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931.
by leif 17y ago
http://twitter.com/automeme/status/2866503271
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by leif 17y ago
Dunno why he wants to kill anonymity on the internet. I really miss the time it was hard for people to find out about me without actually talking to me.
933.
by leif 17y ago
Good point; the article is pretty academic and I appreciate it for that. I am tired of the argument I anticipated (and, to my dismay, it seems, created) here.
934.
by leif 17y ago
My point, though, is that the law isn't really going to change much. First of all, even if people in high places (why yes, I am that good) start thinking legalization of <your-favorite-chemical-here> might be a good idea, it'll take
935.
by leif 17y ago
Kind of tired of the argument. The people that use will keep using whether drugs are illegal or not, the people that would use if drugs were legal will still use the same drugs when they're illegal, and the people that don't use will still
936.
by leif 17y ago
I always preferred the blunt "pull this part back to yesterday, when the knot wasn't, move it over here, bring it back to today, and it's unknotted" argument.
937.
by leif 17y ago
Seems to be helpful for physicists, not so much for mathematicians. A physicist will look at an integral and say "oh, yeah, charge is field times area, that makes sense!", while a mathematician isn't going to say the same about measures.
938.
by leif 17y ago
We suggested he give us our final exam four semesters later after he gave this talk.
939.
by leif 17y ago
Any database engine worth its salt will use some kind of balanced tree structure (canonically, a B-tree or variant thereof, but since I'm on a project that isn't using a B-tree, I'll be a little less restrictive). This is primarily, as sai
940.
by leif 17y ago
The major improvement coming from SSDs is that seek time no longer kills you. People will notice a difference going from random access on a rotational drive to random access on an SSD; sequential access, not so much.
941.
by leif 17y ago
make blog, don't remember url
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by leif 17y ago
I think having this thought is one of the fundamentally human experiences, as every time I talk to someone about this idea, they tell me that they, too, had it at an early age. Thank you for confirming the ultimate weirdness of the universe