runningdogx

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by runningdogx 16y ago
I don't understand the recent (from the last few years to a decade) intertubes hatred of "weasel words". Sometimes* they are used to purposefully obfuscate or render a questionable argument virtually* unassailable. Sometimes* they are used
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by runningdogx 16y ago
A flag to enable targeting stackless python instead of normal python?
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Agreed, I hate GM scaremongers as well. The suspect species of corn (and soy, for that matter) with genes to produce pesticides, however, might cross-pollinate. In that case, it's not only GM corn that's suspect, but all corn. edit... I st
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Awesome! It could use another pattern relating to the web video codec war. (obresult: Watch How Intelligent Agents Capture Wild Giraffes)
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by runningdogx 16y ago
I do. If you want to write a parsing program that can delineate sentences, doing so in the face of abbreviations can be difficult. If, for instance, a sentence ends with an abbreviation, and the next sentence starts with a proper noun, an
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by runningdogx 16y ago
This is interesting. If I'm reading it correctly, it continues to give open source crypto an advantage over commercial crypto, since commerical crypto is not publicly available and therefore sellers have to do some due diligence about thei
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by runningdogx 16y ago
I had that same impression. Although he repeated some of the basic points (darkness, depression, social isolation) ad nauseam, he strikes me as someone who had potential as a writer. It's tragic that he did not explore writing as a non-te
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Without a human driver, how will a cab company keep fares from trashing cabs? The issue of ensuring payment becomes a serious problem. Do you put credit card entry pads on the outside of the cab to prevent any of that? How long until som
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by runningdogx 16y ago
The U.S. Constitution absolutely cannot be amended by Congress.
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by runningdogx 16y ago
I have griped to AT&T several times about how their 2wire 3800hgv-b router (used for their UVerse service) is broken when you set up pass-through to an internal box. They call this "DMZplus". What happens is that when icmp packets rel
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by runningdogx 16y ago
This sounds like Drizzle, where they've modularized almost everything, and you can get similarly ultrahigh tps by keeping connections open and bypassing the standard sql parser and query planner. (Obviously, the assumption for such high nu
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by runningdogx 16y ago
And, as johnl asked in the github thread, does Google hold copyright on Chris's comments here on HN? Code, comments... they're both speech. If you can sign away code copyright in an employment contract, can you also sign away copyright to
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by runningdogx 16y ago
This classy response by Gates is but a brief glimpse of honesty from an otherwise hysterical, paranoid, and secretive government. A statement like this would never have occurred if Assange had not released these documents. The standard rhe
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by runningdogx 16y ago
It's probably one of those things people end up memorizing, when learning about lenses or 3d figures like polyhedrons. It's like latitude and longitude. You can try to derive meaning from e.g. "lat = lateral", but then, do the lines go ac
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Here's the video of a part of the first lecture in which he claims he writes the test questions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJG7aCQtI8E Based on that, I think a reasonable student would conclude that even if a publisher's test bank is
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by runningdogx 16y ago
If it were a process-oriented class, that might be justified. For instance, in a pure math course, you wouldn't want to read an off-syllabus math text in which the author proves theorems that show up on later problem sets or exams. However
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by runningdogx 16y ago
That assumes that proof of anything is required. That's not usually how college disciplinary actions work. At its worst, universities will sometimes assume a student accused of wrongdoing is lying, and punish the student based solely on th
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Many U.S. cities have historically granted right of way (to run cables) to one "phone" company and one "cable" company. In my area, we have AT&T and Comcast. It's up to the cities to allow more competitors, and many are unwilling to d
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by runningdogx 16y ago
What happens if a passenger opts for the groping session, and then hits on the groper and insinuates loudly that the groper is gay? Is that arrestable? Some people have to fly, but that doesn't mean they can't turn these situations into co
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by runningdogx 16y ago
First of all, I haven't used apache httpd in production for years and I'm happier for it. It's inefficient. .htaccess only compounds that inefficiency. General: 1. I've found using anything but GMT/UTC on servers is a recipe for confusion
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by runningdogx 16y ago
If all you want to do is limit memory usage, process control groups can do that with less overhead than a VM. kernel/Documentation/cgroups/memory.txt circa line 255
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by runningdogx 16y ago
From Monty's presentation about MariaDB, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1l9Puh0sk I got the impression that MariaDB is the primary open MySQL fork, with Percona merging their patches and becoming a downstream of MariaDB. Did MariaDB an
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by runningdogx 16y ago
I think they are obsessing unnecessarily on the semantics of what "development genes" are. I strongly doubt there is a bright line separating developmental genes from normal steady-state genes. A multicellular organism is one hugely compli
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by runningdogx 16y ago
Generalizing the the thought patterns De Bono suggests, where you take a thing to be considered, and have a list of "lenses" through which to consider that thing, seems to be very valuable. The same methodology applied to businesses is des
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by runningdogx 16y ago
The second comment on scientificamerican.com (by richard2010) after the article explains why we should not dismiss precautionary worry. There are many other ways radiation can affect microbiology besides directly ionizing atoms.
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by runningdogx 17y ago
Are you sure? There are two different technologies being used in various countries for scanning passengers. 1. millimeter-wave 2. backscatter x-ray (low power) It is not clear whether mm-wave photons can be biologically damaging. However,
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by runningdogx 17y ago
In no small part, food is medical care. Good food is good preventive medical care. Bad food is like trying to perform a back-alley abortion. But I take your point. Medical care doesn't have a higher priority, but its nature makes it a mo
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by runningdogx 17y ago
I agree everyone should eat a healthy diet and exercise regularly, but that is impossible to verify. How would the government (or a private insurer for that matter) attempt to verify whether I ate Kashi cereal for breakfast instead of an eg
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by runningdogx 17y ago
I don't think Norvig thinks differently; he's just using the term "AI" differently. "AI" in the context of the OP is "strong AI" or AGI (artificial general intelligence). Dr. Norvig takes the term "AI" to also encompass "machine learning"
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by runningdogx 17y ago
I think a group of humans can certainly be regarded as an organism in its own right. I think far too few people take this "new-age" concept of meta- or super-organisms seriously. However, evolution cannot work in the same way on such meta

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