thyrsus

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   by thyrsus 15y ago

   "fake banking". The trip to urban dictionary for "fake baking" didn't turn up anything plausible.
2. 542.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   Could you point me to a description of the VLIW compiler problems? In 1981 a small group of us coerced the Unix verion 7 portable C compiler to generate VLIW assembler as a senior project. There was nothing astonishing going on; the pcc h
3. 543.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   I was a little surprised to see "Information" drop jobs over the past year, but digging back to the BLS report ( http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm ) I see that the numbers are dominated by publishing, broadcasting, and telecomm
4. 544.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   “In America, you have a choice! The capitalist party, or the other capitalist party!” – Dmitri Orlov, Russian emigre
5. 545.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   I hope that's true. I'm worried that it will be too easy to avoid reality by staying with comfortable, ideologically compatible sources -- which is a problem regardless of ideology.
6. 546.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   Can someone explain the redundancies to me? If you can't text rot13("shpx") then why do they need to block rot13("shpx") + " you"? Or does that imply that rot13("shpx") + " u" would be accepted (it's not on the list)? Or did someone just
7. 547.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   Sendwrite's normal charge for 20 cards is $39.80. I sent three cards (two Senators, 1 representative), and donated to cover at least that.
8. 548.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   If the original hash function is f(x), are there reasons the "second" hash function shouldn't be (f(x)+1)mod n (n being the number of hash slots)? I'm sure that some distribution of x would generate pathological behavior, but my question i
9. 549.▲
   by thyrsus 15y ago

   I know, completely irrelevant, but coltran is not a supercondctor.
10. 550.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    Not working for me; I thought it might be https everwhere or the google https search option, but turning those off didn't produce the effect. Firefox 3.6.23 on Fedora 14.
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    The slideshare is a talk about leveraging memcached access into more "interesting" access. From the slides: "Cached high scores suck; where's the good stuff?" Apparently EC2 was a target rich environment at the time of the talk. Using a
12. 552.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I learned it in my first year physics course: to a good approximation, accuracy of results = log(log($equipment_cost)).
13. 553.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I'm curious about the misspelling of Torvalds. Was that a naive transcription of the spoken name, or a naive transliteration from a Finnish character similar to "eth"? ( https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Eth )
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    The title link sends you to the comment page for the thread. Either we've encountered a bug, a prank, or this person is obscurely trying to recommend the hacker news comments as a Personal Knowledge manager. Trees of text are nice, but I
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I wasn't familiar with the quote, so I wondered: " that Jim Jones?". Apparently so. http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/jimjones389862.ht... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Jones
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I suspect an abundance of social infrastructure (4% of children living in poverty vs 15%, per the article) acts as an unaccounted for subsidy for education - and for much else as well.
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    Time Zone Data Returns(blog.joda.org)

    68 points by thyrsus 15y ago|2 comments
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I just took the test here http://www.123test.com/personality-test/ , which appears to measure this "openness" trait, and it says I'm already on the far end of open. My tradition doesn't contain, and I don't think I've ever experienced, "
19. 559.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    Lawyers can make mistakes, however, it might have to do with non-U.S. rights or the rights of incorporated material: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Copyright_sta...
20. 560.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I don't think so; from a quick glance, I believe the theorem deals with inconsistencies when dealing with infinities, and the program and its output are all finite. If the program hangs or runs out of disk space, then that might be confirm
21. 561.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I can't improve on this: http://everythingsysadmin.com/2011/06/avoid-using-the-term-c...
22. 562.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    Thanks. When you say "aborted", does that refer to an Erlang-style (micro) process, or the entire OS-level process?
23. 563.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I'm not clear: is typestate a compile time or run time guarantee? [Edit] That is, is the guarantee implemented at compile time, noting violations similarly to syntax violations, or does it generate "invisible" code that performs runtime che
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    The support for plain text is important. When I applied for my current position, I sent a TeX generated PDF of my resume. When I arrived for my interview, what they had in hand was as if someone had OCRd it, done a "strings" on the result
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    Which distribution(s) does this apply to? Ubuntu (unkown version): yes Fedora 14: no
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    Thanks! If I were IT support, how could I get this to happen on every Mac in the company?
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I'm sure this will vary by individual, but for me: 70+21 (40 * 25) * 3 + 43 + 3 * 75 + 3 (123 * 40) + 123 * 2 paper and/or calculator for the last sin(PI/3) is an interesting case. I don't deal with trigonometry very often. If the problem
28. 568.▲
    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I need to know more. Right now (though without any contractual guarantees I'm aware of) Time Warner hands me via DHCP a publicly routable IPv4 address that doesn't change except during extended outages, which don't happen very often (the ad
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    If you're not interested in how the lives of human beings create history, then please write about natural history (e.g., physics, chemistry, geology, zoology), not human history. Perl, as software, may instantiate a mathematical ideal, b
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    by thyrsus 15y ago

    I didn't read the suggestion as applying to a war between China and the U.S., but rather, to joining some conflict such as the U.S. in Iraq, or China in Mongolia. (No, I don't think the situations have anything in common besides involvin