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by smithza 6y ago
> But we also can't say anything because China makes all our stuff. Thinking of Lebron James who hypocritically spoke up about BLM and not about human rights abuses in China[1]. We cannot place our hopes in capitalism to dea
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by smithza 6y ago
Sounds as though they weren't great friends. Sorry to hear of this.
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by smithza 6y ago
"This episode represents a pattern in the letters, wherein it is white students who are “woker” than their Black classmates, neatly demonstrating the degree to which this new religion is more about virtue signaling than social jus
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by smithza 6y ago
Perhaps if Macros where not such a mainstay and powerful element of some FP langs (I am not arguing against them), this argument would not be so strong. Macros in C/C++ are difficult for IDEs to deal with too, save for constants. Seein
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by smithza 6y ago
I don't see a reason why some FP languages (e.g. lisp, or elisp) aren't IDE friendly. It might well be because where there is unpopularity, there is less effort to integrate, promote and maintain. If everything is a function and f
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For two years, a handful of websites have hacked thousands of iPhones(wired.com)
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by smithza 6y ago
Yes, you make a very strong point. It seems the highest bidders in the city were able to work with city planners to lay their cable lines... while in the rural areas (where I grew up) there were not enough customers to justify modernizing o
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by smithza 6y ago
If you have read "Blink" by Gladwell, he points to work by a sociologist who can, with incredible accuracy, predict whether a marriage will last 15 years--in a matter of 15 minutes. While watching a live feed of a conversation bet
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Virus Alters Where People Open Their Wallets, Hinting at a Halting Recovery(nytimes.com)
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Instant Gramification(99percentinvisible.org)
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by smithza 6y ago
Just read in the news this morning that the intelligence community acknowledges China has a steak in Biden being put in the Oval Office and Russia has a steak in Trump staying put. Interesting that Russia's name was not in this piece a
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by smithza 6y ago
What of the lack of atmosphere and lack of active mantle/core? Solar energy has little chance of staying within the system.
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by smithza 6y ago
Electrical Engineers, if they join the IEEE, are asked to uphold their code of ethics: https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/governance/p7-8.html Mechanical Engineers have a similar one (ASM). This is not nove
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In Search of God's Perfect Proofs – The Book(quantamagazine.org)
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Bipolar structure all-polymer battery (APB) technology-overview(reddit.com)
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by smithza 6y ago
I recently read "How to Read a Book", the grand encouraging of pencil marking and personalizing books (especially expositions), and have come out on the other side wondering how giving books to friends will ever work moving forwar
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by smithza 6y ago
I am amazed... 2 bookstores near me: one that is a 2nd and Charles, a huge used bookstore chain, and huge stores; and another local used bookstore that is wall-to-wall, crammed with books, not a spare cranny. So easy to get lost in though a
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by smithza 6y ago
The American capitalistic perspective tainted the nature of insurance. The comment > Insurance is supposed to be a safety mechanism that protects you if something bad happens. is a better vision of the way we should approach insurance IM
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by smithza 6y ago
Novemberwhiskey (above) makes the solid point about entering into the contract in good faith. It is a sound counterpoint and appeals to the more important "spirit of the law" vs "letter of the law". I am not sure how thi
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by smithza 6y ago
> With that said, I think there is a sense in which this is fraud. I don't think that is a strong enough statement. She used multiple identities in attempt to keep police off of her trail. The analogy to the red sports car is helpfu
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by smithza 6y ago
I have noticed a few comments about the 'clickbaity-ness' of this blog post. Aside from the debate of whether the title of this article is fairly (or truthfully) representative of the content, our tendency towards compelling, exot
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Orbital Insertion via Centerfuge – SpinLaunch(wired.com)
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SpinLaunch – Orbital Entry via Massive Centrifuge(wired.com)
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by smithza 6y ago
What are people's opinions on Brave Browser[0]? 0. https://brave.com/
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by smithza 6y ago
It is reasonable to give him some benefit of the doubt and take him at his word that he made a mistake and, after reflection, considers the rhetoric too intense. A member of his Defense Science Board resigned [0] in the wake of the decision
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by smithza 6y ago
The post did not mention potential cost of splitting and masking these into 5 limbs instead of 4. Perhaps I am missing that in this proposed system, 256-bit ints are always stored in 5 registers, then you only normalize when the result is n
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by smithza 6y ago
It is not so much the platform as the general internet medium. It lends itself to narcissism. Humans are more gratuitous when speaking to another in person. More attentive to inflections, reactions, emotions, etc.
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by smithza 6y ago
A parent of a youngin' also, I am realizing there is balance needed. Technological prowess is part of the balance... we have orthodontic abilities to correct our teeth when tough food is lacking... and rub teeth with fluoride twice a d
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by smithza 6y ago
How would privilege escalation work in this case?
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by smithza 6y ago
Thanks for these. Looks like Esterel commonly compiles to C and I would imagine uses some features of pthreads along with task-based scheduling as you mentioned.

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