jsnathan

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by jsnathan 10y ago
I may be in the minority with this here, but I mostly agree with this post. Python 2 is a simpler, and possibly more elegant language than Python 3. It's true that most of these new features are optional, but that doesn't change t
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by jsnathan 10y ago
As far as the CPU goes, try re-running sysbench with --num-threads=2. Since you get two cores, if your app can take advantage of that, the speed is about the same as the others.
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Can't access the article without disabling ad blocker. Here's an alternative source [1]. [1]: https://phys.org/news/2017-02-dinosaur-scientists-collagen-m...
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by jsnathan 10y ago
What kind of misconduct? There is a big difference, for example, between plagiarism and fabricating results. And which percentage of the researchers are involved in this? 1%? 0.1%? 0.01%? Do you have any studies you could link to that in an
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50 Year Anniversary for First Cryonically Preserved Human(newhistorian.com)
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Writing Programs for “The Book” [2007] [pdf](bit-player.org)
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Deschooling Society(en.wikipedia.org)
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Seems to me that when you intentionally lead people to believe that they can depend on you for something in a way that they wouldn't otherwise have, you create an obligation for yourself to keep that promise. Should be that way, anyway
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Pretty sure those are all generated. Seems to be a trend of people reposting these throughout the Internet without explanation.
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Have a look at the code [1]. There's maybe 20 lines of actual logic in there. Even taking all of what you mentioned into account, it's still not more than a single afternoon. I agree with you in general, splintering in open source
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Worrying about split effort makes most sense when the problem is large and the amount of effort dedicated to the problem is limited, or when there are network effects that come from having more people involved in the project. I don't t
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Less likely about Trump, and more likely about the 'freedom of navigation' exercises the U.S. has been conducting in the same general area - something which these sailors would be acutely aware of, and which they may well feel the
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Even in that situation I would think that in the current climate the circumstance of the accident would also be taken into account by the public / the press. I.e. did it occur in a situation where a human driver might also have been un
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by jsnathan 10y ago
(from the press release) > Members of the [President's Strategic and Policy Forum] will be charged with > providing their individual views to the President — informed by their unique > vantage points in the private sec
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by jsnathan 10y ago
At least one of the major candidates in next years South Korean presidential election (Lee Jae-myung, recently dubbed the "Korean Trump" [1]) is running on a platform of dividing up the chaebol. He is not the frontrunner, but mayb
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Let's do X is not a proposal?
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Hey, cool project! Any chance you could give a quick rundown of how this compares to Qubes? Like, the tradeoffs, etc.
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by jsnathan 10y ago
That's a very gracious interpretation I think. The snippet illustrates a kind of trivial bug (uninitialized variables) that should really jump out at anyone who is used to writing C code. (And I think it's clearly C code, and not
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by jsnathan 10y ago
The code snippet shows a bug, p is an uninitialized pointer. The behavior is undefined. Theoretically it could point to some valid memory, but saying that it points to dynamically allocated memory definitely implies a misunderstanding.
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by jsnathan 10y ago
It's funny you say that because the author addresses this at the start of the talk. He says that when it was suggested to him by a friend that he write a book about the Collapse, he agreed only on the condition that he could distinguis
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Wired did a 1-hour feature recently called 'Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of Hardware' [1]. They also visit the markets. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGJ5cZnoodY
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by jsnathan 10y ago
There are many ways to categorize and define argumentational fallacies, and so it is often difficult and disingenuous to argue over exactly which fallacy is violated by a particular utterance. But since this is blown up since I last looked
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by jsnathan 10y ago
I'm glad he mentioned it cause I wouldn't have noticed otherwise. I submitted it [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12612574
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Embed HN or Reddit comments on your blog(embedd.io)
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by jsnathan 10y ago
Just a brief note for those coming late to this thread that this originally pointed to (and made it to the frontpage as) [1], which is a discussion of only the part of this speech by Comey which pertains to encryption and privacy, and which
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by jsnathan 10y ago
I've been doing some reading on this recently, and as far as I understand it, this paper is not going to settle the matter one way or the other. IANAP so take these notes with a grain of salt. There was an experiment done by a Chinese
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by jsnathan 10y ago
The article basically states that Uber's cavalier attitude towards the law was the wrong approach to use in Japan, because the Japanese public does not respect this attitude, and that they should have worked it out with regulators befo
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MIT spinoff nuTonomy trials self-driving taxis in Singapore(fortune.com)
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by jsnathan 10y ago
> That seems way bogus to me. I'm sorry, I'm not sure exactly which part you're objecting to?
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by jsnathan 10y ago
You're probably right about Einstein not suggesting there was a hard physical limit preventing nuclear energy. But I don't think that hard physical limits are a good argument anyway. There are FTL proposals that do not violate kno

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