jorgem

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by jorgem 14y ago
I guess it just applies to folks in the south west, hundreds of miles from the border.
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by jorgem 14y ago
Yep: http://www.aclu.org/constitution-free-zone-map
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by jorgem 14y ago
They should make supreme court justices try to drive across the Mexico border once per year.
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by jorgem 14y ago
Out of curiousity: Aside from "returning errors" and "throwing exceptions", is there any interesting research into other ways of error handling?
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by jorgem 14y ago
It's like opera - an acquired taste.
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by jorgem 14y ago
You can find the same content here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4530929
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by jorgem 14y ago
How do you get behind something like this? The author of the paper is my new hero.
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by jorgem 14y ago
that's cool.
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by jorgem 14y ago
My theory: Twitter with a pay-as-you-text phone plan is not wise (if you like to get tweets as texts). Hence the kids can't afford it.
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by jorgem 14y ago
spite?
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by jorgem 14y ago
Someday, somehow, someone will take down the Super Bowl or the World Cup final off "network television". I don't know how it will happen exactly -- maybe part of the network stream will go over the internet on it's way to/from a satellite f
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by jorgem 14y ago
Actually you can be searched by federal agents inside the US within 100 miles of any "edge" of the border, even if you are not crossing... http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/10/aclu-assails-10/
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by jorgem 14y ago
Maybe this is a valid case for "security through obscurity". If you don't publicly proclaim you're doing something like this, who knows to look?
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by jorgem 14y ago
I speculate an ugly not-too-distant future: Mike crosses US border from Canada to US. Fancy government computers "lookup" Mike and flag his name because of suspicious posts on "hacker" news. Fun ensues, when agents discover hidden/encrypte
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by jorgem 14y ago
Nice. Has all this effort ever come in handy?
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by jorgem 14y ago
Luckily, truck drivers don't just drive. For a lot of short haul trucking (and probably long haul), they have to load and unload the truck. And fix the truck when it breaks down (if possible). And deal with problems when the wrong shipment
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by jorgem 14y ago
Yes. That is why the water part of my bill is sometimes only $10, but the connection charge is $120. It's a worst case scenario in the few months where I hardly use water.
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by jorgem 14y ago
My favorite was the bitcoin one. The complaintant (?) used DMCA to protect the MIT license on some code he wrote. Nice!
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by jorgem 14y ago
I dunno. My water bills average $200/mo, for a single home (no pool, mostly drought resistent yard, etc). We're in an area with low density (out in the country). I pay about $120 in fees. Then the water is the rest of it. In winter, when we
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by jorgem 14y ago
Not really. The water company is raising prices on everyone because we're not using as much, but they still have same overhead. If the whole community hadn't conserved, we'd have gotten more water for the same or lower cost.
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by jorgem 14y ago
>> The unspoken fear of all utility managers is the “Death Spiral Scenario”. >> In this nightmare, a utility commits to build new equipment. >> However, when electric rates are raised to pay for the new plant, the ra
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by jorgem 14y ago
The things I always wonder about TOR: Won't I look like someone else's computer? Is it possible for me to get in trouble for because someone else's traffic exits from my home network?
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by jorgem 14y ago
I think if I understand memory addresses and assembly language, then I understand pointers. If the guide doesn't explain why pointers are useful and efficient on real hardware, then it's missing the point. Which was my point.
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by jorgem 14y ago
Some thoughts: >> A pointer is a variable that holds, literally points to, a memory address What is a memory address? How does a pointer literally point to a memory address?
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by jorgem 14y ago
I never heard of the guy, and I could tell he liked ML. He wasn't really hiding it, IMO.
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by jorgem 14y ago
I don't think it used to. I could be wrong, though. Or maybe they're getting some pushback?
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by jorgem 14y ago
That is cool. I wonder if a good library worker is faster than Shelvar?
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by jorgem 14y ago
I am surprised by how many good sized pebbles are on the top surfaces of curiosity. I guess I expect dust, but those are pretty big. Kicked up during the landing?
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by jorgem 14y ago
I suspect they would only register names that look somewhat "good". There are plenty of automated ways to valuate domain names -- then just pick the unregistered ones that exceed some value.
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by jorgem 14y ago
This doesn't make sense. Please add more details...

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