jfoutz

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by jfoutz 9y ago
When they pass the bar exam. It's easy to think you understand a contract, but you don't. Unfortunately clear language isn't litigated. The vague and obtuse language has a legal meaning, because it has gone to court. So that&
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Yet. I like rust. It has a deep, thoughtful approach to many problems. But, C++ is pretty long in the tooth. Of course it's weird and inconsistent. Give rust 30 years to really entrench itself as a systems language. It'll be wierd
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I kinda think he's a zealot. Super committed to a cause. People buy in to the cause. Some burn out and some thrive. I think it's unethical, but those recent grads are pretty enthusiastic about their 80 hour weeks. True believers t
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Well, yeah. But they'll surely beat that 1.5% failure rate of the sts. They're at a 3% total failure rate right now, but they'll have (I hope) a long run of success, maybe hundreds, before they put people on the falcon.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
That's a really good point. the gaming i talked about was in a pretty stable time in my life, more or less every other aspect of my life was working smoothly. Thanks!
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Would you be willing to elaborate on that a bit? Once upon a time, i played a few competitive games. I'd have to be very aware of my emotional state. Being aware of a sort of sick feeling when i'm falling behind, recognizing that
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I always figured photos of cocktails and food were a standard part of the after vacation slideshow you'd invite your friends to. A few once a year isn't bad. People complained about those slideshows also though.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Man, if only they'd made the cartridge play a little tune when the chip is disabled. Then they could do the full DMCA game. Seems like the key to modern security is to have something copyrighted behind a terrible lock
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by jfoutz 9y ago
To make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Of course, this can be limited by requiring funds for a specific purpose, such as mitigating pollution. While far from perfect, gas tax going to pay for roads is a decent feedback loop. Tax 'bad' thing, to pay for education about
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Hey now, don't go selling humans short. Life has been around for billions of years. Dinosaurs were blundering around for a long time before that asteroid hit. If extinction is the goal we don't have to wait for an asteroid, we can
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I've got no way to prove it, but i'm pretty sure agenda driven disinformation is as old as language itself.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
So, Rhino? Built in since J2SE6.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Actually, no. I've tried a couple bagless vacs, they're great on carpet. On a hard floor edges and wierd ridges and valleys seem to always get missed. Sweeping always seems faster when I have to screw around with special cases. Al
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Incidentally, what kind of vacuum do you have? I've gone through a few permutations, and nothing that sucks seems to really compare to a good sweeping. Roomba to Rainbow, it just doesn't pull up the dust the same way. To be fair,
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Ah, i think you're right, but that's a different problem. The Jepsen talks are enlightening, as so many errors get highlighted. Ultimately, if your algorithm is right, the hardware won't matter at all. Each node could be a pe
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Journal files. You can begin a transaction, crash, and lose the transaction. But the thing itself will be consistent. Perhaps there's something funny about the failure modes of non-volatile memory that's different than a disk. Rep
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Perhaps a Leyden jar, or Aeolipyle. Novelties with great potential. Or perhaps, they're just a drinking bird kind of novelty - i don't think so, but maybe. QM is rock solid, but it doesn't tie together well with our other the
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Let me rephrase 'what's the point' to 'have any meaning'. I think that captures what you're trying to get across, but i could be way way wrong (please enlighten me if i am wrong). Why on earth would someone was
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Or perhaps Bem believed there were problems with methodology and used ESP to demonstrate the problem. The title seems warranted given the nature of the attack on methodology.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Cloud detectors are pretty easy to come by, right? There's a small cyclotron community, it takes a few years, but people have built them. 30's era tech is DIY able.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
30 years later Aliens looks like a cliché action movie. I think it looks that way because it set a lot of standards for action movies. Poke around at popular action movies from the early 80's. Aliens has no Star Wars mysticism. Aliens
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by jfoutz 9y ago
"Milspec ED 209 on", yeah, there's a bunch of little easter eggs in starcraft. Protoss always seemed more like "Eldar" from warhammer 40k. I vaguely recall the old rogue trader saying Eldar warp in to the battlefiel
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by jfoutz 9y ago
5 minutes a year is really impressive.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
I think I understand your opinion, but I'm asserting development time is wierd. Sometimes I need the bleeding edge. Sometimes I'm debugging the bleeding edge. If you're willing to stuff nightlys in artifactory, I'm willi
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by jfoutz 9y ago
But that's how languages do it. CPAN was my first experience with it. At development time, I need weird libraries.i hope they're ready by release time. Package managers are awesome, but sometimes, fuck them.
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Also not a hardware guy, but the issue seems to revolve around density, intel puts transistors on a chip "like this" the other guys do it "l i k e t h i s". They can make small things, but haven't worked out how t
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by jfoutz 9y ago
Also, that first one was quite a bit bigger than 1 mm^2 [1] There's nothing for scale, but standing like that i'd guess 2 or 3 inches across, something like 800 mm^2. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_
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by jfoutz 9y ago
1) looks like the mission has been adjusted, they simply take the lead in information assurance now. Although, a foreign power seizing control of government computers to make unauthorized transmissions sounds like something a jury would thi
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by jfoutz 9y ago
NSA is also responsible for the defense of government computer systems and communications. There may be a duty there, to ensure email from a the government is virus free. If someone can show their worm came from a .gov address, there might

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