thyrsus

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by thyrsus 12y ago
Does someone know it's usual frequency? When it's quiet in my house there's a hum at around 50hz, but its very constant - no 13 to 300 seconds, it's always there. I first assumed it was someone in the neighborhood ru
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Please correct me, but as best I can tell, the Enum.map will, sequentially, start the first receive, and that receive will operate against every incoming message until ^pid matches, adding its result as the first member of the collection wh
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by thyrsus 12y ago
When it detected noscript, it replaced the page with this: <meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0">AAAA......... ...as displayed with ^U, except the "AAAA...." wasn't visible until I pasted i
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Why are "unbalanced" rets not good? Also, am I wrong that, at least in most Unixish systems, interrupts use a separate stack register from that of user space code, and thus, with care, one can avoid corruption of the direct thread
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Is the generalization between one, two and three spatial dimensions straightforward?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
That was not at all clear from the article. So the (fruit fly) intervention happens one cell at a time? And only if by luck it's a gamete that is affected?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Perhaps I was missing the point, but my first thought with the AVG counterexample was to have each distributed query return (SUM, COUNT), both of which are nicely associative and commutative, and then only at final step do ((SUM of SUMS) &#
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by thyrsus 12y ago
BPO: Business Process Outsourcing (since I didn't know)
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Firefox allows multiple profiles; I have one named "Facebook" that I don't use for anything but Facebook.
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Perl creator Larry Wall: Rethought version 6 due this year(infoworld.com)
7 points by thyrsus 12y ago|0 comments
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I think the obfuscation is in the order of application of the rules. My uninformed procedure would be: a ab (rule 1) aa (rule 2 - we have to apply rule 2 before rule 1 again, or we'll never get past rule 1, just a follow
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What on earth is the ECB up to?(coppolacomment.blogspot.com)
4 points by thyrsus 12y ago|1 comments
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I've got a mix of evergreen and deciduous 30+ meter trees on my lot that produce (eyeballed) about 25% roof shade in winter and about 50% roof shade in summer. For aesthetic reasons, the trees are non-negotiable: they stay (and neighb
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by thyrsus 12y ago
"Madly going wrong" is historically the case: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/security/ms04-02...
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I have an aesthetic fondness for these as anti-patterns, but then there is reality: My 85-year-old mother allowed some random caller to talk her into giving them administrative access to her Windows XP system. I have convinced her to accep
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by thyrsus 12y ago
My biases may be guessed at in my summarization, but let me make them more explicit. I think it odd that some of the techniques he rails against are inspired by mathematics: TDD tries to preserve invariants; RESTful design tries to impose t
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Here's my attempt at a TL;DR: * The '90s "Access in 24 hours" programmer has been replaced by the latest anecdote-based technique/toolset preacher; e.g., TDD. * Becase deep learning is better than humans at finding
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Can you suggest how to determine which are the "right things"?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
In my experience, art invokes several ideas at the same time. Nigel Pitman explored several in these pictures, and VieElm pointed out another. Unlike most jokes, it is satisfying to spend time with each of the ideas. I'm no Thomas St
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Would that we aspired to that definition of "war", in which a country's response to an attack was: "I'm deeply offended. Here are the statistics concerning the behavior to which you object. Here is our program to
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Where does one host such a service such that one's neighbors haven't put your subnet on e-mail block lists? I wasn't able to host e-mail from my home IP address; do spammers not pollute the waters at hosting companies? Can
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by thyrsus 12y ago
journalctl | cat ...would cause less to act like cat and cat to, well, :-), and then the tty driver usually wraps from the last column to the first.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Thanks for the links; I too couldn't find that in the cited article. I read the point 3 sentence and was just gob-smacked, and wanted to see if my model of reality was broken.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I'm going to play with this to observe the behavior of the ciphertext, but I'm a priori skeptical that the ciphertext size will not approach the summed (compressed) size of the original cleartexts. Otherwise, you'd achieve t
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I think he's buried the lead: how does one become comfortable in a parasite (mosquito, tsetse fly, ...) infested swamp? That could have major public health applications.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Your individual actions are laudable. Is responsible moderation the only way to create welcoming communities, or are there ways to scale that?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Apollo retroreflectors. https://www.xkcd.com/1441/
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by thyrsus 12y ago
From http://www.businessinsider.com.au/amazon-employee-lawsuit-ki... Varghese sued Amazon in 2012 following his termination after seven months on the job. Although he won part of his case in July 2013 — Amazon
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I didn't see this addressed in the comments on Part 1: how is it possible that expensive marriages had more effect on women's divorce rate than it had on men's? For multiple reasons it is not plausible that a strong correlati
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Yes: you would need to change /proc/sys/net/ipv4/icmp_echo_ignore_broadcasts on every Linux device on your network. Which has the nice effect that this "tracking" becomes opt-in :-). Meanwhile, my employ

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