souprock

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by souprock 7y ago
"computers which I can assembled in berry compliant countries" ??? So "can" must be an adverb, which isn't something I've seen before. To "can assemble" something could be that you assemble it while i
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by souprock 7y ago
Strong typing has hidden value that goes far beyond bug avoidance. It is tremendously important for performance. The only way to get performance out of Python is to cheat: use a not-quite-Python that violates normal Python behavior, use a h
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by souprock 7y ago
If you aren't demanding 100% reliable success, "first, I'll solve the halting problem and then I'll apply that to the problem I'm actually facing" is a viable strategy. My workplace does this, especially with t
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by souprock 7y ago
I didn't know that degree existed until I found a coworker with it. He switched careers because being a color-blind graphics designer was difficult. He had to constantly use a color picker to read out the RGB values. We got him doing a
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by souprock 7y ago
What about your privacy and security? That maid is essentially a stranger, wandering around in your house, with a perfect excuse to be poking into everything.
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by souprock 7y ago
Don't count on lower birth rates long-term. Birth rates show decently strong inheritance. The more kids your parents had, the more kids you are likely to have. Changes in our environment, causing the demographic transition, are only a
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by souprock 7y ago
If you want to get elected, you don't propose to expel the students who are performing below average. They have parents who vote and/or cry on the TV news. It was funny and sad to see standards getting set, then reduced. We know w
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by souprock 7y ago
I drive if the Sun is beating down or there is a thunderstorm. Sometimes I get dropped off, then walk home later in nicer weather. I also drive when I don't have 20 minutes to spare; the drive is only 3 minutes.
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by souprock 7y ago
That would do for my commute, 0.9 miles each way. It allows running a fan in sunny weather. The more the Sun is cooking the car, the more power there is, so that works out nicely. It helps with long-term parking, for example at an airport.
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by souprock 7y ago
Oh joy, politicians trying to get votes from the economically unaware. If you thought there was a housing crisis, just wait. It's going to be crazy. Here is a different article, more tolerant of private browsing: https://www
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by souprock 7y ago
Documents get put in there, yes. The ones I pay attention to are PDFs containing hardware documentation. We don't have to put everything there. We also run the reddit software, an IRC server, a plain old web server that users can ssh i
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by souprock 7y ago
Good old MediaWiki, the software running wikipedia, works great. There will never be a concern about scalability (LOL), licensing, product discontinuation, or data import/export.
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by souprock 7y ago
Southeast USA including: Virginia (Arlington and Dulles), Maryland (Annapolis Junction), South Carolina (Greenville), Alabama (Huntsville), Florida (Melbourne), Texas (Austin and San Antonio), Pennsylvania (State College) and possibly other
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by souprock 7y ago
You might not trust auto, but don't you trust the previous manual setting even less? It could have been under completely different lighting conditions. Suppose you are up in a high desert. At night, you take pictures of blossoms by sta
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by souprock 7y ago
I don't want to have a main control dial or equivalent menu. It could be in the wrong position at power-on when I am in a hurry. I want the camera to always be fully auto at power-on, and I don't want to have to touch a main contr
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by souprock 7y ago
I would like that "simple auto-mode" to be enabled with the power switch. When I turn the camera on, I might not have time to mess with settings. That mode should turn off bit by bit as I make manual adjustments. If I adjust ISO a
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by souprock 7y ago
I've a dozen kids, so yeah... As far as I can tell, the FAFSA is a bait-and-switch. You're enticed with grants and scholarships, but all you get is inadequate loans. I have never met anybody who got the grants and scholarships. Pe
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by souprock 7y ago
I much prefer my traffic-free 0.9 mile commute. Previous jobs have been 4.5, 10.5, 4.3, 4.4, and 8.7 miles. My secret is very small cities. They generally have suburban density, but aren't technically suburban because there isn't
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by souprock 7y ago
Like every bureaucracy that is threatened, they will cut where it is most visible and most painful for the public. They will do this even if the cuts don't save much money. Cutting something hidden, like administrative overhead, just i
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by souprock 7y ago
jdoliner's comment: voting should require ID stricter than library/corporation lutorm's comment: "Voting is a constitutional right" (implying that is isn't OK to require an ID) sneak's comment: "purch
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by souprock 7y ago
It's pretty circular reasoning to argue against methods for detecting voter fraud on the basis that we haven't detected voter fraud. If there is voter fraud, it might go away if we got reliable detection. Fraud is less likely when
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by souprock 7y ago
"Node’s smallest unit, at 400 square feet, is $150,000" Around here that would get you the median house. It's 1000 to 2000 square feet and it includes a 0.25 acre lot. It's also pretty solid, with concrete block walls. T
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by souprock 7y ago
Sure. Want a job? The "Who is hiring?" post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19797601 It's pretty normal for federal contractors. I think the legal requirement is that 48 hours means overtime, and a bad
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by souprock 7y ago
Engineers with degrees work for the contractors. They minimize materials and cost. The result doesn't always remain standing, even without an earthquake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_International_Universi
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by souprock 7y ago
I have coworkers doing that without a degree. They did however show up with experience. Personal projects will do. You could work on Open Source software. Obvious choices: qemu, valgrind, FreeRTOS, RTEMS, Linux (kernel), SeaBIOS, gcc, clang
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by souprock 7y ago
Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment , by Richard Stevens
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by souprock 7y ago
The skin effect is not applicable to DC.
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by souprock 7y ago
It somewhat works in Japan because you can't register a car without having a dedicated parking space. In the US, an apartment complex in an ordinary suburban neighborhood would swipe all the on-street parking and probably people's
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by souprock 7y ago
Eh, I kind of have all that, depending on where you draw the line for distance and seriousness. I'm in Brevard County, FL. So not counting Orlando? OK... There is an international airport. It has seasonal flights to Ottawa, Toronto–Bil
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by souprock 7y ago
He's in New Hampshire. It sounds legit for a place like Concord or Manchester. I have that too, and I didn't even try for it. I'm in unincorporated land just north of Indialantic, FL. I had to check for pubs, because I don&#x

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