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by vajrabum 7y ago
Not affiliated with the federal government? You do know about the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 don't you? Member banks are required to buy stock in their district Federal Reserve Bank and keep a certain amount of money on "reserve&
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by vajrabum 7y ago
As well as being the founder of what became MTV and one of the originators of the music video.
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Load balancing--and yes that can become a source of failure too.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
I did enjoy the article. It was quite clear but it made me wish for a bit more. Unlike the Rust article I didn't see any thing that suggested how golang might be special. I did see your suggestions for further reading though. I'll
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by vajrabum 7y ago
This is currently about scooters so no license plates and you don't have to be a city bureaucrat to be concerned about scooters and where they are.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
The peripheral processors were integral to the CDC 6600 and it's successors (6400,6200,6700,7600, and Cyber 70 series) built inside the same mainframe cabinet. In the 6000 and Cyber 70 series There were '10 of them' that shar
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by vajrabum 7y ago
If by innovation you mean raise salaries, hire new people and add to your management consulting contracts sure.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Con: a private equity firm potentially gets to control who gets .org domains. That probably shouldn't be a private decision at all.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Since you used the word resisted, it sounds like you're suggesting that there is an existing demonstrable and falsifiable underpinning for one or more of the social sciences which has not been adopted. What would that be?
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The Silurian Hypothesis(arxiv.org)
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Not to take away from Dijkstra's brilliance but the problem with the narrative above is that Dijkstra wasn't part of the team that developed Algol 60 and that can easily be seen by the fact that his name is not on the Algol 60 Rep
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by vajrabum 7y ago
The term cancel culture like political correctness is a PR term and an effective one. For global warming 1st year college physics is enough to tell that global warming is in fact real and pretty much all the cranks are on the well funded fo
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by vajrabum 7y ago
The structure of that program looks kinda weird with .h files but no matching .c files. Instead all the code is in the .h files.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
No there's also how tarrifs affect export markets, among a few others, but that one hits pretty close to home for a lot of the really big ag operators.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
After running postmortems at a couple of medium to large software enterprises for a while I'd say you'd likely find that it's a quite common although not everyday thing for a bad query to impact a significant number of users
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by vajrabum 7y ago
My guess is that this is like the export controls on munitions or encryption. You can't export to China but you can fairly easily get a license to sell it in Australia or any other US allied country.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
That would have been my guess at who this is aimed at too. Lots of applications outside the military and spook shops but that's always been the primary customer.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
I'm pretty sure that high performance open source CPUs will have their own obscure problems. Too much complexity, too many dependencies, too many possible feature interactions.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
How long has solar been that competitive? Less than a decade. How much power infrastructure is there in the world--a huge amount. How long will it take to retire and replace all that infrastructure? Decades at best.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
You don't need sorting for VSAM or DB2 or their non-IBM equivalents.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
I won't argue the merits of COBOL. I stopped doing it for a living 35 years ago for a reason, but sort is not a good example. COBOL has generic SORT and MERGE facilities built in as verbs. In an IBM environment (i.e. writing real appli
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by vajrabum 7y ago
The national guard is not the US gov't. That's the state of Louisiana. Those troops report to the governor.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Uhh, there's a practical human problem with that notion and it is that when you're younger if you don't save for when you're older then you'll be destitute. Social Security alone is pretty hard to live on. As for wh
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by vajrabum 7y ago
You can find the code they wrote with that compiler (EPL) and more information about Multics here. It's browsable but not in any modern archive though ( https://web.mit.edu/multics-history/ ). And here are some link
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Cancer is virtually unknown until people start living long enough to develop cancers. Oh and don't forget the juvenile cancers.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Ask Nike or Magic the Gathering!
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by vajrabum 7y ago
I was a consultant and ran IT security years ago at a company that was bought in a hostile takeover for ~$1B which was a significant premium in order to get some expertise for a special market they didn't have in house. One of the firs
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by vajrabum 7y ago
I've seen this before with customer satisfaction. In data collection efforts driven by executives you can easily get bad results because they have zero visibility into the data collection process and its abuses and problems. I call it
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The point is the F-22 is old technology. The testing and other tooling has been in production for a long time. And yes, it's hard to recruit people with the right skillsets to support legacy hardware and software.
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by vajrabum 7y ago
Old time programmers often wrote everything down before inputting it and engaged with their code instead of with tests and the debugger. Not to say tests and the debugger don't have their place. Here's the handwritten sheets for t

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