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by mmagin 10y ago
Yep. What drives me even more crazy is things which are purely syntactically wrong, e.g. an else: clause with no if before it are only detected when the interpreter gets to that line.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Too bad multicast streaming never really happened.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Funding for the enforcement branch of the FCC has been seriously cut in recent years.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Because, with the popularity of Linux, people have forgotten how varied unix-like OSes once were. I'm sure the grandparent poster will mention things like how it stores configuration differently, etc, but that's only not-unix-like
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by mmagin 10y ago
When I was about 16, I read Larry Niven's _A World Out of Time_. It left me with very mixed feelings about the matter. Unfortunately all the times I had the means to sign up for such, I didn't have the desire to. Tell me, what w
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by mmagin 10y ago
Not sure it's over-educated upper-middle-class NPR listeners that they need to be convincing here. :)
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by mmagin 10y ago
So, I see something like this, assume they mean "from scratch", read a little way down the README and it says "The following labs assume you have a working Google Cloud Platform account and a recent version of the Google Clou
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by mmagin 10y ago
Look at it this way: why would a lot of the best engineers want to work at Cisco? Maybe when they were the company they were 20 years ago, but today?
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by mmagin 10y ago
Direct sunlight kills a lot of things pretty well on its own. A lot of multicellular organisms that spend much time in the sun have all sorts of adaptations to deal with it.
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by mmagin 10y ago
You need more than rice or pasta to survive.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Ha. The lower-case "sgi" isn't the real SGI logo to some of us :)
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by mmagin 10y ago
A blacklight flashlight is a simple tool where you can understand how it works. This is a opaque service and you cannot reasonably know what's going on behind the scenes.
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by mmagin 10y ago
I think it's just a newer version of how much American-produced television was having this affect on the world a generation ago. (Including the dominance of the New York/Los Angeles dialect.)
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by mmagin 10y ago
I think that's true, except for the rich and powerful that can enjoy comfortable living in higher (average) density areas. Comfortably isolated from the grime and noise and poor mass transit.
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by mmagin 10y ago
I think this is usually not "a thing" because cats don't cope with sudden changes of surroundings well, nor do they tend to coexist well with other cats that they didn't grow up around. The only case where I've see
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by mmagin 10y ago
"Disruptive innovation"
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by mmagin 10y ago
eBay doesn't generally help shoppers make a good decision. Beyond the fact that the web site is a mess, they don't seem to care at all about listings which seem to attempt to match searches with results that aren't what peop
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by mmagin 10y ago
AFAIK, this sort of stacked die thing has barely started to reach actual commercial products. It's been an idea for a long time, but quite hard to get right. Anyway, it's no different than another IC of considerable complexity -
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by mmagin 10y ago
I think you deliberately grouped those two words together when that was not the author's intent. "collectively stopped planning" and "stopped planning collectively" have different meanings.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Yeah. I think it could be a little more concrete than that. First, that there's a lot of cultural baggage around money, and it's important to try to know how that's effecting your decisions. Second, that all the sellers of
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by mmagin 10y ago
In much of the developed world, sewage treatment is operated with the assumption that people are regularly putting pathogens in the sewage via their feces.
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by mmagin 10y ago
I've had them ship a flashlight that came with an alkaline battery labeled as if it had a lithium battery. I've also found that they wouldn't ship the 8 oz version of a popular homebrewing sanitizer (Star San -- it's pho
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by mmagin 10y ago
Sodium hydroxide is a lot cheaper than the various premixed stuff. And you can also make soap with it.
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by mmagin 10y ago
Is the average javascript developer responsible for the horrible security model and the dubious javascript-accessable features added every year to web browsers? This is like saying developers of MS Windows applications are responsible for t
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by mmagin 10y ago
Am I the only one who misread this as "statuses" and thought it was about the Twitter 140 character limit?
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by mmagin 10y ago
The internet's asshole problem rears its ugly head. Now if only people read the warnings on pool chlorine more carefully, they probably wouldn't even think about doing dumb shit like this.
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by mmagin 10y ago
If you are arguing that Western Europeans were powerless to do anything about it, yes, that is an argument in favor of having a sizable military -- but not necessarily an argument in favor of taking action with it. If you are arguing that t
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by mmagin 10y ago
I have actually been told by legal people at my employer that if it can be proven that anyone at the company has read a particular patent, this can occur. So, yeah, the system is rediculous. But no looking at any patents related to softwa
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by mmagin 10y ago
I generally avoid anything that doesn't have legitimate safety certifications: UL, ETL, TUV, etc. ("CE" as printed on random imported crap seems to mean nothing in particular.) Also, you can usually count on actual, non-coun
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by mmagin 10y ago
Well, uh, AC vs DC and 100-250 volts versus 5-48 volts are two completely different dimensions to the problem here. For example, there has been some standardization of high voltage DC power distribution for datacenters, seeing as that could

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