mtdewcmu

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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Nice. If grand scale and unimaginable heat are what make stars impressive, then this must be the least impressive star. In fact, we might never find a star less impressive than this one, because this is close to the least impressive star t
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The explanation for what made him type that is what interests me. It would be like accidentally cutting your left hand clean off with a steak knife while you were eating dinner.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Isn't that how Itanium is supposed to work? I mean, I think specific instructions would have to be sent in order to force it to happen. But, I seem to recall the line "predication, not prediction" as one of the features, if y
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>Was the article's author even compiling with optimizations enabled? Quite possibly not. Which, I guess, is reasonable, since the point was really about cpu instructions and not C compilers. What comes out is more predictable wi
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Huh. I guess the reason it works in the article is that the value is not calculated, it's just a constant.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
The title of this is misleading, and so is this part: >>The cost of a single increment operation is highly variable. At low boundary values, it is around 0.03 time units per increment. But at high boundary values, the cost drops to on
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think your point was that cool kids and nerds are heterogenous groups, i.e. kids could end up in the same category for vastly different reasons. I agree. Practically all social science research suffers from the problem that it can't
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Intellectuals have been known to give terrible relationship advice. They have their theory and they apply it. You can't hold them responsible when it blows up for you. I don't have advice on what to do, but mix a good dose of comm
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Huh. I think you were probably a victim of the 90's tech boom. I probably would have majored in computer science anyway, but I turned 20 in 2000, and things certainly looked more promising up until the crash. I can see that you have ta
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Okay, you didn't try to use it to explain anything. I guess what I meant to say was that I think inhibition is a bogus thing to measure. By purporting to measure it, you implicitly make the assumption that inhibition is an independent
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think level of inhibition is too reductive to have explanatory power. My guess is that the nerds are the children who listen to adults and follow rules. The cool kids are the kids that rebel very early, probably because the adults in thei
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think you may need to intervene and call out the nerds, otherwise they may start missing crucial developmental milestones.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
True. You can always eschew the nerd/cool argument and choose realism.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
"Nice guys don't win." -- He sounds like a Jeffrey Skilling type character. The guys that say things like that in high school probably are the ones that go to Wall Street and become white collar criminals.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
How universal are those categories? Can you generalize the results of this study to other times and places?
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
You nailed it. This would be a good title: "It's better to be un-cool, finds study by former un-cool children." I'm pretty sure there's no accepted definition of cool. They seem to have chosen early signs of delinqu
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
LastPass is better-implemented than I thought, then. You should be able to trust it. That addresses some of the inconvenience of account proliferation, but not all.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I think new models and progress will have to be based on looking at the technologies available, such as cryptography and web protocols, and figuring out what are the best and most convenient systems you can assemble for various levels of se
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I'm not sure which authority gets to pronounce which code practices are good and which ones are bad (the Vatican?), but one thing that I've observed plainly is that this authority can't make up its mind and contradicts itself
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
>>The volatility in the bitcoin price just demonstrates how the majority of the people trading it have no conception of how to value the underlying asset (i.e. demand for a low cost transaction system) and thus it is speculators leadi
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Some good questions. >>Isn't this the equivalent of giving somebody private URL, like in the article? It's essentially the same, functionally, as a password you remember. Except passwords are less secure, as people use the s
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
They could be trying to be helpful by using it for two-factor authentication or as a secure means of sending potentially sensitive information. The problem can happen when well-intentioned security advocates talk about how to increase secur
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It can be hard to untangle what caused what. My feeling after many years is basically that emotions are emotions and drugs are drugs: if you feel anxious, that's an emotion. The drug may have been involved in setting the anxiety off, b
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
He said that punches driving facial evolution was fine as a hypothesis, it just needs evidence and he hasn't seen any. His characterization of this as a just-so story, glib and light on evidence, doesn't just accurately describe t
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
It also sounds like you probably have some degree of anxiety that was being amplified by the drug. Most of the time it's probably beneath conscious awareness or latent. I imagine that when you're always disorganized and getting in
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I plan to check those links out. Thanks. The web has every kind of site, covering every possible use case and degree of need for security, so I think there's a good chance that useful models are still out there waiting to be given a tr
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I've heard of Lastpass, but, as far as I know, it only solves one problem, namely giving users a place to keep a password list that can be accessed through the web.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
Well, the solutions offered then have failed, but did they systematically rule out all possible technologies and business models? One problem is username and password proliferation. Another is filling out the same information over and over,
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I wasn't complaining about loss of privacy. I was talking about when I have to create an account that I don't need just because the site requires it.
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by mtdewcmu 12y ago
I work on websites in drupal and so I've both given thought to this problem and seen how the process works from the inside. The problem with random passwords is that they are impossible to remember, so you have to have your password fi

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