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by saulpw 2y ago
I agree. I did writeups on order of magnitude of RAM and computers over history: https://saul.pw/mag/memory https://saul.pw/mag/computer The IBM 360 is ^4 RAM and the iPhone is ^8 RAM. So the iPh
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by saulpw 2y ago
How do you make your "real" resume stand out among the thousands of fakes though?
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by saulpw 2y ago
The reason that there's an "expected" process is because the people who were hired to think deeply about security got together and, for a bunch of reasons including "(obvs) the ability to add the wrong person is a proble
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by saulpw 2y ago
On a billboard while driving to work?
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by saulpw 2y ago
Why? It's another prisoner's dilemma.
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by saulpw 2y ago
You can always opt-in. Advertising is specifically information that is not requested.
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by saulpw 2y ago
It seems like it would make it more palatable to the existing franchises if their precious existing copyrights were not shortened. ("We paid billions of dollars under the assumption that we'd be able to milk this IP for 35 more y
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by saulpw 2y ago
Thanks for citing your AI source, it's really much appreciated. But having read that book, it can't be properly summarized by AI.
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by saulpw 2y ago
When Mickey Mouse was created (1928), copyright was 28 years that could be reupped once for an additional 28 years. So according to those terms, Mickey Mouse would have ascended to the public domain in 1984. IMO any change to copyright law
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by saulpw 2y ago
Make Another Great Depression
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by saulpw 2y ago
Did you read the part where the OP was unable to assemble her own shit, and thus had to get help?
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by saulpw 2y ago
Well it was intended/used to fill out a .zip file comment section, so those 8 zeroes were ignored anyway.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Cool! I made a multithreaded version about 10 years that works for binary files like .zip files: https://github.com/century-arcade/src/tree/master/tools/vain...
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by saulpw 2y ago
"The E-Myth Revisited" calls this working on your business as opposed to working in your business. Otherwise you don't own a business, you own a job.
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by saulpw 2y ago
Nested CSVs as you've seen in real-life data are a good counterexample, thanks for providing it.
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by saulpw 2y ago
You can disallow all control characters (ASCII < 32) other than CR/LF/TAB, which is reasonable. I don't know of any data besides binary blobs which uses those. I've never heard of anyone inlining a binary file (like
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by saulpw 2y ago
But, there was still a way to win overall, and we were organized and invested in winning.
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by saulpw 2y ago
My apologies. But I don't know how you can genuinely listen to hundreds of students every day, much less engage them each individually. Glad you're out there doing your best anyway.
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by saulpw 2y ago
I remember being scared of nuclear war as a child in the 80s. But even though that cast a pall of fear, only 2 superpowers had them in world-ending capacity, and they were self-interested enough that MAD could maintain the precarious balan
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by saulpw 2y ago
Your method works well as a tutor with a single student. Try doing that as a teacher with a classroom of 30+ students.
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by saulpw 2y ago
I'm currently reading The Art of Not Being Governed by James C Scott, which is all about how "hill people" the world over have much in common with each other: like illiteracy, oral traditions, living in difficult geographies,
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by saulpw 2y ago
It's not a bad thing...for those other countries. As an American you're not going to be able to get those jobs. You think a Chinese company is going to want to hire a remote American worker, who is 10 time zones away, doesn&#x27
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by saulpw 2y ago
I've read some of his work (only a little bit), but I can't figure out what you're referring to. Is it just that we can't properly know what causes what? For the purposes of childhood education that does not matter too
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by saulpw 2y ago
Looks like they are. Why don't you start responding to comments exhorting the person to do what they're already doing in the very comment you're responding to?
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by saulpw 2y ago
> What’s funny is that history is the subject I was least interested in all through school. Indeed, history is largely lost on kids. You need to see some real world events play out before you can care about history. I also think, if you
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by saulpw 2y ago
Let me draw your attention to "Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons" (1995)[0]. Basically, it takes a nation state 4 years to develop its first nuclear weapon, and no amount of explicit knowledg
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by saulpw 2y ago
I relate to this. I don't know what it is either, but over the course of my 25-year career it's become impossible to summon that "will" within me. My brain just constantly asks "and what are we doing this for agai
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by saulpw 2y ago
The log of 3.1m is 6.5. How do you say "10^6.5"? I say "mag 6.5" and it is clear. The Richter scale famously uses "mag 6.5" exactly like this. If that was ever confusing, then we've managed to work pas
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by saulpw 2y ago
Mag is the inverse of log10. e.g. log10 ^6 = 6. We have no current shorthand for inverse log10 except "tentothe" which might be serviceable but is not as punchy.
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by saulpw 2y ago
It's written like ^6 and said like "mag 6", which sounds like an earthquake (and this is basically the Richter scale writ large). One syllable, sounds cool, easy to type/spell, evokes largeness. "Logarithm" i

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