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by thyrsus 8y ago
I got the impression from the article that this was for a sales position - "AE role" - account executive. A good tech sales rep must have a solid understanding of the product and its place in the tech environment, but they also n
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Did the database of articles include the obituaries?
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by thyrsus 9y ago
FEC: "The Commission is made up of six members, who are appointed by the President of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. Each member serves a six-year term, and two seats are subject to appointment every two y
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Expansion does have the appearance of "pushing away". But, as noted, to explain "dark matter", one would observe "anti-gravitational" separations in inert gases at local scale, which has never been reported.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Excellent. "ordinary" matter would be a 70%/30% mix of gravitational types, with dark matter being a 99%/1% mix (figures obviously pulled from nowhere) - but then one would see effects at the local scale, where an obser
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Suppose the gravitational attraction of particles, like spin, was signed, such that like attracts like, and unlike repels unlike? Because of the weakness of gravity, every other force would dominate at the local scale. But the prevalence
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by thyrsus 9y ago
"far worse is corruption in the form of use by an elected official of the powers of the government to advantage one side of the political divide (his or her own, of course) over the other". The examples given: failure to prosecute
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Trump Nominates Federal CIO(nextgov.com)
1 points by thyrsus 9y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 9y ago
I have a 1973 edition of the "Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry", which includes six of her poems. I think the volume serves its purpose well, and includes a nice balance of British and American poets. From the brief biography in
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Is there any way a browser user can protect themselves from this now? More details here: https://freedom-to-tinker.com/2017/12/27/no-boundaries-for-u...
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by thyrsus 9y ago
...and remember to make tests that don't confirm your model. If the set is 2, 4, 8, and your model is "powers of two", then, sure test 16, but also test 1, 3, 6, 0.5, 0.1 (maybe the correct model is "also 2 to the power
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by thyrsus 9y ago
In my Firefox 52.5.1 under a current CentOS 7, there is no about:studies. Either "studies" has been newly removed (Firefox updated yesterday, I think?) or about:studies is new or Firefox Studies has been included by default after
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by thyrsus 9y ago
It depends on what the tax increase or tax decrease affect. If a tax cut goes predominantly to those who invest in greater productivity, then increased supply can drop prices - but only if that investment is more efficient than consequentl
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by thyrsus 9y ago
I thought this BBC article about present day "blue collar" Chinese experience rang true. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-dd0e6fd5-12fc-4a4a-a...
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by thyrsus 9y ago
It would appear http://download.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/in... that one must set the address of the IME before it is net accessible; how do I get there from, e.g., the HP iLO menus? P.S.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Thanks for the suggestions, but decreasing the ping interval only made the VPN fail faster, and there was no difference in behavior between ping-restart and ping-exit :-(.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Concerning "#1 dialog": if your application is doing sustained interaction with a user, fine. As a sysadmin, however, the very last thing I want is a GUI interaction when doing an install (installations seem to be the most common
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Vendor jerks at tech conferences(everythingsysadmin.com)
3 points by thyrsus 9y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 9y ago
It appears all the ISPs I use have figured out how to kill OpenVPN after a few Mbytes have passed, resulting in annoying VPN service interruptions and restarts (I need to figure out how to restart it automatically) - and the browser reacts
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by thyrsus 9y ago
I thought this would be about deleting lines of code instead of commenting them out "for historic insight". I'd like to see a discussion of whether the cleanliness or the "don't go here" is more useful.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." The only shorts for which I've ever been rich enough are in clothing stores - and my comforts extend beyond my clothing.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
The vendor can, of course, charge whatever they like for copying fees. The customer would be wise to get source from the beginning, and keep track of it for themselves, but that's a matter of "physical" access, not legal rig
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Totally false. A lot of open source software is MIT style, which effectively means there are no consequences to infringement. If the infringing code is GPL, then as customer you've won the lottery, because now you've got an irre
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by thyrsus 9y ago
A nit: the article states "A guitar string is a harmonic oscillator; no matter how soft or hard you pluck it, a G string is going to play a G note." It's not that simple. I have a steel string guitar which, when a string is
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by thyrsus 9y ago
To what extent is Perl 6 now stable? I was at a LISA conference in December 2011, and watched Tobias Oetiker present the wonders of Perl 6, and though I loved what I saw, something more than a tenth of his examples broke because of recent
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Nanocore Coder Pleads Guilty to Aiding and Abetting Hackers(thedailybeast.com)
2 points by thyrsus 9y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 9y ago
Correction: it needs unbound variables , not lazy evaluation. Erlang doesn't have unbound variables; I suspect one would have to implement some form of that before implementing difference lists.
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by thyrsus 9y ago
This uses a difference list data structure, which, when I learned it in Prolog, requires lazy evaluation of the tail of the list. Erlang doesn't seem to allow lazy evaluation; am I wrong about that? Is there some way to do difference
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by thyrsus 9y ago
A hypothesis concerning -ite: whereas -er belongs to anyone using a Germanic derivative, and -an belongs to anyone influenced by papistry (as a practicing R.C., I jest; basically any western European and their historic colonies), the greek
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AI Trying to Design Insspirational Posters Goes Horribly and Hilariously Wrong(iflscience.com)
3 points by thyrsus 9y ago|0 comments

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