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Probably a hardware limitation?
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It needs A on one end and C on the other, because nobody I know works on only one device. (OTG too for various devices, of you want really wide compatibility)
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by jwatte 10y ago
Can you compare it to MogileFS, which seems very similar in design assumptions? (Also, Mogile has been around for > 10 years!)
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by jwatte 10y ago
C, bash, make, Haskell (Has it really been around that long already!?) (And C++ and Erlang depending on your cutoff date.)
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by jwatte 10y ago
HTML and JavaScript and Postgres.
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The best place to ask questions for me is the internet. It is regularly so hostile and rules lawyerly that I have to collect everything I know about the problem into the post, and pre-empt every objection with an existing fact. And, once I
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by jwatte 10y ago
I mean, he is not wrong about every computer being potentially vulnerable... Then again, so is a commercial courier.
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by jwatte 10y ago
My pet theory is that part of the anonymous usage data Chrome sends back, is digested page contents that go into pagerank. And such browser level digesting would be on rendered pages (after JavaScript execution.) I have no other reason to b
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by jwatte 10y ago
The strip mining of the public good that drug companies would do if all sales were allowed boggles the mind. Such an open policy would only work if all information (including internal information proprietary to the maker) was available to i
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by jwatte 10y ago
"Clone itself" as long as you get gearboxes, actuators, bearings, bolts, and any other part already made by other machines. "Assemble a copy of itself from parts" would be more accurate, but of course less attention grab
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by jwatte 10y ago
It's easier and more robust to do NAT traversal with UDP than with TCP. The Xbox game network services implement TCP within the Microsoft domain on top of UDP!
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by jwatte 10y ago
Lifting bodies into space is the expensive part, unfortunately, so a mass approach won't work. However, once the elites get too greedy, and the masses too marginalized, there will be riots and civil war, so the smart ones will go for t
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by jwatte 10y ago
The article plays fairly loose with its own arguments. For example, while an expert system/predictor likely gets the medication right more often than the human, the actual shelving, counting, and management of the physical medications
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by jwatte 10y ago
Government will hire rules followers who aren't experts, for as long as we think that government is inefficient and we don't want to pay taxes. If government was prestigious and well paid, competent people would flock there in add
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by jwatte 10y ago
The point of view of "business friendly" Republicans is generally that if the resource lasts for 25 years, that will make life better for people who live now. In that viewpoint, why would you prioritize some theoretical future peo
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by jwatte 10y ago
Someone who pumps a watershed affects it for miles around, where presumably other people live and are negatively affected by reduced water supply. Water rights in California are not at all market based, because of historical reasons and a p
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by jwatte 10y ago
Actually, conservation is likely much lower hanging fruit than new generation -- both for water and energy. It's just that the American market somehow thinks "conservation" equals "limiting and red tape" when it rea
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by jwatte 10y ago
Well, in another 25 to 35 years, we'll hit the 3 degrees C warming that will start collapsing the global food supply system. Wars have been fought over less.
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by jwatte 10y ago
(Assuming US differs and jobs here) A six figure income is way below 99%. It's below 90% for most six figure earners in the US. You need seven figures to get to the top 1%. I know smart people who worked very hard in high school and un
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by jwatte 10y ago
An /observed/ universe requires conditions to cause observers to evolve. I don't but that an "intelligent" observer is needed to collapse the waveform, BTW. That uses a very non-physical interpretation of "obse
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by jwatte 10y ago
The problem is that anti-cheat and ad networks are requirements for the market that the current market forces have built. Saying we should be without them, without any kind of plan for how to reshape those market forces, is like wishing for
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by jwatte 10y ago
Because our justice system is inconsistent and very far from perfect. But probably better than nothing, or vigilante justice. Probably. Want to fix this? Vote for higher taxes to help fund both public defenders (at 10x or more the current l
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by jwatte 10y ago
So, no family to care for? What level of savings security do you have? What happens to you if you get cancer, or break a leg? What will sustain you in retirement? If you live outside the US in some country where human basic needs are guaran
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by jwatte 10y ago
Wealth inequality plus trickle up economics plus inflation makes for millionaire wage slaves who can't afford their kids college tuition.
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A sample of one!
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All of the welfare budget together (of which some fraction might be waste or fraud) is only a small fraction of the governments budget. Corporations the size of governments are equally inefficient. Finally, one major way we could make gover
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by jwatte 10y ago
When a millionaire gives a million dollars to a school in a wealthy neighborhood, all tax payers are on the hook for 400,000 or so in tax deductions. So, rich giving disproportionately channels where government opportunity costs are spent!
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by jwatte 10y ago
I would like a full time job to be enough to by a minimum of rent, food, health care, transportation, communication, clothing, education, and savings for a small family. In America today, that is not true for millions of working class peopl
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by jwatte 10y ago
Yes! I used "the brain" as a kinder synonym for "placebo effect."
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by jwatte 10y ago
To be fair, the reason gpus can be fast on gpu workloads is that the hardware makes totally different assumptions about typical control flow across processed pixel tiles. You can't run Call of Duty or Tensorflow at the speeds we see to

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