mtnygard

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by mtnygard 10y ago
The "false flag" stuff is just loony. But there is an element of CYA because previous rounds of funding allocation have apparently evaporated into the ether.
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by mtnygard 10y ago
As a society we are going to have to figure something out: if intellectual property has value, then content contributors are adding value. That means kicking them off is depriving them of the value of their labor. In the public sphere, we w
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by mtnygard 10y ago
To extend your point just a bit farther: participants in social media have to also be aware of _potential_ enforcement in the possibly distant future. E.g., college kids worrying about employers, potential politicians managing their image f
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by mtnygard 10y ago
The file is newline-delimited. The strings themselves are base64 encoded, so they could contain newlines.
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by mtnygard 10y ago
Have you accounted for moving the trees from where they grow to where they can be used? (E.g., milling, planing, curing.) That will take energy that likely offsets some of the benefits. Likewise, moving the lumber or finished goods to consu
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by mtnygard 10y ago
It is not a law of the universe, but it is somewhat more than fashion. In California, it is the law. Quoting from http://volokh.com/2013/08/06/lawsuit-over-firing-based-on-em... In 1937, “the California Legis
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by mtnygard 10y ago
Employers in California are in fact legally obliged to tolerate political opinions in their employees. Quoting from http://volokh.com/2013/08/06/lawsuit-over-firing-based-on-em... In 1937, “the California Leg
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by mtnygard 10y ago
Disclaimer: not a string theorist. In examining the behavior of superstrings, we are concerned with modes of oscillation. As with ordinary strings, the possible oscillations are determined by the boundary conditions on the string. E.g., bot
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by mtnygard 10y ago
I can't agree. First off, they say they stand for transparency. That's often synonymous with impartiality but not always. Second, one of the candidates in this election has previously stated that Assange should be killed. To me th
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by mtnygard 10y ago
This series is wonderful. Somehow, Phil is able to introduce concepts from CPU state through compiler wonkiness to kernel design--all while showing how Rust helps handle them--but make them all accessible. One other thing the series does is
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by mtnygard 10y ago
Mainly because engineering machines that deal with water plus electronics plus moving parts, and making the whole shebang reliable is really hard.
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by mtnygard 10y ago
I do like CEPL, but feel compelled to point out that it creates GLSL strings from its shader microlanguage.
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by mtnygard 11y ago
I know that this article is specific to Windows 10. However, it sounds like the same caveats and risks also apply to Apple's iCloud keychain. I'm not trying to excuse one by pointing at the other... I genuinely want to understand