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by vajrabum 9y ago
On the other hand at the risk of pointing out the obvious Risks Digest is exactly that. It's a digest of postings on comp.risks which is open to the world. And here is the link which is in English from a Dutch newspaper if you'd l
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by vajrabum 9y ago
Oh in a different field don't forget 3M.
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And most tellingly the innovations at Bell Labs didn't just arise in computing--the transistor, the solar cell, information theory, statistical process control, the laser, the cell phone, and the discovery of cosmic background radiatio
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YouTube terminates largest Climate Science channel in the World(climatestate.com)
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by vajrabum 9y ago
I guess they have "reverse discrimination" in handing out prizes for intellectual contributions too. From Wikipedia: "While only about 2% of the U.S. population is of full Jewish descent,[1] 27% of United States Nobel prize w
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by vajrabum 9y ago
No you don't manage and back up using images (you can of course). Instead you manage and back up diffs just like you would in any other language. You can do that from inside or outside the VM. From the outside, the VM writes it's
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by vajrabum 9y ago
The most common strategy for database replication is to copy over an initial snapshot then synchronize the replica by replaying transaction logs. So essentially replication is continuous incremental recovery on another server.
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by vajrabum 9y ago
Cobol, that's where you get your CICS! The original heavyweight framework, callbacks and all. Loads of fun.
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by vajrabum 9y ago
The story was that CDC had the densest cores (5 mil?) made at what was termed the Hong Kong core house.
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by vajrabum 10y ago
You're talking about possibility. The economist is talking about what's actually happening. Two different things. You have a point they're not unrelated. You can indeed help individuals by pointing them in the right direction
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by vajrabum 10y ago
The part that applies specially to young and white is the elevated mortality. Life expectancies for that group are declining which isn't true for African-Americans and Hispanics or Asians.
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by vajrabum 10y ago
GM owns Cruise Automation which I think rank them higher than I would have guessed a year ago. That can do some cool stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tp6Ubf6mE4 Any informed opinions on where that technology ranks ag
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by vajrabum 10y ago
Care to amplify that comment a bit for those of us in the cheap seats?
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Implementing Functional Languages: A Tutorial is also available and is somewhat more accessible https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/impleme...
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by vajrabum 10y ago
There's underreporting and tax evasion in almost any business which can be conducted on a cash basis. I know of a heating air-conditioning contractor (now deceased I believe) who regularly got customers to write checks directly out to
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by vajrabum 10y ago
West Virginia politics being what they are they aren't likely to plan properly for a post coal mining future.
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by vajrabum 10y ago
I always figured Davey Graham is the one that should have complained about Jimmy Page. See here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWeejHJxGjs at around 20 seconds. That riff is a straight copy. But even that is probably not
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New paper claims that the EM Drive doesn't defy Newton's third law(sciencealert.com)
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You're looking at the cleaned up final summary report to the funder of a research project. There isn't any CI. This wasn't a project to build a system. This was research to explore the possibility that operating system and ap
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by vajrabum 10y ago
They aren't terribly well organized and their stuff is mostly tinker toys but I think you might find some interesting things about Dynabook Jr (Frank) here http://tinlizzie.org/dbjr/
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by vajrabum 11y ago
Have you ridden in one? The performance is ridiculous, to the point of being scary.
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by vajrabum 11y ago
Debasement here refers to the educational experience. That doesn't happen at all institutions but it certainly appears common. Debasement at for profit institutions is obvious to anyone paying attention. Those schools are more frequent
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by vajrabum 11y ago
If you want to play online: http://lively-web.org/users/bert/Smalltalk-78.html
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by vajrabum 11y ago
That's exactly right. They are heuristic. Control charts were designed to be used on a manufacturing floor by workers who updated their charts manually on paper and called an engineer to aid in further investigation when a manufacturin
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by vajrabum 12y ago
It is in fact an issue of grammar. Irregularity is primary feature of human language grammar--a source of delight to some and a source of annoyance to others. One of my favorite examples from language acquisition research is the small child
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by vajrabum 12y ago
Is Google is going to stop putting ads on her content or remove her content from Youtube? I don't think that's what they're saying. Aren't they just saying they're going to stop paying her. Actually the hell of it i
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by vajrabum 12y ago
Don't forget that Simon Peyton Jones 2nd book on compiling functional languages written with PJ Lester is also out of print but available from him directly on the web and includes source code from the book. Way fun, if slightly dated s
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by vajrabum 12y ago
Same advice given to me a few years back. If you're good and want to work at Apple doing web development, apply. They're hiring.
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by vajrabum 12y ago
Here's an example that explains the tax rules for Canadian Green Card holders who have Canadian tax free retirement savings accounts. It all seems equitable and simple until you start reading deeper and it becomes clear that as a US Gr
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by vajrabum 12y ago
As you wish. From the program, line 19: tk, // current token

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