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by pjmorris 1y ago
I was at VulnCon last week, and an NIST representative said that there were no plans to cut CVE funding.
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by pjmorris 1y ago
Based on my own experience, YMMV, I find that those who need the validation before working directly on a solution are more annoyed by missing the validation than those who don't need the validation but get it anyway. Of course, it&#x27
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by pjmorris 2y ago
"Poor man wanna be rich Rich man wanna be king And a king ain't satisfied 'Til he rules everything" - 'Badlands', Bruce Springsteen
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I've flown through Heathrow a dozen or so times, and have spent maybe $200 in various shops and restaurants. Outside the airport, I spent months working on projects, and both I and the projects involved much more than $200. An analysis
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I took someone's suggestion to read a more orthodox US history 'A History of the American People', Paul Johnson, before diving in to the Zinn book.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
A non-technical friend was asking about the prospects of AI 'taking over' jobs. I told him that I'm less worried about 'Skynet' than I am about 'Slopnet', where bad takes on the applications of 'AI&#x
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I've seen 'fluid' as well as 'liquid' intelligence, but these are the terms the scientific community seems to use.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
That's what James Madison thought (see Federalist #51)
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Maybe if we'd stuck it out with Hoover... "given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, and we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this Nation."
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by pjmorris 2y ago
What have the Romans ever done for us? What have the New Dealer's ever done for us?
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by pjmorris 2y ago
If only we had bad markets instead, like the good old days. What metrics would you use to assess the quality of life you think best?
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by pjmorris 2y ago
"Bad government is the natural product of rule by those who believe government is bad." - Thomas Frank
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by pjmorris 2y ago
A friend raving about it got me to go see the 1989 reissue, and I was similarly overwhelmed/blown-away. The intermission only added to the sense of it being an event. Last year, I dragged friends of mine to see it in the theater. They,
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Clever.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
To be pedantic (and technically correct), "n the military of ancient Rome, decimation (from Latin decimatio 'removal of a tenth'[1]) was a form of military discipline in which every tenth man in a group was executed by member
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by pjmorris 2y ago
> They won't run out of currency, but the people that use it will run out of faith. Which is what happens when bond yields go so high that governments default. To my limited understanding, US Treasury bonds are used to determine the
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Government debt is a result of government spending into the real economy. It is where we get the taxpayer dollars that we spend, some of which go back to the government itself. A government without debt is also an economy without money. Gov
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Fred Brooks has a whole chapter, 'The Second System Effect', on this in 'The Mythical Man Month.' "The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetr
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by pjmorris 2y ago
'The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison[0]', Mike Wilson. It's a worthwhile read, and I think the joke is funny. [0] - God doesn't think he's Larry Ellison
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by pjmorris 2y ago
> So is starting a tribute rock band an ok alternative to reading books? That might depend on how you feel about 'Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground, 1981-1991', which is a book about bands
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by pjmorris 2y ago
In the same timeframe, someone here mentioned 'The Trigger Effect', the first episode of Burke's first (BBC 1970's) Connections series. We watched the first series (via random videos we could find online) and the most re
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I'd add 'Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir' [0], written by one of the LM guidance computer programmers, Don Eyles, to the Apollo reading list. [0] https://www.doneyles.com/LM/Tales.html
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I've only read the first of Caro's LBJ biographies, 'The Path to Power', but I'd very much agree. I plan to read one annually, but last year's Caro was 'The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New Y
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I came to recommend this as well. It's a study of the engineering and management efforts behind Apollo, and much more interesting and entertaining than that makes it sound. The section on how they developed the F-1 engines that powered
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by pjmorris 2y ago
Hearty agreement. One of the best books I've read.
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by pjmorris 2y ago
> How often do you 'vet' authors of non-fiction books prior to reading the book? I misread the question as 'How' rather than 'How often', but I'll repeat Jerry Weinberg's heuristic. He'd wait
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by pjmorris 2y ago
I was introduced to Dave Barry through his 'Year in Review' parody of the year's events (back when it came in print in the 'Tropic' magazine included in the Sunday Miami Herald.) I laughed and laughed, the way a Bil
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by pjmorris 2y ago
About 25 years ago, a friend offered 'Prioritize things that only happen once in life' as an idea for helping me decide whether to go to my friend's wedding or an important work event. The wedding was great, and the idea has
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by pjmorris 2y ago
An ageless idea... "There once was the first software engineering best-selling book. It was called The Psychology of Computer Programming (Weinberg 1971). There was a peculiar idea contained among the many excellent ideas of that b
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by pjmorris 2y ago
It's not over yet; I just bought my college radio station's (WKNC) t-shirt.

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