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by ocschwar 3y ago
Since this is Hacker News I think I should point out Moore's Law. All the computer modeling done by Hansen and others in the early 80's could be done today on a gamer desktop. The code itself is a mix of Fortran and (bleach) IDL (
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by ocschwar 3y ago
Teams does send me back down memory lane with a good old fashioned 2 minutes hate for Microsoft every day.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
In the 90's and aughts there was very little love for Microsoft among IT professionals. It's a little embarrassing to think about right now when you realize that Microsoft has never poisoned a river or sent thugs with billy clubs
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by ocschwar 3y ago
This story is being falsely flagged.
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by ocschwar 3y ago
The interface is difficult to deal with, but TIL that Linear A potsherd was found in a Philistine site.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Freezing your city in amber isn't a human right either.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
I'm one of those people who moved to an urban area for a tech job, and yes, my presence here is a part of the problem that drives working class, local born people either out of the region or on to the streets. But I did nothing wrong.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Yes, they were. The archaeological record indicates they cremated infants instead of burying them, but there is no indication the infants were murdered. There are many cultures where infants aren't named until age two or so. When infan
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Once Rome conquered Egypt, they had a monopoly on Egyptian papyrus. That's why we know a lot more about periods of Roman rule than about areas outside of the empire or provinces when Rome did not control them. Rome didn't have to
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by ocschwar 4y ago
How many of these are free speech issues? Lindzen doesn't raise any. He's retired, and speaks only for himself. He's an embarrassment, but there are no issues there. Ito? No attempt has been made to silence him. Stallman isn&
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by ocschwar 4y ago
That's not actually the tradeoff in my experience. If you're willing to blindly follow the suggestions given you by the compiler about references, and clone() things when it doesn't seem to work, you'll be just as produc
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Agreed.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
One issue is that today's students rely on electronic devices that are much more prone to sprouting legs when left unattended. The Athena combo and the weight of a workstation made that less of an issue in our day.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
TLA+ definitely. The lowest rung on the ladder is actually reachable.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Uncertainty. Doesn't matter what they set their fees to. If a jury decides that Visa/MC is liable for the exploitation of a minor, they will be instructed to assess punitive damages, and the whole point of punitive damages it to m
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by ocschwar 4y ago
The internet was a venue for liberation back when you had to take active measures to connect to it. Nowadays you have to take active measures to disconnect. I'm not sure what to do about this.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
There are professors who teach at community colleges and help students get 2 year degrees. There are professors who teach undergraduates. There are professors who teach graduate students who are working on doctorates they will use in indus
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Right now the controllers come from China. There are fabs in Thailand, Malaysia, Taiwan, and many other countries ready to step in if need be.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Turbine manufacturers are predominantly Danish (Vestas), German, (Siemens), USA (GE) and Spain (Iberdrola.) I don't have much of a problem with being dependent on energy cooperation from countries that happen to be my military allies.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
I've been checking Ponta Delgada out on Zillow for a while now.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Take a look at European rural areas some time. 1. Commercial production of food and timber begins literally at the city line around most European cities. There's not the ring of suburban hellsscape. One one block, there's a city.
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by ocschwar 4y ago
> If you have time to react to a car door suddenly opening in front of you, is it best to go around the door? An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you brake, you could run your face through the door window. If you swerve,
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by ocschwar 4y ago
I'd say lack of knowledge of relational algebra is the root cause of a lot of bad SQL database schema design. (Guilty as charged)
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by ocschwar 4y ago
Confirmed that enforcement is lax. And also that there is a horrifying amount of broken coral washing ashore at Waikiki.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
Lots of countries are polarized. Doesn't mean you can spout nonsense about the events of 2014 when two elections cycles have passed since then. That would be like starting a war with the US in 2028 because you think 2020 was stolen.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
Ukraine has held TWO elections since 2014. Those events are moot at this point.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
I think it will take another generation, but Turks will take that step vis a vis the Armenians because in this world countries have to follow the German example of self-criticism to be seen as mature and responsible.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
My master's thesis involved figuring out an integration of the Biot Savart equation for hexagonal finite elements. Without Mathematica it would have been impossible.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
And Canadian Reddit is full of people demanding that Justin Trudeau echo his father's words.
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by ocschwar 5y ago
I'm starting to discover an interesting contrast with SCADA industrial protocols. In principle, being "liberal in what you accept" when you're writing a controller for an industrial process, well, it's a non starter

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