jeff_petersen

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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> The future is software. For entities that live purely as software, and aren't so picky as us meatbags are about continuity of consciousness, "traveling" from place to place by sending data is the most practical method. S
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> The supreme court nominations alone should be enough to convince you They did. I do not want Hillary Clinton appointing judges to the supreme court any more than I want Trump doing it. Again, Hillary is not a progressive, so I see no r
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I fail to see how stopping Trump from winning is a palatable outcome if the alternate option is Clinton winning. She is diametrically opposed to just about every progressive position, I don't see how any progressive could support her i
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Were you going to vote for the guy who later endorsed the corporate-owned neoconservative warhawk? Because, given that, it seems like his principles weren't worth very much.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> I absolutely hate maintenance tasks (dusting, washing dishes, exercise) and wish they could all be automated away I sort of share this opinion, and when it comes to dusting and washing dishes I still agree. But recently I started weigh
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
The only episodes that even came close to making me feel like the older episodes did were "Playtest" and "Men against Fire," but even they're not up to par. I think San Junipero is widely overrated, the pacing is aw
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> As someone that been on HN for 9 years This kind of pissing contest does nobody any good, while we're on the topic of adding value to HN
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Not just memory footprint (which is still at least somewhat relevant, and if you've never tried to delete a node_modules folder from Windows explorer you're in for a treat. More Microsoft's fault, but still annoying), but the
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Really well until the enemies of your clients decide to off you? I find the Gerald Bull story fascinating, definitely worth reading for anyone unfamiliar with it.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> Heck, get in touch with a drug cartel, have them set up a US corporation to buy the thing and walk away. > Alternatively, leave the boat and move to one of those countries and set up shop there. While this might allow them to sell t
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
IIRC Christians prohibited charging interest on loans (usury), not banking per se. I suppose a bank could be operated by Christians that simply accepted deposits and charged a sum for safekeeping with no loans whatsoever. I don't know
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> His rule of thumb is "If it isn't a major article there's probably errors" ...and if it is a major article, there are definitely errors, some likely introduced on purpose[1] (since major articles are the juiciest
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> e.g. a good guide how to get EMACS running for Chicken Scheme Did you see this? http://wiki.call-cc.org/emacs Generally, for Schemes the standard is to use Geiser mode (not that you would know that as a beginner)
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> Deal with Amazon's new, terrible delivery service God, this has bitten me more times than it should have before I stopped buying from Amazon. Several times they marked an item as delivered even though it wasn't (I was home al
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I read "hardware" in this case to mean the case of the device, and not the computer inside it.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Let's hope no cardboard was used in constructing this OS. In all seriousness, I've been meaning to play around with 9front so maybe this weekend is the time I'll finally get around to it
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Here's what you said: > The war happened overwhelmingly _because_ slavery was going to be abolished. That's not the same as "working toward abolition." > this exact language is leading people to believe that the ci
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> you can argue pedantically This isn't a minor detail, it's actually quite important. > perpetuating the seeming belief that the civil war had nothing to do with slavery Don't put words in my mouth, that's not wha
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
The United States didn't abolish slavery until after the civil war as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. In a way, the war triggered abolition (or spurred it to happen more quickly), not the other way around.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
My first reaction to both of these is that they're unsettling, though the Pix version makes me feel more uncomfortable than the Live Photo.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> Personally it looks rather ugly especially when looking from near bridge. But then a lot of modern architecture is ugly for my taste... I agree with you 100% there. That is a particularly ugly building.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
They could certainly opt out of any shooting education, it wasn't compulsory when I was a Boy Scout. Though I think the fact that they'd be shooting at paper targets would be a pretty immediate rebuttal of their beliefs.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I've not tried the Kia or the VW, but I enjoyed it a lot better than the Leaf and found the interior to be nicer. It may be spartan in how it looks, but a great deal more thought was put into the layout than in the Leaf.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
The i3 is ugly, but it's a lot of fun to drive. The only reason I don't own one is that it doesn't have enough range. I make 120-mile trips fairly frequently and it's just not practical for that.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
I hope it someday gets to the point where I can use it as a daily driver. I think it's really cool, and as long as it runs a web browser and allows me to SSH into another machine for anything that requires another OS I'd be happy.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
It surely does have something to do with that, but the point is that it wouldn't be possible if Oxy weren't well-suited for recreational use.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
> "Stereotyping" ends up the best description, though it's less than satisfactorily insulting. Why does it have to be insulting? Rather, why do you have to import shame from an unrelated activity to make your point? It see
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Even the JVM startup time isn't that bad now. It's actually a lot worse in my experience when using alternate JVM languages like Clojure and Scala.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
Came here to post just this. It is an "academic" language, designed more for teaching than for any production use, but it has a good pedigree and I've had some fun playing around with it.
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by jeff_petersen 10y ago
It is very fast, but how much of that is due to it being written in assembly? Isn't the real bottleneck for an application like this going to be network speed?

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