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by pjscott 11y ago
Having nuclear reactors doesn't mean your country can build them. For most countries it would almost certainly be cheaper to just import them from whoever offers you the best deal. Countries with nuclear reactor export industries inclu
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by pjscott 11y ago
The argument given here that they should prioritize "obesity, cancer and heart disease" more is ridiculous. Those are a lot harder to deal with than diseases that you can just vaccinate against, like measles or polio -- so, given
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by pjscott 11y ago
There's a small confusion in terms here: the "social justice movement" and "a desire for social justice" are not even close to synonymous.
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Good news on that! The Falcon Heavy is tentatively scheduled to have its first flight in April-May 2016. The Dragon v2 capsule is designed for powered landings, which is how the in-flight abort thing works. Combine the two, and fiddle with
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by pjscott 11y ago
ULA's reasoning was pretty straightforward. The main reason they dropped out of the competition is because the bidding was to be decided largely on price, and they can't compete with SpaceX on price -- their selling point these da
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by pjscott 11y ago
For a much smaller piece, this technical report contains a two-page compiler for a small Lisp to x86 assembly, from parsing to codegen, written as a series of Parsing Expression Grammar substitutions: http://www.vpri.org/pdf
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by pjscott 11y ago
Things generally are worth more to you than what you pay for them -- that's why you pay for them!
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Sounds like you've heard him talk, then. Listen to where he says "umm", and the tone, and how the audience reacts: those are punctuation . In writing they become paragraph breaks or dashes or periods or commas or just strong
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by pjscott 11y ago
That's what the article is asking. Perhaps a misleading title.
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And indexes on expressions! And a new full-text search module, FTS5! And slightly less restrictive partial index support! And some other things that look nice but don't get exclamation marks. This is a big release.
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That comment was probably supposed to have been posted in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10207681
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There are also contests run by groups without any NSA affiliation, such as the CAESAR contest for authenticated encryption [1] and, relevant to this subject, the Password Hashing Competition [2], which recently decided on a pretty impressiv
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by pjscott 11y ago
How useful would a superintelligent computer be if it was submerged by storm surges from rising seas or dis- connected from a steady supply of electricity? How useful would Elon Musk be if he were submerged by storm surges from rising sea
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by pjscott 11y ago
The author has an entire blog full of old advice, and it's worth checking out: http://www.askthepast.blogspot.com/
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by pjscott 11y ago
If you open the .ps file in a text editor, you'll notice that it's hand-written and has a neatly tweakable table of spells at the end, after the layout code for them. It also makes the recursive shield heraldry recursively.
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by pjscott 11y ago
A problem anywhere people spend most of their time being themselves instead of each other, i.e. all the places.
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If you dig that deep for things to criticize, you'll find them anywhere.
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The stupid part is that drug tests would reject a large percentage of really good programmers, and they are neither abundant nor cheap. That's a big cost for such a vague benefit.
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Redis cluster is clustering for Redis; this is clustering for a certain class of other things, built on top of Redis.
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According to the article, there's a third option: > It turns out almost any word or word pair that is not an obviously bad name is a sufficiently good one, and the number of such domains is so large that you can find plenty that are
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by pjscott 11y ago
If you'd like to give them another look, here's an up-to-date list of their publications: https://intelligence.org/all-publications/
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Presumably Uber's customers have decided that the New York taxis do not meet their minimum standards -- else they would just take a taxi. And who better to make this decision than the people involved?
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Expensive-toy prices are just barely keeping demand down to levels they can supply. They're using that money to ramp up production and lower their future costs. The long-term plan is to sell to progressively cheaper segments of the mar
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by pjscott 11y ago
A traditional alternative to considered-harmful titles is titles of the form "Why X is not my favorite thing-that-X-is". The classic example is Brian Kernighan's article "Why Pascal is not my favorite programming languag
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by pjscott 11y ago
In case anybody was wondering what the five communities are , here's the list of names: /r/FatPeopleHate /r/HamPlanetHatred /r/TransFags /r/NeoFAG /r/ShitNiggersSay
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You're looking at the top of the bottom -- at the people who excel at programming tasks so undemanding that they can be solved largely by copying code from the internet and modifying it slightly. Now imagine one of these "top prog
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His argument on this point is short enough that it's worth just quoting entire: > (Yes, it is nice to have college for non-economic reasons too, but let’s be honest – if there were no such institution as college, would you, totally
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Good news: those don't require empathy, as such. All they need to thrive is people's desire to look empathetic without putting much effort into it. Click the upvote arrow to show compassion for starving children and puppies and th
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Looks fun. A couple of minor comments: * The copystring() function looks like you re-implemented strdup() from string.h. * The call to malloc() followed by a call to memset() to zero it can be replaced with a call to calloc(). This is faste
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by pjscott 11y ago
From the first sentence: > Performance profiling of some of the eBay code base showed the logarithm (log) function to be consuming more CPU than expected. There are a lot of different types of "very fast", and these guys needed

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