jtlien1

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by jtlien1 9y ago
I was learning make. I couldn't get the example in the Make book to work. Then someone explained that the line after a make heading HAD to begin with a tab. Nowhere was this explained in the book. Please, let us stamp out the
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by jtlien1 9y ago
A few years back I re-implemented a microcode assembler that I had used in a silicon valley startup in the 1980s. I used some of the features of Haskell to do it. See metalasm on Sourceforge. It can now do disassembly of horizontal mi
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by jtlien1 10y ago
Something useful like bitcoin etf gets rejected. But look at some of the stocks that are allowed to trade... Magnegas for example has been an ongoing fraud for 17 years. Fake delivery of machines to Kazahkstan. It would be easy to pro
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by jtlien1 10y ago
The exit ramp I have for Hillary supporters is the death of Vince Foster. Hillary fought an FBI investigation of this but made sure there was on one of Billy Dale who stood in the way of her travel office plans. All I have read on this
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by jtlien1 10y ago
Just wait to you get older and face job discrimination. The wonders of unenforced feel good laws.
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by jtlien1 10y ago
Well a lot of "seniors" like me have used computers since they were programmed by punch cards. Bought my first PC in 1983 and have built my ever since. Ubuntu user now. Back when I learned to program, you needed to know the in
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by jtlien1 10y ago
Have you seen anyone interview Norm Mineta about what really happened in the Situation Room on 9/11? He was fired and exiled practically when people started to point out his damning statements about what happened in the Situation Roo
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by jtlien1 10y ago
The mental model from economics that is widely misinterpreted is comparative advantage. Most think it means you/a country etc should specialize in that which you are best at. And then free trade will work to your advantage. But it
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by jtlien1 10y ago
My take on driverless cars is that they should solve a few other problems first. Like our crazy insurance system. I should pay much less for driving on uncrowded rural highways than people who drive in congested cities. And pay by the
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by jtlien1 11y ago
100% gold back deposits. Would only loan money to people who can prove they do not need the money.
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by jtlien1 11y ago
It reminds me of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court after the Interdict came down and stopped all that progress. Our Interdict is the PUC, regulation, lobbyists and corrupt political decisions, then subsidies and more counter subsid
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by jtlien1 11y ago
The inequality is more apparent than real. I enjoy watching videos of Dallas from the 1980s. They were the richest oil men in Texas. But look real close... They are using dial telephones. They could have had expensive radio phones
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by jtlien1 11y ago
Cool stuff. We've come a long way since I ran around the office at night upgrading everyone from a version of Windows that didn't allow a user to type Format C: return when they meant Format A: (floppy disk), and immediately refo
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by jtlien1 11y ago
Had a friend that collected legos and put them all in his basement. Unfortunately, the basement had moisture problems and all his lego boxes got mildewed. Last I was him, he was cleaning them and putting them into a covered trailer. Ma
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by jtlien1 11y ago
That the poor in Africa can have a cellphone... I get a kick out of watching reruns of "Dallas". The mega rich oilmen depicted in that series did not have cellphones. But because some people pioneered cellphones and got rich,
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by jtlien1 12y ago
In that jobs are inversely proportional to the amount of productivity in an industry, one would conclude that coal mining jobs are very productive and solar not so much. This is not an argument for solar, because if the amount of jobs is
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by jtlien1 13y ago
A lot of times, the code you are writing does distance comparisons to determine overlap or intersection. But if all you are doing is this, then you can use the square of the distance which is just x^2 + y^2 and you have no need for a squa