jholman

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by jholman 14y ago
Oh, thanks... I missed that line in TFA. In the world we live in today, the word "girl" in the title is relevant to the story. I eagerly await the day when that story would be no-less-interesting with that word left out.
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by jholman 14y ago
Actually, if I read various web sources correctly (IANA rocket scientist, sadly), the Earth-Sun-L2 point is always in the sun. The earth is not big enough to provide shade from that far away, especially since the Hershel's orbit is 700Mm a
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by jholman 14y ago
>> It doesn't matter if there are 100 free riders for 1 customers, as long as you have enough customers. > It is, quite literally, the antithesis of Western society. Can you explain this to me? It looks like trolling, but I
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by jholman 14y ago
I was with you a few comments back, and I think I agree with your overall direction, but in nitpick land, I think the details of your argument have gone off the rails a little, here. I think it's not clear that "society" "wants" copyright t
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by jholman 14y ago
I sure do agree emotionally with you about "fuck you Origin"... which is weird, because I also think that a monopoly is dangerous for gamers, so why am I emotionally so pro-Valve-monopoly? I guess it's partly because I know that EA _will_
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by jholman 14y ago
For me 1, 2, and 4 each play a big role, for sure. On an ongoing basis, #3 plays little or no role, but if you count "steam exclusive" as a feature, then it played a critical role in getting me onto Steam in the first place. I wanted to pl
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by jholman 14y ago
Yes. Plus, there's an epistemological asymmetry here. We can know that it's not yet solved (and I would agree that we do know this right now). We cannot know that it is solved, at least not without waiting tens of thousands of years. Eve
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by jholman 14y ago
Slightly OT nit-pick here... PRIMARY SUBMITTER: Whats it worth SWSISS FRANC TRADER: ive got some sushi rolls from yesterday?... PRIMARY SUBMITTER: ok low 6m, just for u Uh, what. Assuming this is a real transcript, and wit
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by jholman 14y ago
1) It's pronounced like a native English speaker would guess. SHIH buh leth. 2) IPA is tough, but in Wikipedia's case, if you mouse-over each IPA symbol, it'll give you a "/ʃ/ 'sh' in 'shy'" and so on.
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by jholman 14y ago
There are multiple goals for the students. One might be "have fun", or whatever, or maybe it's not a goal. One is "gain the best preparation for subsequent life", which might well be reducible to "learn the most possible", or perhaps not.
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by jholman 14y ago
That's not what "big hit" means. The name for that is "highly profitable".
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by jholman 14y ago
Okay, this is seriously THE use-case for Google+ Circles. I hate to boost G+, but it's basically perfect for the problem you describe.
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by jholman 14y ago
Argh, you're describing two entirely unrelated scenarios. And tptacek has explained this many many times already; I've read half a dozen explanations by him in HN comments in the last 3 days alone. Disagree with his suggestions for what w
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by jholman 14y ago
Hmn. I think the reason there's superlinear speedup in the paper you linked is because the requests must be serviced in order. If you only care about throughput, and you can service the requests out-of-order, then you can use LARD in a se
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by jholman 14y ago
Hmn. I don't find those examples compelling, but maybe I'm just missing something. I don't have a thought about the wikipedia backtracking example. Regarding cache-vs-RAM, or regarding RAM-vs-disk, I see no reason you cannot take the work
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by jholman 14y ago
> so I guess I'm really the one you're responding to Partially, yup. > facts on the ground Again, I emphasize that I learned most of what I know by following privacy-oriented links on HN, and reading public sources. And I know
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by jholman 14y ago
I agree with almost all of this comment of yours (contrasted with the previous one). The NSA should be assumed to be invasive, we don't know how much Google is being forced to play along, there would be little or no public evidence. And c
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by jholman 14y ago
With respect to "3d-ness", which presumably means the various cues your brain uses to determine depth (stereoscopy, focal length, vergence, texture variance, etc), there is no difference between an image through a mirror, vs an image with n
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by jholman 14y ago
TL;DR: trash-talking Google's record doesn't seem fair to me. Here are some things that are public knowledge: 1) Google considers some kind of network traffic to be attacks (obviously). Google claims (and no one doubts) that in some cases
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by jholman 14y ago
Can you give one or more examples?
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by jholman 14y ago
I'm actually seeing N/4 in that hashcat.net/forum thread. See hashcat.net/forum/thread-2238-post-13424.html#pid13424 , or alternately just the last line of the original TFA, which says "reduce [work required] from 8000 to 2002". I'm not su
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by jholman 14y ago
First of all, which is the NP-hard pathfinding problem you're talking about? When I hear "pathfinding" I think "shortest path", which is (deterministic) polynomial time (exact class dependant on exactly which variant of the problem, but ev
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by jholman 14y ago
If you want to convince someone who doubts the existence of the "cat food factory", these examples suck. Okay, the assuming the woman is from HR but that the guy is from Eng, yeah, we all believe that one. It hasn't happened to us guys, m
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by jholman 14y ago
Hmn. This is a genuine problem. And you can support the real-names-for-public-reviews-to-avoid-spam policy (I'm mildly against, myself), while still believing this is a genuine problem. Do the developers give you no alternate avenues for
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by jholman 14y ago
I had you filed under "well-meaning, but mistaken", not "troll". And I prefer to call them "earnest" lectures. Potato, potato.
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by jholman 14y ago
There's a lot to complain about with Java, but one part that IS great is that applications generally port pretty easily between environments (everywhere interesting for consumer software except iOS). Also this depends on Unity3d... guess w
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by jholman 14y ago
Yeah, well, my analysis, then and now, is that you were replying inappropriately to a semi-trollish comment by someone who's probably redeemable. And actually, if counter-trolling is how you frame your comment, then I have to say, you'r
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by jholman 14y ago
Not-entirely-OT grammar nerd reply: > I use male singular pronouns for people whose sex I'm not aware of because English male singular pronouns are actually also its neuter singular pronouns (I believe this is true for several other ma
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by jholman 14y ago
Legal gender is is totally not the only question. Why would you hit the comment button, just to say something so obviously wrong? There's not one legal question, but many. If you live in a jurisdiction with different rights by sex-or-gend
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by jholman 14y ago
I have a dream, that one day it will be rare to hold sexist perspectives like the one you just described. In my dream world, the importance of people feeling welcome is independent of that person's gender or that person's sex. I don't kno

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