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by thyrsus 12y ago
The Network Neutrality comment period is over. How does one make a late comment stand out in the midst of 3.7 million received within the specified period? https://twitter.com/fcc_cio/status/511988876974784512
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Yes. The first thing I wanted to know was whether this was a "classic" paper published a few years ago (e.g., Gul Agha's MIT AI-TR 844) or whether it was current. That question is instantly answered in the abstract. Instea
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Without assuming order, you'd be forced to use something that explicitly provided order, such as an array. I suppose you could use { "jexpr": [ "function", "and", "i
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by thyrsus 12y ago
LD_PRELOAD is not honored for setuid executables, but you're right, we don't want to go there.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Is there a way of preventing functions from being imported from the environment, but still allowing some variables in? My experiments with #!/usr/bin/env -i sh and #!/usr/bin/env - sh ...have not obtained what
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by thyrsus 12y ago
The e-mail addresses are at guerrilamail.com, provider of temporary addresses - and blocked from my current location. Are those addresses checked for availablility?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Erlang uses <<stuff>> to express binary strings. In other literate programming environments, e.g., org mode and noweb, I have to break up the string like <<"word" >> ...which is ugly. I'
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by thyrsus 12y ago
You provide multivariate statistics, and this doesn't.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Of course, we've all been hacked by the NSA and others, but outside of state actors: Many years before dropbox, my brother wanted to send me some photos, but couldn't tell me his IP address - otherwise I would have restricted the
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by thyrsus 12y ago
They're storing passwords in the clear, otherwise they wouldn't be able to enforce the "cannot be too similar" rule.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Be sure to check out "autoexpect": it starts an interactive session, and generates an expect script based on that. Then you typically need to edit it for generalization (e.g., skip dates and time strings; often skip version strin
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by thyrsus 12y ago
For me, programming is math because nowhere else in my experience do I have the degree of certainty that I have in programming. The article seems to think that calculus is the archetype of mathematics, but integers are mathematical objects
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by thyrsus 12y ago
In this context "Open Source" means publicly available (as in published or broadcast), not some variant of copyleft.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
The link to the sixth set of slides is missing from the page, but replacing digit 5 in the URL for the fifth with a 6 gets the sixth set.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
From the first few minutes, it appears one wouldn't lose much hearing this without the video. Am I wrong?
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Admiral Rogers is saying the right things, yet, regrettably, Clapper has destroyed the agency's public credibility. I've yet to hear any plausible attempt at transparency that isn't currently a guest in Moscow.
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by thyrsus 12y ago
Yup: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/08/01/157743897/can-you-...
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I was going to buy a Kobo to read technical documents, but then I saw they don't support non-DRM pdf. No sale. The last e-reader I bought four years ago was cheap, with atrocious touch screen response, but it would display my PDFs. A
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by thyrsus 12y ago
This system administrator hates Java almost as much as Windows. I'm still enraged at the old lie "compile once, run everywhere". Just look at what Java does to the Red Hat "alternatives" system, although I can&#x2
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by thyrsus 12y ago
A rock too heavy to lift would be a rock inside the event horizon of a black hole, if one can stipulate that the rock still "exists". My own attitude toward paradoxes concerning God is that understanding is a gift - awesome in its
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by thyrsus 12y ago
I wasn't paying attention; is there somewhere with a quick summary of how to operate in the new world in the midst of the old world? I tunnel X clients across ssh a lot. Apparently there is a Wayland client that acts as an X server,
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by thyrsus 12y ago
When I interviewed at my current employer, I had sent them a PDF of my TeX resume, but the monstrosity they were carrying around looked as if they'd OCR'd the PDF and copy/pasted that into Word. The only line breaks that surv
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by thyrsus 13y ago
"10. When a government spends, its citizens eventually pay, either today or tomorrow, either through explicit taxes or implicit ones like inflation." This is false. It declares that government is incapable of creating value in ex
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by thyrsus 13y ago
It's not clear to me what the policy is on links to copyright violating offers, e.g., "jQuery: Novice to Ninja: New Kicks and Tricks - SitePoint". SitePoint.com is currently asking $29 for that eBook, and graciously appears
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by thyrsus 13y ago
My son's iPhone physically (and probably electrically) fits a USB, but the phone requires that it receive some Apple only signal from the charger, or it refuses to charge. It's one of the reasons his phone is often dead. The reg
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by thyrsus 13y ago
Does anyone know offhand whether fixed length values, e.g., bigint, have this problem?
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by thyrsus 13y ago
With a graphical browser, the images-of-text are ideograms I (ignorant westerner) do not understand, so the experience is the same. That's probably intended as humor.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
How do you convince a Republican to vote for this?
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by thyrsus 13y ago
I can imagine circumstances that do not permit the cleaning of reusables.
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by thyrsus 13y ago
By "manually", I assume we include self-generated software assists? I have a spreadsheet that is specific to my circumstances, and which I modify (quite lightly) each year according to changes in the instructions and circumstance

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