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by kpil 11y ago
I guess the Manhattan project represents a feasible limit of the budget of a large cost strategic weapon in a war-strained economy.
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by kpil 11y ago
Maybe so. I guess it's one of the symptoms of depression. There is also research that indicates that school results improve, and the students report that they feel better if the school starts later in the day, in sync with what appears
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by kpil 11y ago
Unfortunately, if one correlates the money, the particular religious flavour, and some incentives in loss of influence in certain neighbour countries, it would point to certain gulf states that we seem to be reliant on for oil. Regard as a
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by kpil 11y ago
Hmm. Everything we have in our basement is slower than my desktop i7 if you run exactly one core. Running all cores at full tilt is another story. On the other hand,IBM have just tried to book three 3-hour long pitching sessions with me so
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by kpil 11y ago
I think that apple figured out a long time ago that the price performance would never be as good, and that pure performance would be on par - at best. Since then it has all been about making it look good for enterprise goons. Consolidating
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by kpil 11y ago
I agree. But a big oled screen for a map, settings, and secondary systems can never be wrong can it.
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes, I Do! Temporary short circuit. Sorry.
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by kpil 11y ago
Don't you think there is quite some gentrification driving the social dynamics in Berlin? It is at least so here in Stockholm. But anyway, I totally agree, the suburban dense architecture fails because there is no social cohesion at al
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by kpil 11y ago
Yes, interesting question. (Other sources are what? Arctics? Heat expansion?) Anyway, I particularly like that they are doing observations rather than just faffing around with models. Models are good, but data is better.
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by kpil 11y ago
I'd say it is considered inside information if you convey any notion of how the business goes to a select (closed) group of people, and it will be illegal of them to act on that information. Is it illegal for you to act on that infor
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by kpil 11y ago
Isn't that most of the stuff? Most places looks like a Corbusier-esq nightmare combined with heavy traffic solutions. It's not that we know how to build places where people would like to live, just look at the prices. (And remembe
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by kpil 11y ago
Reactive is "things happen, I don't need to know, async". Right?
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by kpil 11y ago
Exactly. To handle massive loads, you can trade away transactional integrity and get increased performance AND a whole new range of complicated problems that was more or less solved for you, that you now have to take care of yourself. For s
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by kpil 11y ago
I know nothing about Adobe, so I think Inkscape have more problems than being "Unfamiliar." It's OK, but I never seem to remember if I'll change a property for a tool or my previous operation.
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by kpil 11y ago
What? No? CVS is a version control system. We kept (a copy of ) the source in the laptop. The actual system we developed was running in machines guarded by hordes of sysadmins grumped up to the proper level, possibly even employed by IBM.
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by kpil 11y ago
Seriously not bullshit. To be fair it can be due to a crappy cvs port or related to something that cvs do that does not work well on the non-unixy memmory mapped io model on AIX.
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by kpil 11y ago
Hm, no not really. The cvs daemon had the whole machine for itself.
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by kpil 11y ago
There were no competing workload and no virtualization on the AIX either. We didn't need it (yet) for other things.
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by kpil 11y ago
No, we stayed on the laptop. It was eventually moved from the other site to a proper server room, still with a sticky note on it. We might have forgotten to mention this fact to some people though...
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by kpil 11y ago
Tesla is showing what a car can be - Excellent UX, a nontraditional but really nice drivetrain, a good UI for the secondary systems with frequent software upgrades, etc. It's not hard to see the trend - it's been coming for the l
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by kpil 11y ago
All I know is that we once had to temporarily move a cvs repository from a brand new and crazy expensive pSeries 660 (?) running AIX to a really old and retired Pentium III laptop that we had found in a drawer and installed linux on. This w
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by kpil 11y ago
That is very US-centric. In many places (in the world) you are expected to for months after you are laid off. In many european contries, layoffs must be announced a long time before they happen (a maximum number but not specific jobs). In a
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by kpil 11y ago
Most people would prefer being wiped in the ass by a robot. There are really strong incentives for automation in healthcare. When talking about the immigrants and refugees working with elders; Unfortunately, even the "human touch&quo
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by kpil 11y ago
When I asked my co-workers, I got the whole range from "it sounds homely and pleasant" (quite a few actually) to one guy that asked to sit as far away as possible. I actually flossed it and added some padding, so now it's sli
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by kpil 11y ago
Uhm, there is also some studies on high-protein, low-carbohydrates diets, that is also giving good results for glycaemic control for type-1 diabetics. And a lot of angry arguments and shouting too from people with various levels of expertis
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by kpil 11y ago
I think that if the taxonomy is based on evolutionary paths, it's somewhat more "real" compared to the "looks alike" sense. The evolutionary paths could potentially give some insights, while grouping similar but gen
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by kpil 11y ago
I'm getting older now (40), and let me tell you one thing: It's really saddening to look at all the wasted effort made to solve the same problems, over and over again. Mainframes were shit (in most contexts), but have been reinv
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by kpil 11y ago
The biggest problems that we could be better at, at least. One other hard problem is to figure out how to construct systems that are not so damn fragile. I am not talking about raid-5 here, but how to find ways to tackle the intrinsic compl
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by kpil 11y ago
Programming is 100% design, there really is no separate "implementation" phase. If the design has a flaw, whatever the reason: it is a bug. A big part of development is "discovering the requirements." It is typically the
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by kpil 11y ago
Although Win10 is smiling and waving hello, It's things like the "smile while pulling the trigger" citation that makes me never trust Microsoft.

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