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by pmiller2 6y ago
This is some serious sci-fi shit right here. Anybody know of any fiction that uses something like this as a plot device?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yeah, tt++'s programming model is essentially a finite state machine with a single global scope. If that sounds hard to work with, it is. I think if I were starting over, I'd go with a client that's extensible in a real lang
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Fair point. Raising the total contribution limit from all sources to $58k + $6k, without differentiating between individual and other contributions would totally make sense. It's an implementation detail, but a significant one, to be
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I've recently had an interaction of similar character with a neighbor in my very small apartment building, including, oddly, a door slamming component. We had had an interaction a few weeks prior that just went sideways, which caused t
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by pmiller2 6y ago
It's tautologically true that for any X, if you don't try to do X, you won't succeed. But, you also have to weigh whatever good may come of success against the probability and potential consequences of failure. In cases lik
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I agree, in the sense that someone who has done something of this nature is more likely to have done such a thing in the past. However, in this case, the victim is someone who is being targeted through his email address, which is embedded
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Yeah, I agree. In his place, I either would have done nothing, or, maybe made a police report (not that I'd expect the police to actually do anything at this stage). Generally speaking, the less you antagonize someone whose first e
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That's an implementation issue with capitalism. I was referring to implementation of a service that provided accurate route distances for drivers.
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Eh, at the geographic scale Uber operates at, it's a smidge more complicated than just Dijkstra's algorithm. Not much, conceptually, but there are potential implementation issues that matter.
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That doesn't seem terribly tough, either, given that the Pi has 40 GPIO pins: https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/physical-comput... A push button is literally one of the most trivial things you can
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Thanks for backing me up on this.
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Why would the device need to be any more complicated than a bluetooth speaker and microphone driven by a Raspberry Pi or something? That effectively reduces all the engineering necessary to making a case for the Pi that looks like a red ro
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Even just eliminating the whole 401(k) shit show by converting them to IRAs and raising the contribution limits for IRAs to ~$25k (roughly the sum total of what a W2 employee can contribute to an IRA + 401(k) combined) would solve the retir
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Or, we could just realize that when you say "benefits," what you're mostly talking about is stuff like health insurance, which can be handled more efficiently by moving to a single payer system. I don't have a reference
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't know about "you deserve it," but this whole shit show is certainly a huge failure of government to do basic things, like invest in, and maintain infrastructure. [0] For example, Rick Perry, former Texas governor and T
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I have not played MUDs in a long time, but, when I did, I always just got by with Tintin++. I never went all the way and wrote an actual bot that could run unattended, because there were so many different things that could really mess up y
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You could do that with whatever interactive fiction tools you want, combined with some form of speech to text software. For instance, Inform 7 for your IF tool, and any of the following for speech to text: https://www.lifewire.c
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Someone needs to write a library / framework for this thing and call it "bear skin." https://wiki.c2.com/?BearSkinsAndStoneKnives
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by pmiller2 6y ago
How about helping to ensure there's a planet worth living on in 20-50 years? Must it always come down to whatever costs the least money now?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
> If you want to break into programming, go after that rather than help desk or sanding body panels. If your next best alternative is moving far away, renting a place there, and doing auto body work for minimum wage, you can probably com
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by pmiller2 6y ago
100% correct. I did a brief stint in QA before I moved into dev. That job no longer appears on my resume, because I don't want to do those things anymore. I know a guy who's a senior QA and has been writing automated tests in Py
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Sea level data confirms climate modeling projections were right(phys.org)
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Parler announces it's back online with new hosting service(foxbusiness.com)
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Shell Says It Has Reached Peak Oil Production(earther.gizmodo.com)
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Nah. It's not fraud if they don't get any benefit from it. Since they refunded the single, solitary person who pledged $3/month, then shut it all down, it's all good from the fraud angle.
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No Qualified Immunity for Cops Who Made Stuff Up to Justify Phone Seizure(techdirt.com)
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risch_algorithm
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Exactly. Just think about how bad OCR is when it gets 90% of the words right! With a 90% word accuracy rate, you have roughly between 0.5 and 1 error per sentence in a typical text. That's not great. The only reason we can interpre
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You are correct, except they didn't debase it into lead. Late Roman coinage was largely copper. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_currency#Debasement
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by pmiller2 6y ago
What makes you think that remunerative work is inherently valuable to anyone other than the person paying for that work? You, like I do, probably work largely in order to line the pockets of some already rich CEO. That doesn't mean w

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