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by smoyer 6y ago
In the US, the VA is probably the veterans administration.
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by smoyer 6y ago
The quote you provide above doesn't specify that these rewrites are to be in Rust and I don't think you've contradicted the parent in any way. The examples have been in Rust but the foundation doesn't seem to insist on
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Today's schedule for following the Perseverance Landing on Mars(nasa.gov)
1 points by smoyer 6y ago|0 comments
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by smoyer 6y ago
Use a text-only email client ... it won't attempt to load the tracking pixel.
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by smoyer 6y ago
Great article ... I was another 16 yo who was playing with computers but back then it was assembly language and wire-wrapped circuit boards. Producing magic squares as one of the projects in my first computer class in high school ... it&#x
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by smoyer 6y ago
What does a week at Buckingham palace cost on AirBnB?
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by smoyer 6y ago
Beautiful! ... I used some version of the CTCS-552 from 10th to 12th grade (and still have it around here somewhere). The slide-out card has trig tables and quite a few formulas. I also have one of my father's slide rules which he us
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by smoyer 6y ago
Funny ... I just assume that's where the ads my blocker eliminated used to be.
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The Contrast Rebellion(contrastrebellion.com)
3 points by smoyer 6y ago|5 comments
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by smoyer 6y ago
Your assumption sounds like it favors Star Wars over Star Trek (TOS).
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by smoyer 6y ago
I agree that it's a culture problem but I don't think it's a new one. There are several problems with today's as I see it: 1) Each small town used to have a crazy person who didn't quite live up to societal expecta
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by smoyer 6y ago
It's not the worst outcome ... the human race becoming subjected to the robots could be considered worse (but then I guess we'd be talking about The Matrix instead).
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by smoyer 6y ago
> I see people talking about using Kubernetes for internal applications. I think the important issue when first starting a project is to create a "12 Factor App" so that if and when you create a Docker image and/or run the
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by smoyer 6y ago
It's been a while (>25 years) since I first read this but I've put it on my list for the week - http://self.gutenberg.org/eBooks/WPLBN0002096542-Rossum-s-Un... . If you prefer listening, it's also avai
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100 years later, the dystopian origin of the word ‘robot’ still rings true(qz.com)
35 points by smoyer 6y ago|33 comments
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by smoyer 6y ago
Oh how I long for the days when any of the "news channels" actually had news. Is there anybody who simply states facts anymore?
587.
by smoyer 6y ago
I did not though I did remember that they were somehow related to Pizza Hut.
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by smoyer 6y ago
I listen to a weekly podcast titled "Everything Hertz" in which includes a large amount of discussion related to methodology as well as problematically citing previous research etc. It's pretty fascinating (as is this articl
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by smoyer 6y ago
For the first 100 HN readers to respond, I've lowered the price of my one-page PDF to just $99. Without having to read, you'll learn how to earn an amazing $100k (eh $99k) in your first year. Hurry, I've only got 1000 print
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by smoyer 6y ago
While watching college b-ball with my son last night, I noticed that the field-house at Louisville is (now?) named the "KFC Yum! Center". I can't really eat KFC but do appreciate brands that can poke fun at themselves or oth
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by smoyer 6y ago
The first compression algorithm I implemented (on and IBM PC/AT in the mid '80s) was LZW. It's my favorite type of algorithm - elegant but hard to get your head wrapped around. Once you "get it" it seems so obviou
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by smoyer 6y ago
I bought my whole family Yubikeys last Christmas for exactly this reason ... you can't trick someone into a hardware token authentication. Now I tell people to use something with U2F. I find myself using software U2F and include the
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by smoyer 6y ago
I agree completely ... it's more like this was the final straw as my support was in part a "thank you" to Laura Poitras. I have to admit that I've gotten tired of ALL news sites as there are way too many pop-ups, ads,
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by smoyer 6y ago
Cross "The Intercept" off the list of organizations I donate to.
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by smoyer 6y ago
The truth for me is simpler ... this article, unlike most of the other news I've seen the last two weeks made me smile when I imaged them being freed by the crash. Re-hydration may not be so simple but thanks to the FOTON-M3 mission w
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by smoyer 6y ago
I learned Forth specifically to get a posted job shortly after this book was published but my first exposure to the language was through a port someone in my local computer club did onto the ZX-81 (he also built a raster graphics system!).
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by smoyer 6y ago
If you're feeling lazy, it's also easier to find those posts on Facebook because that's where everyone is (network effect). Parlor was poised to capitalize on discontent with the social media companies that were banning Trum
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by smoyer 6y ago
Until recently I worked at a university - we had several data-centers, multiple fiber connections to the Internet2 as well as direct connections to both AWS and Azure. We were ready to move many of our core services to AWS when COVID hit b
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by smoyer 6y ago
So the headline should have read "The Polar Vortex over the Arctic is Collapsing and You won't Believe what happens next"
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by smoyer 6y ago
American software engineers use ISO8601 or RFC3339 ... I just wrote 20210108 in my journal this morning (referring to a podcast episode published yesterday). I'll admit I might be annoying to others ... my wife is specifically irritate

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