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by macintux 11mo ago
You might look at DocBook. I haven't used it in ~25 years, and then only for short documents, and it is XML hence quite verbose. But it's explicitly targeted at technical documentation. If nothing else, searching for DocBook alter
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by macintux 11mo ago
In a similar vein, I recommend Looking for Trouble [0], a memoir by Virginia Cowles. I haven't finished it, but it's a look back at her time as a foreign correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and World War II. I found it cou
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by macintux 11mo ago
One more positive interpretation of Apple's research interests here is that devices like the Watch can better differentiate between "the wearer just fell and we should call 911" and "the wearer is playing with their kids
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by macintux 11mo ago
I would rather suffer 5-10% fraud if 100% of the eligible recipients are able to receive the benefits. With the current system, far fewer than 100% of the people intended to benefit will actually make the cut.
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by macintux 11mo ago
It turns out that the promise to hurt other people more is a winning strategy.
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by macintux 11mo ago
Don't forget the "1% of the recipients are fraudulent, therefore the other 99% must spend 10 hours on paperwork and 6 months waiting for the benefits to start, with a 30% chance of rejection" approach.
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by macintux 11mo ago
I wonder how many people would start businesses if we had UBI and free health care as a safety net.
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by macintux 11mo ago
There are comments elsewhere in the discussion indicating that these attacks tend to be discovered by automated scanners and the maintainers themselves, not by customers negatively impacted.
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by macintux 11mo ago
Dang added the previous thread to the description. I don't know why he didn't merge them.
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by macintux 11mo ago
ICE has very little legal authority and is yet the current president’s ground troops to lock up everyone who looks foreign. I’d say they have all the power they need.
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by macintux 11mo ago
> They know where it is as they have to press it when first getting in their vehicles. That's definitely not true of all vehicles. I helped a friend recently find hers; she'd never used it, didn't even know it existed. And
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by macintux 11mo ago
It surprised me to learn that John McCarthy never intended S-expressions to be the human-facing syntax of LISP. http://jmc.stanford.edu/articles/lisp/lisp.pdf
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by macintux 11mo ago
I recall the Hotmail acquisition and the failed attempts to migrate the service to Windows servers.
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by macintux 11mo ago
> Either play it by ear, or literally double your cloud costs for a true, real prod-parallel to mitigate that risk. There's also the problem that doubling your cloud footprint to reduce the risk of a single point of failure introduc
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by macintux 11mo ago
Do we need 6 front page topics on Gemini? (Plus 2-3 on Antigravity)
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by macintux 11mo ago
I would wager that most modern cars that have a clutch (which is <2% of the market in the U.S.) have hill assist. Certainly when I've been stopped on a hill with someone directly on my bumper I've used the hand brake, but that&
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by macintux 11mo ago
Erlang doesn't allow variable reassignment. Elixir apparently does, but I've never played with it.
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by macintux 11mo ago
Meanwhile, brake lights and running lights are frequently too dim because of an aesthetic obsession with "blacking out" tail lights.
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by macintux 11mo ago
> Partial failure modes are much harder to deal with. Truer words were never spoken.
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by macintux 11mo ago
My small-town public library growing up had a great resource that I did not appreciate at the time: an English translation of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia[0]. I really wish I had spent time with it. If nothing else it would have given me s
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by macintux 11mo ago
You can object to the "digital invasion", but using the phrase "freedom of speech" as some sort of magical shield is pointless. > Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the
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by macintux 11mo ago
And for many people, "easy" is hardly the word to describe that. No wonder small businesses just put their information on Facebook instead of trying to manage a website.
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by macintux 1y ago
One of the few lessons I distinctly remember from college was finite automata in my PL class. I really enjoyed exploring the concepts and writing a grep tool; we were supposed to write either a NFA or DFA processing application, but I decid
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by macintux 1y ago
10 years later, any details I could offer would be relatively suspect; my memory is pretty poor. Still, I'll make an attempt. Don't write a book based on anything below. I can honestly say it's the best job I ever had, workin
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by macintux 1y ago
Yes, I meant tiny majority. I recognize that the filibuster isn't guaranteed, but it has served as a powerful tool for a very long time.
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by macintux 1y ago
> You've got filibuster backwards. Filibuster grants rights to a Senate minority. Yeah, I meant that 50.1% can't force legislation through. I should have said tiny majority. States aren't gerrymandering because the people
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by macintux 1y ago
My take on some of the Senate's advantages: - No gerrymandering - Longer terms mean that senators can spend more time governing, less time running for election, and they can take a longer view on the impact of their decisions - Filibus
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by macintux 1y ago
Kingsbury & Bailis's paper on the topic of network partitions: https://github.com/aphyr/partitions-post
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by macintux 1y ago
I don't disagree with your theme, but I think in this case it has less to do with the grenades Trump is randomly exploding and more to do with the E-7 simply being the wrong solution.
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by macintux 1y ago
Sounds like the USAF decided last year that the E-7 was the wrong approach (too expensive, more interested in a distributed solution), so this isn't terribly surprising.

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