sevensor

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2701.
by sevensor 11y ago
You really have to appreciate the "punk" as much as the "cyber". Especially in his early stuff, Gibson's message is punk --- "cyber" is just a setting.
2702.
by sevensor 11y ago
Like the author said, this is an old idea that's recently been revived. (I agree that the article was quite well done.) Most of the ideas he described, like goals and unification, have been a feature of logic programming for ages. P
2703.
by sevensor 11y ago
I agree whole-heartedly with the point about post-validation. I work in the field (EC) and the first dozen results you get are usually instances of the algorithm finding where your model or your assumptions are broken. For that reason the
2704.
by sevensor 11y ago
Staging view is quite useful and I spend a lot of time there too. Also, maybe because I haven't tried enough of the alternatives, I think tig does the best job of visualizing the commit graph.
2705.
by sevensor 11y ago
What about marginalia? Paper books let me have a conversation with the text --- and with whoever owned (and marked) the book before me. Not every book needs or deserves this sort of attention, but for those that do, paper is irreplacable.
2706.
by sevensor 11y ago
Exactly --- F35 went off the rails at the concept stage. The "focus" mentioned in the article is incredibly diffuse: > he said they stayed focused on “delivering a stealth fighter that could fly faster than the speed of sound,
2707.
by sevensor 11y ago
It is terribly fragile and ad-hoc. It depends on what you're trying to detect, but the control charts in the OP produce a maddening number of false positives. I had a job that, for about six months, consisted almost entirely of adjus
2708.
by sevensor 11y ago
Interesting! This was exactly the case on the system I used. I didn't realize Cray was the only vendor who went the no-local-storage route.
2709.
by sevensor 11y ago
It was, in fact. How did you infer that?
2710.
by sevensor 11y ago
I completely agree. My point is, the workload was lots of jobs using 100 nodes or less and doing massive amounts of file IO, while the cluster was essentially designed to run very large physics simulations, one at a time. This was a clust
2711.
by sevensor 11y ago
> especially when the community has little or no skill at building NG Internet HPC systems I would argue that the community of people who actually have the skills to take advantage of the interconnects in a classic HPC system is vanishin
2712.
by sevensor 11y ago
Interesting --- I had been under the impression that British speakers of English didn't use the word "truck" for this purpose. Thanks for correcting a misperception!
2713.
by sevensor 11y ago
Does the article have different wording for U.S. readers? I'm curious, because I'm not used to the BBC referring to large vehicles used for hauling as "trucks" rather than "lorries".
2714.
by sevensor 11y ago
Here's the full citation. Turns out I misremembered the year (2005). Franssen M (2005) Arrow’s theorem, multi-criteria decision problems and multi-attribute preferences in engineering design. Research in Engineering Design 16(1):42–56
2715.
by sevensor 11y ago
Sure --- there's a neat paper by Franssen (2006) that demonstrates the formal equivalence between optimization problems and the social policy problems Arrow was concerned with. Basically, Arrow says that some constituents will always
2716.
by sevensor 11y ago
Regardless of what metric you choose, Arrow's Paradox will bite you. Single-objective optimization will always force you to ignore good alternatives.
2717.
by sevensor 11y ago
This could have interesting implications for Field Day ( http://www.arrl.org/field-day ), pushing people into the higher frequency bands if the event isn't over by then.
2718.
by sevensor 11y ago
Thank you for this link! I first used gl ages ago when it was a library that came with Irix, and I've been away from it for about 15 years. I was curious about modern OpenGL, but had no idea where to start.
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by sevensor 11y ago
Agreed --- this is the first rant against systemd I've seen that didn't talk about Lennart at all, and the first one from which I've ever learned anything. It's a great example of how people ought to argue on the intern
2720.
by sevensor 12y ago
I found that I just couldn't get used to `set -o vi`, despite using vim exclusively for editing. I think my muscle memory for bash was too well-developed by the time I found out about `set -o vi`.
2721.
by sevensor 12y ago
> I presume it's nice that you can actually customize xmonad with code. So an appropriate DSL would be a programming language so using Haskell makes sense. Any other DSL would be more limiting. You've hit the nail on the head h
2722.
by sevensor 12y ago
I found that this approach worked right up to the point where I tried to make non-trivial changes to the config, following examples from the xmonad website. If you want your config to use a Haskell package that's not provided by your
2723.
by sevensor 12y ago
> If you don't have previous Haskell experience, then other window managers like i3 or bspwm might be more comfortable. My biggest beef with xmonad is that its configuration file is itself Haskell source code. So even if xmonad is
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by sevensor 12y ago
Thank you for this! Yours is the most astute comment I've seen here. As someone who's worked in flash memory manufacturing, I know how much variation is inherent in the process. It gets evened out somewhat by binning, but there