shawn-furyan

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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Similar story, but with 3 consecutive large capacity HGST hdds that were sold as new (SMART told a different story), switching sellers each time. Ultimately just went to Newegg.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
This is what is called a non-representative sample. To say the least... Sheesh.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Eh, what's an order of magnitude here or there or at the beginning of your chain of huge multipliers? heh.. Yeah, no wonder the result was so enormous. So oops, I guess.
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
The numbers are available: 65,000 CPU years & 110 GPU years. Assuming that the massive numbers of cores necessary don't cause any extra difficulties (seems like a stretch), we get 68,328,000,000 CPU cores to do the CPU portion in 3
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Ah, yes. Forgot all about time dilation effects. In my defense, it was a pretty off the cuff response. Also, I would assume they aren't meant to be literally traveling at exactly light speed, but I don't know the relevant equation
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Corrections aside, it is an interesting observation that Firefly is less outlandish with this discovery (not a criticism, Firefly is optimized for fun, not scientific plausibility). Still, assuming light speed travel, Firefly's inhabit
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
If you're using email to communicate with humans, you are using Gmail since your counterparty is almost always using Gmail. Gmail and their ad scanning is unavoidable in practice when using email so your only real recourse is to use a
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Or even instead of any kind of rm command. mv is less subtle. I tend to prefer `mv x $(date +%Y%m%d_%s_)x` where: %Y - 4 digit year %m - 2 digit month %d - 2 digit day _ - underscore literal %s - linux timest
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
> He addresses this line of logic He doesn't, and it's not a line of logic, it's an interpretation of the evidence. Graham didn't even look at the evidence, and came to a conclusion that becomes very hard to support o
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
This actual analysis from The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, which uses long running public (easily accessible) data from the Census Bureau, the BDS report[1], suggests that income inequality hurts startup creation rather than hel
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
> There are smarter ways of adding security So you assume. Have you ever investigated credit card fraud? Perhaps there are edge cases that are more difficult than you imagine. > Imagine if any other service provider (webmail?) disable
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
So... you want no fraud liability, but don't want to be inconvenienced either?... You could always look for a less zealous credit card provider, but generally speaking, the entity that takes the liability should be able to set the bar
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
If a 'mission that matters' is important enough to spend 3 paragraphs on, but salary only deserves a single dismissive paragraph, then why exactly do we never have enough teachers? If people really had such a great preference for
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
There are multiple ways for firms and employees to value contributions. The 'how much can the employee command on the market' method that you outline is a commodity model of valuation, and it seems to have been a poor fit for this
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
There are a lot of hackers who know Chinese, so it probably isn't gaining you any ground. See diceware.com for how to generate strong passwords (in many different languages). Also, use a password manager with a password generator for l
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Rather than rolling your own password system, I would recommend diceware.com for strong passwords (including master passwords) that you can memorize (I am bad at memorization, and have memorized 129 bit passwords this way, and 64 bit passwo
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I'll note that this actually makes the original point, since despite your avoidance of the game, Civ VI is estimated to have been the top grossing game on Steam in 2016. So, even in this case, the game has sold gangbusters despite lack
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Close. I wasn't claiming that it was principled. I was claiming that it's what they stumped on in course to their leadership positions. Reversing themselves on those positions violates the narrative that they've been crafting
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
With the scare quotes, I was drawing a distinction between the pre-Trump Republican establishment [meaning the incumbent Republican leadership along with the ideas that they stumped on to get into that position], and Trump. Trump is very di
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I would challenge that narrative, because Trump clearly wasn't "The Party's candidate". He was a populist candidate, and populists gon spend (or at least say they are). There still seem to be deep misgivings within his c
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Thanks for the extra context, and alternate interpretation. You seem like you might know this story better than the writer of the referenced article, but you and the author seem to be making contradictory causal claims. I hold to my conclus
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I disagree. The programmer is the expert in types, so it is the programmers duty to ensure that the possible values stored in a variable of a given type are compatible with the type selected. Particularly when it comes to these sort of crit
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
+1 Design is not actualization. So the salient question becomes: How robust are modern reactor designs to manufacturing/construction/installation/etc. errors?
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Human minds are heavily tuned to spot spurious patterns. 'Spotting a pattern' is very often misleading evidence because of this bias. Generally patterns that jump out at us really fit a large spectrum of possible scenarios, includ
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
True, however, it does put SOME price on data collection, rather than leaving it in the realm of pure externality. The deterrent of cost is the benefit, not the protection itself. On the other hand, adding a price may embolden deep pocketed
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
IIRC +x keeps google from returning results that exclude the x term. e.g. "x y z" ~ "x y z" + "x y" + "y z" + "x z" + "x" + "y" + "z" where "+x y +z"
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Heh... I'll say that these points are not surprising to me. The title (as well as the, urm, Medium) strongly suggested a Silicon Valley bubble point of view. I didn't read the article, and instead came to the comments to see if my
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Down voted. I don't think this is a constructive question. Encryption wasn't even a minor policy stance of the 4 most major parties' nominees for president. It's not very reasonable to <strike>blame</strike
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
Professional gamblers* have something to teach everyone about managing risk. In this case, the primacy of establishing a separate fund as your bank roll, and protecting it by not letting too much of it ride on any single bet (no matter how
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by shawn-furyan 10y ago
I'm guessing that it requires a ton more expensive staff to secure prisoners that are not constrained by cheap walls, barbed wire, bars, and watch towers.

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