trapperkeeper74

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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
False dichotomy. There is no mandate to consume pesticide residue. Yields will often be somewhat less without pesticides and monocultural ag isn't itself inherently sustainable, but sufficient calories can be produced without pesticid
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
It one of those things we don't want to experiment with to find out. Interestingly, the burning of fossil fuels is arguably an uncontrolled climate change experiment that might lead to thermohaline disturbances, an Ice Age and/or
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Yup. LBS is useful in detectors and such.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Basically, the US needs a national ID "card" with PKI system... not to rob people of their privacy but to free them from the tyranny of marketplace anarchy which resulted in the absence of global unique person identifier de-facto
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
If Atom is any benchmark, plugins will be created, abandoned, forked, abandoned and then the API will churn breaking everything every so often because "change is cool." It's the same segment of programmers with 0-6 months of
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
LOL. I dropped Atom back to Vim the same reason.. electron apps are just too slow and memory-hogging compared to native apps.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
This is a huge security, privacy and battery-drain nightmare. Unassociated Wi-Fi chips constantly broadcast their MAC addresses allowing customer targeting and broadcast their previously associated SSIDs, allowing tracking of people when co
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Virtue $ignaling.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
BTDTBTTS. Way back when in uni, we had to deaign a working CPU with everything at the time but superscalar, MIMD and reservation/retire. Pipelined CPUs can get faster clock rates by splitting up hardware into more (smaller) stages, but
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Hooray!
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
In general, dnscrypt can help defend against DNS privacy loss for situations like these.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There is a subtle cargo cult fallacy that occurs in many crypto construction competitions: that resource light (time, RAM & operations) in hw/sw is "good." Certainly, minimum performance is necessary but being too cheap m
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Prohibition hasn't ever worked and will never work... it just makes criminals rich. It's an addiction that needs comprehensive, overlapping cessation programs.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
If enough people are sleeping rough, Hep A is an issue among others.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
It's still FUD.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Apple also doesn't fulfill all of its GPL obligations (eg components used in iOS, example: libstdc++) and their OSS releases lag a month or more behind software releases.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
LibreOffice Base?
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Churn and reinventing the wheel accomplishes nothing but creating busywork for many hundreds of thousands of users, creates an unnecessary learning curve and wastes time. They should've just fixed/rewrite net-tools for new interfa
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
It would be difficult to find, outside of a full totalitarian regime, a country that doesn't exploit media, including news, advertising and pop culture, for manufacturing consent customized to monetize and motivate the populace to be c
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
The "two-sides" cargo cult is often a false equivocation: like teaching evolution and creationism. There are some obviously wrong opinions that aren't worth legimitizing. That is different than a reporter playing devil's
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
And prefer redirection to cat. whatever < file.txt not cat file.txt | whatever Also, there is no need for - or z on GNU tar in t or x modes: tar tf whatever.tgz tar tf whatever.tar.bz2 tar tf whatever.tx
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Diff eq-like behavior is everywhere: species population, popularity, technology, market saturation, economics, spring rates, etc. (Malthus was partially ;) mistaken.)
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
At Stanford, the strongest towers (on the hill) are/were AT&T (via Cingular). There are/were whole buildings with zero Verizon coverage. Source: an enterprise Cingular sales rep whom later worked for Motion Computing. There al
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
IANAL: Claiming active duty when not maybe subject to prosecution under the Stolen Valor Act and/or various types of fraud.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
They need to add more Apple-branded app/support in third-party IoT/connected consumer devices beyond HomeKit and charge a subscription for extra features: walled-garden beachheads in other gardens. Also, Apple needs more third-par
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Untested code.. even if you're writing a kernel, you've got to find a way to mock/stub/double/fake your way into unit testing, smoke testing and integration testing. Cucumber isn't a requirement, but having app
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
There are three really big hardware assurance problems: 0. Trusting any bit of silicon isn't backdoored or buggy. 1. Trusting any opaque binary firmware isn't backdoored or buddy. 2. Having "firewall" level of control of
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
Exactly. If a corporate-government complex wants to "starve" cryptocurrencies and untracked assets while maximizing financial intelligence gathering for a myriad of purposes, they can eliminate physical currency and make sure the
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
The construction seems bad, but FIPS isn't anywhere close to being as good as NACL, and scrypt isn't the enemy. Bad constructions, lack of nuance and faith in certifications are the enemies.
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by trapperkeeper74 9y ago
300 mph tornados tear up everything except some roadways, foundations and deeply-driven steel pilings. 500 mph would just make a messier mess. If that were multiplied over continental size, that would definitely extinct some species.

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