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by kingaillas 5y ago
Zoos I've been to tend to have more exotic animals - giraffes, elephants, zebras, lions, monkeys, etc. I think a zoo would prefer to direct its budget/resources towards these kinds of animal attractions. In the U.S., a pettings zo
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by kingaillas 5y ago
She should just pull a Marshawn Lynch, who answered "thanks for asking" for every question at one press conference: https://www.businessinsider.com/marshawn-lynch-thanks-presse... That would fulfill her media obli
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by kingaillas 5y ago
To me, being "enterprise" means shipping/supporting running enterprise functions on the OS. So things like network information services, databases, perhaps giving options of filesystems that can handle extremely large sizes,
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by kingaillas 5y ago
I remember reading a satirical article about a remake of 2001: A Space Odyssey, redoing all the product placement (of which there was a lot more than I noticed: https://everything2.com/title/Product+placement+in+2001%25
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>2. Bitcoin pricing is on a log scale. Time to report bitcoin pricing with decibels? I suppose another logarithmic scale would work here as well: Richter scale; scaled so these "corrections" are in the middle of the scale. Then
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>They should just call it a religion. A Planet Money episode from a few months ago covered this ( https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969182201/bitcoin-the-religio... ) and it was an interesting episode. Bas
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by kingaillas 5y ago
>If the US were to be serious about corporate IT security What happened to the responsibility of corporations for corporate security? Including corporations that are the victims of attacks, and corporations that sell buggy operating syst
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by kingaillas 5y ago
In a similar vein there is also Hitman Go and Deus Ex Go. I'm also a fan of Slay the Spire, mostly playing it on PC and Switch. But I triple dipped for the Android version, which has a little bit of clunkiness with the UI but the under
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by kingaillas 5y ago
They are just regular US government agencies on the standard US government payscales.
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by kingaillas 6y ago
I had that once, in an apartment I rented in the US (TX). If you broke the lease early, you were on the hook for the remainder of the lease, UNTIL the apartment was rented again. This was called "rent acceleration" as I remember i
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Well, it was basically the only book out at that time. I remember a few others in the 1990s - Compiler Design in C; Holub, and later after I graduated Modern Compiler Implementation in C; Appel). Hey something cool I found while googling -
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Or possibly, "needs to update more often than every 20 years".
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by kingaillas 6y ago
My university did that... sort of. There was a required "Theory of Computation" course using the Ullman & Hopcroft textbook "Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation". A newer textbook could also b
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by kingaillas 6y ago
As others noted, the Dragon Book spends far too much time on parsing, and not nearly enough on optimizations. To be fair, the first edition of the book is from 1986. It looks like the 2nd edition (2006) adds 3 chapters on data flow analysis
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>I'm not sure how spoofing the GPS would impact other users in a negative way. You could attack a pokemon gym at your convenience (from your couch, whatever time of the day). This negatively impacts other players because a legit, no
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by kingaillas 6y ago
So? Don't most manufacturers already have to provide multiple product versions if they sell internationally, to handle different electricity/plug differences around the world (among many other things)? Maybe there is an effect, bu
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Anecdotally, I had a friend at one of these places in Manhattan, trying to make it out of provisional status (or whatever the next level up on the ladder was). He pulled 15 hours (9am to midnight) Monday to Friday, and 8-10 hours on Sat. Hi
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by kingaillas 6y ago
I was going to say the first 3D POV game with real 3D was Decent ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent_(1995_video_game) ) but according to wikipedia System Shock came out about 6 months earlier. I probably got System
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>The only answer to the privacy and security question is to be principled enough I like this answer. Maybe this course of action won't be sufficient but I like taking responsibility to do what you can first of all. Folks here worshi
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>how can you stand going back For me, like many things, it is a tradeoff. Am I THAT more efficient in some uber config - balanced against the time it takes to fix/update/tweak/keep it current, and deal with multiple system
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by kingaillas 6y ago
I think China has some extra leverage to deploy here: China can respond "We leave it. Oh, one more thing: our domestic market is off limits to you. Pray we don't alter the deal further by kicking your manufacturing out too."
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by kingaillas 6y ago
His point was writing a function without conditional logic, and then of course generalizing to any "fizzbuzz category" problem. I thought it was a fantastic post on a extremely well trodden subject, up there with solving fizzbuzz
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>The Dr. Seuss books were banned not just by eBay but also by their publisher I don't see the problem here. The copyright owner's no longer wish to distribute certain items in their intellectual property collection? So? I don&#
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by kingaillas 6y ago
That's about what those franchise tax prep companies charge (Liberty Tax, Jackson Hewitt, etc). I found out my parents used one of these places last year, and they charged them about $350 for a SIMPLE tax return. It looked like the goa
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>Democrats had filibuster proof majority when Obama was president. For 2 years. And spent basically the entire time barely getting ACA through. Not a lot of "political capital" leftover for battling to have free tax filing.
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>Like they call the first element in a list / the other elements “list[0]” and “list[1..]” instead of “car” and “cdr”? car and cdr are remnants of an ancient instruction set ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAR_an
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Keeping some SKUs separate may be annoying, but the employee not realizing that until you showed your phone is not an insurmountable problem. Some training and/or an internal memo and the next person in looking for that item will be di
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Yes that was Griddy that emailed their client base. Whether or not they did it and gave their customers sufficient time to do the switch is another matter (i.e. close of business day timing, normal delays involved in new account enrollment,
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by kingaillas 6y ago
>than some state employed software developer. Are you willing to pay market rates to retain that developer? Or deal with the constant churn as people stay long enough to pad their resume before moving along to the next job?
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by kingaillas 6y ago
Yeah but the cost of that chain will also rise. If I'm (or my company is) personally on the hook for bugs, then I'm going to adopt a NASA-like software quality regimen, pushing up the cost of the product. Every single part of the

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