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by rpcope1 11y ago
The real problem with most of the American southwest, including and especially Colorado, is that the watershed can't support any more people. What we need out here is less people, not more. Just because the land is "empty" do
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkI0_ixRDc
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Sounds like you needs someone like Rex to give Ada an image upgrade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ ; it can be like Outlaw Techno Psychobitch aka Erlang. Seriously though, I agree with you on the first part, w
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think a nice change for FM (and AM), rather than going away entirely, would be to turn over the bandwidth cheaply or freely to public radio, non-profits and other small time operators, maybe like college radio. I think it would be an exce
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by rpcope1 11y ago
This sounds like a ton of work to do what FM already does reasonably well; if anything I'd like to see the amount of funding, variety, and _bandwidth_ for public radio increased, hopefully breaking some of clear channel's grip. I
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I wonder how this will stack up against Jetbrains PyCharm. I am always amazed at what the guys at how excellent PyCharm is, maybe Microsoft can do even better.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Don't get me wrong, I highly encourage learning activities like this; what bugs me a lot is that it's sold as a "how-to" instead of "I am tracking progress of what I'm experimenting with." It's a rath
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Yeah, I'm sure anyone who's not on Ubuntu/Mint can figure out how to install GCC with their package manager of choice; I am reading between the lines here, but I just got the sense the blogger here probably is comfortable wit
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by rpcope1 11y ago
"Interpreted languages need a virtual machine to run..." What? This doesn't seem right. I think this is only true if your interpreter does something like compile down to byte code a la Python. In a language like BASIC or cert
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think we are on the crux of a time where automation is going to quickly replace more jobs than it creates; while it may not have been hard to transition a carriage maker into a factory worker in the early 1900's, I have strong doubts
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by rpcope1 11y ago
On a related note, brown rats make excellent pets, just so long as you don't let them breed and have your own population problems. I guess it's no surprise they're as prolific as they are, when they're probably the smart
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by rpcope1 11y ago
You know, I probably don't know as much as you do, but every time I've ever seen lots of negative reinforcement get applied to teams both in software and outside, it seems to have the opposite effect. Sometimes you have to quietly
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Can confirm about IBM. Dad spent the majority of his career at IBM as an engineer working on various mainframe platforms (and some AS/400 stuff later on); he mentioned that in the 70's an IBM check was about as good as gold; they
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by rpcope1 11y ago
> Beneficial mutations do not exist, therefore, evolution of the living is unproved. There is no species that could stand as an intermediate between man and anything else. There is in nature zero intermediate state between bird's fe
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I find it hard to believe that you can sell an electronic product that has that poor a behavior (it's emitting that much RF noise); this is the sort of hardware that really ought to be clamped down on, hard. RF Spectra is a shared reso
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by rpcope1 11y ago
The FCC is pretty good about cracking down on illegal transmitters--I had a friend in high school who thought it would be a funny idea to set up an FM transmitter with one or more orders of magnitude Tx power than is allowed, and it only to
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I think the OP and you are utilizing a different definition of "hacker", FYI. Think Summer Con.
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by rpcope1 11y ago
>The introduction of the various storage abstraction layers like devfs and HAL, plus all the other monolithic subsystem daemons in the form of the *kits that emerged early on, foreshadowed what would come today, even if they were mostly
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Speaking of which, did anyone else notice that the Initializr default favicon is still present? The owner might be wise to find his own (and to make it look less Initializr-y). :)
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by rpcope1 11y ago
If you're going to optimize with closures, why not go a step further and pull the conditional out of the closure? You could instead have a conditional in the function that produces the right closure based on mode rather than constantly
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I would rather see a massive uptick in retrofitting newer engines into older cars; I've done it a couple of times on older Volvos (240-940 vintage) and other makes, after the engines got really tired. I'd imagine it's cheaper
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by rpcope1 11y ago
I get that not everyone can sit down and start grepping how a kernel works, how to architect database solutions, or get what it means to be reentrant in the context of parallel programming. Not everyone can be efficient successful autodidac
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Agreed. I am incredibly dubious that "bootcamps" have any value whatsoever in any case, except maybe for introducing practicing developers to new technologies. I know tech is the hot place to be any more, but man it's amazing
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by rpcope1 11y ago
Hopefully Case isn't vulnerable the same way: http://johoe.mooo.com/trezor-power-analysis/
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by rpcope1 11y ago
You know it's funny I agree. When I was working as an EE no one ever gave me trouble because I wasn't building circuits or filters or doing RF design at home and because I didn't want to think about it when I got home. I keep
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by rpcope1 11y ago
It's funny, for a lot of us, affording living in most of Boulder County (bar Longmont) is unfeasible even on a decent engineering salary. It's still crazy to me that housing prices and affordability near Denver/Boulder are st
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by rpcope1 12y ago
You strike on a significant point that most HN types have no idea about: the majority of most big schools that do any research (state schools, big private schools like Ivies) get the majority of their budget from taking a cut of research gr
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by rpcope1 12y ago
You know, that's a very bold statement for someone who probably is not and never has been a physics educator. In order to make any sense out of even entry level physics and in some sense understand how it's unified, we teach (an o
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by rpcope1 12y ago
Agreed. When I was teaching before I started out as a developer, it was unheard of to fail anyone in an entry level Physics class (granted this was an Ivy League school); over many semesters I recall thinking that we had passed several stud
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by rpcope1 12y ago
I think Armin has got it; repr() is allowed (and does) to return unicode in Python 3, where as it's explicitly expected in Python 2.x that it will return a byte string.

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