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by rsclient 6y ago
The article is subtly incorrect: the movie is a spoof of Craig Kennedy, a super-scientific detective who came after Sherlock. You can tell because of all the grossly improbably gadgets in use; these were a common feature of the Craig Kenned
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by rsclient 6y ago
Ugh -- I hate how Medium needs to know who I am before showing me an article. Based on the first sentence, though, this looks like a cool blog post.
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by rsclient 6y ago
12 year old boy. He has a preference; you should use it.
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by rsclient 6y ago
You picked the word "perversion". That's an inherently divisive word.
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by rsclient 6y ago
Yes -- that made the article instantly unbelievable. The person in the first paragraph is a boy, not a girl. The entire premise seems rather shaky. The benefit to trans surgery is that a person can live their life; the downside is that some
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by rsclient 6y ago
That's a terrible headline. Based on the actual article, the court said that a doctor has to certify that the patients have COVID. All the health authority has to do is get a doctor to look at the COVID results and do the certification
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by rsclient 6y ago
Headline: OMG, taxes are too high! Actual paper: poor people face benefits cliffs as they try to get out of poverty
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by rsclient 6y ago
This is exactly why the Socket API in WinRT has Nagle off by default. The old way of dealing with sockets was to treat them like buffered files, or to drive them from a keyboard (so that Nagle is useful). But newer socket programs seem to j
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by rsclient 6y ago
That's 70 square feet bigger than my first apartment in Boston. And those were the "big" apartments in the building! OTOH, Beacon Hill was super cool
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by rsclient 7y ago
I'm not sure why you're including BASIC in with the dynamic languages -- in its classic microcomputer form, it's pretty well limited to int or float, and string, and arrays of those things. When you make a variable, you alway
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by rsclient 7y ago
What I dislike about all Haskell examples on every blog is that the writer happily assume that I'm familiar enough with Haskell syntax to understand the code. In the ordinary method, there's a function name, it takes one input, an
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by rsclient 7y ago
The add_domain_name code has another buffer overflow problem const size_t size = 1024; char *dest = malloc(size+1); strncpy(dest, source, size); strncat(dest, "@example.com", size); return dest; The first strncpy wi
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by rsclient 7y ago
Maybe someone should do an analysis on bridge construction -- how often it's delayed, over-budget, or has features removed. My intuitive guess is, "all of them".
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by rsclient 7y ago
Hey -- weirdly, the "koalas may go extinct" comment is being made by Forbes magazine itself! Here's the chain: The current article is by Michael Shellenberger. It references a tweet by Bill McKibben. Bill's tweet directl
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by rsclient 7y ago
Take a look under a microscope. The difference between a rubber stamp whose ink bleeds into the paper and a Xerox which is kind of melted on the paper is enormous.
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by rsclient 7y ago
Total pension liability (from your numbers): 133.5 billion There are 12.80 million people in Illinois, so the per-person liability is $10429 A typical pension is paid out over the course of about 20 years. The liability per person per year
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by rsclient 7y ago
The first indication I got that my patent was accepted was a letter offering me a nice "official" plaque with the patent on it. A few days later, my boss showed up with a thank-you gift.
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by rsclient 7y ago
Put yourself in their shoes. What if one copy says the interest rate is 3.5%, and the other says 3.8%? You SAY they are the same, but are the really? If you have a strict policy of "one version is the 'original' and the rest
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by rsclient 7y ago
Lots of IRS regs are about the common case, not weird cases. As an analogy: if I get paid by check on december 30th, and the check doesn't clear until january 2nd, is the income for the old year, or the new year? What if I hold onto th
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by rsclient 7y ago
Take a look at how fishing works -- it's also got tons of weird nuance about who get what and how to tax it. We techies sometimes forget that other aspects of life are complicated.