silentplummet

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by silentplummet 11y ago
That's a pretty fast turnaround time. 6 minutes! I don't think the Air Force can even scramble jets that fast. Would you care to point out exactly what part of the comment is "off-topic" pursuant to `the experience of
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by silentplummet 11y ago
This is fair, but let's recognize that the discussion takes place in the context of a few well known individuals who have made an enviably successful career as freelance victims, who stridently prevaricate about the persecution they&#x
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by silentplummet 11y ago
OP doesn't go far enough, it's all he mentioned and an insider contract to move product manufactured by businesses owned by Bush's skull society buddies. Research who Michael Chertoff is and his role in the Bush administratio
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by silentplummet 11y ago
>American's apathy and frankly ignorance is what gave scumbags a series of blank checks with immunity. Americans didn't do anything learning about Iraq WMD's, 2008 frauds, Snowden leaks, and so on. Largely nothing but grip
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by silentplummet 11y ago
This is exactly correct. I flagged the submission.
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by silentplummet 11y ago
The aviation community appreciates the importance of robust/utilitarian/minimal transmission of information. Look at the format of TAFs and METARs for instance, the raw format of how the weather data is actually transmitted. It&#
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by silentplummet 11y ago
When we use a computer programming language, we are directing an abstract machine to interpret and manipulate data to get a result that we want. We have all the knowledge we need about the machine because we conceived and designed it ourse
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by silentplummet 11y ago
A stain on the history of human civilization. A few men will become rich beyond imagination by a skillful appeal to base laziness and apathy. It's the renaissance of the disposable generation. Just toss the cup away. Toss the whole
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by silentplummet 11y ago
It's moot. The train of the discussion, if you go and read the OP's link and inner links, is like this: - Singletons are bad - Why are singletons bad? - They're not "real" OO, they're global state, they obfusca
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by silentplummet 11y ago
And make 300,000 queries over TCP like getting the list of county names in a state, or getting the list of place names in a county, because my actual use case involves fuzzy matching an arbitrary subset determined by user input, of 18,000,0
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Sometimes you really do legitimately have a lot of static, global state. For instance, consider a program that needs to reference local, national, and/or global geography and its metadata, on a wide scale, randomly. All the countries
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Who cleans up after anything we do, really? Our economic systems lubricate the exchange of work and capital by abstracting away the cost of cleanup, which is rarely well understood to begin with, from view. Observe any abandoned or unused
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Bit depth is not a measure of quantity, but of dynamic range. In other words, what matters is not only how many quantization steps you have, but how large of a space you are trying to map them over. The examples in the article point to thi
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by silentplummet 11y ago
>Some positions are simply not worth discussing thoughtfully. Who decides which is which? I guess you?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Why downvotes?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Sweden is almost 5,000 km away from Syria. What specifically relates these two countries in your comment?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
What is Truth?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
You're a smart guy who's thinking about the same kinds of things I am. How much do you like your day job?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
>watching the news after dinner Found your problem right here. The news no longer serves to inform. It's little more than a conduit for fear, terror, and doubt. Switch off the TV and go read some websites or books to find out wha
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Something else those countries have (to varying extent) is strong public transportation and an ancient and coherent food culture, which has helped them resist the epidemic of obesity and diabetes we are suffering in the US. Does your book
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by silentplummet 11y ago
A mind is a fabulously diverse collection of parts, and each one of everyone's parts is shaped a little differently from everyone else's. It might be a little simplistic to assume that one strategy will work for anyone, sight uns
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Can you put a baby or pet into a refrigerator? What about a freezer?
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by silentplummet 11y ago
The child's inability to consent to sex is inherent to the attributes of the child, and derives in no way from the attributes of the child's partner. Therefore, any sex that a child participates in, regardless of any attributes of
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Wouldn't it be relatively easy to have each citizen enter their passport number upon setting up the phone, and then do natural language processing so the phone would just block the transmission of any forbidden speech unless the owner
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Hey, don't knock Robin Hood. Watch the archery contest in reverse to see King John stuff the snake into his nether-parts.
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by silentplummet 11y ago
It does have a 九 however.
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Do the prices of industrial farm produce include the cost of cleaning up industrial farm pollution such as nitrate fertilizers, organophosphate biocide, and airborne products of fossil fuel combustion? What about the inefficiency caused by
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by silentplummet 11y ago
Are you an expert? In a 16-bit master, a noise shaping function is applied during down-conversion, by which quantization noise will be re-distributed so that most of the noise energy goes to the high frequencies (>15k) where it is comple