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by pjsg 7y ago
The numbers don't seem to add up. If an average set of tires lasts (roughly) 50,000km to 100,000km, and the average tire weights around 10kg, and you have 4 tires, then the (totally unrealistic) maximum loss per km is 4 * 10 * 1000 &#x
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by pjsg 8y ago
I wonder how many people even use their Yahoo accounts any more. This thread was the first that I heard about flickr changing T&Cs. I don't ever log in, I just have some scripts that add particular photos to my photostream -- I.m u
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by pjsg 8y ago
I just checked on UA2154 LAX->BOS for today. United is already saying that there is a 150 minute delay (probably due to the weather) and upside is saying probably a 30-60 minute delay. [I picked this flight as I had to pick up someone at
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by pjsg 8y ago
Neither did I! Thomas Clarke, Duncan Maclean, Arthur Norman and I built the SKIM (S,K,I Machine) at Cambridge in around 1980. This directly executed a whole set of combinators -- it was built out of TTL and it had 32k 16-bit words of memory
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by pjsg 9y ago
I had a similar toy back in the 1960s in the UK. It was a bunch of little bricks and some special water soluble glue that acted as mortar. I used to build fire places and chimneys, and then light little small fires and watch the smoke come
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by pjsg 9y ago
If someone claims to support industry standards (or best practices), just ask which standard. Is it, for example NIST 800-63B ( https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html )? Of course, they aren't really fol
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by pjsg 10y ago
No -- computer security -- which is a fascinating field. There are arms races here between the good people and the bad people. It isn't clear that the forces of good are winning. It is a Red Queen problem. The original libjpeg code was
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by pjsg 10y ago
As the author of the original libjpeg (back in 1991), I think this has been a long time coming! More power to Google.
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by pjsg 10y ago
When I interview someone, I always ask about side projects. Some have been huge, and some small (and maybe half haven't done any). However, the passion that the interviewee shows when talking about their project is very revealing. Also
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by pjsg 10y ago
Do you have IPv6 anywhere -- I have found that they think that my IPv6 address is a proxy, and the IPv4 is OK.
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by pjsg 10y ago
No -- you aren't alone. Whenever I connect my daughter's iPhone to iTunes (say to add more music) we take our lives in our hands. You get scary popups that ask you a question and provides two options -- neither of which is what yo
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by pjsg 11y ago
Yeah -- it seems that the clauses that the students provided were aspirational goals. I can support the goal of having a malware free web, but I have no idea how to achieve that. Part of the problem is that there is no good definition of
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by pjsg 11y ago
It all comes down to why you want to write software. If you want to be paid for writing software, then doing it on your own time and contributing to an MIT licensed project is NOT the way to go. On the other hand, if your goal is to have yo
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by pjsg 11y ago
If I am to invest in the time and energy to switch over my current anti-solution to this, then I want to ahve some level of assurance that it will be more effective than my current scheme. I agree that spam is a moving target and that is wh
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by pjsg 11y ago
To me, the most important things about anti-spam systems are the false positive / false negative numbers. This information ought to be top and center, and it isn't.
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by pjsg 12y ago
L & K on first try....