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by milspec 11y ago
You are "flagging spam/not spam in those lists" but Google may then associate that list (not the content) as being spam or not. Google sees that mail comes from the list and decides based on that. This is why I never mark mai
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by milspec 11y ago
barely: the DEA buying it for other countries, and the FBI using it for low-importance stuff
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by milspec 11y ago
Hey, there is more than that! Lots of programming isn't very visible to outsiders, but it often provides wonderful opportunities. Web and mobile are the trendy career alternatives to the desktop, but there is a whole world beyond that.
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by milspec 11y ago
Natural selection has not stopped ant can not stop. Here in the USA, currently trans fats are killing people. Some people can tolerate trans fats more than other people can. We evolve to tolerate them. The same goes for every other not-good
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by milspec 11y ago
Suppose I'm on Linux, but I want to interact with Windows stuff. (CIFS protocol, NTFS on-disk format, disassembler for Windows executables, Wine-like program, cross-compiler, etc.) I'll be wanting UTF-16 support. Going the other w
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by milspec 11y ago
Rust should have untagged unions. Obviously, ones that allow pointer abuse would be restricted to code marked unsafe. Note that a union of two pointer-containing structs is safe as long as the pointers line up, having the same type and offs
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by milspec 11y ago
see replay to TeMPOraL below
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by milspec 11y ago
Stealth is not a boolean property. What you can do on the ground with giant arrays of huge antennas and/or supercomputers is way ahead of what can be done in a fighter plane, and that is way ahead of what can be done in the seeker of a
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by milspec 11y ago
We were offered a last-minute discount on the F22 which was excellent. Meanwhile, the F35 went up in price... especially after the F22 was canceled. It's looking like the F35 will cost about the same but with far less capability. The b
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by milspec 11y ago
Heh, not happening. People will drive. Generally they will take their rage with them to home or to work. Commute length is related to risk of heart attacks and divorce. Your ideas have a huge quality-of-life impact that extends far beyond t
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by milspec 11y ago
You say "calm", but that isn't how the drivers feel. They get full-on road rage. BTW, you also get more pollution. Modern car gearing makes 60 MPH (100 KPH) pretty reasonable; cars from the previous century do better at about
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by milspec 11y ago
pipelining :-) He could have more stages than a Pentium 4.
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by milspec 11y ago
MacOS X is BSD with the low-level part of the kernel replaced by the Mach microkernel. Another way to say this is that the high-level parts of the BSD kernel got stuffed into the Mach microkernel. This is a nasty horrid way to design an OS.
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by milspec 11y ago
No, ill-defined non-portable C bitfields are evil. If you can specify bit endianness, byte endianness, spans of bytes, and so on... bitfields are mighty nice.
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by milspec 11y ago
I tried this "public transport" in San Francisco. It was a disaster. It takes forever and doesn't run when you need it. This of course is a big city with nice weather; ponder waiting by the curb during an ice storm while your
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by milspec 12y ago
...within the jurisdiction of Texas, surely due to lobbying from those who benefit from the PE situation. It's the same as how Tesla can't sell cars in Texas. It's Texas...
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by milspec 12y ago
You can't even make it to level 0 unless you use an IDE. I guess you're level -1 if you're an experienced old person using "vi" and "make".
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by milspec 12y ago
Wow, no love for assembly/assembler yet? Enjoy: Raytheon SI could be the place for you. We are hiring technical staff at all levels, from INTERN (hurry, the competition is fierce) to people with decades of experience. We hire doctorate
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by milspec 12y ago
They shouldn't do that. OTOH, anybody with a security clearance ought to be able to have the agency assign a disinterested person to do that ASAP. Without this, a foreign government can trivially send agents to date people who might kn
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by milspec 12y ago
Unless refusing orders would mean somebody else jails you, no you haven't been in that situation. The deal is that you follow orders and maybe get jailed/executed after losing a war, or you disobey orders and definitely get jailed
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by milspec 12y ago
Nope, a network engineer is way different. Much closer would be writing boot loaders and compilers.
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by milspec 12y ago
Damned if you do and damned if you don't. Nice. You'll change your tune if you ever find yourself in that situation.
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by milspec 12y ago
Yes, it was ruled invalid. That doesn't make it invalid. That ruling was pure evil. The trials were a sham, existing only so that a democracy could participate in dishing out victor's justice. It's revenge, pure and simple, c
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by milspec 12y ago
I could inform you about non-secret stuff like culture, but you wouldn't believe me. You want to believe that these are horrible small-minded people who don't think twice about violating your rights. The reality is they are anythi
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by milspec 12y ago
That sounds like a fucked company. FYI, this doesn't happen at Raytheon SI. They're mainly in Florida, Maryland, Virginia, and Texas. They're hiring. Desired skills relate to reverse engineering, disassembly, emulators, JIT,
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by milspec 12y ago
Sure there is. Stealth capability isn't a boolean property. Intermittent detection isn't enough to target an aircraft. Being able to track from the ground, with numerous antennas and supercomputers, is much easier than tracking fr
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by milspec 12y ago
The Flinn effect has run out of steam. We're starting to creep the other way, as one would predict.
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by milspec 12y ago
The words "or similar" are what I hate most. On the web site, cars are listed by class. I care about models, not classes. I see the example car, google it to determine if I like it, choose it, and then... show up at the place and
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by milspec 12y ago
I'm 40. I create zero-day exploits at a government contractor. People like me have tame lives and families, so we don't live anywhere near San Francisco. We live in places like Texas, Florida, Utah, and Nevada. In some of these pl