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by scrumper 9y ago
Safari barfs on visiting https://1.1.1.1 as linked in the article. Certificate invalid (though it looks fine). Rather unfortunate regarding perception; it's an interesting service!
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by scrumper 9y ago
Do you mind sharing which country and how long ago was this? That's quite a strong risk-averse & duty-of-care-oriented response to the incident. Was this a teenage military service thing? (I can see your username but I don't w
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by scrumper 9y ago
You are! My top score in 10m of play: one line. One.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Agh that was awful, relentless, and bleak. Thanks for sharing.
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by scrumper 9y ago
What terrible things?
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by scrumper 9y ago
I mAde a similar comment on the video link last week. The good news is that the NTSB is extremely good at human factors stuff - google Cockpit Resource Management for a fascinating trip down the aviation safety rabbit hole. I sadly agree wi
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by scrumper 9y ago
Probably one should be equally uneasy about one's OSS contributions ending up in F2P games too, since they are often highly addictive time- and money-sinks.
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by scrumper 9y ago
I'm still in the early stages with this one in Rust. I spent a lot of time this weekend on it and I'm finding no exaggeration in those stories of fighting the borrow checker! It's been a pig, honestly. I am OK with the point
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by scrumper 9y ago
Well, that's down to practice. And on that subject... One thing I like to do with a new language is to re-implement a self-contained but non-trivial program that I've built before. I have a few but my favorite is a genetic algorit
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by scrumper 9y ago
Minor point: you can have Vectors in structs. Vector is a fixed-size type on the stack so it works fine. And other types in structs too. EDIT: sorry, I see you got to that before I'd finished this post :) Rust is a language where you h
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by scrumper 9y ago
? Plenty of examples. The horribly anti-user futures system, compiler messages generated by a misused macros that are second only to C++ template errors in how egregiously difficult they are to parse, universally terrible documentation and
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by scrumper 9y ago
The concept of a safety driver in SDC testing needs refining. The guy here was clearly distracted. He only looks up at the road a fraction of a second before the crash. My bet is that he'll be prosecuted as if he were a distracted driv
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by scrumper 9y ago
> What is happening now is basically vindictive hatred for Facebook from the tens of millions who feel wronged and cheated by electoral results that they lost fair and square. I'm not saying that's not part of it, but it's
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by scrumper 9y ago
'Noa' is a Polynesian term apparently; basically it's the opposite of 'taboo' (also Polynesian.) It's not on the face of it a very confidence-inspiring source, but r/askhistorians is as good as Reddit gets
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by scrumper 9y ago
And moving slower too. Office at least has fairly regular upgrades. Google Apps has barely changed in years.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Congratulations. Couple of questions, hopefully I haven’t missed you. 1. Recent SEC activity: is this a threat to you? I see you have been careful to avoid fundraising in your examples, but other people here have come up with that as a use
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by scrumper 9y ago
Thank you, really interesting. Is the drilling mud pumped down to create that pressure then, or is it naturally present? Or one pumps water down to turn the grit into a slurry?
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by scrumper 9y ago
You can define functions in VBA but this nice integrated purely functional approach isn’t in excel as far as I’m aware.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Seems like it curved as it went down, I did not expect to see that but, thinking about it, no reason it should just go straight down.
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by scrumper 9y ago
If it helps, I posted a link to a draft of that chapter above. A big chunk of the text of SitG is on that site. It isn't a long read, and we all know what you can do with a single quote taken out of context, so I'd suggest going t
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by scrumper 9y ago
This is an old-style directly connected power switch. If you release and re-press it quickly enough the power won't go out as there's still enough residual energy in the PSU capacitors. I used to do this all the time on my 486 as
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by scrumper 9y ago
Perfect, thanks for sharing! My first one, 1997 I think, had a photo of my face (complete with ‘curtains’ hairstyle) that was an imagemap. Click my ears and you get a page about the music I liked; eyes were movies; forehead was books and so
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by scrumper 9y ago
Re: Halal - That part of the book[1] talks about minority rule and the idea of 'renormalization groups' (I suspect not really the same thing as the identically-named concept in mathematics). It covers Kosher food, organic food, no
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by scrumper 9y ago
Because those are personal attributes of the author, not aspects of the work itself. The book isn't a collection of his tweets. What does his admiration for dictators have to do with his explanation of the Lindy Effect? I realize today
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by scrumper 9y ago
Nope, don't think I am. That's also style. SW self-aggrandizes and arrogates credit while he talks about CAs and complexity; NNT bloviates and inflames while discussing statistics. Your comment says that you don't like his wo
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by scrumper 9y ago
Looks like it's time to add NNT to the Stephen Wolfram list of people whom it's fashionable to criticize reflexively because of their style. I've been reading the draft chapters of this latest book on Medium for a while now.
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by scrumper 9y ago
Yep. A basic diesel engine is a pretty amazing thing that, like a jet engine, can burn pretty much anything and is simple to maintain. Once you start adding all the modern gubbins in it to make it efficient and powerful, you lose that gener
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by scrumper 9y ago
We used these at school. We punched indentations in the sides using a compass point. Obviously that isn't going to work in prison, but you could make marks with a fingernail easily enough. (Of interest, note how the pencil is short i
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by scrumper 9y ago
I'll piggyback on your comment as my sentiment is the same. This is far from the worst thing Facebook has done. It seems to address an unmet need. Maybe it will end up creepy and full of unforeseen consequences (like everything else FB
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by scrumper 9y ago
Exactly. That's the kind of thing (and extensions of) that you could conceivably use a blockchain to support, if you think about decentralizing the fleet.

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