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by oconnore 10y ago
You know the turbine runs on CNG, yes?
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by oconnore 10y ago
I think the systemd complaints can essentially be reduced to "my init system now knows about cgroups, sockets, dbus, [and other things that didn't used to exist]". I haven't heard anyone offer a replacement that accounts
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by oconnore 10y ago
Honestly I would still rather call a real human to book plane tickets. In fact I would pay a premium for it. This stopped happening because humans are expensive, not because typing numbers into a 2 inch touchscreen keyboard is actually a be
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by oconnore 10y ago
You're saying exactly the same thing. "This environment can shoot me in the foot, but not if I do it right." MISRA C with copious static analysis and a talented QA team is safe, too!
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by oconnore 10y ago
My house has a vacuum, a lawnmower, a blender, a washing machine, 20 light switches, a 4 zone heating system, and 6 sinks/showers. I can manage 1.71e10 possible states while I sleep, why are you struggling with four?
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by oconnore 10y ago
Ideally, we would want essentially everyone interested in pursuing science to do so, and succeed. No? You seem to be saying that we should rather limit the number of scientists than pay for the ones we can train.
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by oconnore 10y ago
I think the discrepancy comes from advocacy thought vs. legal thought [1]. When advocating for rape victims, who are severely disadvantaged in these situations, you might make a statement like "we need to listen to the woman's per
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by oconnore 10y ago
> no personal info > Just your universally unique id ...
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by oconnore 10y ago
> As jobs continue to get automated away, the emphasis on education will only become more extreme. Why is that insane? What else should people be doing instead of learning -- especially when they don't need to work?
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by oconnore 10y ago
The sweeping recommendation on STM was especially hollow to me since the software I work on doesn't use a database at all.
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by oconnore 11y ago
On the CPU: extract some bits from sequentially allocated memory, a la steganography. When those bits match a certain predicate, run a decryption and feed them into a subroutine. Now release a bunch of png, jpg, and mp4 media on the interne
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by oconnore 11y ago
> You are essentially making the luddite case. I'm not, I'm just countering some "don't worry, everything will be fine" idealism. I don't think we should halt progress, but I do think we should be more inten
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by oconnore 11y ago
Here is the critical section of the article: > What about the workers thrown out of jobs by the new robo-waiters? Many would get new jobs, though the way this would work is often ignored. > Most restaurants would keep longer hours
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by oconnore 11y ago
> I didn't need any of that, I needed a machine that pushes air into my face at night and another one that pulls a belt below my feet in the morning, but the professionals I visited failed to prescribe these. What sort of therapy is
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by oconnore 11y ago
I figured someone who knows more about this (than me) would write a good reply to this, and they did: Ron Garret replies: Saying "How on earth did it come to this?” strongly implies that you think that the trend towards DJB’s
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by oconnore 11y ago
AGPL actually makes a lot more sense for a database (except for SQLite, which is typically redistributed).
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by oconnore 11y ago
A full 24 hours worth of music (~33 complete albums) at 192 kbps is only 2GB.
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by oconnore 11y ago
I just spent ~5 minutes clicking through on the Onyx site (learn, docs, blog, support, learn/FAQ, github) and still have no idea what it does. It's a "a masterless, cloud scale, fault tolerant, high performance distributed co
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by oconnore 11y ago
Ugh, the "ratcheting restrictions" tactic is why we can't have ANY compromise on gun laws. The NRA is not stupid.
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by oconnore 11y ago
This is a very commonly repeated assumption, and it has been true in the past. I wonder if you and the other people repeating it really can't see any possible differences between washing machines or bulldozers, and humanoid machines th
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by oconnore 11y ago
Really just a naming collision. IBM Spinnaker is a data store, Netflix Spinnaker is a software builder. The paper I linked is interesting if you're researching distributed data stores.
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by oconnore 11y ago
This seems like you're assuming the conclusion. When you say, "readers won't pay for sites [and sites cost money]", there are only a few solutions, and they all involve non-readers paying for the reader<->site inte
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by oconnore 11y ago
Another Spinnaker: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1103.2408.pdf
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by oconnore 11y ago
> You have to scratch the paint to search each layer and people don't want to do that. So you scratch the bottom, and patch it if you really care that much. > You also can't offer to visit someone for free and do a quick tes
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by oconnore 11y ago
Cool, if they also remove ads from AMP served content, we will be at feature parity!
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by oconnore 11y ago
You know what already makes pages load lightning fast? Ad blocking.
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by oconnore 11y ago
Oops. http://imgur.com/6koHMyI
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by oconnore 11y ago
Right. In the context of grid storage of renewable energy, that doesn't matter. You need a li-ion or similar in your phone and your laptop (and maybe your car), but that doesn't make it the best tech for flattening out a peaky sol
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by oconnore 11y ago
These buzz articles always focus on the sexy energy storage methods: lithium ion, liquid batteries, electrolysis, supercapacitors, etc. I've seen very little evidence that these can compete on either $/kWh, or efficiency, with pum
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by oconnore 11y ago
Not everyone who runs linux wants to learn what is necessary to spend hours doing whatever the opposite of "automatic" is.

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