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Open Liberty: An IBM open source project(openliberty.io)
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by todd8 9y ago
I've touch typed for over 50 years, but I've never gotten really fast like some other software developers. However, this doesn't feel limiting, the thinking part is the limiting factor. On the other hand, being really fluent
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by todd8 9y ago
Hey thanks, I didn't know about use-package-always-ensure.
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Fascinating, but what does it mean. I can dream up explainations, now after the fact, for this and the other interesting results in the article, but I wonder what the real reasons are? For example, Eclipse is the standard University Java co
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by todd8 9y ago
I've been programming consistently for 50 years, so I've seen lots of languages and used scores. Some were special purpose languages like the simulation language GPSS or the string manipulation language SNOBOL or the IBM system pr
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by todd8 9y ago
Not jaw-dropping engineering so much as a natural evolution by Oak-Ridge National Laboratory. They moved from a design using 1 GPU for each CPU to one with 3 GPUs per CPU. Granted it's a lot of six GPU dual CPU units, 4600 of them. The
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by todd8 9y ago
> I would think a doctor would say there isn't a consensus on whether coffee is holistically healthy. Not even one doctor I've talked to has said this to me about coffee. Several have remarked on the interesting results of re
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by todd8 9y ago
In 2015 about 10% of Hawaii's residential customers had solar installations (0.5% is the national average). Such a large intermittent source of electricity caused problems for the utility companies and led to limitation on buying back
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by todd8 9y ago
Consider these numbers from the College Board (SAT/GRE folks) [1]: Total of Reading, Math, Writing scores on SAT by college plans: 1488 -- Visual & Performing Arts 1476 -- Psychology 1587 -- Philosophy & Religious Studies 1606
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by todd8 9y ago
The predecessor of the AS/400, the IBM System/38, was a really very radical architecture for 1978/1979 it had capability based addressing and a file system based on Relational Database concepts. Some of the same leadership th
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SpeechJammer: A System Utilizing Artificial Speech Disturbance [pdf](arxiv.org)
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by todd8 9y ago
I've owned Photoshop since it was distributed on diskettes and I'm still befuddled every time I need its impressive power. (I'm not a professional graphics/photography person so I use the program only a few times per yea
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by todd8 9y ago
I own a lot right now that grants me an easement for access to it. The easement was established by the original developer that laid out the roads and property lines for the whole subdivision. This easement crosses a corner of a neighbor&#x2
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by todd8 9y ago
Yes, or in some versions of libertopia you simply pay for what you use. Need a contract? Pay a contract tax stamp that pays for the courts to adjudicate the contract as necessary. Need to drive on a road? Pay a toll to drive on the possibly
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by todd8 9y ago
Is Nginx next? I suppose that it's open source nature mitigates the risks of an important software infrastructure piece being developed in a country that might not always be friendly to us.
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by todd8 9y ago
An interesting observation on the wisdom of crowds for me is para-mutual horse track betting. The odds given for each horse, which determine the payout for a bet are determined by how many people make that bet. Very roughly, in para-mutual
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by todd8 9y ago
To me, this really needs to be benchmarked. The advantage of the gap buffer architecture is that it is simple; opening and closing the gap should be very fast. I believe that moving a contiguous memory block (to close or relocate the gap) i
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by todd8 9y ago
Thinking back, its hard to believe that I spent a fair amount of time teaching students the ins and outs of TECO because that was a more effective way to do the coding required in my class. The alternative was punching cards. It was a secon
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by todd8 9y ago
For those of you who like me are never quite happy with your emacs configuration or your bash prompt, I can heartily recommend stow. I used to manage my dot files with symlinks by hand; stow makes it much easier to keep all my systems confi
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by todd8 9y ago
For a while in the 70's, inspired by a book I'd read (maybe Nomadic Furniture, by Papanek and Hennessey) I took my showers with the drain closed. I would paddle around in the ankle deep warm water and leave it in the tub until coo
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by todd8 9y ago
I'm not sure why, but I've always thought it interesting that radiation scales as a fourth power. It's unusual to see forth power relationships in fundamental scientific processes.
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by todd8 9y ago
^ There's a reason the majority of our armed forces hail from the south and midwest and not from the north and west. I didn't follow you, what reason are you thinking?
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Why the terrible top ranked books at Amazon?
3 points by todd8 9y ago|5 comments
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I had always used pencil in high school for math, figuring that I would occasionally need to correct or start over on some portion of my work; I graduated in 1969. At MIT, I learned as a freshman from an upperclassman to switch to using a p
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by todd8 9y ago
What bothers me about subscription pricing is how expensive it invariably turns out to be considering the amount of use I get out of a program. I would much rather purchase a program outright. Furthermore, some subscriptions seem to be inte
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Yes, there is a simple puzzle that makes use of this. When carrying coffee back to the office, how do you insure that the coffee will be the hottest, by putting in the cream at Starbucks or back at the office? A hotter object loses heat fas
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A third of luxe real estate deals involve 'suspicious activity'(cnbc.com)
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Thanks for the answer! I'm looking forward to Otto.
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The video makes Otto, a size compatable lock cylinder replacement, look very attractive. I've been waiting for something like this. However, what I've noticed is that electronic locks for consumers are uniformly less secure than s
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by todd8 9y ago
Off topic but this reminds me of the New riddle of induction [1]. This is philosophical argument about predicates (i.e. properties that things have that are either true or false) and what it means to use induction to confirm such predicat

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