotten to pay for something? Is this part of the test, being able to understand this question?
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by jedsmith 16y ago
How do they know the notes compromise clues in the case? They could be pages of a shopping list, for all we know.
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by jedsmith 16y ago
You trust the library doing that protection for you too?

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