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by joshAg 11y ago
The idea is to allow user space direct access to the necessary buffers, so there's no user/system copying or context switching.
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by joshAg 11y ago
Sounds like they need another anesthesiologist or they should have bumped someone else to start the meningioma procedure earlier in the day.
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by joshAg 11y ago
But the problem wasn't finding a surgeon. It was finding an anesthesiologist, who from the story's own description, isn't extra specialised. Unless that person is on call, it sounds like someone screwed up the schedules by pu
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by joshAg 11y ago
TLDR: don't ever contact the cops because they will fuck shit up even worse than if you didn't call.
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While EECS treats its lecturers well, they are still essentially adjuncts. Lecturer SOE is very different from just lecturer, because as you pointed out they have tenure. From what I can tell of my time there, the EECS department very much
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by joshAg 11y ago
Lecturers are Cal's version of adjunt professors. Just like how GSIs are Cal's version of TAs.
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by joshAg 11y ago
> Is TPM/DRM circumvention allowed for personal, non-commercial use? Not by default: > Although the TPP text does allow countries to pass exceptions that allow DRM circumvention for non-infringing uses, such exceptions are not ma
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by joshAg 11y ago
Well, two major issues: The first is technical: how does one guarantee that the algorithm is actually fair? And that of course hinges on how one defines 'fair'. Many of the measures that appear objective aren't. There is a gr
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by joshAg 11y ago
I think you're overstating how much the author associates socal with only Latino and Mexican culture: "Before I describe the nations, I should underscore that my observations refer to the dominant culture, not the individual inhab
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by joshAg 11y ago
Asking for a recommendation from friends/family is best, even if their lawyer doesn't specialize in employment law. In the case where the lawyer doesn't do employment law, say you were recommended by a friend/family and
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by joshAg 12y ago
SICP is amazing. The only bad thing I can say about it is that since it was my first CS textbook in college, it naturally became my measuring stick for "good CS book", which has nearly ruined most of the CS books I read.
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by joshAg 12y ago
well, based on the ADP site, that's about a $3k difference in annual state tax vs. standard deduction for CA, so I don't think that changes things too much, but good to know for someone like me who's already here in san jose.
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by joshAg 12y ago
Is that itemizing the CA taxes or just taking the standard deduction? The rule of thumb in CA is if you make more than $100,000, your state taxes are larger than the standard deduction.
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by joshAg 12y ago
I would go freemium. Make the base app open-source and free (as in freedom, though you could also make it free as in beer, too). You could do something wonky with your license where it's free or nearly so for noncommercial use and then
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by joshAg 12y ago
That's pretty much exactly what I was thinking, but I didn't want to overstate how much better 5 people starting NOW at a higher rate is than 5 people starting soonish for a lesser rate. I'm not surprised at all that there ar
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by joshAg 12y ago
The other side, though, is that it might be much easier to raise the necessary capital (taking into account changing costs due to location) in san francisco or the bay area in general than other places. It might also be easier to find quali
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by joshAg 12y ago
I went to UC Berkely. if you've been through a lot of those courses and read the dragon book, then another reason you might appreciate college is that you'll be able to do research or take grad classes to fulfill undergrad course
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by joshAg 12y ago
FYI: your address is not in your profile.
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by joshAg 12y ago
I'll put my bias up front: I went to one of the best cs school in the US, so the perspective I have and the opportunities I've seen available to me and others I know are not necessarily typical. 1) It is totally plausible to get a
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Summary Judgement for Jewel V. NSA and Shubert V Obama [pdf](eff.org)
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by joshAg 12y ago
I didn't bring up EME. I just want a video tag with mandated support for at least one totally unencumbered audio and video codec. The suggested codecs aren't unencumbered, and currently there isn't any mandated codec wrt <
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by joshAg 12y ago
H.264 requires a per user license fee paid to MPEG LA until 2027 when the patent runs out: http://www.zdnet.com/article/a-closer-look-at-the-costs-and-... AAC also requires a per unit license for anyone who manufacture
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by joshAg 12y ago
Look, if they want to make a plugin that understands their DRM scheme or some standalone app that's basically just a scaled down browser with support for a <drm_video> tag, they can tilt at that windmill all fucking day for all I
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by joshAg 12y ago
Yeah, they definitely won't do well over non-compressible non-repetitive data, but they can help for situations where the data isn't compressed at rest or where data is repetitive. Like I said, for many technical people you can ro
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by joshAg 12y ago
If you have to regularly transfer large amounts of data over a network, it might be worth looking into a wan optimization product like Riverbed's Steelhead, Silverpeak's VX/NX lines, or Bluecoat Mach 5, or one of the other ve
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by joshAg 12y ago
If we don't explicitly define some terms first, we're just going to continue to equivocate. Sex and gender are two different things that you are conflating, and masculine, feminine, male, and female describe separate things. Sex i
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by joshAg 12y ago
Gender-based prejudice is a separate thing from sexism (but they are interrelated). Point one and three from this page [1] do a good job explaining, but here's the crux of the argument: "The first important thing to understand abo
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by joshAg 12y ago
I don't think sexism or culture of sexism is enough because the example I gave is entirely about gender. The cheerleader doesn't reject him because he's male; she's rejects him because he's not masculine. That has n
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by joshAg 12y ago
Do you possibly mean Brian Banks, the Long Beach high football player? False accusations of any crime are horrible, but they are in no way common: The United States Justice Department agrees [with the rough percentage of false rape claims],
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by joshAg 12y ago
You misunderstand the enemy. The enemy isn't the other sex. The enemy is the culture itself that reinforces and perpetuates traditionalist gender roles. In short, the enemy is the patriarchy, and if you think for a minute that that onl

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