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811.
by le-mark 5y ago
This question surprised me. In that any one could read a random comment on the internet as anything other than opinion? There most certainly arguments to be in support or against (Reagan busting up the air traffic controllers is an easy exa
812.
by le-mark 5y ago
It’s a riff on this concept with “natural” nano technology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo Cellulose metababolism is unusually hard given all the plants around.
813.
by le-mark 5y ago
That first image is a strong incentive to not get involved in mining!
814.
by le-mark 5y ago
I for one still have a win 7 desktop at a big dumb corp (f500). So yeah.
815.
by le-mark 5y ago
It’s really remarkable how a few primes and successive add, rotate, and xor operations can give (seemingly) completely random bit patterns, consistently for different inputs. It’s almost unreasonably effective (referring to sha255 algorithm
816.
by le-mark 5y ago
Did you also think “l can then use their personal information to target ads and make $billions!” I wager you did not, because you’re probably not as depraved as some.
817.
by le-mark 5y ago
Clearly their investors should have funded the intern!
818.
by le-mark 5y ago
So many schemas are all or nearly all optional elements, so the point about typing rarely works oh in practice.
819.
by le-mark 5y ago
> But they messed it up by defining namespaces as an add-on to the core XML spec, rather than part of the spec itself. An example of where this is an issue is using version as a name space ie tags with the form “<v2:customer>” and
820.
by le-mark 5y ago
This x1000, we are not writing code for ourselves, we write code for our employers, and it behooves us all to keep it as simple and maintainable as possible. Will you be there in 10 years to explain it, will you want to if you are? If this
821.
by le-mark 5y ago
The f-22 was a budget disaster until production was halted, and then the previously on budget and on schedule f-35 went off schedule and over budget. These planes are jobs programs for Congress pure and simple.
822.
by le-mark 5y ago
> In the past, there was a divide between systems and application programmers. Roughly, the systems programmers took care about the details of the infrastructure and resource access, while the application programmers worried about the &q
823.
by le-mark 5y ago
The dynamics of odds movements are interesting in their own right imo. Some sports, with many days between matches (nfl, college football) lines can move drastically between when odds are published to match start. Others sports that play da
824.
by le-mark 5y ago
GP makes some valid points, why would one accuse GP of gatekeeping? I think anyone who jumps to such an unfounded, uncharitable conclusion should consider their own biases first.
825.
by le-mark 5y ago
Edit nm Didn’t read the article.
826.
by le-mark 6y ago
It doesn’t need to recognize every possible weed species, just “crop of interest / not crop of interest”. A much simpler but still valuable task.
827.
by le-mark 6y ago
Ah man, someone actually built my weed zapper with “weed/not weed” AI! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ACmydtFDTGs
828.
by le-mark 6y ago
I’m sorry but this is just ignorance, learning to use the debugger for the platform at hand is a basic skill every developer should master. So many times have seen developers use the debugger to troubleshoot and fixed issues and been percei
829.
by le-mark 6y ago
I didn’t see any references in this thread to Von Neumann replicator cellular automata, so in this particular sense the idea has been implemented. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann_universal_construc...
830.
by le-mark 6y ago
You can get really awesome pork ribs by just baking them in a plastic baking bag in the oven at 250F for a few hours then finishing them on a charcoal grill with hickory chips on the coals and brushing on sauce. I’ve been eating bbq my enti
831.
by le-mark 6y ago
I have sources who have purchased hydro plants in South America and refineries with installed power production and use the excess capacity for mining. My feeling it’s more common than a single crazy dude.
832.
by le-mark 6y ago
This the correct calculation. The potential profit is much much higher than the current price levels. Until the mania ends, then it’s not.
833.
by le-mark 6y ago
I was going to ask as well. There’s an incredible amount of jargon around internet ads and marketing in general. Impenetrable to non practitioners imo.
834.
by le-mark 6y ago
After the Joel on software forums closed, where do shareware/isv folks congregate nowadays (if you don’t mind sharing)?
835.
by le-mark 6y ago
Indeed, one does not see open source java projects self promoting as “beautiful”, nor many others languages (Python jinga?). Reasonable to assert the Use/misuse of the adjective based on that imo.
836.
by le-mark 6y ago
Display area is one major benefit. I had a google g1 long ago and I’ve missed that keyboard ever since. Imo pressing physical keys is far superior to pressing glass.
837.
by le-mark 6y ago
What strikes me how frequently obvious propaganda from China and/or North Korea, clearly meant for internal consumption are reported as “news”. Of course bellicose vitriol is printed against the US for example, but it’s clearly not off
838.
by le-mark 6y ago
It’s remarkable the level you go to to bridge this gap even after being burned, literally no one else would, I wouldn’t. Is it worth my job, career, families future? That’s the calculus and risk imo.
839.
by le-mark 6y ago
Sort in memory constrained environments is interesting from a historical perspective. Mainframes did have small memory compared to data at one time. The solution was “disk sort” a process to sort files in chunks into sub files and merge the
840.
by le-mark 6y ago
>Are you really going to recommend growing the table by duplicating it? Setting a reasonable initial size then doubling it and copying when (if!) it needs to grow is a pragmatic, reasonable approach that’s quite common!

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