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by mcherm 6y ago
Consider how one goes about changing a law. Generally it starts with citizens making a fuss to inform their elected representatives that they think the existing laws need to be changed. Recently, in Minnesota, hundreds of people gathered in
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by mcherm 6y ago
Sounds like a need for a separate "legacyssh" client that runs on RHEL 8 and supports the legacy cyphers.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Are you training the two AIs on the same data set? If so, won't they be likely to make the same sorts of errors rather than making different errors and thus providing an effective check on each other?
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by mcherm 6y ago
Illuminate it for us, then. What is the middle ground that permits SOME computation in the client, yet is so restricted that it cannot take advantage of timing or cache attacks to steal information from other processes running on the same m
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by mcherm 6y ago
Asking for clarification is a GREAT response. I'd be happy if a human assistant OR Siri were to respond that way.
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by mcherm 6y ago
There are no simple browsers, thus certainly no simple browser for the masses.
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by mcherm 6y ago
Clever! https://htdp.org/
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by mcherm 6y ago
> Imagine if we were still selling boxed software and they decided that in light of COVID-19 they just hand it out with a two week limit. I think that is a fair comparison. As a software developer, I would JUMP at the opportunity to do t
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by mcherm 6y ago
> in a normal company salespeople might lose their jobs for saying that. Quite a few times over my career I have had a salesperson (not from Amazon) recommend a competitor over their own product. In every single case my respect for the s
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by mcherm 6y ago
No, it is not intended to be badly or awkwardly named. It really is the case that properly invalidating caches is surprisingly hard to do and is the root cause of many, many bugs. Of course, the term is intended to be taken broadly: "c
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by mcherm 6y ago
If I were creating a new language today there is absolutely no question in my mind: I would have the default string type support interpolation. It means that there is a particular character or character combination ("{" for python
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by mcherm 6y ago
Clearly one can learn a great deal from this kind of analysis of one's past coding practices. Great article.
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by mcherm 7y ago
> I have not found any mainstream sources that advocate screening everyone every day That's because we currently aren't capable of testing everyone who is obviously sick just once. If we got there, we wouldn't even be clos
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by mcherm 7y ago
That IS "kid stuff". Playing around with ideas (as well as with physical objects) is exactly what kids do. And it's fun!
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by mcherm 7y ago
Well, I use a static site generator for my blog ( https://mcherm.com ). It gives me confidence it can scale well and for a blog site static content (with simple dynamic content being rendered in the browser) is just fine.
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by mcherm 7y ago
I have moved to helixteamhub.cloud . Anyone else who still prefers mercurial to git have a preference for hosting?
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by mcherm 7y ago
I would immediately implement a special role for the head of HR: official decider of all firing decisions. No one will blame the head of HR because they'll know that they were only carrying out someone else's decision, while no on
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by mcherm 7y ago
> It's pretty easy to come up with a lot of absurd and "legal" at-will policies (e.g. we'll fire anybody who watches porn) My favorite which would work in much of the US is "We'll fire anybody who registers
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by mcherm 7y ago
Now THAT is the most impressive thing I have heard about them.
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by mcherm 7y ago
> still trying to figure out how to get paid for my patent, will probably just open it up I don't fully understand the situation you are in, but from what you describe that would be impossible. just because you are the inventor on a
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by mcherm 7y ago
> >Being asked to use inclusive language is a weird thing to > that is, if you consider the word 'guys' as gender bound and inclusive. I think you might be overlooking another possibility. The same reasoning applies if yo
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by mcherm 7y ago
The cost of the program is not a very good way of evaluating it. the number of people it feeds and how well it does so would be a much better criterion.
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by mcherm 7y ago
> How do we put a swift end to this nonsense? I support emergency whistleblower legislation prohibiting any health care employer (perhaps any employer) from engaging and discrimination or adverse job actions on the basis of an employee&#
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by mcherm 7y ago
Dear Internet Archive: Not only do I support the measure you have taken and feel that it falls within the bounds of pro-social fair use, but I applaud the measures you have taken that are so important in this extreme time. Furthermore, if a
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by mcherm 7y ago
> I did not expect for this finding to go from submit to fix/bounty in a matter of 24 hours. I didn't expect that either. I am very pleasantly surprised. I hope my own company would do as well as Slack did here, but I am not ce
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by mcherm 7y ago
In your post you said several things about "Biden". Could you clarify just who that is? I believe there is an intentional rhetorical trick being used to conflate to people with that surname. I can't say whether your use of it
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by mcherm 7y ago
Sure, but why WOULDN'T you choose to use old.reddit.com ?
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by mcherm 7y ago
> Judges in the UK are appointed professionals - they aren't elected as in many places in the US, so they aren't pursuing an agenda or appealing to an electorate. Judges going rogue isn't a problem in practice. I think in
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by mcherm 7y ago
So he's saying that operator notation engages "system 1" mental processing whereas the function call notation requires "system 2".[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking,_Fast_and_Slow
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by mcherm 7y ago
> And for people who make little enough money where saving that money every month isn't a viable option, they really have no business buying any sort of comprehensive auto insurance anyway. Liability only insurance is far cheaper, a

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