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by jleyank 10mo ago
How do these societies survive when something occurs that requires working together? Fires, floods, medical or unrest? Such things usually require specialists or support people who might not like their (lack of) status there. Perhaps the
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by jleyank 10mo ago
As I recall, this appeared in the 90’s and it was a real pain debugging then as well. Having errors deferred added a Heisenbug component to what should have been a quick, clean crash. Has malloc ever returned zero since then? Or has somebo
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by jleyank 10mo ago
In North America, perhaps the last gasp of the cable companies will be their higher costs for “naked internet”. Half of what I pay is net access and the other half is tv. If tv goes away, that’ll take lots of cash from the provider. Not
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by jleyank 10mo ago
All of it, no. But I never used Fortran 90 yet used implicit none. Might have been an extension from SGI or a mini super but I recall using it.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
If you're interested in safer code when working with older versions of Fortran, add 'implicit none' at the top. This will eliminate the integer vs. float automatic assignment and make variable definition much tighter. Back
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Academics must get and maintain grants to survive. With money, they can attract students and researchers. Without money, they'll fail to get tenure or (usually) become irrelevant to the field. Take the money source away, and they ha
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by jleyank 10mo ago
If/when this happens, the commander of NATO should/must be a Euro general/admiral of some kind. It's going to be their problem, so it should be played by their rules. The US can remain a member, or exit as it wishes.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
They missed one big contribution: Unix, C and the programming style they embodied. Pretty much all consumer electronics is based on this work, along with computational research.
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by jleyank 10mo ago
Tom Clancy used this as the catalyst for one of his many techno war stories - something along the lines of “if you piss off your creditors they won’t give you any more money”. Think it was bear and dragon, the China Russia war. Debt is so
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by jleyank 11mo ago
They said that there’s 9 meals between stability and revolution. Hopefully, that was a somewhat flippant comment back then…. However, the us is a heavily armed society and injecting a large group with nothing to lose will be a real proble
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Hope so. But if you can’t use it here, where CAN you use the thing??
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I'm sure the fact that the US keeps scratching the scab, what with comments, tariff threats and changes, increased hassle entering the US and the continued ICE news the Canadians don't have a cooling-off period. As wags posted ea
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I didn't think there's a surplus of doctors, nurses and other medical professionals in the US (or any country). Partially due to the expense of training and partially due to resistance from the (self-)licensing organization unwil
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by jleyank 11mo ago
From my long-ago uni courses, current-day AI could have helped with the non-major courses: English and History, doing the first draft or even the final drafts of papers, etc. As a science major, I'm not sure what the point of relying
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by jleyank 11mo ago
1. Cleaning up the junk left after the AI bubble burst. 2. Debugging code you didn’t write and didn’t really spec. 3. “Would you like fries with that?”
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I suspect the argument is for the forces to be available in house, at least for the near to mid term. Depending on how the n American auto industry turns out, there might be various military vehicles being built to transport them.
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by jleyank 11mo ago
If they ban immigration, will we hear a repeat of Japan’s “aging population, declining tax income” stories? If you need young or specialized workers, get cracking on birthing as that’ll provide candidates in 18-30 years.
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by jleyank 11mo ago
They should at least cite Brooks if they don't work his work into the discussion...
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Does this block anybody who has rooted against the USMNT at any point? If so, going to be a whole lotta CGi to fill those stadia. More seriously, I think the privacy types will buck at the kid details or the cheek swab. But that’s probabl
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by jleyank 11mo ago
The militia is mentioned first, but I’m not an English major who is able to parse old sentences. The militia is “necessary” so they need to know where the, erm, candidates are located and what they pack.
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by jleyank 11mo ago
It also required a well-regulated militia to handle all those guns. That's how it was going to do without that standing army.
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Go for it. This allows the remaining NATO members to proceed with their own defence and more importantly, their own hardware and guidelines. And, to be honest, the US prefers Russia to NATO which makes it inconvenient. Not going to be all
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I saw what might be the honest reason mentioned on a political blog... "Because we can."
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Well, whacking the inter border parts/car trade in n America certainly isn’t helping…
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Can’t read the article due to bandwidth. If the era of jobs is over, what’s going to support the masses of people who consume? Without those people, there’s no profit from making stuff. Star Trek looks great, but there’s a whole lot of t
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I guess Canada can be an appendage of the US or throw its lot in with the EU?
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by jleyank 11mo ago
I have found over the decades that my debugging ability declines as fatigue increases. So if the goal is working code, there is a point where the additional work leads to delay whenever something is broken or has to be changes. Hack attac
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Pearl Harbor, along with France 1940 and the Nukes were paradigm-shifting events that occurred in WW II. Events that overthrew decades-long assumptions as to how war was to be fought. Not sure the near-simultaneous invasions of Normandy a
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Pretty much every country involved in WW II "killed countless civilians". Some of them killed their own civilians as well. But yeah, the US were the ones who did it most efficiently at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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by jleyank 11mo ago
Might make them hire more US-ians. Might make them, particularly if a startup, up and leave the US. There's been a hell of a lot of verbiage about the quality of H1b candidates vs. natives, and that can tug either way.

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